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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Can We Build ‘Her’? (2014)
4 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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University of NSW gives dumped Data61 seL4 research group funding lifeline
4 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Concerns rising over Taiwan chip supply stability
4 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Facebook blocks Palestinian activists like it blocks American Black activists
4 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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A Fossil Squid Eating a Crustacean Being Eaten by a Shark
4 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Smart guitar will practically play itself
4 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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How "pwned" went from hacker slang to internet's favorite taunt
4 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Recursive Islands and Lakes
4 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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OnlyFans Isn’t Just Porn;)
4 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Senator Reid Foreshadows Big Nothing Burger in DNI UFO Report
4 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Xinjiang Gov. Believed to Be Behind Social Campaign to Deny Human Rights Abuses
4 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Ampere Is Designing Their Own Arm Server CPU Cores, Coming in 2022
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Let’s Throw Away These Rules of the Road
4 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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SSDs More Reliable Than HDDs: Backblaze Study
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Melinda Gates began divorce when Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein revealed
4 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The internals of App Review’s testing
4 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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How Gamaleya’s Sputnik V Vaccine Works
4 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win’
4 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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How Basecamp Blew Up
4 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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The world is kicking its coal habit. China is still hooked
4 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Hyundai is launching in-car payments in the all-electric Ioniq 5
4 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Maskless in Most Places
4 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Inflationary cryptocurrency and domain identity: A recipe for a social network
4 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the best way to protect a network against ransomware?
4 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Amazon will block police indefinitely from using its facial-recognition software
4 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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People Aren’t ‘Addicted’ to Wearing Masks, They’re Traumatized
4 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Basic 10-Liners
4 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorization
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The World’s Most Expensive Carpets
4 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Easiest way to build something I can use across devices?
4 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
4 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Rapid Prototyping (electronics) with a $100 Inkjet Printer
4 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women
4 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Some Star Wars-themed Forth programming. May the Forth be with you!
4 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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System Design Behind USPS
4 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Digital Self-Determination
4 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Making eBPF Work on Windows
4 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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U.N. Report says methane is far worse for the climate, human health than thought
4 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Arduino's New DIY Kit Makes It Easy to Build Smart Home Gadgets
4 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Vilnius built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected
4 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Boom Supersonic: 'Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'
4 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps?
4 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Con of the Week: Greensill Capital
4 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Google tackles fake news in Search update. Here's how it works
4 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Paulgraham.com doesn't use SSL Certificate?
4 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Help wanted, work from anywhere except if you're located in Colorado
4 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
4 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Historic verdict in climate case against Shell
4 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines (2017)
4 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Elon Musk Tweet may suggest change in Tesla’s Bitcoin holdings
4 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
4 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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In the beginning was CAOS (Amiga History – 1988)
4 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Competition Can Be Good for the Developing World
4 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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They’re Vaccinated and Keeping Their Masks On, Maybe Forever
4 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Bosses are acting like the pandemic never happened
4 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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If Microsoft Designed macOS (Concept)
4 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Analysis Report of the Facefish Rootkit
4 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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A new biography shows how Adrienne Rich changed her mind
4 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Is Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine safe? Brazil’s veto sparks lawsuit and confusion
4 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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SEC charges five individuals involved in BitConnect lending program
4 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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UFO Sightings Interactive Map
4 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Why Ingenuity’s Fifth Flight Will Be Different
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling
4 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Cryptocurrency Mines Consume More Power Than Argentina–But PSUs Can Help
4 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says
4 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal
4 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there open source AI based search engine for photos?
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Pastor Rick Wiles Has Covid After Refusing Vaccines He Called 'Global Genocide'
4 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Satya Nadella teases major updates coming soon to Windows during Build 2021
4 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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The Apollo Flight Journal – Ejectable Camera Pods (2019)
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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When does the country get back to normal?
4 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Bold Adversarial Journalism: The Intercept Does the Feds Work
4 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Cryptocurrency Is Now Worth More Than All U.S. Currency in Circulation
4 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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NASA Use Open API
4 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45B Deal for MGM
4 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Information inequality might become a bigger issue than wealth inequality
4 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Google allowing sponsored ads for pseudoscience products
4 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Bitcoin Tumbles After Musk Implies Tesla May Sell Cryptocurrency
4 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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OnlyFans Isn’t Just Porn
4 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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The bubblegum misogyny of 2000s pop culture
4 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Sisters with Transistors Puts Women Back into Music History
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now “100%-1000% Faster” for Many Scenarios
4 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Why Physics Has Relevancy to Artificial Intelligence
4 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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New Gnome Human Interface Guidelines
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Black fungus piles on the misery for India’s Covid victims
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups. It Didn’t
4 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Microsoft Terminology Translator
4 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Developers Flee Open Source Project After ‘Takeover’ by Korean Crown Prince
4 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Can Skyscrapers Withstand Earthquakes
4 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Ask HN: How a junior can handle a big bad coded project
4 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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RL-IoT: Towards IoT Interoperability via Reinforcement Learning
4 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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UK NHS site allows your employer to determine if you've been vaccinated
3 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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How to do a $10K network security scan for $10
3 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Lois Lew Mastered IBM's 1940s Chinese Typewriter
3 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking–To Protect Themselves from the Vaccinated
3 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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3D Printed Camera Crane for the Workshop
3 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here’s how to avoid it
3 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Unit test your Java architecture
3 points • comment • may 25, 2021