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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Linux Foundation starts AgStack, an open-source agtech initiative
316 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
316 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook
315 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen
315 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States
315 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
314 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux
314 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws
314 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)
314 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
314 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
314 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
313 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Gravity is a double copy of other forces
313 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The Byte Order Fiasco
313 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband
312 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
312 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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AirGradient: DIY Air Quality Monitoring with Open-Source Hardware & Firmware
312 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned
311 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
310 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]
310 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct
309 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla
308 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
308 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes
307 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR
307 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Sixth grader expelled after Zoom provided possibly inaccurate IP address
306 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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CSS Houdini
306 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response
306 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition
305 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
304 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Tiny Wins
303 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations
303 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on single tank of hydrogen
303 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B
303 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2
302 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover
302 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope
301 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
301 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Overwork contributes to 745k premature deaths per year
301 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V
300 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
300 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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TimescaleDB raises $40M
299 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
298 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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What can mRNA treat next?
298 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)
297 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
297 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Than Average
297 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit
296 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn
296 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
294 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta
294 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts
294 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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WordPress 18
293 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
292 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps
291 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Immudb 1.0 – open-source, immutable database with SQL and verified timetravel
291 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
291 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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What3Words – The Algorithm
290 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]
290 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers
290 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down
289 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains
289 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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eBPF on Windows
288 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything
288 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with a first-gen Nest Hub
288 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years
286 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Wikipedia is up (2001)
286 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
286 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler
286 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge
285 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
285 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor
284 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015)
284 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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The word “decide” has deadly origins
284 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals
284 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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What's Salesforce? (2019)
283 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120
282 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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“Computer science is not about computers”
282 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Complexities of e-mail validation logic
282 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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What Oxford taught me about posh people
281 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers
281 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme
280 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
280 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
280 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
280 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
279 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
277 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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iPad Camera Multitasking
276 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
276 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512
275 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back
275 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
275 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The anus is an evolutionary marvel
275 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)
274 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Case of the 50ms request
274 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?
274 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition
273 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)
273 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login
273 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Flat Data
273 points • comment • may 18, 2021