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541.

How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil (elliptic.co)

232 points by dyslexit on May 22, 2021 | 262 comments

542.

Gnuplot is not GNU (gnuplot.info)

232 points by cab404 on May 9, 2021 | 199 comments

543.

Catala: A Programming Language for the Law (arxiv.org)

232 points by todsacerdoti on May 6, 2021 | 126 comments

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Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board (paperd.ink)

232 points by robertlangdon on May 30, 2021 | 61 comments

545.

Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?

231 points by typeofnandev on May 15, 2021 | 258 comments

546.

iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices (imore.com)

231 points by CharlesW on May 31, 2021 | 210 comments

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Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane (wejn.org)

231 points by deegles on May 24, 2021 | 158 comments

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Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules (techspot.com)

231 points by thg on May 11, 2021 | 91 comments

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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution (news.cornell.edu)

231 points by filoeleven on May 22, 2021 | 37 comments

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uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer (100r.co)

230 points by bpierre on May 17, 2021 | 47 comments

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Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English (npr.org)

229 points by andersonvom on May 20, 2021 | 554 comments

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Starlink Satellites Tracker (findstarlink.com)

229 points by danielsht on May 7, 2021 | 142 comments

553.

Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair [video] (youtube.com)

229 points by danuker on May 1, 2021 | 32 comments

554.

Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus (sfciti.org)

228 points by kyleblarson on May 19, 2021 | 322 comments

555.

Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

228 points by twapi on May 3, 2021 | 102 comments

556.

One Year of TILs (simonwillison.net)

228 points by tosh on May 2, 2021 | 53 comments

557.

A Lock Picking Game Changer [video] (youtube.com)

227 points by DyslexicAtheist on May 3, 2021 | 150 comments

558.

OCaml is 25 (discuss.ocaml.org)

227 points by fortran77 on May 9, 2021 | 122 comments

559.

Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017) (nickb.dev)

227 points by nethunters on May 16, 2021 | 48 comments

560.

The California Exception (pxlnv.com)

226 points by MaysonL on May 5, 2021 | 130 comments

561.

Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project (github.com)

226 points by patrick91 on May 13, 2021 | 90 comments

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“Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020) (damninteresting.com)

226 points by choult on May 19, 2021 | 89 comments

563.

The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals (dogatekin.com)

226 points by thetrustworthy on May 9, 2021 | 40 comments

564.

California population declines for first time in more than a century (wsj.com)

225 points by justinzollars on May 7, 2021 | 515 comments

565.

Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you (twitter.com)

225 points by mritzmann on May 16, 2021 | 182 comments

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Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button (9to5google.com)

225 points by Breadmaker on May 19, 2021 | 158 comments

567.

People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage (newscientist.com)