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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
291 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust
291 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved
290 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill
290 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Moral Competence
290 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
290 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem
289 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
287 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration
287 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Fitbit is now officially part of Google
287 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing
287 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
285 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Management by metrics leads us astray
285 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Tether price manipulation
285 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps
284 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
283 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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East Coast Internet Outage
283 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App
283 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Solarwind, Fireeye, Microsoft and Cisco leaks are offered for sale
282 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
282 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown
281 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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CVE Stuffing
281 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona
280 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
280 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
280 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Loon’s final flight
280 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)
280 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Ray Tracing in pure CMake
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
279 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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What I Use Instead of Google
279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
279 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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We Built a Facebook Inspector
279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
279 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
278 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters
278 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech
277 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Zig in 30 Minutes
277 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations
277 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars
276 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard
275 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
275 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Why I still Lisp
274 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Working Off-Grid Efficiently
273 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type
273 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
273 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States
272 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals
271 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW
271 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain
271 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
270 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Getting Started in Robotics
270 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone
270 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker
269 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040
268 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Open Letter from Laura Poitras
267 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients
267 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Getting Started with Signal
267 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021
267 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine
266 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors
266 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
265 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones
264 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too
264 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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The Problem with Gradle
264 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Julia adoption keeps climbing
264 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance
264 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Zoom improvements requested by music schools
264 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API
263 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Show HN: I made an alarm clock
263 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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New Defaults
263 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'
263 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet
262 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL
262 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C
262 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks
262 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
262 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Epic acquires RAD Game Tools
262 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Container networking is simple (2020)
262 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The Great Software Stagnation
261 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?
261 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
261 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple
260 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Google Images Restored
260 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
260 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent
259 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching
258 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
258 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps
258 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Otokichi
257 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
256 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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JupyterLab 3.0
256 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
256 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
256 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library
255 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
255 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021
255 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
255 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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New six-film series from Adam Curtis
255 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun
255 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar
255 points • comment • jan 09, 2021