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Hacker News (May 2021)
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An Erlangen Programme to Establish the Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
18 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to reduce domestic prices
18 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Scala 3 is here – The Scala Programming Language
18 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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How the Coming Population Bust Will Transform the World
18 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Fortran is suddenly hot again. But its future is still far from certain
18 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Canada Declares Plastics Toxic, Paving the Way for Restrictions
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Machine Learning at CNN
18 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator
18 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Denmark drops Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to concerns over side effects
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Facebook, Instagram threaten to charge for access unless you give them your data
18 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Arch Linux Moves to Libera.chat
18 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect
18 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Investigate the Origins of Covid-19
18 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?
18 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon?
17 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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The sexual counterrevolution is coming
17 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Police spread falsehoods after using deadly force, analysis finds
17 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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What’s wrong with Bob Dylan’s biographers?
17 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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The Trouble with Capitalism
17 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues
17 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Homebrew purges FUSE packages
17 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Here is how building an app to solve my own problem did wonders for me
17 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Refusing to Show ID Is Not a Crime
17 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Honeywell Admits Sending F-35, F-22 Part Drawings To China
17 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Show HN: A Cryptic Hunt Website
17 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Employers can require you to get Covid-19 Vaccine
17 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Type-guided development and garden paths
17 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Texas records zero Covid-19 deaths for first day in over a year
17 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Going into the City
17 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Microsoft Shelves Windows 10x, It is not Shipping in 2021
17 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials
17 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Regression and Linear Combinations
17 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Google’s 80-acre megacampus will take over a chunk of San Jose
17 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM in iPadOS
17 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks
17 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Care about your users, don't minify your JavaScript
17 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Ask HN: Advices for Burnout and Depression?
17 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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iPhone is taking your picture every 5 seconds
17 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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DNA’s Histone Spools Hint at How Complex Cells Evolved
17 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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SF schools ‘re-open’ for just 1 day so the district can get $12M in funding
17 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Social Capital vs. Berkshire Hathway: A Twitter Thread
17 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Immune System Evolves to Fight Coronavirus Variants
17 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’
17 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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WhatsApp sues Indian government, says new media rules mean end to privacy
17 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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I try not to make unlikable software (and features)
17 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Show HN: Skepticoin, the Coin for Non-Believers
17 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Researchers at BYU Create Free-Floating Animated Holograms
17 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Dependency Managers Don’t Manage Your Dependencies
17 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Stack Traces in Go
17 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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France mulls permanent surveillance of terrorist websites
17 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Facebook Is Finally Doing Something About the Biggest Spreaders of Anti-Vax Lies
17 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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API Blueprint – API Design Tool
17 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Interesting story about how Apple is moving encryption keys to China
17 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails
17 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Lambda School and Outcomes Reporting
17 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Former Apple Engineer Accuses Company of Defamatory Statements over Dismissal
17 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Stephen Fry Would Like to Remind You That You Have No Free Will
17 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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A project to port LLVM to the MOS 6502
17 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Letters from BBC Television Licensing
17 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Fed’s Argument That It’s Not Directly Financing Government Debt Finally Fails
17 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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The Memex, the Manhatten Project, and the Month of July 1945
17 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Vitalik Buterin donates more than $60M to charity after selling meme tokens
17 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program
17 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Bitcoin’s Troubles Go Far Beyond Elon Musk
17 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Elastic has broken filebeat in 7.13; no longer works with AWS managed ES
17 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence
17 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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USB-C upgrade delivers 240W for gaming laptops and other devices
16 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Itch.io: Apple's lawyers just called, we need to turn off ALL the games
16 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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SpaceX launched 52 more Starlink satellites to orbit on Saturday
16 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Facebook moderator describes 'awful' content, told to try 'karaoke or painting'
16 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
16 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Atomic Gardening
16 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Introducing UN/EDIFACT
16 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Visual Studio Code April 2021
16 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
16 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Free Software Foundation reveals how RMS was re-elected and its future
16 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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How to Solve the Homeless Problem, Once and for All
16 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Sony discontinues its last DSLRs
16 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
16 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Principled Procedural Parsing (2019) [pdf]
16 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Any similar site to Hacker News but for crypto news?
16 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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America’s cultural revolution is just like Mao’s (2020)
16 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Ethereum Is Green
16 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Is there any modern compiled language with native compilers for 32-bit MS-DOS?
16 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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X1 Carbon Gen 9: Lenovo has to be careful with the ThinkPad keyboard
16 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Blueprint: Reverse engineer server configuration (2013)
16 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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The company where your colleagues decide your salary
16 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Epic vs. Apple reveals nearly empty Apple TV and Apple Watch stores
16 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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LLVM has become a sweathog, time to start over
16 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find
16 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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FB and Instagram threaten to charge for iOS 14.5 users unless you give them data
16 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive
16 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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In Historic Move, Chile Unanimously Approves Ambitious Single-Use Plastics Law
16 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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AI Can Write Disinformation Now–and Dupe Human Readers
16 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
16 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Hungry Caterpillar passed away
16 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant
16 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer’s quick fix
16 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Israeli air strikes destroy offices of Al-Jazeera and AP in Gaza
16 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3
16 points • comment • may 25, 2021