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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore
133 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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TikTok and the network effects of creativity
133 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Is This a Branch?
133 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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An SQL Solution for Jupyter
133 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals
133 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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A Sober Look at SPACs (2020)
132 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race
132 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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How Covid brought the future back
132 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Threat Actors Now Target Docker via Container Escape Features
132 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Launch HN: Tint (YC W21) – Embed insurance into any product
131 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
131 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics
131 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)
131 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Biden to sign order to build 'China-free' tech supply chain
131 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]
131 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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S100 Computers
131 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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WebAssembly
130 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute deal with government
130 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)
130 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias
130 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The Exclusive Website
130 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Never use MongoDB (2013)
129 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Flexible working shows 55% high performers compared to 36% for 40 hours/week
129 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks
129 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
129 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
129 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?
129 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires
129 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
129 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia
128 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic
128 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Powerpaste, the hydrogen technology for small vehicles
128 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011)
128 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You?
128 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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The Mediocre Programmer
127 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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AirPods as a Platform
127 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
127 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Streams – The Definitive Guide
127 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Project Xanadu
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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RetroForth 2021.1
127 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Show HN: Peer-to-Peer data transfer tool based on libp2p
127 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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US central bank payment system down for 'hours'
127 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Htmx 1.2.0 Release
127 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic
127 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection
127 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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RethinkDNS – monitor app activity, block ads and firewall apps on Android
126 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Beeple Mania
126 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
126 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The Fed Is Down
126 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Listen to radio stations from around the world
126 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely
126 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
126 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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JIT-Compiling SQL Queries in PostgreSQL Using LLVM
125 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Compiler Class
125 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Open Source in the 5G Stack
125 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Opinion: We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April
125 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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23andMe to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. to become publicly-traded company
125 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators
125 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Fzf – the basics part 1 – layout
125 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Show HN: Weekend project, shows when the next season of your TV show premieres
124 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup
124 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Weave.jl – Scientific Reports Using Julia
124 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter
124 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Four Basic Truths of Macroeconomics
124 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data
124 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Fuzz me wrong – How QuickCheck destroyed my favourite theory
124 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Google suspends Terraria author's account; He cancels support for Google Stadia
123 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The GPL-Violations.org Project (2016)
123 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms
123 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes
123 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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How ClickHouse saved our data (2020)
123 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Unsuck It (2010)
123 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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78rpm Records Digitized
123 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Griddy Is Shutting Down
123 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Creating Languages in Racket (2011)
123 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java
123 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)
122 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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I built ByteDance's censorship machine
122 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why
122 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels
122 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes
122 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say
122 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Mutation Driven Testing: When TDD Just Isn’t Good Enough
122 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform
122 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Interview Frustrations
122 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Texas Electric Bills Were $28B Higher Under Deregulation
121 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash
121 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage
121 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices
121 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available
121 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants
120 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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How We Test Concurrent Primitives in Kotlin Coroutines
120 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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On Writing More
120 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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SpaceX says Starlink now has over 10k users
120 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Ancient Babylonian Algorithms: The Earliest Programs
120 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet
120 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015)
120 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime
120 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)
119 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
119 points • comment • feb 21, 2021