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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance
186 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Nacker Hews
186 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook
186 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Atomic Gardening
186 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
185 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Ansible 4.0
185 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Manifest v3 Update
185 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder
185 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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ML model can classify sex from retinal photograph, clinicians can't
185 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?
185 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told
184 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835
184 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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The Rustonomicon
184 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s
184 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference?
183 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot
183 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed
183 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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I spent some time exploring how to improve the UX of code blocks on the web
182 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009
182 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years
182 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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How to look at the stack with gdb
182 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit
182 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Be in a field where tech is the limit
181 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Counter-Strike Global Offsets: reliable remote code execution
181 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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How image search works at Dropbox
181 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data
181 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct
180 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Writing a Programming Book in 2021
180 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl
180 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Transition to React Native
180 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Being Poor (2005)
180 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Researchhub: GitHub for Science
180 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The End of Retirement (2014)
179 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features
179 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple
179 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go
179 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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ProcMon for Linux (Preview)
179 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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CRISPR Editing in Primates
179 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables
179 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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What nobody says about startup moms
179 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Show HN: Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates
179 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
179 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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A Hybrid Approach to Work
178 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)
178 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos
178 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Golden Handcuffs
177 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
177 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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How inevitable is the concept of numbers?
177 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks
177 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool
177 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Do countries get the list of every passenger that's transiting their airspace?
176 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference
176 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer
176 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)
176 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS
176 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues
175 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Using GDPR to obtain one’s data as JSON
175 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code
175 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Overcoming Tab Overload
175 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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DragonflyBSD 6.0
175 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead
174 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
174 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service
174 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
173 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Clubhouse doesn’t value privacy, security or accessibility
173 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"
173 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)
173 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
172 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)
172 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO
172 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr
172 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Dropping cache didn’t drop cache
172 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Universal basic income to be tested in Wales
172 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
172 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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The only Buddhist region in Europe
171 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
171 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Ursula Le Guin Books
171 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminal
171 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)
171 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning
171 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Flipped an element in an old lens and got 'magic' bokeh (2018)
171 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Scottish Café
171 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Pyodide: Python for the Browser
171 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5
170 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
170 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm
170 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler
170 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
170 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare
170 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
169 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video
169 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
169 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking
169 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Lisperati1000 is a cyberdeck terminal dedicated to Lisp programming
168 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access
168 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
168 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs
168 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999
168 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES
168 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway
168 points • comment • may 21, 2021