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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021
255 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
254 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube
254 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
253 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Skynet – Build a Free Internet
252 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box
252 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
252 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (516)
251 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?
251 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014)
251 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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What color was “Apple Beige”?
250 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Replicating GPT-2 at Home
249 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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The Confusing World of USB
249 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Beaker Browser – experimental peer to peer web browser
249 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks
249 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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How Huawei controls its employees in Europe
249 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
248 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
248 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Split keyboards and how to build them
247 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Making our new homepage fast and performant
246 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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SpaceX acquires former oil rigs to serve as floating Starship spaceports
246 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Reviving Old X Code
246 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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PfSense Is Closed Source
246 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
246 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet
246 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
246 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress
245 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'
245 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
245 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid
244 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite
243 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Show HN: Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes
243 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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English as She Is Spoke
243 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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SpaceX sends laser-linked Starlinks to the polar orbit
242 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Idris 2 version 0.3.0
242 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles
242 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation
242 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Signal AMA on Reddit
242 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
241 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
241 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth
240 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
240 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
240 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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No one knows how much the government can borrow
240 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano
239 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
239 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
238 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020)
238 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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The Great Unbundling
238 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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The people the suburbs were built for are gone
237 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Papercraft Models of Computers
237 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Review broken products instead of new ones
236 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
236 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
235 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]
235 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
235 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem
235 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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A bit on scaling chess.com's database
234 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
234 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews
234 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)
233 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key
233 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)
233 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Have we already been visited by aliens?
233 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years
233 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output
233 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
232 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal
231 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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New campaign targeting security researchers
231 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?
231 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
231 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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MuseScore 3.6
231 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Graphtoy
231 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging
230 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies
230 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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The Left-NIMBY Canon
230 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing
229 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism
229 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
229 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
229 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)
229 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare
228 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning
228 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data
228 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
227 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)
227 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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"ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to Mac OS Big Sur
227 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Java 1.0 Turns 25
227 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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5G Advocates Renew Attempts to Poach Wi-Fi’s 6GHz Spectrum
227 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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How to leave Google and why
226 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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2020 Game
226 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
225 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
225 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Cory Doctorow: IP (2020)
225 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union
225 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices
225 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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NixOS Linux
224 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants
223 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors
223 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Rust Design Patterns as a Book
223 points • comment • jan 03, 2021