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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
222 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training on M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100
222 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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A Week with Plan 9
221 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?
221 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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The Toyota Production System (2013)
221 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video]
221 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination
221 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules
221 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
221 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Twitter acquires Revue
220 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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The Spoon Theory (2003)
220 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner
220 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Next Gen Static Blogging
220 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Shorting and Indian capital markets
219 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
219 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
219 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
219 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow
219 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
218 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
218 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
218 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Three reasons fungi are not plants
218 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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A vast web of vengeance
218 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties
217 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington
217 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
217 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
216 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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My stack is HTML+CSS
216 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur
215 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
215 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever
215 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts
215 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
215 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
214 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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How Tail Call Optimization Works
214 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
214 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
214 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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BioNTech CEO applies Covid-19 vaccine's mRNA tech to multiple sclerosis
213 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla
213 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
213 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril
213 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Deleting Facebook permanently
213 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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The J1 Forth CPU
212 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII
212 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?
212 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
212 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
212 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
211 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
211 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
211 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App
210 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
210 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page
210 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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A rabbit hole full of Lisp
210 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology
210 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?
210 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)
209 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico
209 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12
209 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
209 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Bryan Fogel on why streaming platforms were scared of releasing The Dissident
209 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Making is show business now (2020)
209 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Smart contracts on Bitcoin
209 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC
208 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)
208 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Danes Get 20-Year 0% Mortgages
208 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
208 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI
207 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances
207 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Apple Removes Parler from App Store
207 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?
206 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Flow-Based Programming
206 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties
206 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions
205 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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“Appointment” as professor at Harvard was an elaborate phishing attack
205 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server
205 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Encrypted Backup Shootout
204 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)
204 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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But how, exactly, do databases use mmap?
204 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out
204 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Understanding Connections and Pools
204 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Qutebrowser 2.0
204 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Amazon Is Booting Parler Off of Its Web Hosting Service
203 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters
203 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email
203 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
203 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Vue Native (2018)
203 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices
202 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Compilers are hard
202 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to block purchasers of GME
202 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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First atomic clock wristwatch (2003)
201 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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FiOS service disruption in Northeast US
200 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto
200 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit
200 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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A comparison of city building games
200 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs
199 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
199 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses
199 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week
199 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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The Platform Is the Enemy
199 points • comment • jan 10, 2021