New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie — and A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

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New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie kqed.org \| points: 618 \| comments: 207

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A List of Hacker News’s Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018) github.com \| points: 444 \| comments: 183

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eBay is port scanning visitors to their website blog.nem.ec \| points: 440 \| comments: 126

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Looking back at how Signal works signal.org \| points: 427 \| comments: 270

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IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS ibm.com \| points: 417 \| comments: 86

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Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science jurassicparkterror.net \| points: 332 \| comments: 33

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Humanities aren’t a science and shouldn’t be treated like one (2012) blogs.scientificamerican.com \| points: 312 \| comments: 210

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Avoiding the Global Lobotomy meta-nomad.net \| points: 269 \| comments: 145

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If you see the cops, start recording theverge.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 249

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Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you’d not talk about them? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 220

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We’ve built a towering pile of shite shkspr.mobi \| points: 231 \| comments: 173

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Why I Use Suckless Tools christine.website \| points: 223 \| comments: 191

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Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap zdnet.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 279

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Show HN: Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq github.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 53

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Peer-to-Peer Communications with WebRTC developer.mozilla.org \| points: 192 \| comments: 64

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How we use HashiCorp Nomad blog.cloudflare.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 78

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Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years brusselstimes.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 185

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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019) matuzo.at \| points: 171 \| comments: 31

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Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu techtudor.blogspot.com \| points: 163 \| comments: 150

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I made a font based on my handwriting sachachua.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 63

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