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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Node.js Turns 12
20 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passes $35 bln water infrastructure bill
20 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Stephen Farrell – The Encryption Debate
20 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe
20 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Is Leaving YouTube After $760,999 NFT Sale
20 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I maneuver from data science to software development?
20 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Google’s new Fuchsia OS arrives first on old Nest Hub
20 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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WW1: Was it the first world war? (2014)
20 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Ask HN: What’s a Good Audiobook on Hacking
20 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (2006)
20 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Fast & Open source metrics demo dashboard
20 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service (2020)
20 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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In Search Of: Simpson's Paradox
20 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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BlockFi accidentally pays out millions of dollars to users due to bug
20 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The sun of Rome is set: Volcanic dust veils and their political fallout (2020)
20 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen
20 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Court order may shut down Clearview
20 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Land with Erupting Volcanos Can Be Purchased for the Right Price
20 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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I/O 2021
19 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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When MTV debuted 40 years ago, everyone thought it would fail
19 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Jordan Peterson: the man they couldn't cancel
19 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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70/30 Is Fine for Me, but Not for Thee
19 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The Sydney Opera House construction: A case of project management failure
19 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Transparent Textures
19 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Politics would be less crazy if voting were compulsory
19 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Vancouver Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America
19 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Study Shows SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs
19 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Google Unit DeepMind Tried–and Failed–To Win AI Autonomy from Parent
19 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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How to Befriend Crows
19 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions, study finds (2016)
19 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Wind giant Vestas says it can now fully recycle wind turbine blades
19 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Apple employees are going public about workplace issues
19 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The DNC Didn’t Get Hacked in 2020. Here’s Why
19 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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'Unique fingerprints' in Covid-19 could only have arisen from a laboratory
19 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Cerne Giant in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times, analysis suggests
19 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?
19 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house
19 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Guido van Rossum aiming to make CPython 2x faster in 3.11
19 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Making the Internet more secure one signed container at a time
19 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Designing Domain Events
19 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to: UN
19 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Chinese rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, draws criticism from NASA
19 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Employee Handbook for Startups?
19 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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ETH's creator sells quantities of gifted coins, crashing subset of crypto
19 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Cheating at School Is Easier Than Ever–and It’s Rampant
19 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Peloton’s API let anyone grab riders’ private account data
19 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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America Is Flunking Math
19 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages
19 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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“Serverless” Phishing Campaign
19 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Real-Estate Frenzy Overwhelms Small-Town America: ‘I Came Home Crying’
19 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: An Anti-StackOverflow. A place to ask broad questions on how to start
19 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Stack Monoid Revisited
19 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Baseline implementations should be predictable
19 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Remembering that Napoleon reinstated slavery in France
19 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning is a brawny, battery-powered bargain
19 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Cloudflare’s captcha proposal would end AIs source of free labor
19 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Faulkner vs. Wellman: The Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1946 Showdown (2012)
19 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Vim Clutch – A Hardware Pedal for Vim
19 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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UCodeDisasm: Intel Atom Disassembler
19 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Acid test: scientists show how LSD opens doors of perception
19 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The Eidophor Television System
18 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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New, Infectious Coronavirus Is Detected in Malaysia – and It's Coming from Dogs
18 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML
18 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The tactics police are using to prevent bystander video (USA)
18 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Ask HN: If I travel to China, does China have all of my iCloud data?
18 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Google employees call for company to support Palestinians and allow anti-Zionism
18 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem
18 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Quaker Oaks (2014)
18 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Educated voters’ leftward shift is surprisingly old and international
18 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Majority of Guards at Covid-Wracked California Prisons Refusing Vaccination
18 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Another Day: Paul McCartney’s Once-Maligned, Now-Adored ‘Ram’ at 50
18 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Visualizing Garbage Collector Algorithms[2014]
18 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Everybody Hates Chia
18 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others
18 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion
18 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Apple Silicon Hardware Secrets: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)
18 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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TinySeed’s Spring 2021 SaaS Accelerator Batch
18 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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A Light Stage on Every Desk
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes and a Software Sweatshop
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Using Neural Networks to Refute Conjectures in Combinatorics
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's a bad thing
18 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Why Download a Downloader to Download an app?
18 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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BIO: A Simple Streaming Abstraction
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Three-child policy: China lifts cap on births in major policy shift
18 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Play the game to see how video games are designed to get you hooked and spending
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Is Recycling Worth It Anymore?
18 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Belgian home affairs ministry hacked, ‘probably by China’
18 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Google Announces TPUv4, 2.7x faster on average than TPUv3
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy (2018)
18 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Ransomware Hackers Claim to Leak 250GB of Washington D.C. Police Data
18 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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How we built a real time privacy inspector (2020)
18 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Heatmap coloring (2011)
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Arduino Based Robotic Pixar Lamp
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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“True Lies” – Or “What LLVM Claims, but Fails to Deliver”
18 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Tether: The Story So Far (2019)
18 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Five years ago, I hit a woman with my car on I-75
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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eBay Is Banning Hentai and Other Adult Content
18 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
18 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Is “lowtech” and “up to date” mutually exclusive?
18 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars
18 points • comment • may 15, 2021