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Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
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5 years ago
1102
262
Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
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591
150
Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
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583
401
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5
540
183
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/neural-implant-lets-paralyzed-person-type-by-imagining-writing/
522
144
Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement
https://intel-isl.github.io/PhotorealismEnhancement/
490
129
Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
https://positive.security/blog/send-my
454
100
Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
http://blog.erlang.org/My-OTP-24-Highlights/
438
218
Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-socialmedia-idUSL8N2MU624
406
353
Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203
335
230
JWT should not be your default for sessions
https://evertpot.com/jwt-is-a-bad-default/
326
52
Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=30.%20Reverse%20Engineering%20an%20Unknown%20Microcontroller
315
134
CSS Houdini
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Houdini
304
86
Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-risc-v-port-progress/10663/86
289
216
The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
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278
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https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/benchmarking-libdivide-m1-avx512.html
274
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Deno 1.10 Release Notes
https://deno.com/blog/v1.10
273
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Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19
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256
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Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital lost $20B in two days
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-08/how-bill-hwang-of-archegos-capital-lost-20-billion-in-two-days
241
168
My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-i
235
30
Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
https://kobra.dev/
50
Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05233
206
124
A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica
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202
49
Flask 2.0
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/changes/#version-2-0-0
192
Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/consumer-prices-in-u-s-increase-by-most-since-2009
189
103
How image search works at Dropbox
https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/how-image-search-works-at-dropbox
186
64
Writing a Programming Book in 2021
https://jmtirado.net/writing-a-programming-book-in-2021/
173
81
Pyodide: Python for the Browser
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/855875/25b1611bb7e4c9a4/
162
Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. police records
https://apnews.com/article/police-technology-government-and-politics-53e54780aa080decbb78d5b88d4ff44b
155
Show HN: Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API
https://csvbox.io
151
88
Guix 1.3
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/gnu-guix-1.3.0-released/
53
Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master
https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/4007
146
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Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/05/12/randal-otoole-gets-high-speed-rail-wrong/
55
Building a Space-Based ISP
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/11/building-a-space-based-isp/
143
140
Avoid Git LFS if possible
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/05/12/why-you-shouldn%27t-use-git-lfs/
136
41
I could send any text message from Indian government IDs
https://kmskrishna.me/how-i-could-send-any-text-message-from-indian-government-ids-b61c5b8726c9
360
Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/volvo-and-daimler-bet-on-hydrogen-truck-boom-this-decade/
180
What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-microreactor
Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatient Visits
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/air-pollution-linked-to-increased-mental-health-outpatient-visits/
72
NumWorks – An open source Graphing Calculator
https://www.numworks.com/
128
46
CP/M for OS X
https://github.com/TomHarte/CP-M-for-OS-X
126
47
Replit Apps
https://blog.replit.com/apps
122
44
Open source mechanical Swiss watch movement
https://openmovement.org/
117
The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/dining/h-mart.html
111
93
How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil
108
One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments Sends Up Sprouts
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/science/seeds-germinated-michigan-state.html
104
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Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/11/goldman-sachs-executive-quits-after-making-millions-from-dogecoin
145
The digital natives are not who you think they are
https://blog.torh.net/2021/05/12/the-digital-natives-are-not-who-you-think-it-is/
101
59
Docusaurus 2 Beta
https://docusaurus.io/blog/2021/05/12/announcing-docusaurus-two-beta
4
Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (2011)
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm
228
An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis
94
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Using Computer Modern on the web (2013)
https://www.checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/
92
95
Plaid paid people $500 for their employer payroll logins
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzzqa/plaid-paid-500-dollars-workplace-logins
90
33
Multics Public Access
https://ban.ai/multics/
32
55,000 lines of Rust code later: A debugger is born
https://github.com/sidkshatriya/me/blob/master/004-A-debugger-is-born.md
85
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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-design-a-sailing-ship-for-the-21st-century.html
84
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Apple Robbed the Mob’s Bank
https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/
83
Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57055163
89
One person's war on junk mail (1996)
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