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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
401 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Positions chess engines don't understand
401 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
399 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
396 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
396 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)
395 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
394 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
393 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
392 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years
391 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
391 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Teardown of a PC Power Supply
391 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library
389 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
387 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
383 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin
383 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
383 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time
381 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
380 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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In praise of --dry-run
377 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
377 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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1Password for Linux
377 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Text editing hates you too (2019)
375 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research
374 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV
374 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
371 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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uLisp
371 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Can't Unsee
370 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances
370 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
370 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Google Dataset Search
369 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
369 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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JavaScript for Shell Scripting
368 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Elixir 1.12
368 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing
365 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
363 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)
362 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
361 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)
361 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly
360 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip
359 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand
359 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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How Basecamp Blew Up
356 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack
355 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
354 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Starting a crypto project
352 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
351 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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KolibriOS
350 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency
350 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Systemd: The Good Parts
349 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
349 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Squeezebox Keyboard
348 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The True Size of Africa (2015)
348 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Half a million lines of Go
347 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers
347 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0
347 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019)
347 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack
346 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
346 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale
346 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions
345 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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The End of AMP
343 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
342 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
342 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
341 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020)
341 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
341 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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The compiler will optimize that away
341 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up
340 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative
340 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Magit 3.0
340 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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On Smoking
340 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Will Linux phones stay around this time?
339 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty
339 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
338 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)
338 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
334 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
334 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
334 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
331 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
330 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
327 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker
327 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?
326 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
326 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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JWT should not be your default for sessions
325 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Cloudflare on the edge
324 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
324 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
323 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The data model behind Notion's flexibility
322 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
322 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years
321 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants
320 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
320 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats
318 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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TikTok Remix Culture
318 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
317 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller
317 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Elk OS – Audio Operating System
317 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Linux Foundation starts AgStack, an open-source agtech initiative
316 points • comment • may 08, 2021