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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Local rules instead of global censorship
199 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Europe's Vaccine Disaster
198 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
198 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Intel is dying and we can’t save it
198 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018)
197 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content
197 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv
197 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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AstraZeneca/EU contract
197 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
197 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
197 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app
197 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java
197 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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A new release for GNU Octave
196 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
196 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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.NET GC Internals mini-series
196 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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If you want peace, study war
196 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Site.js: Small Web construction set
196 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
195 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)
195 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
195 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
195 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with electric plane
194 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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My preferred .NET console stack
194 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails
194 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?
194 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
194 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
194 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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A Map of Mathematics
193 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
193 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
193 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images
193 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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My Entire company Gsuite access has been banned
192 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Is Everything Securities Fraud?
192 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Feds asks Tesla to recall vehicles over failing touchscreen displays
192 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Software That Sucks Less
192 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
192 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)
191 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
191 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’
191 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks
191 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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TimeTagger: Open-Source Time Tracker
191 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?
190 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others
190 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?
190 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
190 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance
190 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Android Ported to RISC-V
189 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC
189 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
189 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Learn Go in five minutes
189 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Show HN: My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second
189 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy
189 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Paint.wtf
188 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Reddit's GameStop stock surge is a terrifying new Occupy Wall Street
188 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups
188 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC
188 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Debian discusses vendoring again
188 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis
188 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption rules
187 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Introduction to Window Functions in SQL
187 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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We Don't Sell Ads (2012)
187 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Best of HN 2020
186 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V
186 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Show HN: Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser
186 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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The richer you are, the more likely you’ll social distance, study finds
186 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts
186 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low
186 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?
185 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
185 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Why webcams aren’t good enough
185 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?
185 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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The Lab Leak Hypothesis
185 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
184 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Are Experts Real?
184 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles
184 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (1999)
184 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020
184 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?
184 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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The great bicycle boom of 2020
183 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Why Clojure? (2018)
183 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
183 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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How to Be Clear
183 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Dockerfile Best Practices
183 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies
183 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
182 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
182 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects
182 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Deep neck flexor exercises – Back and neck
182 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effective in global trial
182 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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CIA Releases UFO Documents
182 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
182 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Why cats are crazy for catnip
181 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines
181 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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ffscreencast – a screencast CLI-tool with video overlay and multimonitor support
181 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Access Control for GitHub Pages
181 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
181 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Quitting a New Job
181 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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When parties reverse their stance, supporters immediately switch their opinions
181 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
181 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
180 points • comment • jan 26, 2021