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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference
57 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?
57 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand
57 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground
57 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Azlo Is Closing Down
57 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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The Alan Turing Cryptography Competition
57 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks
57 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
57 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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An Immoral, DIY Rape Kit Startup
57 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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The Dream Job That Wasn’t
57 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Create Terraform files using Python scripts
57 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform
57 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Impact of travel and circadian disruption on athletic performance
56 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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U.S. jobless numbers surge as worsening Covid-19 pandemic hurts businesses
56 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS
56 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Looking for More Debugger
56 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Murder map of medieval London (2019)
56 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Thou shalt not run a database inside a container
56 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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An introduction to Morphic: Self's UI toolkit
56 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Robinhood closing user positions in $GME against their will
56 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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How far does sound travel in the ocean?
56 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Show HN: SharePad.io – A collaborative code editor and compiler
56 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Irma: Open-source, attribute based credentials
56 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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New online tool reveals Raphael's Sistine Chapel cartoons in stunning detail
56 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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M5Paper – a 4.7“ 940x540 multitouch e-ink ESP32 dev kit for $70
56 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Show HN: JPEG.rocks – Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer built with WebAssembly
56 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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I work on code search at GitHub – what needs to improve?
56 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian uncles and aunties
56 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Categories of Nets
56 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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WhatsApp European users do not have to share data with Facebook
56 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Engineering Manager's Booklist
55 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Conspiracy theorists mistake guitar pedal diagram for “5G Chip”
55 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon
55 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Always-On Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up
55 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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macOS beta adds custom kernel support, closer to installing other OSS on M1 Macs
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Ask HN: AWS account expires in 2 weeks. Can't login, but they keep asking me to
55 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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libsignal-client – a Signal protocol implementation in Rust
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant
55 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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North Dakota Bill Would Let Censored Citizens Sue Facebook, Twitter
55 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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CSS Turing Machine
55 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Proposal for C23: Improve type generic programming [pdf]
55 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
55 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Physics Without Probability (2015) [video]
55 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Show HN: Organizedly – Linked notes, todo's, calendar and queries
55 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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AXPbox Alpha Emulator
55 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Crash: Sriwijaya B735 at Jakarta, lost height and impacted Java Sea
55 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Mexico president slams social media censorship
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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IBM Palm Top PC110 [video]
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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2021: what’s coming in free/libre software
54 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Revue Is Joining Twitter
54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished
54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Finding the Words to Say: Hidden State Visualizations for Language Models
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors
54 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator
54 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Energy Vault – Gravitational Batteries
54 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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A Brief History of Peanut Butter
54 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Plex Arcade
54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Show HN: Supernotes – Embeddable Markdown note-cards
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Parler removed from Google Play store
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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NRA Declares Bankruptcy
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos
54 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems
54 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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India could get nasal vaccine against Covid-19 soon
54 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent
54 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (1905)
54 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Axle Health (YC W21) – In-Home Healthcare as a Service
54 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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When the Text and HTML Disagree
54 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain
53 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Alphabet shutting Loon, which used balloon alternative to cell towers
53 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer
53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Filesystem Error Handling (2017)
53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Siegfried Fischbacher from 'Siegfried and Roy' magician duo has died
53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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ShenScript – An Implementation of the Shen Language for JavaScript
53 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Tim Cook warns of adtech fuelling a “social catastrophe”
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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FBI ‘honors’ Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after plotting to ‘neutralize’ him
53 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The Ultimate MacBook+PC Monitor Showdown
53 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01
53 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Protocol for a U.S. Nuclear Strike
53 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Programming Fonts
53 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Airwindows – Free VST Plugins for Mac, Windows and Linux
53 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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The harmful assumptions we make about tasks
53 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Teleguard: Swiss Made Safe Messaging
53 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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IKEA using AR to let users decide which furniture fits where (2020)
53 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Custom Properties as State
53 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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The Nashville bombing and threats to critical infrastructure
53 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Show HN: SleekDB – A NoSQL Database made using PHP
53 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
53 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Most surgeries are ineffective
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Parler Hosting Requirements
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Cory Doctorow – Understanding /r/wallstreetbets
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (But Finnish People Can)
52 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (2018)
52 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Google Cloud SQL Incident
52 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00
52 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet (2020)
52 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Anger Management
52 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Human-Learn: Draw Machine Learning Models
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardizes” on snaps
52 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try
52 points • comment • jan 28, 2021