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Archives for 17 May 2021
  1. Saying the Difficult Things
    (154 points | Comments)

  2. Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com
    (251 points | Comments)

  3. Can't Unsee
    (393 points | Comments)

  4. Positions chess engines don't understand
    (407 points | Comments)

  5. First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals
    (103 points | Comments)

  6. Civilization Is Older Than We Thought
    (153 points | Comments)

  7. Identify a Facebook user by his phone number despite privacy settings set
    (149 points | Comments)

  8. Legalese – Computational Law
    (155 points | Comments)

  9. A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery
    (157 points | Comments)

  10. Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
    (137 points | Comments)

  11. Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope
    (306 points | Comments)

  12. Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
    (105 points | Comments)

  13. SEC Charges S&P Dow Jones for Failures Relating to Volatility-Related Index
    (206 points | Comments)

  14. Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes
    (156 points | Comments)

  15. Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
    (1008 points | Comments)

  16. Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla
    (325 points | Comments)

  17. A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
    (539 points | Comments)

  18. Why do database columns have a character length of 191?
    (124 points | Comments)

  19. uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer
    (230 points | Comments)

  20. China increases spending 500% to influence America
    (126 points | Comments)

  21. How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
    (136 points | Comments)

  22. “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (2018)
    (104 points | Comments)

  23. Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010)
    (167 points | Comments)

  24. Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
    (604 points | Comments)

  25. US investigates second suspected case of mystery 'syndrome' near White House
    (152 points | Comments)

  26. Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children with ADHD to Focus
    (138 points | Comments)

  27. Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?
    (152 points | Comments)

  28. Our vendor executed a system reboot that caused a shut down of the turnstiles
    (154 points | Comments)

  29. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
    (702 points | Comments)

  30. Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline
    (106 points | Comments)

  31. AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive
    (153 points | Comments)

  32. How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
    (512 points | Comments)

  33. How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
    (115 points | Comments)

  34. Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics
    (204 points | Comments)

  35. Home Gardening
    (257 points | Comments)

  36. Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
    (144 points | Comments)

  37. Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
    (118 points | Comments)

  38. Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
    (171 points | Comments)

  39. Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack
    (362 points | Comments)

  40. A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem
    (118 points | Comments)

  41. The ClickHouse Community
    (122 points | Comments)

  42. Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects
    (235 points | Comments)

  43. Fish shell
    (233 points | Comments)

  44. Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
    (545 points | Comments)

  45. How Lucky Is Too Lucky in Minecraft?
    (114 points | Comments)

  46. Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table
    (123 points | Comments)