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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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American Apathy: Our Declining Interest in Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
44 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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How to select best UPS and Solar to be off-grid 24 hour for 2kw
44 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?
44 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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The Most Popular College Books
44 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
44 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Google looks at pulling all or part of its search engine from Australia
44 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other private cryptocurrencies
44 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Google is silently censoring search results
44 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Microsoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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The Art of Pixar
44 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Ask HN: What if Stack Overflow suddenly decides to shut down?
43 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Tesla fire kills man because door handles wouldn’t open, lawsuit alleges
43 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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SpaceX violated its launch license in Starship test, triggering FAA probe
43 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading Covid vaccine
43 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Price List
43 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Qt commercial-only LTS phase starts
43 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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How to Train a Scaled-YOLOv4 Object Detection Model
43 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Apple sued by group insisting it curb Telegram
43 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Janet Yellen Got $810k to Give Speeches at Citadel
43 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
43 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy
43 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Show HN: Pdoc, a lightweight Python API documentation generator
43 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Dubai Lamp
43 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias
43 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Twitter thread – What was learnt from deplatforming ISIS
43 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open Source Drivers
43 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Revelio: A MimbleWimble Proof of Reserves Protocol
43 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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A new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning
43 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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A lost paradise of purity: the late masterpieces of Schubert
43 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice Since the Mid-1990s
43 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Single anonymous donor gives $40M to fund 50 civil rights lawyers
42 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones
42 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Another French Study Looks Into The Use of Nicotine Against Covid-19
42 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Capitol Police, a department shrouded in secrecy: not subject to FOIA requests
42 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Is light fundamentally a wave or a particle?
42 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Turning desalination waste into a useful resource
42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Why is signal servers using Java and not Erlang
42 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Fun with conversion-operator name lookup
42 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Beyond Identity Offers Free Version of Its Passwordless Technology
42 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax”
42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Liner Transatlantic Crossing Times, 1833 – 1952 (in days)
42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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We compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money
42 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Show HN: Cmap – interactive visualization library for concept map
42 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn
42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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My child has two parents. Why does day care call only me? (2018)
42 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Former Google CEO and others call for U.S.-China tech “bifurcation”
42 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Science and Technology of the Casimir Effect
42 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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A Recursive Model learned index structure
42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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My Apple IIE: Nearly 30 Years Later (2012)
42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Mira Furlan has died
42 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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How to reform the attention economy business model of Big Tech
42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Google reinstates Element after an appeal
42 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Will your PR get merged?
42 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Symbols the Microsoft Way (2013)
42 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India
42 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Russian Software Company [JetBrains] May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
41 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot
41 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
41 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
41 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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White House YouTube Dislike Manipulation
41 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Satran Satellite Tracking Antenna
41 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats
41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Economic Failures of the IPCC Process
41 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Programming in Five Easy Pieces
41 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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An amendment to the Constitution of the USA to abolish the electoral college
41 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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React Creator Leaves Facebook
41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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The Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883
41 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Identifying Authorship Style in Malicious Binaries: Techniques, Challenges
41 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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What it's like to be a nonprofit programmer
41 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Show HN: Waver – Messaging Through Sound
41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Facebook-Branded Apparel
40 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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'Big Short' investor predicts Tesla stock will collapse like the housing bubble
40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Apple Car: For Real This Time?
40 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?
40 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Cracks in US nuclear command and control
40 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Order on Protecting Americans from Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
40 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Show HN: Bufferi.ng: fake a bad connection on zoom
40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Teaching and Assessing Property-Based Testing
40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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San Francisco's school board in name only
40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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California reports 585 coronavirus deaths, new single-day record in state
40 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Who has started a successful side business while having a full time job?
40 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Is Bitcoin a Scam?
40 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTube
40 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Zoom and the American Family
40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Why scientists are worried about the coronavirus variant from Brazil
40 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Bitwarden Extension disabled due to new permissions
40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests
40 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Why 'Cousin Jack'? The origins of the nickname of the Cornish overseas
40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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High Voltage “Lifter”
40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The Multitude of Books
40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The Problem with Writing-Style Advice
40 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Show HN: Micro – A platform for cloud native development in Go
40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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G.M.’S Electric Car Goal Blindsides Rivals and Shakes Up an Industry
40 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (2012)
40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China
40 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Restricted DMA
40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Nuon, a gaming chip that nearly changed the world, but didn’t (2015)
39 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data [pdf]
39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021