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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze
114 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Pair Programming Economics
114 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia
114 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'
114 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
114 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants
114 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Transit Costs Project
114 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A Python library for graph subsampling
114 points • comment • may 18, 2020
How I Make Yogurt (2019)
114 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
The Bourne Shell Source Code
114 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
New antiviral treatment made from sugar
114 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
114 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
State of Common Lisp Survey 2020
114 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Data Science Interview Questions
114 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video]
114 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Seeing the Smoke
114 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons
114 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3
114 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
A forgotten twentieth-century photographer’s wild portraits of women in nature
114 points • comment • may 26, 2020
London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd
114 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end
114 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
A Thai national park is mailing trash back to tourists
113 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
113 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)
113 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012)
113 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
The Cement of Society Is...
113 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
What are the others website you visit daily?
113 points • comment • may 08, 2020
The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October
113 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network
113 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Commodore Amiga could get a mini/classic version next year
113 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
NYU DS-GA 1008 – Deep Learning
113 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Presentation Rules
113 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Xilinx-Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Drive Launched
113 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
113 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
113 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Post Mortem on Salt Incident
113 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app in December
113 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative
113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch
113 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon
113 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third
113 points • comment • may 28, 2020
The few remaining uses of the name “Macintosh”
113 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Fedora 33
113 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Why the Sorbet type checker is fast
113 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
113 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Grieving for Apple
113 points • comment • may 22, 2020
New setup for 2020
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi
113 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019)
113 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year
113 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
113 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Quine Relay
113 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User
113 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
113 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
With broad, random tests for antibodies, Germany seeks path out of lockdown
113 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
113 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries
113 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
113 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
113 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Asterisk
113 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Show HN: Screenr – Automated Workflow for Your Email
113 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data
113 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Webfs: A Filesystem Built on Top of the Web
113 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018)
113 points • comment • may 17, 2020
The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)
113 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
113 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery
113 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Performance/Avoid SQLite in Your Next Firefox Feature (2014)
113 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]
113 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
113 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Uber wants to redefine employment, labor groups are fighting back
113 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge
113 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions
113 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Show HN: Parametric Equalizer for PulseAudio
113 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
GitLab acquires Peach Tech and Fuzzit
113 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
How does a TCP Reset Attack work?
113 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
6.851: Advanced Data Structures (2017)
113 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Assange Hearing Day 10
113 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)
113 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
113 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
How to write documentation for a Rust crate
113 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
ACLU accuses Clearview AI of privacy “nightmare scenario”
113 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
113 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis
113 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
GraphQL Tooling, Today and Tomorrow [video]
113 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone swarm mystery
113 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
GDPR guide for developers
113 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
The ungentle joy of spider sex
113 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Why Rocket Internet has come down to earth
113 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A
113 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
EasyJet reveals cyber-attack exposed 9m customers' details
113 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Facebook will block ads from state-controlled media outlets
113 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators
113 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?
113 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities
113 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Lua in the Kernel?
113 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife
113 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Lumière’s Train in 4K
113 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
'Oumuamua could be a shard from a dead planet
113 points • comment • apr 14, 2020