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Hacker News (May 2021)
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My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
236 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)
236 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC
236 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Chrome extensions are tampering with security headers
236 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit
235 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
235 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API
234 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding
234 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The Tether Ponzi Scheme
234 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The Economist's excess deaths model
234 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
234 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
233 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go
233 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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File Descriptor Limits
233 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Gleam 0.15
233 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
233 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax
232 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
231 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)
231 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Dark Patterns Hall of Shame
231 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it
231 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
231 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case
231 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book
230 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device
229 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2
228 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta
228 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices
228 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
228 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
228 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
227 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Office 365 leaking BCC domain name
227 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser
227 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane
227 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
227 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Gnuplot is not GNU
227 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React
226 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Fish shell
226 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects
225 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]
225 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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The California Exception
223 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C
223 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Starlink Satellites Tracker
223 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals
223 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Nim 2.0 thoughts
223 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board
223 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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“Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020)
223 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
222 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer
222 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus
222 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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A Lock Picking Game Changer [video]
222 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs
222 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
222 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say
221 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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OCaml is 25
221 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After
220 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
220 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions
220 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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One Year of TILs
220 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience
218 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics
218 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches
218 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button
218 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?
217 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin
217 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design
217 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person
216 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
216 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English
216 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage
216 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time
216 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea
215 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair [video]
215 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you
215 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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JsonLogic
215 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Writing Pythonic Rust
214 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation
214 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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A New AWS SDK for Rust
214 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The stack monoid revisited
214 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
214 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
213 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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How corporations buy and food made with prison labor
213 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today
213 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017)
213 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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California population declines for first time in more than a century
213 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?
213 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control
213 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale
212 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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gRPC benchmark results
212 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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China allows couples to have three children
212 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Halide for iPad
211 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Download free public domain paintings, posters and illustrations
211 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games
211 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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My thoughts about the Principal role
211 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Initial Stress-Derived Noun
210 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained
210 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
210 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato
210 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Learning how to think (2015)
210 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP
209 points • comment • may 22, 2021