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Hacker News (Jun 2021)
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Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1
136 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
135 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house (2015) [video]
135 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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Learn R Through Examples (2020)
135 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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A man whose software ate the world
134 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Artist says Capcom stole her photos for Resident Evil, Devil May Cry
134 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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The myth of the myth of the lone genius
134 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year
134 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf]
134 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Moving from Hey to Fastmail
134 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Amazon Ring’s neighborhood watch app is making police requests public
134 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)
133 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Show HN: Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor
133 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?
133 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?
133 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals
133 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses
133 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer
132 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)
132 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Engineers can disrupt climate change
132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Gramps – Free Genealogy Software
132 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know
132 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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This Chemical Does Not Exist
132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world
132 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (2003)
132 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave
132 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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W3.org Cert Expired
131 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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How a Jenkins Job Broke our Jenkins UI
131 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your “sales stack”?
131 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse
131 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Lego Island Rebuilder
131 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?
131 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Show HN: Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines
131 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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History of ZFS Part 2: Exploding in Popularity
131 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
131 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Disney Claims Trademark over Loki
130 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Obvious and possible software innovations
130 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Against Meme Activism
130 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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FDA approves drug to treat smallpox
130 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)
130 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
130 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Tank Man
130 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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New Records Show the NYPD’s Favored Punishment: Less Vacation Time
129 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Silicon Valley thought India was its future, now things have changed
129 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL
129 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Bonzi Buddy
129 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies
129 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin
128 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Notes on streaming large API responses
128 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book
128 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Physicists measure the gravitational force between the smallest masses yet
128 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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The physics of financial networks
128 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Private Gmail and Docs alternatives: Proton, Skiff, and more
127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Show HN: Floptimal – Preflop ranges reimagined
127 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Where did my 256 GB go? Mobile storage Analysis [pdf]
127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB
127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Senate approves $250B bill to boost tech research
127 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Wildland – open data management protocol
127 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM
127 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye exams and at-home eyecare
127 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
127 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency?
126 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Mars: NASA's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures
126 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems
126 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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My EC2 Wishlist
126 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
126 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Implementing strict three-point perspective
126 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python
126 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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A sharp-eyed scientist became biology’s image detective
126 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media
126 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
126 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies
126 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts
125 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol
125 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak (2020)
125 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost
125 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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How to Start a Novel
125 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Why we don’t understand heavier-than-air flight
125 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Typed Programs Don't Leak Data
125 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That’s a Moray
125 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode
125 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Designing a better strcpy
125 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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The state of the Linux kernel security (2020)
124 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (2018)
124 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex
124 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Refinement Culture (2020)
124 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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The Repeated Deaths of OOP (2015)
124 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Lego Ideas Typewriter
124 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
123 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure
123 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Is Thinning Faster Than Previously Thought
123 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Comic Mono – a legible monospace font
123 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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The Risk of Cargo Liquefaction
123 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020)
123 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
123 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Conway's Game of Life on FPGA
122 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondral ossification
122 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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New Details Emerge on the “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters
122 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Secure Messaging, Anywhere
122 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers
122 points • comment • jun 22, 2021