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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Derivations 102 – Learning Nix pt 4
7 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Graphs of relationships between DNS RFCs
7 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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The startup that made air conditioning units look cool
7 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Train firm's 'worker bonus' email is cybersecurity test
7 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Study: Covid-19 lockdowns led to 95K fewer air pollution-related deaths globally
7 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Science Has Become a Cartel
7 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Two of the Most Famous Pirates in History Were Women
7 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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What is the temperature range for food not to burn your mouth?
7 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Sony expects PS5 supply issues to continue into next year
7 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
7 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Fortran, GSoC21 and Me
7 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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To Stripe: Winning the hearts of Valley startups is not winning payments (2014)
7 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Building your SaaS business with Partnerships
7 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The benefits of locality in random access
7 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Covert channel in Apple’s M1 is mostly harmless, but it sure is interesting
7 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?
7 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Facebook, Instagram accused of bias by censoring Palestinian content
7 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Chinese province sets up hotline to report suspected crypto miners
7 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made
7 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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iOS 14.6 Causing Excessive Battery Drain, Heat Issues on iPhone
7 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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AMS Notice: The End of Pure Mathematics in Leicester [pdf]
7 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Flatfile
7 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Science of the Trompe (Old Technology for Compressing Air)
7 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Spectral Passages (2013)
7 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce Announcement Tweet
7 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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TikTok removes 500k+ accounts in Italy after DPA order to block underage users
7 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing Lidar with Manufacturer Plates
7 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Olpc’s $100 Laptop Was Going to Change the World – Then It All Went Wrong (2018)
7 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Show HN: RiteRaft - Build a raft service with only 160 lines Rust code
7 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)
7 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Monotremes
7 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Resources to Learn Scientific Computing?
7 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Tesla tells regulator that full self-driving may not be achieved by year-end
7 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed after immigration van standoff
7 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Chinese Tesla Owners Are Installing Brake Cameras in Their Cars
7 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Travelling downwind faster than the wind [video]
7 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney
7 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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The Historian Embodied
7 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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My Robot Vacuum Cleaner Is Afraid of Sunshine
7 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Columbia Engineering Team Builds First Hacker-Resistant Cloud Software System
6 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Blame regulation, not financial speculation, for skyrocketing housing prices
6 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs
6 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan (May 2020)
6 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Curl Pictures
6 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Mystery of the vanishing piano – David Berglas
6 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Cosmic light detected in Tibetan plateau may rewrite laws of physics
6 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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An NFT That Saves Lives
6 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Ask HN: How to automate handling tech recruiter spam?
6 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New ‘Life-Is-Short’ Mindset
6 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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New Spectre Variants Discovered by Exploiting Micro-Op Caches
6 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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An easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
6 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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‘Lost’ Charles Schulz strips have been rediscovered. Do they show an adult Lucy?
6 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years (2019)
6 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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APL SQL DSL
6 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B
6 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Copyright notice from ISP for pirating Linux
6 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me
6 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Study: One million cancer cases undiagnosed in Europe due to Covid restrictions
6 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Dogecoin Is Surging Again, for Some Actual Reasons
6 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The First Law of Cybernetics
6 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Biden signs anti-Asian hate crimes bill into law
6 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Using Wikipedia as an Impromptu RottenTomatoes API
6 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy
6 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Bill Gates’s Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks
6 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history
6 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The social contract of open source
6 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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California condors swoop on home and 'declare war'
6 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find
6 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas
6 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers
6 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Expensify S-1
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Chinese Long March 5B re-enters over Arabian Peninsula
6 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds
6 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Full-blown boycott pushed for Beijing Olympics
6 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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About 1.5M people still pay for AOL for tech support/identity theft help
6 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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French cyber insurance provider to stop covering ransomware
6 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The Myth of the 'Asymptomatic Spreader' Dealt Another Blow This Week
6 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Speedbuilding LLVM/Clang in 2 minutes on ARM
6 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Artificial Neuron Device Runs NN Computations Using 100-1000 Times Less Energy
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Popular Elitism in Programming
6 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The UML was designed to be a language for just visualizing and reasoning
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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The Engineering Genius of the Largest Ski Lift Ever
6 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Israeli police attack worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque
6 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing
6 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Chromebook shipments grew 275% in Q1
6 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines
6 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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How do I sound like a guy so I can stop getting kicked [from TF2]?
6 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Everyone wore masks during the 1918 flu pandemic. They were useless. (2020)
6 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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India is hiding its Covid crisis – and the whole world will suffer for it
6 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Show HN: 3D Editor to Create Animations, in the Browser
6 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Re: It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
6 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The Fedora I3 Spin
6 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Flipper Zero: Case Manufacturing
6 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
6 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Internet Rips into Airbnb for High Prices, Hidden Fees: Prices Are Ludicrous
6 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Edit live video background with WebRTC and TensorFlow.js
6 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Knowledge Graphs with Inductive Logic Programming
6 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Covid-19 'has NO credible natural ancestor' and was created by scientists
6 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong
6 points • comment • may 13, 2021