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3811.

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked (futurism.com)

13 points by maliegrl on May 18, 2021 | 3 comments

3812.

BlockFi Mistakenly Deposits Outsized Bitcoin Payments (forbes.com)

13 points by tobltobs on May 19, 2021 | 3 comments

3813.

Homebuyer pledges to name her first-born after the seller (twitter.com)

13 points by enraged_camel on May 25, 2021 | 3 comments

3814.

The Death of Expertise and the Rise of the Internet (dvorak.substack.com)

13 points by Liptonite on May 26, 2021 | 3 comments

3815.

Russia refuses to allow European planes to land in Moscow (theguardian.com)

13 points by mv9 on May 27, 2021 | 3 comments

3816.

Advanced scientific instruments disguised as toys

13 points by kemmishtree on May 28, 2021 | 3 comments

3817.

Appalachia is Dying. Pikeville is Not. (2016) (medium.com)

13 points by Tomte on May 29, 2021 | 3 comments

3818.

The ‘Pyramid of Hate’ That Brought Down Basecamp (marker.medium.com)

13 points by rdoherty on May 4, 2021 | 2 comments

3819.

Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness (nature.com)

13 points by dd36 on May 7, 2021 | 2 comments

3820.

Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid? (nytimes.com)

13 points by tosh on May 7, 2021 | 2 comments

3821.

Military experts fear the Pentagon’s been sucked into the AI hype machine (thenextweb.com)

13 points by jocker12 on May 13, 2021 | 2 comments

3822.

When Is the Revolution in Architecture Coming? (currentaffairs.org)

13 points by SirLJ on May 15, 2021 | 2 comments

3823.

We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything: SpaceX (reddit.com)

13 points by sharjeelsayed on May 15, 2021 | 2 comments

3824.

Show HN: Invest in pre-built algo strategies with a click (getquantbase.com)

13 points by sommohapatra on May 19, 2021 | 2 comments

3825.

Google Revives RSS (techcrunch.com)

13 points by bertman on May 19, 2021 | 2 comments

3826.

“No Keening Carried on Nowadays” (laphamsquarterly.org)

13 points by tintinnabula on May 20, 2021 | 2 comments

3827.

Chrome's RSS-powered “Follow” button is like a rebooted Google Reader (arstechnica.com)

13 points by donflamenco on May 20, 2021 | 2 comments

3828.

Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants (wsj.com)

13 points by ummonk on May 22, 2021 | 2 comments

3829.

Accelerating QEMU on Windows with HAXM (2017) (qemu.org)

13 points by Tomte on May 25, 2021 | 2 comments

3830.

I put all of my comics online (jvns.ca)

13 points by ingve on May 2, 2021 | 1 comments

3831.

Fifty Years Ago a Group of AcidDropping Activists Tried to Levitate the Pentagon (smithsonianmag.com)

13 points by bonefishgrill on May 3, 2021 | 1 comments

3832.

Facebook's Ban of Trump Upheld by Oversight Board (nytimes.com)

13 points by jbegley on May 5, 2021 | 1 comments

3833.

Greg Packer has been quoted in hundreds of articles as a “man on the street” (en.wikipedia.org)

13 points by benkuhn on May 5, 2021 | 1 comments

3834.

Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript (humanwhocodes.com)

13 points by bpierre on May 7, 2021 | 1 comments

3835.

2x-3x Performance Improvements for Debug Builds (devblogs.microsoft.com)

13 points by todsacerdoti on May 8, 2021 | 1 comments

3836.

Three Highly Underrated Software Engineering Skills (betterprogramming.pub)

13 points by anupamchugh on May 10, 2021 | 1 comments

3837.

How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body (vice.com)

13 points by bryanrasmussen on May 13, 2021 | 1 comments

3838.

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists (telegraph.co.uk)

13 points by mrfusion on May 15, 2021 | 1 comments

3839.

Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All over the World (scientificamerican.com)

13 points by LinuxBender on May 19, 2021 | 1 comments

3840.

How to Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Rich (theatlantic.com)

13 points by pmoriarty on May 19, 2021 | 1 comments