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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Update: Prosecutors asked that Rebekah Jones be banned from the internet
147 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
147 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss
147 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading?
147 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
146 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
146 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Our Dumb Security Questionnaire
146 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network
146 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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ACLU Statement Opposing the 'Confronting the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Act' (2019)
146 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma
146 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Python's Type Checking Renaissance
146 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
146 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness
145 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations
145 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Unlocking LUKS2 Volumes with TPM2, FIDO2, PKCS#11 Security HW on Systemd 248
145 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Show HN: A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance
145 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Open Sourcing Tilt Brush
145 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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The parenting style that creates leaders
145 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Apply to YC on Your Schedule
145 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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One Year of Excalidraw
145 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit
145 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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At-home test for colon cancer is as reliable as traditional screening: experts
145 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
144 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets
144 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC
144 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service
144 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
144 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
144 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
143 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android
143 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?
143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
143 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020
143 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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LibreSSL Languishes on Linux
143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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California’s container-ship traffic jam
143 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?
143 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Quick Overview of Julia language [pdf]
143 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Storming Reddit's Moat
143 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The Reddit GME short squeeze game plan (143 days old)
143 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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How do I safely store my files?
143 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)
142 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, etc.
142 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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90% of Everything Is Crap
142 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
142 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Why can't I write code inside my browser?
142 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use
142 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Rebuilding the spellchecker
142 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012)
141 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans
141 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
141 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video]
141 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
141 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines
141 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters
141 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely
141 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
141 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
140 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
140 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Sci-Founder Fellowship: Helping scientists to start companies
140 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
140 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups?
139 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut
139 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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1938 vs. 1940 (2018)
139 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The Earth has been spinning faster lately
139 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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A few HiDPI tricks for Linux
138 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Parler Databases Disclosed
138 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps
138 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget
138 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Designing Engineering Organizations
138 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
138 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Is this plane landing or departing? (2017)
138 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Peter M. Neumann has died
138 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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PBRT in Rust
138 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters
138 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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A framework that makes things worse on purpose
137 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers
137 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (2013)
137 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider
137 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)
137 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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DrScheme in Space
136 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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The Wire in HD (2014)
136 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Command Path Security in Go
136 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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DNS Key Value Storage
136 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte
136 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal
136 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested
136 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black (2019)
135 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)
135 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)
135 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
135 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
135 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Why Combustion Is Exothermic
135 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Archiving the Capitol Hill Riots
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Emacs Symbolic Integration
134 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Parable of Alien Chess
134 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as UTF-8
134 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia
134 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Nissan code leaked after bitbucket repo set-up with defaults admin/admin
134 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Eagle Cash
134 points • comment • jan 01, 2021