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426
The Animal Is Tired
http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429
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712
344
The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/
619
716
The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/07/chip-shortage-is-starting-to-have-major-real-world-consequences.html
343
413
Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210507-why-we-glorify-the-cult-of-burnout-and-overwork
328
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AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years
https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-server-cpu-gains-highest-share-intel-15-years
324
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Gravity is a double copy of other forces
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-of-other-forces-20210504/
311
249
A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
https://dynomight.net/better-personalities/
291
198
Wikipedia is up (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000684.html
287
218
Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22427811/simple-bbva-transition-errors-bank-shutdown
280
84
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
264
207
There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
173
Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)
https://themdpreneur.com/purchase-future-cash-stop-buying-more-stuff/
232
199
Gnuplot is not GNU
http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2
227
122
OCaml is 25
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/25-years-of-ocaml/7813
226
40
The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals
https://www.dogatekin.com/blog/hypnotic-degenerate-spirals/
213
46
Learning how to think (2015)
https://fs.blog/2015/08/how-to-think/
212
210
New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale
https://www.economist.com/international/2021/05/06/new-technology-has-enabled-cyber-crime-on-an-industrial-scale
211
303
The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/
192
Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/08/remains-of-nine-neanderthals-found-in-cave-south-of-rome
186
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US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/05/07/us-customs-export-control/
181
31
Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos
https://www.shelf.so/
168
275
What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-happens-to-stocks-and-cryptocurrencies-when-the-fed-stops-raining-money-11620446420
165
190
There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/theres-no-place-for-expensive-laptops-with-8gb-of-ram-anymore
164
64
Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor
https://apnews.com/article/technology-33a29ac19d039ecdc876d6ac15bcf0a4
156
6
New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-york-attorney-general-declares-top-isps-committed-net-neutrality-fraud/
144
33
Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions
https://upvotetracker.com/
102
'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/08/994738544/the-story-of-sesame-street-from-radical-experiment-to-beloved-tv-mainstay
95
When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged
143
53
Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/amazon-reviews-leak-report/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=68d94aa744d175209f58f23d7a8d1abe537a992b-1620518228-0-AWKYMKnGGipF08ctlTZysfv1gJ-4yzWNRWiePdEd6U7ViOaOx_LvUy2xTpYuQErklma2AP-B6lSO6IKhKTgdGycTuK37qz0QvaMMhlBGVgLs8ozveTJ5-BGNgBO4akiWlFYxLo3GernZBW6NpFbvWIWb7yargGHoi1KtAQYTo5PQuL-sOZk_r5LezxO1EqmoxJTzrF_9uvOeltNAlvKIyxtwfe-CQsuMPzZ9kuArNoZxK0W9zySjtceJ3z0nU7vP1hOkcGvKo9detAnqItSuRq4MuJRP88qDnCnhmv9qYn7MaFK6Sn0a1EZ0g37_znY3i2dUncalNvxyagkbtW2SXyLNIOXYCKnOBU6NAjrSsi-TtjyuRJCeoCYWOCvHf-2EYDn59rMUr319deKBCmumHbu5L4t1GV2DEEHXYGj6iGmzex9lacF3lPbcrX5vDnvNNjIbb2v9Kg0D8r9wbcyFEVD4MbED7QCu6Z-sw9OWHUHizQHeWlQ5W8T0fqjrYuRbww
142
149
Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2021/115-health-nutrition-diabetes-sardines.html
138
Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html
130
67
Remote-first companies that actively hire
https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list
129
71
Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-you-cant-buy/
128
60
No, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
126
What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-did-einstein-mean-by-spooky-action.html
124
30
PocketPCR
https://gaudi.ch/PocketPCR/
117
Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)
https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/
112
54
Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C
http://objective.st/
104
42
History of RSpec
https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html
103
Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)
https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/
59
Italian towns will pay you to work remotely
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-towns-pay-remote-working-cmd/index.html
101
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html
100
195
Elon Musk, master promoter
https://keith404.medium.com/elon-musk-the-master-promoter-a-case-study-3b8eae65b8f7
97
85
SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-27-10th-falcon-9-rocket-launch-landing-success
94
17
Introduction to Security Good Practices
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-05-09-introduction-to-security.html
91
120
Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-jul-13-la-ol-blowback-pscyhology-science-20120713-story.html
Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)
https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/6220/why-is-it-a-bad-idea-to-filter-by-zeroing-out-fft-bins/
90
27
Trading Pit Hand Signals
https://tradingpithistory.com/
87
57
Does NMN improve metabolic health in humans?
https://peterattiamd.com/does-nmn-improve-metabolic-health-in-humans/
82
36
Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (2020)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit-idUSKBN23933H
80
2
Cyber attack shuts down U.S. fuel pipeline ‘jugular’
https://www.reuters.com/technology/colonial-pipeline-halts-all-pipeline-operations-after-cybersecurity-attack-2021-05-08/
78
26
Unintended Instructions on x86
https://github.com/preames/public-notes/blob/master/unintended-instructions.rst
Advancing Sports Analytics Through AI Research
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/advancing-sports-analytics-through-ai