1661
1690
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1339
513
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925
130
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719
172
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629
791
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534
110
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479
138
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473
115
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469
212
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441
452
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http://paulgraham.com/fn.html
392
272
1Password for Linux
https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/
388
219
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387
287
Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192873
338
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https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion
306
412
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298
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290
60
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251
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-treasury-cyber/companies-may-be-punished-for-paying-ransoms-to-sanctioned-hackers-u-s-treasury-idUSKBN26M77U
282
149
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https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
281
94
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279
128
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https://www.planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-the-database-for-developers
261
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235
95
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218
82
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207
22
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200
50
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199
246
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire MGM for about $9B
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reportedly-negotiating-to-acquire-mgm-for-9-billion-2021-5
193
201
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184
57
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-strange-story-of-dagobert-the-ducktales-bandit
183
4
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https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/18/40-core-mac-pro-high-end-mac-mini-in-development/
178
76
The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00064-7
159
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https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5
171
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165
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips
163
117
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https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9059
6
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151
24
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147
79
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/17/americas-dead-souls/
145
40
Movfuscator: Compile C into only mov instructions
https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator
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https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/
141
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https://blog.google/technology/ai/unveiling-our-new-quantum-ai-campus/
133
Uber Engineering Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services
https://eng.uber.com/jvm-tuning-garbage-collection/
101
The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its Owner Would Get Paid
https://jalopnik.com/the-colonial-pipeline-was-fine-but-it-was-shutdown-to-1846911689
129
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AirPods Max and AirPods Pro Don't Support Apple Music Lossless, Apple Confirms
https://www.t3.com/news/airpods-max-and-airpods-pro-dont-support-apple-music-lossless-apple-confirms
127
90
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801637
126
NetBSD 9.2
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_2_released
124
83
Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542
123
38
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http://airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
118
112
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https://swiftrocks.com/how-necessary-are-the-programming-fundamentals.html
52
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49
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100
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https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/
99
46
Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support
https://www.macworld.com/article/344971/adobe-drops-postscript-type1.html
13
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https://github.com/grailbio/reflow
96
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Google I/O 2021
https://events.google.com/io/?lng=en
93
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https://kea.js.org/blog/2021/05/14/data-first-frontend-revolution
62
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23181-1
AirPods Max and AirPods Pro Don't Support Apple Music Lossless, Apple Confirms