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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks
84 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation
84 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
84 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
83 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Show HN: Array – A Better Python List
83 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (2003)
83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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If memristors act like neurons, put them in neural networks
83 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
83 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
83 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Safe dead code removal in a pure functional language
83 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Dogger Bank's giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry
83 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Obedience to Authority: The Experiments by Stanley Milgram
83 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
83 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time
83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Uf2: USB Flashing Format
82 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-platforming and censorship
82 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Who Invented the Alphabet?
82 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Live Cells seen with 7x Greater Sensitivity using new Microscopy Technique
82 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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“A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic”
82 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Koan: A word2vec negative sampling implementation with correct CBOW update
82 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Programming Language Foundations in Agda
81 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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React Component for 3D Maps
81 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Valetudo is a cloud-free web interface for robot vacuum cleaners
81 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Show HN: CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in browser via WebAssembly JIT
81 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Nepalese team makes first successful winter ascent of K2
81 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Big Ideas 2021 [pdf]
81 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL for Small Production Environments
81 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer
81 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Show HN: Welder – Record high-quality remote interviews
81 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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StrictMark: Markdown, Refactored
80 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships
80 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors
80 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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GameStop: Amateur investors continue to outwit Wall Street
80 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers
80 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Philosophical Landmines (2013)
80 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Apple First Quarter Results
80 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The largest dam-removal in US history
80 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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A Shell Language in Lisp
80 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Cooking for Founders
80 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock
80 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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zForth – Tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth for embedded systems
80 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Solar2D Game Engine
80 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Avoid using wood burning stoves if possible, warn health experts
80 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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C2nim: A tool to translate ANSI C code to Nim
79 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Microsoft job posting suggests a major user interface update expected in 2021
79 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea, and why we don’t
79 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The Supply Chain for Lithium (2020)
79 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare
79 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely
79 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F#
79 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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What remote YC demo day looked like
79 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code
79 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Done, and Gets Things Smart (2008)
79 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Cyclone Scheme: A R7RS Scheme Compiler
79 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick
79 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Technical issue resolved after ‘150k police records lost’
78 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958)
78 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (1986) [pdf]
78 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Vons, Pavilions to Replace Drivers with Independent Contractors
78 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second
78 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Node.js race conditions
78 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
78 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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LenPEG (2017)
78 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Beating Up on Qsort (2019)
78 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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I checked Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false
78 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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How to convert existing web extensions for Safari
78 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catches 14 students
78 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin
78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk in Rust
78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer
78 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
78 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Libvirt: Adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code
78 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Voice of America CEO Accused of Fraud, Misuse of Office All in One Week
78 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal
78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Threema – Secure and Private Messenger
78 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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I Tried to Get a ‘Leftover Dose’ of the Vaccine Last Night
77 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Twitter locks account of China's US embassy over its defence of Xinjiang policy
77 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Salesforce says it has 'taken action' to prevent further U.S. political violence
77 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Knot Theory and its Applications [pdf]
77 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Synthesizing Correct-by-Construction Code for Cryptographic Primitives
77 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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History of Tcl (2009)
77 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Oldest Libraries in the World
77 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Microsoft patent: Creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person
77 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Some Unlikely 2021 Predictions
77 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Rendering a Sphere on a Quad
77 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Show HN: AI-powered landing page builder
77 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution
77 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming “automation error”
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf]
76 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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No More KYC with ShapeShift
76 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler
76 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Politician's Syllogism
76 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language
76 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Topology 101: How Mathematicians Study Holes
76 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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FM Reception with the GNU Radio Companion
76 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as wealth tops $185B
76 points • comment • jan 07, 2021