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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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World-first home hydrogen battery stores 3x the energy of a Powerwall 2
39 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
39 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Intro to securing communication protocols with Noise
39 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline
39 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Academics Are Worried About Cancel Culture
39 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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7: Jim Cramer Exposes Illegal Hedge Fund Tactics
39 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987)
39 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to Be Shared with Facebook
39 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Linux Ported to the M1
39 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Guarded Horn Clauses: A Parallel Logic PL with the Concept of a Guard (1987)
39 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It
39 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Ask HN: How to Prepare for National Instability?
39 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Harpoon V
39 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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George W. Bush is smarter than you (2013)
39 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Graph Algorithms for Data Science
39 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Working Oneself to Death in China
39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding
39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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IRS offered $625,000 bounty to anyone who could “crack” Monero; no one succeeded
39 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Feds say charges over stolen Pelosi computer being prepared
39 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Maintainers Truth and Fiction
39 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Conway's Multiplayer Game of Life
39 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Denmark offers homeowners 20-year loans at a fixed interest rate of zero
39 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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A pure Bash Clojure-ish CI pipeline
39 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data [pdf]
39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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The story of Thunder Bay’s socialist Finnish restaurant (2018)
38 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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CDPR pays its junior developers $700/month
38 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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RISC-V Vector Instructions vs. ARM and x86 SIMD
38 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Distcc – distribute builds across multiple machines simultaneously (2006)
38 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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The Greatest Books of All Time
38 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Has the Squeeze Been Squoze Yet?
38 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you build your audience?
38 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Miraculous Mozart
38 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Dogecoin GitHub issue #1674: Reintroduce the cap
38 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Ask HN: How have your recent job application experiences been?
38 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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People that think you’re an asshole
38 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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SpaceX Starship SN9 High Altitude Test – Live [video]
38 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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The Killer SF DA
38 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
38 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Big Tech is the new deep state
38 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Clubhouse for X – The emerging trend of audio-only applications
38 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Ordered Key-Value Stores
38 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?
38 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Bay Area hospitals slammed by Covid-19 surge: ‘The E.R. is full’
38 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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WhatsApp fights back as users flee to Signal and Telegram
38 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Trump Supporters Storm Capitol
38 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Accidental Nuclear War: A Timeline of Close Calls
38 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Only ~5% of California's long-term care facility residents have been vaccinated
38 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Facebook is moderating posts about Signal
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines
37 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba
37 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Human Rights Violations by the CIA
37 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
37 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Facebook Q4 2020 earnings [pdf]
37 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like staying off HN for a bit?
37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Inequality Killed the Roman Republic
37 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Show HN: OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer
37 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Dogecoin Surges as Reddit Traders Push to Make It the Crypto GameStop
37 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Facebook Preps Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple
37 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Time Series Density Plot
37 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Big Tech's De-Platforming Binge Highlights the Need for Web 3.0
37 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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A Visual History of Interpretation for Image Recognition
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Fixing User Personas
37 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence – Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate
37 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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New Drug Therapy Approvals 2020
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Donald Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached for a second time
37 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Google Fi support goes silent after admitting coverage is “nonexistent” in area
37 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry
37 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?
37 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Swedish bankers face identity crisis over digital currency plans
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items
37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Oneness via gurus, psychedelics and the hidden code in Jordan Mechner's Karateka
37 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Vitalik Buterin on De-platforming and the way forward
37 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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“Qanon” is Propaganda, and we know who’s responsible
37 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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An Engineering Argument for Basic Income
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Higher coffee intake may be linked to lower prostate cancer risk
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
37 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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'Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions' (2008)
37 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese
37 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Hacker News sentiment towards Big Tech companies
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Army investigates psyops officer for role in Washington on day of Capitol riot
37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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New York City Renters Owe More Than $1B in Unpaid Rent
36 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Pico-8: Cab Ride
36 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Show HN: Asymmetric stackful cross-platform Coroutines in pure C
36 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Parlor does not scrub exif data
36 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
36 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there anywhere to get help with employment contracts?
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas
36 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing
36 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Is Mathematics Real? (2020)
36 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Why are Hart Taxis more expensive?
36 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Are you preparing for a market crash? How?
36 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Reversing the Aging Clock with Epigenetic Reprogramming
36 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
36 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast for Humans to Fight, U.S. General Warns
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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CDC now says valved N95 has better source control than cloth/surgical masks [pdf]
36 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Baldur's Gate 2 reincarnated in the browser using WebAssembly
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Interview with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC (2014) [video]
36 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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From microops to abstract resources: constructing simpler CPU performance models
36 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Pompeo lifts 'self-imposed restrictions' on U.S.-Taiwan relationship
36 points • comment • jan 09, 2021