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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Dubai Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency, Set to Become the City's Digital Currency
25 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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A Better Way to Picture Atoms
25 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Facebook Wi-Fi
25 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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New SSDs Have Built-In Protection Against Ransomware, Data Theft
25 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The Optimal Amount of Hassle
25 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Fasting and the Dangers of Silicon Valley’s Trendy Diets
25 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Kremlin: Russia is preparing to be disconnected from SWIFT
25 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Show HN: Programmerhumor.io
25 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server
24 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide
24 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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The Muldrow Glacier in Alaska Is Moving 100 Times Faster Than Normal
24 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Online video platform Vimeo plunges on Nasdaq debut following spin-off
24 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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As opioid epidemic raged, drug company executives made fun of West Virginians
24 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Unfixable Apple M1 chip bug enables cross-process chatter, breaking OS security
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Cuba migrating to open source platforms [By 2024]
24 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Taking the Measure of a Forest
24 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology
24 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Trump DOJ Tried to Unmask User Behind Devin Nunes Parody Twitter Account
24 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Cancel culture, Twitter trendings and radical transparency
24 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Nassim Taleb Is Possibly Wrong about Wealth and IQ
24 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Starting the World's First V8 Powered Tesla [video]
24 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It
24 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Roots of 'Program' Revisited
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations
24 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin
24 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Typeface Descriptions and Histories (2006)
24 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Superdeterminism could reconcile quantum and relativity
24 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Lyme Disease Vaccine
24 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Was the US complicit in China’s Covid research?
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Show HN: Inliner - Pull blocks of code into a single file
24 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers (2015)
24 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats
24 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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First AstraZeneca dose can safely be followed by Pfizer for second shot
24 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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IGN Takes Down Article and Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups
24 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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The Switch: How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer
24 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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A Dutch City Gets a €600k Fine for WiFi Tracking
24 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy
24 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth (2012)
24 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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China will likely ban all Bitcoin mining soon
24 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious in Latest Crypto Binge
24 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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SpaceX: Arrest warrant for YouTuber who broke into launch site in Texas
24 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The economics of movie production placements
23 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I help my 6yr old learn robotics and coding?
23 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The future of war is bizarre and terrifying
23 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Facebook no longer stops the spread of a theory that Covid-19 was manufactured
23 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects – The Pragmatic Engineer
23 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth
23 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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iMac M1 24“ Teardown
23 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Bose built the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that won't require a doctor visit
23 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Killing Cyclists Is as American as Mass Shootings
23 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Eric Carle, Author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Dies at 91
23 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto
23 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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How lobbyists made breakfast 'the most important meal of the day'
23 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims
23 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says
23 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Ask HN: Former employees that went through an acquisition with equity payout
23 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers have struck again
23 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Health boss unsure how many patients were overdosed due to Windows upgrade
23 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Antonio García Martínez, a newly hired Apple engineer, is gone from Apple
23 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Show HN: zxpy, a cleaner version of Google's zx
23 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Monads Schmonads: Functional Input Without Tears (PYFL)
23 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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California has a $75bn budget surplus
23 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Stripe announces pricing for invoicing
23 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Journey to Poom (Pico8 Doom)
23 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Can you share your experience when you bombed an interview badly?
23 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Why I Quit DIY
23 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Sacred Monster
23 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Firefox Performance Tweaks
23 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Chip Ignite: Rapid IC Creation
23 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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BlueHydra – Bluetooth device discovery service
23 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Barry Diller says cryptocurrencies are a 'con'
23 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Windows 10 “Sun Valley” will do away with Windows 95 era icons
23 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow
23 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Dogecoin Now Valued Higher Than Twitter and Ford
23 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ansible 4.0.0 final has been released
23 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Verification = TCB/PB Reduction
23 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’
23 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Neutron tomography of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes
23 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
23 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Show HN: Webm.to, convert webm to mp4, GIF, mp3 and an API
23 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Melinda Gates began divorce moves at time Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein
23 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Google search doesn't work without JavaScript anymore
23 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Show HN: Stream-unzip – stream unZIP files in Python
23 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Generate syntax diagrams (railroad diagrams) for various parser grammars
23 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
23 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)
23 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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iPhone takes infrared photo of your face every 5 seconds
23 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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ML data and model drift in Prometheus and Grafana
23 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Drain brain: The secret life of a gutter enthusiast
22 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Millions at security risk from old routers, provided by EE, Sky and Virgin
22 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
22 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Show HN: Tubenotes.xyz – Annotate and Loop Videos
22 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The 2021 iMac is a great family computer
22 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Big banks to share customer deposit records for credit card approvals
22 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Germany agrees to pay Namibia €1.1bn over historical Herero-Nama genocide
22 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Freenode removes hate speech rule
22 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: I am building a new Scrum Project Management App
22 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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'We made a mistake': Citizen app offers $30K reward for wrong man in CA wildfire
22 points • comment • may 18, 2021