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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook
22 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be far-fetched
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Embassy Gardens Sky Pool
22 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Erik Stolterman: Design Theory and Philosophy
22 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
22 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Show HN: Mobile App Automizer
22 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Kimarite
22 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Snap CEO: We’re happy to pay Apple 30% – without Apple we wouldn’t exist
22 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (2009)
22 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)
22 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Structural Equality for Better Tests
22 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Tether publishes ... two pie charts of its reserves
22 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Why the Ford Mustang Mach-E Is So Important
22 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Jewish employees urge Google to support Palestinians, cancel contracts
22 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Semantic search with embeddings: index anything
22 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior
22 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Ethereum Creator, Vitalik Buterin, Donates over $1B to India Covid Relief
22 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright
22 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Tech Companies That Made #BlackLivesMatter Pledges Had 20% Fewer Black Employees
22 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans
22 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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10-20% of pulls of Docker Official Images coming from Apple M1 machines
22 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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First results from UK experiment point to a solution for fusion’s heat problems
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Linus Torvalds on Why Open Source Solves the Biggest Problems
22 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Foam Rolling on Performance and Recovery (2019)
22 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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John McAfee Statement from Prison
22 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Why the Sad Face?
22 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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VW Will Sell You Self-Driving for $8.50/Hour Someday. Too High or Too Low?
22 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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How to Optimize Order by Random()
22 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Don’t be so sure you know what a lowercase G looks like (2018)
22 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Gatsby employee abuse his maintainer status in GraphQL to insert politics
22 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Inequality Would Widen If U.S. Policies Spur Sustained Inflation
22 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Neovim Treesitter Playground
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Silicon carbide radio circuits can take the volcanic heat of Venus
22 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down
22 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Remote Work has exposed a Fundamental Truth
22 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
22 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Mammalian Hybrids
22 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Guantánamo Detainee Agrees to Drop Call for CIA Testimony
22 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Oxide Computer – Product
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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We Found Joe Biden’s Venmo. Why That’s a Privacy Nightmare for Everyone
22 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
22 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Jeff Bezos’s New Superyacht Heralds Roaring Market for Big Boats
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Apple Silicon Hardware Secrets: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)
22 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal
22 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Tasmanian devils have the first births on the Australian mainland in 3000 years
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas
22 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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SKreen: Human Centric Smartphones for Everyone
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Papers finding that lockdowns had little or no efficacy
22 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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.C as a file extension for C++ is not portable
21 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’
21 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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My PGP key used to be here
21 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Dogecoin Is Up Because It’s Funny
21 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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What Python creator Guido van Rossum thinks of Rust, Go, Julia, and TypeScript
21 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows
21 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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The 24-Inch M1 iMac
21 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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In 2019 US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs
21 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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A Deep Dive into QUIC
21 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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UFOs Are Real
21 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Show HN: Flow-based programming for cryptocurrency trading
21 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Grammar-Nerd Heaven
21 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Programming Challenge: Build your own Redis
21 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Vintage Fashion: Second-Hand Clothing in Medieval France
21 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Waymo Self Driving Taxi Goes Rogue: Blocks Traffic, Evades Capture – JJRicks #54
21 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Accelerating Eye Movement Research for Wellness and Accessibility
21 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
21 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Is Bitcoin part of the Money Supply? Is it affecting Inflation?
21 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The Coming Conflict Between Introverts and Extroverts
21 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Humble Bundle sues Steam over alleged monopoly practices
21 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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The World of Edward Said
21 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Lemonade says website security flaw is ‘by design’
21 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Why some tech workers are turning down jobs at TikTok
21 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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China Railway Map (2021)
21 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Snow science; 100 years later
21 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method (2016) [pdf]
21 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Apple is using payment transactions information to target ads
21 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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It's hard for founders to find a job
21 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Company Lets Celebrities Digitally Clone Their Voice So They Can Loan It Out
21 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Transport vs. Network
21 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The Contemplative Life: the monastic cowl (2020)
21 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game
20 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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The Itch (2008}
20 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Graffiti (Palm OS)
20 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Costco is seeing inflation abound, impacting a slew of consumer products
20 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Footage of Israeli defenses vs. rockets around Tel Aviv [video]
20 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Show HN: Hal9 – Roblox for AI
20 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020
20 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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OpenSSH 8.6 is still vulnerable to CVE-2020-14145 and will not be fixed
20 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Problems with ancient musical scales
20 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Covid is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?
20 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Multiple US agencies probing world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange
20 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”
20 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)
20 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs
20 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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How MDMA and Psilocybin Became Hot Investments
20 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps
20 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism
20 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Ask HN: How to Cultivate Gifted Child's Interest in Science?
20 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’ (2019)
20 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Facebook Still Doesn't Get It–People Care About Their Privacy
20 points • comment • may 29, 2021