hackerNews

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Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)

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ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com)

787 points first seen 2021050521 last seen 2021050800 299 comments

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Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)

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60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent (me2ba.org)

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Efficiency Is the Enemy (fs.blog)

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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and the Hard Problems of Loneliness (residentcontrarian.substack.com)

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Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018) (www.linkedin.com)

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How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Observable Plot (observablehq.com)

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How Basecamp Blew Up (www.platformer.news)

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Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada (www.bbc.com)

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24

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? (2001) (wh0rd.ca)

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Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook (twitter.com)

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Netflix IT exec forced employees to use products from vendors that bribed him (arstechnica.com)

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Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned (gizmodo.com)

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12

Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit (www.securityweek.com)

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10

Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers (www.wsj.com)

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7

MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes new report reveals (www.airlineratings.com)

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8

How we use web components (github.blog)

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7

Your Car Is Spying on You, and a CBP Contract Shows the Risks (theintercept.com)

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I Found My Grandpa’s Notes 20 Years After He Died (medium.com)

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2

$1 Unistroke Recognizer (depts.washington.edu)

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4

Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro (gir.st)

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Announcing Rome Tools Inc, an open source first company (rome.tools)

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5

Z3 Tutorial (colab.research.google.com)

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18

Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (labs.sentinelone.com)

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14

This Guy Flipped an Element in an Old Lens and Got 'Magic' Bokeh (petapixel.com)

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30

Linux Terminal Tools [pdf] (ketancmaheshwari.github.io)

162 points first seen 2021050503 last seen 2021050600 48 comments

10

Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism (www.usenix.org)

155 points first seen 2021050503 last seen 2021050600 24 comments

9

Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com)

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9

The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)

153 points first seen 2021050518 last seen 2021050609 337 comments

8

SeL4 on RISC-V Verified to Binary Code (microkerneldude.wordpress.com)

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John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (www.newyorker.com)

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15

Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology (gijn.org)

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An NFT That Saves Lives (paulgraham.com)

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6

The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks (www.hakaimagazine.com)

131 points first seen 2021050503 last seen 2021050600 151 comments

11

Compose for Web (compose-web.ui.pages.jetbrains.team)

131 points first seen 2021050509 last seen 2021050603 46 comments

8

A Sorceress’ Kit Was Discovered in the Ashes of Pompeii (www.smithsonianmag.com)

125 points first seen 2021050512 last seen 2021050606 78 comments

16

Competitive Analysis for Engineers (staysaasy.com)

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13

Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries (ariadne.space)

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14

Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016) (www.usenix.org)

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19

Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing (github.com)

105 points first seen 2021050509 last seen 2021050600 13 comments

10

Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications (blog.neotree.uber.space)

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Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (therecord.media)

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Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store (security.googleblog.com)

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Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google (arstechnica.com)

99 points first seen 2021050503 last seen 2021050503 121 comments

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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021 (www.backblaze.com)

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9

CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020) (box.matto.nl)

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Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow (https://aspect.app?source=yc)

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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache (w3techs.com)

81 points first seen 2021050503 last seen 2021050512 16 comments

14

MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review (mauromorales.com)

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14

The Autodidactic Universe (does the Universe “learn” its laws?) (arxiv.org)

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46

The Evolution of Jamstack (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020) (roadrunnerwmc.github.io)

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20

Draw Logos from Memory (neal.fun)

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12

Show HN: Hurl.it is back – Make HTTP Requests (hurlit.com)

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14

Forth – The Early Years (1991) (colorforth.github.io)

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No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people (restofworld.org)

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Linear Clock: Solar (jmw.name)

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Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython (github.com)

64 points first seen 2021050509 last seen 2022092309 69 comments

11

Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends (pedestrianobservations.com)

64 points first seen 2021050518 last seen 2021050606 46 comments

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Why A.I. Moonshots Miss (slate.com)

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Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the U.S. [pdf] (recyclednumbers.cs.princeton.edu)

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FreeSurfer: Open-source software for processing and analyzing brain MRI images (surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)

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Awk is the coolest tool you don't know (portal.drewdevault.com)

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D(?)A(?)O – Decentralization and Autonomy in “DAOs” (boardroom.mirror.xyz)

54 points first seen 2021050506 last seen 2021050518 76 comments

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Extempore – An audiovisual live programming environment (extemporelang.github.io)

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Pixie is now open source (newrelic.com)

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0

A Substack on how social media has supercharged culture war and driven us insane (bendreyfuss.substack.com)

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39

Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list (closetab.email)

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British Virgin Islands corruption scandal threatens its tax haven reputation (www.icij.org)

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0

Someone Has to Run the Fabs (noahpinion.substack.com)

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Gitlab's 2021 Survey uncovers a new DevOps maturity model (about.gitlab.com)

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AWS drops price for managed Prometheus service by 84% (aws.amazon.com)

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What's so special about vector embeddings (www.pinecone.io)

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51

Ask HN: What’s the Next Big Thing? (item?id=27046798)

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Declarative Validation in Python (blog.drewolson.org)

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Android Studio 4.2 (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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Reactive, reproducible, collaborative: computational notebooks evolve (www.nature.com)

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45

Kotlin 1.5.0 – the First Big Release of 2021 (blog.jetbrains.com)

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66

Audacity and MuseScore Announcement (www.audacityteam.org)

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30

WiFiStation: A WiFi Interface for the Cidco MailStation (jcs.org)

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34

Putting an old digital clock (with an outdoor thermometer) on steroids (wejn.org)

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21

Nuzzel is going away for now (blog.nuzzel.com)

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Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021 (www.theverge.com)

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Resurrecting Scratched CDs and DVDs [video] (www.youtube.com)

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FBI pressured to answer for domestic spying program tied to Fred Hampton murder (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Snapchat Can Be Sued for Role in Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules (www.npr.org)

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Bill aims to halt Bitcoin mining until its environmental impact can be assessed (markets.businessinsider.com)

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Kremlin: Russia is preparing to be disconnected from SWIFT (www.uawire.org)

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The company where your colleagues decide your salary (www.bbc.com)

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A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth (www.abc.net.au)

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0

Show HN: AWS Enhancement Suite (chrome.google.com)

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75

Dogecoin Now Valued Higher Than Twitter and Ford (finance.yahoo.com)

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52

Generate syntax diagrams (railroad diagrams) for various parser grammars (dundalek.com)

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47

21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server (www.exim.org)

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77

Mozilla Firefox update is making me abandon Chrome – Here's why (www.laptopmag.com)

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36

Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online (www.wired.com)

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90

Stephen Fry Would Like to Remind You That You Have No Free Will (www.nytimes.com)

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0

TinySeed’s Spring 2021 SaaS Accelerator Batch (tinyseed.com)

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85

Ask HN: Employee Handbook for Startups? (item?id=27042417)

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62

Python Default Dict (docs.python.org)

15 points first seen 2021050500 last seen 2021050506 20 comments

38

Regression and Linear Combinations (jeremykun.com)

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0

Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To? (www.nytimes.com)

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TMON (2010) (basalgangster.macgui.com)

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82

Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink (www.pcmag.com)

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68

ArxivDiff: view diffs of paper revisions from ArXiv (https://arxivdiff.org)

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64

Dogecoin Is “Blowing Up” (www.cnbc.com)

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Millennials are fleeing Canada's big cities as Big Government coddles boomers (nationalpost.com)

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82

4,700 Amazon employees had unauthorized access to private seller data (arstechnica.com)

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0

Ask HN: How do you share the stuff you find interesting while reading a book? (item?id=27037870)

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0

Ask HN: How can I sell an idea to a FAANG company? (item?id=27038820)

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In an alternate universe, GitHub Actions is so much simpler, safer and more fun (github.com)

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U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's a bad thing (www.americamagazine.org)

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70

3D Printed Concrete Architecture (architizer.com)

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50

Where She Was From: The Collected Joan Didion (www.wsj.com)

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80

Personal Shadowsocks server in 5 minutes with Heroku (github.com)

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88

Safaribooks: Download and generate ePub from O'Reilly Learning library (github.com)

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0

Closing Photoshop will fix CSS cursor:pointer bug (stackoverflow.com)

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81

Five months later: Woman found alive after disappearing in Diamond Fork Canyon (www.fox13now.com)

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86

‘Mother Trees’ Are Intelligent: They Learn and Remember (www.scientificamerican.com)

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The Obsessive Art and Great Confession of Charlotte Salomon (2017) (www.newyorker.com)

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0

First ever image of B117 coronavirus variant captured by UBC researchers (www.cbc.ca)

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77

SwiftForth Development System for Windows, Linux, and macOS (www.forth.com)

7 points first seen 2021050509 last seen 2021050512 0 comments

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Timeline of Palmer amaranth invasion and eradication in Minnesota [pdf] (www.cambridge.org)

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0

Cybertruck UI gets leaked by ex-Tesla design lead (www.teslaoracle.com)

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0

Man shot by FBI agent outside CIA headquarters after allegedly pulling out (www.cbsnews.com)

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0

Artificial Neuron Device Runs NN Computations Using 100-1000 Times Less Energy (scitechdaily.com)

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0

Why Physics Has Relevancy to Artificial Intelligence (www.forbes.com)

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0

Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain (www.theverge.com)

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0

The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S. (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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0

On Politics at Work (json.blog)

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0

Dogecoin Is Surging Again, for Some Actual Reasons (nymag.com)

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0

India's Covid-19 data is vastly undercounted (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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SixWordSciFi (web.archive.org)

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0

New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix (arstechnica.com)

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0

Bold Adversarial Journalism: The Intercept Does the Feds Work (twitter.com)

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Lugg (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineers (React, Rails, Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)

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ReleaseHub (YC W20) is hiring in engineering and marketing (releasehub.com)

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