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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Apple's AirTags Are a Gift to Stalkers
6 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Experts: CDC’s Summer-Camp Rules Are ‘Cruel,’ ‘Irrational’
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce after 27 years
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
6 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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There’s an Exodus from the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News and Bad News
6 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Chinese weapon scientist has been working at the heart of Cambridge University's
6 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The Strange, Soothing World of Instagram's Computer-Generated Interiors
5 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Biden Continues to Defend Social Media Registration Requirement
5 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Soviet Brutalist Architecture Photographed by Frederic Chaubin
5 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Why doesn't pg use HTTPS on his site?
5 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Whatever happened to Six Sigma? (2019)
5 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Digital Sundial
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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China Responds to Kevin Rudd
5 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The “noble lie” on masks probably wasn't a lie
5 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Bitcoin plunges to $40k as China widens its crypto crackdown
5 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Show HN: I forged the Lithuanian Vaccine Certificate and got it fixed
5 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules
5 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Bolivia president's jet grounded in Snowden search (2013)
5 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Guido van Rossum’s Ambitious Plans for Improving Python Performance
5 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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What I Learned from 2 Years at a Digital Agency
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask Hackaday: How Is the Chip Shortage Affecting You?
5 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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B.J. Thomas, who sang ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,’ dies at 78
5 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Taiwan voices 'deep displeasure' after being shunned by WHA
5 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Termbin – Netcat-based command line pastebin
5 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Facebook/Insta may require payment on iOS 14.5 unless you give them your data
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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reddit Is Down
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation
5 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Amibian – Amiga emulation environment for Raspberry Pi
5 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Huawei Has Launched an ARM-Based Linux Laptop
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Diverse Viruses Carrying Genes for Microbial Extremotolerance in Atacama Desert
5 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Aftermarket Instrument Clusters Fix Tesla Model 3's Main Omission
5 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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C++20 Concepts – A Quick Introduction
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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I wrote the book on user-friendly design: what I see today horrifies me
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Did anyone archive Clive's UO-11 website? do you have any of the zip telm files?
5 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The double-arm barn door tracker
5 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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The FSF fights for your right to repair
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Cardano's highly anticipated hard fork 'Alonzo' to enable smart contract
5 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web
5 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Ideas either implemented or proposed historically to level playing field
5 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Bezos unleashed: things we learned from 'Amazon Unbound'
5 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Why Am I Still Embarrassed About Things That Happened 10 Years Ago?
5 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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International aviation industry roiled by Belarus jet diversion
5 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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What Robots Can–and Can't–Do for the Old and Lonely
5 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5M fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality
5 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Sennheiser’s headphone business bought by hearing aid manufacturer Sonova
5 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Early AI: “Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of Its Own” (1984)
5 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Bill Gates ‘left Microsoft board amid inquiry into relationship with employee’
5 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Sputnik V: How Russia's Covid vaccine is dividing Europe
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
5 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Apple’s antitrust problems in Europe just went from bad to worse
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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An Interview with Tenstorrent: CEO Ljubisa Bajic and CTO Jim Keller
5 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)
5 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Tesla's Autopilot driving on Silicon Valley’s most dangerous road
5 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Show HN: NeuralPi – Raspberry Pi guitar pedal modelling real hardware
5 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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SixWordSciFi
5 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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NASA has a $3.5B idea to save Earth from a supervolcano apocalypse(2019)
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Access YouTube TV from the Roku YouTube App
5 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Brave Browser Adds Support for Blockchain Domain Names
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore over on Virus Origins
5 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Should you rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine? One specialist in Japan says he won't (2020)
5 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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How does your company handle digital nomads, residency, and taxes?
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Charging 589% Interest in the Pandemic Is a Booming Business
5 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Japan Etiquette
5 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Ice cream parlor raises minimum wage to $15/hr, flooded with job applications
5 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Commodore Pet Mini
5 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Iron Dome
5 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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White House Enlists Dating Apps in Vaccination Push
5 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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US admits Xiaomi isn’t a ‘Communist Chinese military company’ after all
5 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Scientists OK plan to release one million tonnes of waste water from Fukushima
5 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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New Laser to Help Clear the Sky of Space Debris
5 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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I will never use PayPal again. This is my story why
5 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality
5 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers have struck again
5 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy
5 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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'Minecraft Terrorism' Case Casts Russian Teens into Legal 'Nether '
5 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Increase the Performance and Life of SSDs
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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New images of Jupiter reveal some of the planet's mysterious features
5 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Tether’s First Breakdown of Reserves
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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What People Regret Most in Their Career
5 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Clubhouse has ‘millions more on waitlist’ after Android launch
5 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Why Every Developer Should Start Programming with C
5 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Crypto Investors Scheme to Gain Control of Tesla as Bitcoin Markets Tank
5 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Supreme Court’s Ethics Problems Are Bigger Than Coney Barrett
5 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Bad programmer producing good code
5 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Zodiac Killer message known as '340 Cipher' solved after 51 years
5 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Online Cheating Charges Upend Dartmouth Medical School
5 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Social app Parler is cracking down on hate speech – but only on iOS
5 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Righting a Wrong Question
5 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Insiders say Oracle Cloud is led with a 'culture of fear' and execs are leaving
5 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I find a good startup idea?
5 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Turkey Now Has High-Speed Missile-Like Drone That’s Launched from a Larger Drone
5 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Real-world tests of hybrid cars show higher-than-expected emissions
5 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Collabarate on bringing about the end of crypto currencies like Bitcoin
5 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Top Ten Git Tips and Tricks
5 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Irish High Court – DPC must implement CJEU decision and stop EU-US transfers
5 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification
5 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Where Is China's Rocket Now?
5 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Fully vaccinated people who catch Covid variants may pass virus on, study finds
5 points • comment • may 31, 2021