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Hacker News (May 2021)
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The Obsessive Art and Great Confession of Charlotte Salomon (2017)
9 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Grex: Generate Regular Expressions from Examples
9 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know
9 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Tip: Don't record laser tattoo removal (2019)
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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The Half-Renovated Houses of a Former Mining Region in Germany
9 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
9 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Experiment in helping users and publishers create deeper connections on Chrome
9 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Further evidence supports claim: SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA
9 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Tell HN: Ctrl+Shit+T revives recently closed tab in Chrome
9 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Are new graph algorithms still being devised?
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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China's Tianwen-1 mission graphically explained
9 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The Olympics have run their race
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Re: “Does a compiler use all x86 instructions?”
9 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Pylustrator: Intuitive matplotlib interactive interface for data presentation
9 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Those of you born with “wrong” 2D:4D ratio, has it affected you?
9 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook
9 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Japanese Invasion Money
9 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Mathematical brain model may pave the way for more human-like AI
9 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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High-Quality Deep Fake audio and video with only 40 seconds sample training time
9 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Russia launches T15-MD, an upgraded tokamak
9 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Padmanabhaswamy Temple Treasure
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Analysis of a 1965 Photo to Learn Where and How It Was Shot
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 man-made as Wuhan theories surge
9 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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From Python to 500k lines of Go, how Kahn Academy is making a big switch
9 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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After concealing her race, Black Indianapolis owner's home value doubles
9 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States
9 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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If the Pentagon Takes UFOs Seriously, So Should Markets
9 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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'Spaghettified' star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time
9 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it 'touches the sun’
9 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Show HN: Dorik – Just another website builder (literally)
9 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second
9 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Bitcoin Is as Legitimate as Ice Cream
9 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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2020 Annual Letter from Chamath’s Social Capital
9 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Bias is a big problem so is Noise – Daniel Kahneman
9 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids
9 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
9 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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More than half of millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it
9 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Atomic gardening – using radiation to induce useful mutations in plants
9 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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New Flask, Werkzeug et al. major versions released
9 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Controlled by a Cabal of Its Enemies
9 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Not Made in China Directory
9 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Ten Commandments For C Programmers by H. Spencer (1987)
9 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Information Won't Change Anyone's Mind
9 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Study: Mammals Can 'Breathe' Through Their Butts
9 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Google Docs to suggest users write using gender-neutral terms
9 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Daniel Kahneman:“Clearly AI is going to win. ”
9 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Welcome to the Terrible World of Prescription-Only Apps
9 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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How Coinbase is rethinking its approach to compensation
9 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Ask HN: What’s your most recent “this didn’t need to be a SPA” experience?
9 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Mail Order Bride Test (2020)
9 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Google Photos’ unlimited storage is ending on June 1
9 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some thought-terminating clichés in the software industry?
9 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Palestinian Officials: Iran Is Giving Us the Rockets We Use to Attack Israel
9 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Companies are learning to read your mind
9 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The startups reinventing the web browser
9 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The Replication Crisis Could Be Worse Than We Thought
8 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Tromelin, the Island of Forgotten Slaves
8 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Early M1 adopters in Cybersec, how has it been? is it mature enough?
8 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The biggest independent Belarus media website blocked after government raid
8 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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As Anger Toward Belarus Mounts, Recall Forced Landing of Plane to Find Snowden
8 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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VS Code for iPad (and Other Phones and Tablets)
8 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Origin of Covid – Following the Clues
8 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science
8 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Epic expert estimates Apple's App Store profit to be nearly 80%
8 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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44% of older millennials already have a chronic health condition
8 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Notion's API Is Live
8 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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What is economic growth? And why is it so important?
8 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Global cryptocurrency “market cap” exceeds “US” currency in circulation
8 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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SeL4 Research Group Dismantled
8 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Mining Chia on an SSD Will Wreck It in No Time Flat
8 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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25 Gbit/sec residential FTTH in Switzerland [German]
8 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Which tech documentaries would you recommend and why?
8 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies
8 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked
8 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Google's last-ditch UK Supreme Court defence for Safari Workaround sueball
8 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Awesome-Data-Labeling
8 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working
8 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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U.S. seizes $90k from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot
8 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Delhi Police Searches Twitter Offices Amid ‘Manipulated’ Tags Row
8 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Simple(st) Static Site Generator?
8 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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If ( gender == “female” && married == True and& age =30) { hasChildren = True; }
8 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Novels and Novellas and Tomes, Oh My!
8 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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A no-beef diet is great – but only if you don’t replace it with chicken
8 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Peter Thiel on the Bible
8 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: BornAtXCO2 – What CO2 PPM were you born at, how much has it increased
8 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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The Amazon Is Worth $8.2B If It’s Left Standing, Study Shows
8 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The psychological cost of corruption in developing countries
8 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report
8 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Gaming in colour: uncovering video games’ black pioneers
8 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Perfect-Freehand
8 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript
8 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Elizabeth Blackwell to Hans Sloane
8 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Airships for city hops could cut flying’s CO2 emissions by 90%
8 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Ask HN: Any tool to create diagram for data lineage and ETL rules?
8 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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You Are a Network
8 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All over the World
8 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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FBI to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned
8 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate
8 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Is making a living off YouTube/Twitch viable?
8 points • comment • may 10, 2021