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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
161 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub
161 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users
161 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Rendering Moana with Swift
161 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift
161 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Why it’s usually crazier than you expect
161 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day
160 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway
160 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
160 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution
160 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial
159 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one
159 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Toolz: A functional standard library for Python
159 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate
159 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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A 432-year-old manual on social distancing
159 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia
159 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017)
159 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)
159 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned
159 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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How does Clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?
159 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Working from Bed
159 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
158 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard
158 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Learning to Suffer
158 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display
158 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Bumble S-1
158 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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My Second Brain – Zettelkasten
158 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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State-backed manipulation rampant on social media
158 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water
157 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Update on an Employee Matter
157 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Future Plans for Autotools
157 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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The Lakota: A Human Story
157 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO
157 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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We can do better than Signal
157 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room
156 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies
156 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
156 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Why Apple Chose Clang (2008)
156 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app
156 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
156 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
156 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing
156 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor
156 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Decoding the Peloton
156 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Shuffle — An online editor for busy developers
156 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
156 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report
156 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo
156 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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State of JavaScript 2020
156 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest
156 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
155 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu
155 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games
155 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Noise Planets
155 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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System Design Interview book review
154 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Is HN slow today?
154 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]
154 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results)
153 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)
153 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
153 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Mealworms can compost styrofoam
153 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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JackTrip WebRTC: high quality, uncompressed, low-delay audio streaming
152 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Offbase: Static site generator in a browser
152 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Graphics Programming Black Book (1997)
152 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan
152 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
152 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)
151 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 adds full custom kernel support
151 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Data fetching on the web still sucks
151 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer
151 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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An Uncommon Cold
151 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers
151 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Colorize
151 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Develop Open 5G Systems
151 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
151 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition
150 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland
150 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal
150 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Ultraleap – tactile sensations projected onto your hands
150 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)
150 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Uganda's internet Shutdown
150 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production
150 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
150 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)
150 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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How you can get banned from Facebook permanently
149 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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UPS sells trucking unit
149 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (1979)
149 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Encrypted Client Hello: The Future of ESNI in Firefox
149 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study
149 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought
149 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Opensource your abandonware (2010)
149 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost
149 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Citadel allegedly reloaded Shorts on GME before Robinhood put restrictions
149 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
149 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines
148 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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The Perfect Media Server
148 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
148 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay
148 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine
147 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Update: Prosecutors asked that Rebekah Jones be banned from the internet
147 points • comment • jan 18, 2021