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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Programming is hard
538 points • 442 comments • apr 06, 2021
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Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
538 points • 280 comments • apr 07, 2021
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Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
537 points • 1162 comments • apr 09, 2021
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Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
536 points • 233 comments • apr 16, 2021
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My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
529 points • 515 comments • apr 27, 2021
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
528 points • 213 comments • apr 28, 2021
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GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
521 points • 204 comments • apr 28, 2021
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Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
518 points • 229 comments • apr 18, 2021
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Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
517 points • 935 comments • apr 30, 2021
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First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
514 points • 110 comments • apr 19, 2021
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The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
513 points • 222 comments • apr 06, 2021
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Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
512 points • 285 comments • apr 01, 2021
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Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
509 points • 594 comments • apr 06, 2021
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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
509 points • 256 comments • apr 08, 2021
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Zoom zero-day discovery
508 points • 230 comments • apr 09, 2021
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HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach
508 points • 147 comments • apr 04, 2021
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Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
505 points • 86 comments • apr 30, 2021
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Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
505 points • 82 comments • apr 16, 2021
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Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
503 points • 358 comments • apr 10, 2021
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Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
503 points • 380 comments • apr 26, 2021
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DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
501 points • 206 comments • apr 15, 2021
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
498 points • 117 comments • apr 19, 2021
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Unsettling capital letters
498 points • 125 comments • apr 19, 2021
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CSS Tips
497 points • 148 comments • apr 26, 2021
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Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t
496 points • 201 comments • apr 27, 2021
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“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”
495 points • 265 comments • apr 22, 2021
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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
489 points • 390 comments • apr 13, 2021
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Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
488 points • 187 comments • apr 28, 2021
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QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
488 points • 136 comments • apr 16, 2021
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Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac
484 points • 596 comments • apr 27, 2021
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I can only think that modern front end development has failed
484 points • 427 comments • apr 04, 2021
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Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
481 points • 613 comments • apr 07, 2021
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A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
481 points • 95 comments • apr 23, 2021
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The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
480 points • 238 comments • apr 21, 2021
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SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
479 points • 330 comments • apr 15, 2021
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Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
476 points • 311 comments • apr 28, 2021
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Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
469 points • 732 comments • apr 15, 2021
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)
467 points • 245 comments • apr 05, 2021
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An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
467 points • 204 comments • apr 14, 2021
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Light Pollution Map
466 points • 182 comments • apr 23, 2021
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Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
465 points • 387 comments • apr 19, 2021
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All C++20 core language features with examples
464 points • 405 comments • apr 07, 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
459 points • 208 comments • apr 04, 2021
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Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
457 points • 149 comments • apr 23, 2021
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Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
454 points • 117 comments • apr 06, 2021
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History of Techno
454 points • 290 comments • apr 29, 2021
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Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
453 points • 672 comments • apr 27, 2021
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WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
451 points • 199 comments • apr 13, 2021
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An Update on the UMN Affair
451 points • 284 comments • apr 29, 2021
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Best practices for remote software engineering
450 points • 174 comments • apr 26, 2021
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Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
447 points • 60 comments • apr 16, 2021
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US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
445 points • 1030 comments • apr 13, 2021
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Prince Philip has died
441 points • 425 comments • apr 09, 2021
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Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
440 points • 127 comments • apr 09, 2021
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Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
439 points • 240 comments • apr 28, 2021
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Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
437 points • 312 comments • apr 22, 2021
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YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself
436 points • 116 comments • apr 20, 2021
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Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
436 points • 128 comments • apr 06, 2021
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The Ponzi Career
434 points • 264 comments • apr 11, 2021
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Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail
434 points • 253 comments • apr 01, 2021
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FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
433 points • 126 comments • apr 07, 2021
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Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
433 points • 199 comments • apr 19, 2021
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My apartment was built on toxic waste
433 points • 229 comments • apr 04, 2021
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Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices
432 points • 251 comments • apr 26, 2021
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RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection
428 points • 169 comments • apr 29, 2021
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Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
425 points • 274 comments • apr 20, 2021
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Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]
422 points • 126 comments • apr 21, 2021
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Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
422 points • 181 comments • apr 19, 2021
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Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
420 points • 150 comments • apr 12, 2021
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Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
418 points • 257 comments • apr 06, 2021
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CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
417 points • 137 comments • apr 09, 2021
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U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees
416 points • 459 comments • apr 29, 2021
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Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
415 points • 488 comments • apr 02, 2021
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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
411 points • 225 comments • apr 12, 2021
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U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
410 points • 413 comments • apr 16, 2021
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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
410 points • 732 comments • apr 02, 2021
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RMS addresses the free software community
405 points • 323 comments • apr 12, 2021
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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
402 points • 126 comments • apr 11, 2021
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Cycles X
402 points • 130 comments • apr 23, 2021
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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
401 points • 261 comments • apr 13, 2021
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QEMU 6.0
399 points • 79 comments • apr 30, 2021
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Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
398 points • 239 comments • apr 21, 2021
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Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
395 points • 412 comments • apr 22, 2021
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Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
395 points • 318 comments • apr 01, 2021
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Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died
394 points • 117 comments • apr 02, 2021
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Show HN: My personal website is a shell
394 points • 166 comments • apr 05, 2021
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Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
394 points • 227 comments • apr 22, 2021
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Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant
394 points • 410 comments • apr 01, 2021
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34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
394 points • 246 comments • apr 07, 2021
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Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
393 points • 156 comments • apr 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
393 points • 789 comments • apr 01, 2021
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The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
393 points • 104 comments • apr 16, 2021
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Idempotence now prevents pain later
392 points • 120 comments • apr 07, 2021
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Godot 3.3
392 points • 105 comments • apr 21, 2021
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FTP is 50 years old
391 points • 171 comments • apr 16, 2021
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Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
391 points • 150 comments • apr 05, 2021
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Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
391 points • 181 comments • apr 19, 2021
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Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
391 points • 204 comments • apr 17, 2021
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Lego Microscope
388 points • 108 comments • apr 23, 2021
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A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
388 points • 202 comments • apr 30, 2021