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Hacker News (Jun 2021)
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Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams
321 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted
320 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are
320 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
320 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Language learning with Netflix
319 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Globally Distributed Postgres
318 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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Bash PS1 Generator
317 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
317 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
317 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Apple-Developer Relations
317 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web
317 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
316 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps
315 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year
315 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation
314 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype
313 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network
313 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
313 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule
312 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
311 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs
311 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead
310 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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How to handle secrets on the command line
309 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests
308 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
308 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application
307 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]
306 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
305 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit
305 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers
304 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
304 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
303 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Towing a Tesla at 70 MPH replenishes battery at fast charger rates
303 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight
302 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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Cool URIs don't change (1998)
302 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
301 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data
300 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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Aaron Swartz, Vindicated
300 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Go: Fuzzing Is Beta Ready
298 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)
298 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
297 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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NixOS 21.05
297 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Move fast, but understand the problem first
296 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
296 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US
295 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Rhizome – A pedagogical example of a JIT for Ruby, implemented in Ruby
294 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs
293 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)
293 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Binance banned from doing business in UK
292 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Virtual deck of cards using just a browser
292 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor
292 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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A new ProtoBuf generator for Go
291 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know
291 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%
291 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
290 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
289 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting
287 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
286 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
286 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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King County, WA bans facial recognition software
286 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
286 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Tetris in ClojureScript
286 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
285 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?
285 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]
283 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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PyWhat: Identify Anything
283 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
283 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday
283 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Crazy Clock
281 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Privacy Analysis of FLoC
281 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
281 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
280 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Intl
280 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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“It's a truck full of traffic lights”
279 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained
279 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
279 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Software is eating the car
279 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Programmer's Resignation from 1985
277 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
276 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?
276 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
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The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)
276 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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The economics of dollar stores
275 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
275 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”
275 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records
274 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis
274 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
274 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
274 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play
273 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
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Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave
273 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Io_uring is not an event system
273 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack
273 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash
272 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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How to think clearly
272 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer
272 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC startups. AMA
271 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
271 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
270 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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How did Replit respond to this blog post?
270 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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Architecture of the Playstation
270 points • comment • jun 21, 2021