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Hacker News (May 2022)
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WordPress’ market share is shrinking
257 points • comment • may 11, 2022
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Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
257 points • comment • may 01, 2022
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Internet drama in Canada
256 points • comment • may 27, 2022
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Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing
256 points • comment • may 14, 2022
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Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake
255 points • comment • may 15, 2022
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Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO
254 points • comment • may 20, 2022
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The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling
254 points • comment • may 26, 2022
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Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
253 points • comment • may 20, 2022
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My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
253 points • comment • may 18, 2022
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Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement
253 points • comment • may 16, 2022
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V86: x86 virtualization in the browser, recompiling x86 to WASM on the fly
252 points • comment • may 05, 2022
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Jabra denies support for Elite 85t Bluetooth earbuds on computers
252 points • comment • may 15, 2022
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You can create a great looking website while sucking at design
252 points • comment • may 14, 2022
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Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
251 points • comment • may 13, 2022
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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data
251 points • comment • may 18, 2022
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I'm quitting my PhD
250 points • comment • may 23, 2022
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Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
250 points • comment • may 28, 2022
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The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem
250 points • comment • may 14, 2022
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Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support
250 points • comment • may 12, 2022
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Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
250 points • comment • may 20, 2022
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SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
249 points • comment • may 06, 2022
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Stripe App Marketplace
248 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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Britain should scrap its online safety bill
248 points • comment • may 29, 2022
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I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
247 points • comment • may 03, 2022
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Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete
247 points • comment • may 19, 2022
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Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
247 points • comment • may 28, 2022
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Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
246 points • comment • may 06, 2022
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Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function
246 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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What we can deduce from a leaked PDF
245 points • comment • may 04, 2022
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Proper use of Git tags
245 points • comment • may 23, 2022
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Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)
245 points • comment • may 30, 2022
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Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
244 points • comment • may 18, 2022
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Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
244 points • comment • may 21, 2022
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Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
244 points • comment • may 31, 2022
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Home Assistant OS Release 8
243 points • comment • may 29, 2022
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Logging C Functions
243 points • comment • may 20, 2022
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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
243 points • comment • may 20, 2022
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What Happened to Perl 7?
242 points • comment • may 26, 2022
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I'm retiring from the engineering profession
242 points • comment • may 29, 2022
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Singapore Government Tech Stack
242 points • comment • may 07, 2022
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Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA
241 points • comment • may 27, 2022
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Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days
241 points • comment • may 31, 2022
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Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them
241 points • comment • may 16, 2022
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Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
240 points • comment • may 28, 2022
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JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)
240 points • comment • may 02, 2022
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Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on
240 points • comment • may 30, 2022
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FireZone – Open-source VPN server and firewall
239 points • comment • may 28, 2022
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Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
239 points • comment • may 30, 2022
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Two envelopes problem
239 points • comment • may 30, 2022
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ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant
239 points • comment • may 26, 2022
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Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B
239 points • comment • may 10, 2022
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Surgery estimated cost $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000
239 points • comment • may 21, 2022
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Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark
238 points • comment • may 18, 2022
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Short URLs: Why and How
238 points • comment • may 09, 2022
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Schools should be using open source software
237 points • comment • may 30, 2022
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Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse
237 points • comment • may 22, 2022
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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
237 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer
237 points • comment • may 11, 2022
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On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on
236 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn
236 points • comment • may 26, 2022
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TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states
236 points • comment • may 04, 2022
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Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter
236 points • comment • may 03, 2022
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Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
236 points • comment • may 27, 2022
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Modern programming languages require generics
236 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams
236 points • comment • may 14, 2022
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Taskwarrior
236 points • comment • may 15, 2022
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Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?
236 points • comment • may 09, 2022
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Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16
235 points • comment • may 15, 2022
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Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
235 points • comment • may 05, 2022
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Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support
234 points • comment • may 07, 2022
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Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month
233 points • comment • may 16, 2022
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Virtual Graph Paper
232 points • comment • may 26, 2022
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Unauthorized gem takeover for some gems
232 points • comment • may 07, 2022
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Riot Games: Artificial Latency for Remote Competitors
232 points • comment • may 17, 2022
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Heroku CI and Review App Secrets Compromised
232 points • comment • may 18, 2022
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“Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism
232 points • comment • may 06, 2022
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Empirical Notes on Kissing
232 points • comment • may 23, 2022
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Tell HN: Discord Ignores Right to Erasure
231 points • comment • may 16, 2022
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No Fixed Address Bank Account
231 points • comment • may 08, 2022
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A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)
231 points • comment • may 25, 2022
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How to Be Successful (2019)
230 points • comment • may 21, 2022
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Best Raspberry Pi Projects
230 points • comment • may 03, 2022
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Emacs for Professionals
229 points • comment • may 03, 2022
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Visual explanations of core machine learning concepts
229 points • comment • may 21, 2022
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Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats
229 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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Webb Telescope Image Sharpness Check
229 points • comment • may 09, 2022
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Using TODO For Everything
228 points • comment • may 02, 2022
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Windmill.dev
228 points • comment • may 05, 2022
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How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?
228 points • comment • may 15, 2022
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Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?
227 points • comment • may 13, 2022
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Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software
227 points • comment • may 22, 2022
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RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents
227 points • comment • may 27, 2022
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Abletone Learning Synth
227 points • comment • may 05, 2022
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Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away
227 points • comment • may 17, 2022
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Unofficial firmware upgrade for Dyson V6/V7 vacuum battery management system
225 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
225 points • comment • may 14, 2022
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Pop culture has become an oligopoly
225 points • comment • may 02, 2022
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Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling
224 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]
224 points • comment • may 24, 2022
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PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs
224 points • comment • may 23, 2022