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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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What do I do when they simply refuse to do what I am asking them to do? (2015)
15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Magnetically Assisted Gears
15 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Don't Rely on Motivation
15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Right Forge
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
15 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Top Ranked Tweets on Hacker News 2020
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The GameStop Short Squeeze
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The White House Launches the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
15 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
15 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Former Sen. Barbara Boxer is now working for a Chinese surveillance firm
15 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Paris approves plan to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Twitter Locks Out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over Post on Uighurs
15 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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The Outsiders (1987)
15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Front-End Development Roadmap for 2021
15 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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So, You’ve OK’d Shrooms and Defunded the Police. Now What?
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Independent Audit: Insights into the Source Code of Boxcryptor
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Rep. Nunes Calls for Racketeering Investigation into Big Tech Companies
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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.NET's defective browser detection causing DoS
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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The Risk Makers: The nuclear, auto, and food industries
14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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James Murdoch says US media 'lies' unleashed 'insidious forces'
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Twitter Bans over 70k QAnon Accounts in Conspiracy Crackdown
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Autumn Covid-19 surge dates in Europe point to Vitamin D as contributing factor
14 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and Alberta's oil dependent economy
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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American woman who ‘unsettled the public’ with Twitter thread will be deported
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Royalty-Free Music and SFX
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Ask HN: How to find a new role as a very senior software engineer?
14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Reflections on 2020 as an Independent Researcher
14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Reminder: iMessage Not Meaningfully E2E
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Monthlong denial-of-service against PyPI
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Slack Is Down?
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Ban.ai Public Access Multics
14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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The new mosquito bringing disease to North America
14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Pulumi vs. Terraform – Hypergrowth in the Valley
14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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National Guard activated as mobs breach U.S. Capitol; D.C. mayor imposes curfew
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Texas DPS mistakenly sends out Amber Alert for Chucky doll
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Xiaomi shares fall 10% as U.S. adds smartphone-maker to ‘blacklist’
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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DisCO is an organisational model for cooperative groups
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus Torvalds
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Creating iOS Application Icons with SwiftUI
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Linux Struck by Exploitable Root Access Sudo Vulnerability, Patch ASAP
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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New battery chemistry results in first rechargeable zinc-air battery
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I make technical contributions to a meaningful cause
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Evidence supports SARS-CoV-2 was in Italy as early as Nov 2019
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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The first Locha Mesh's Turpial dev-kits in the wild
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Richard Liebowitz Benchslapped and Sanctioned After Lying Under Oath
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Reddit Announces Partnership with Ethereum
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Merkel finds Twitter suspension of Trump account 'problematic'
14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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DuckDuckGo Advertising for Signal on Twitter
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Why Google needs to build an open chat client like Elemen
14 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Making Pandemic-proof live Theatre
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is desktop computing still so slow?
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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App makers explore desperate measures to dodge Apple privacy rules
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Google Union Condemns YouTube for Not Suspending Donald Trump
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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The nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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xkcd Color Survey Results (2010)
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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GameStop stock up 92.7% today
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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RIAA Defeats False DMCA Takedown Notice Claims in Court
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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HODL
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski
14 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans from Far Right
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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China will nationalize Alibaba after Jack Ma criticized the party
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Server-side code is doing too much
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Tesla Model Y Achieves 5-Star Overall Safety Rating from NHTSA
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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We Already Experienced an Era of Fake News 100 Years Ago – and Solved It
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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The Armenian Alphabet
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Why markets boomed in a year of human misery
14 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Tell me why wallstreebets is wrong
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Syntropy Stack – The Future of Programmable Networking
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre (2009) [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing
14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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$5k electric motorcycle is a cast aluminum frame
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Apple Warns on Danger of iPhone 12 Handset to Some Users
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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How to Care for Aging Parents When You Can’t Be There
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Happy Birthday, Wikipedia
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Mouse-free home with an AI powered cat flap
14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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EU sets out plans to curb reliance on dollar in post-Trump era
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Double setup for encrypted email on iOS/macOS: via S/MIME and PGP
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Carver Silver Seven Mono Vacuum Tube Power Amplifier Reviewed (1990)
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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American Who Spied on U.S. Moves to Israel
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Parler is back up using DDoS-Guard. All its data now flows through Russia
14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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TSMC to Spend Record $28 Billion on Advanced Chips / Capacity
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Pilot Report: My 737 Max Simulator Ride
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Track Biden
14 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Pro-Trump Mob Livestreamed Its Rampage, and Made Money Doing It
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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A new WSJ op-ed on how Big Tech is threatening the Constitution
14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Samsung Internet blows Chrome out of the water
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Notes on Technology in the 2020s
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Blue Check Homes
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Show HN: Check if a GitHub repo is open to contributions
14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021