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Hacker News (Jun 2021)
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Humans Can Learn How to 'Echolocate' in 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows
48 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300%
48 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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The Ascendant Steppe: A brisk tour of the early history of Central Asia
48 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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A Chinese-Built Highway Drove Montenegro into Crippling Debt
48 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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Saving books by keeping them expensive (2011)
48 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion
48 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your playbook for profitable SaaS without outside investment?
48 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Atomic image sets new record for highest resolution
48 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Using Argo to Train Predictive Models at FlightAware
48 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do?
48 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email
47 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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How and why to become a PostgreSQL contributor
47 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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US’ First Crypto Bank Reveals Date of Commencement
47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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WhatsApp caves in: Won't limit features if you reject privacy changes
47 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Mac OS Monterey Features Unavailable on Intel Macs
47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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The secret afterlives of medieval widows
47 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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MiSTer FPGA GBA Splitscreen Multiplayer
47 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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The Lindy Way of Living
47 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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The Making of the Kosher Phone (2014)
47 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Fixing a Bug in the Firmware of a “ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard”
47 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Lab Cultures: An Interview with an Anonymous Biologist (2019)
47 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet
47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Genetic study finds the brain is most similar to – testicles?
47 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Show HN: Learn a new language while you browse the web
47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Fossjobs: A free job board for Free and Open Source jobs
47 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Deep Scatterplots
47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages
47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Bitcoin Is Traceable, Pipeline Investigation Shows
47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Forzak: A website that curates high-quality educational content
47 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Audi will halt new gas and diesel cars by 2026 – Drive Tesla Canada
47 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Why does the world harbor so many different voltages, plugs, and sockets?
47 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Software Developer Shortage Is Coming – ACM
47 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Some funny engineering/programmer jokes
47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019)
47 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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The Scotsman and his stories brought France much prosperity, for a time
47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Millions of Americans could face eviction as housing protection expires in June
47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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The Health Benefits of Coffee
47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Manicure robot in San Francisco is now painting nails in 10 minutes for just $8
47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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BitClout collapses everything into money
47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Pornhub is remastering century-old porn videos
47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Strange Examples of Soviet Design (2011)
46 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Rainbow Color Map Still Considered Harmful (2007) [pdf]
46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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What happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos (2019)
46 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home
46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Is Euler’s Identity Beautiful? and If So, How?
46 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Cost of a 51% Attack for Different Cryptocurrencies
46 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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A compact quantum-computer that fits in 19-inch server racks
46 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on open-air drug use
46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Berkeley Document Summarizer – learning-based, single-document summarization
46 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock
46 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Imp: A full-stack relational language built around incremental maintenance
46 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a 1000 years apart
46 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Removed by Reddit
46 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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RFC 4180: Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files (2005)
46 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Robinhood and Didi to Kick Off a Hot IPO Summer
46 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
46 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Burritos and Acrobat (2016)
46 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Who want to be fired?
46 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Third member of FDA panel resigns over approval of Biogen Alzheimer's drug
46 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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AndroidEnv: The Android Learning Environment
46 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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When you already know the answer
46 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles
46 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, but it’s still fact-free
45 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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VT220 Built-in Glyphs (2006)
45 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Rocket v0.5 Release Candidate
45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on Big Tech
45 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Mark Cuban-backed banking app Dave to go public in $4 bln SPAC merger
45 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Bye Bye Travis CI
45 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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DitherPaint – Modern MacPaint for the Browser
45 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
45 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales
45 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Fleeing Venezuela
45 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Sackler Family Empire Poised to Win Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits
45 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Stanford law student who made fun of the federalist able to graduate after all
45 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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WWDC 2021: Apple Calls Open Season on IP Address Tracking and Targeting
45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Jackal 0.54.1 – Go XMPP Server
45 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
45 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Midair plane refuels done by a drone for the first time
45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Teaching Machines: the history of personalized learning
45 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Deepest Hand Dug Well in the World
44 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Pee bottles, constant monitoring and ignoring stop signs: Driving for Amazon
44 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Stay Away from Cloudflare (2017)
44 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Terrifying Video Shows State Trooper Flipping Pregnant Woman’s Car
44 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Nobody has found a use case for blockchain
44 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Fusion and Magic
44 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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Show HN: I made a generator of art – Suprematism
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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The Reign of Introverts Is Here
44 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Sonatype Lift – a unified code analysis platform
44 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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U.S. Antitrust Legislation Would Ban Apple from Pre-Installing Its Own Apps
44 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Why Is It OK to Be Mean to the Ugly?
44 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic
44 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the most rewarding investment you've made in your career?
44 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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How Bitcoin Has Fueled Ransomware Attacks
44 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Challenging the Myth That Programming Careers End at 40
44 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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C's Biggest Mistake
44 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (1969)
44 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Airbnb is spending millions of dollars to make nightmares go away
44 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Encrypted Chat An0m was a FBI honeypot Used to take down global criminal network
44 points • comment • jun 08, 2021