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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews
103 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version
103 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets
103 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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How Homogeneous Is Japan?
102 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008)
102 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
102 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Lua and Python (2020)
102 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening
102 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes
102 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Mammalian Aggression
102 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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MDMA Solo (2020) [pdf]
102 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Show HN: A dead code killer for Erlang
102 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Codebreaking: A Practical Guide
102 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals
102 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software
102 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
101 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop
101 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Is my vintage equipment trying to send me a message? [video]
101 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool
101 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
101 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build
101 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014)
101 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (2011)
101 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
101 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
100 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI
100 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone
100 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation
99 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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What Writers and Editors Do
99 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6
99 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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The Pyra Handheld Linux PC is Shipping
99 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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GNU Radio 3.9
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests
99 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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A worry junior engineers frequently have is that they ask too many questions
99 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors
99 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Basic Scripting with Awk and Gnuplot
99 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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US Navy – Tic Tac UFO – High frequency gravitational wave generator
99 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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The Now Habit
99 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour
98 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor
98 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
98 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality
98 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips
98 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs
98 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake
98 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)
98 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests
97 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital
97 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020)
97 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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ChrysaLisp
97 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival
97 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time
97 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Our Response to the Violence in Washington
97 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Show HN: RevoGrid – Spreadsheet data table for all frameworks
96 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Full Throttle – fan film script by Duncan Jones [pdf]
96 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Facebook is banning leftwing users like me
96 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers
96 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Parler App delisted from Google Play; Apple threatening same within 24h
96 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan End Health-Care Venture Haven
95 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer
95 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’
95 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?
95 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Dns.Watch: Public DNS Servers
95 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP
95 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Robinhood apparently selling people's shares ”for their own good“
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch
95 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps
95 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability
95 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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What is happening to Lazada is happening to all companies acquired by Alibaba
95 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Ask HN: What are the expectations of a principal engineer in your company?
95 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
94 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Frugal Web Browser: A Design Experiment
94 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi
94 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer
94 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Vole.wtf
94 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Meals based on vegetable protein sources (beans and peas) are more satiating (2016)
94 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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New hard disk write head analytical technology can increase hard disk capacities
94 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL
94 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Stop the “Hard Work” Obsession
94 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper
93 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
93 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Show HN: BFS, Dijkstra and A* interactive demo made in React
93 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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CS50 for Lawyers
93 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Year of Grinding Teeth
93 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts
93 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building
93 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Limiting Private API Availability in Chromium
92 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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SOPHIE has died
92 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Tor – All v3 onion addresses are unavailable
92 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Armed Forces Officer Chapter Twenty: Writing and Speaking (1950)
92 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist
92 points • comment • jan 06, 2021