Let me tell you the difference between Hacker News and everybody else. We don't crash ever!

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HN was down

Tail Call Optimization: The Musical

Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird

Austin McConnell's postal truck re-design

One year alone in the forest of Sweden building a log cabin

Animated knots

M*****s. M****is. M***his. M**phis. M*mphis. M*mphi

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Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

Is Being Salaried a Scam?

Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week

Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?

HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)

What's the difference between Maine and San Francisco? And, what's worth $10 a month.

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A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?

Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]

How to write, how to cook, and how to go viral on TikTok — in 18 minutes or less.

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I earn a living selling my open-source software

Why I didn't open-source my second SaaS

1Write Simply

Thought leaders and chicken sexers

Some schools are blocking repl.it to prevent kids from coding

I bought 300 email domains from Kazakhstan and built an email service

Based Cooking

Another day, another hack.

Hackers breach thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals

I don't want to learn your query language

ISO 8601 date format reference not publicly available

The Railsification of SaaS

Elon Claims, Atkinson codes, and Bill Gates says... something... about Bitcoin.

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New cities, same dumb podcast!

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Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve Challenger launch

The new Google Pay repeats all the mistakes of Google Allo

30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

Someone is hacking the hackers

Animated Engines

507 Mechanical Movements

The web is a mess, regulations surrounding the web are a mess, and it may shortly become even more of a mess.

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Senators call on FCC to quadruple base high-speed internet speeds

Google's FLoC is a terrible idea

How to operate an airport in Antarctica

HTTP WTF

Who pays for the Texas grid disaster? Is a thread worth it? Is an audience worth it? Lots of questions, very few answers. 

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New month, same gimmick! 

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SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak 

Actually Portable Executables (Lua edition!)

WASM3 switches to Cosmopolitan libc

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

The Last Message Sent on AIM

Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes

Not Lisp again... (2009)