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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Launch HN: HiGeorge (YC W21) – Real-time data visualizations for public datasets
89 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter [pdf]
89 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing
88 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before
88 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Bird watching goes both ways
88 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?
88 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
88 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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r/wallstreetbets is being taken over. Mods, comments and posts are being removed
87 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Itanium: Mark Architecture as Orphaned
87 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]
87 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes
87 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Secure your MQTT server with authentication and encryption
87 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Before You Memo()
87 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks: Round 20
87 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Show HN: Straw.Page – Extremely simple website builder
87 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Technology Without Industry
87 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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How to Write Readable Code
87 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?
87 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool
87 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The Crypto-Chernobyl
87 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone
86 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Signal's TLS Proxy Failed to Be Probing Resistant
86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Script Lisp
86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) (2018)
86 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Notion is experiencing a DNS issue
86 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking
86 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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The Great SameSite Confusion
86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Len Sassaman and Satoshi
86 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Fnt: apt for fonts
86 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
85 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Why It Matters Whether Hashed Passwords Are Personal Information Under U.S. Law
85 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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A closer look at Raspberry Pi RP2040 Programmable IOs
85 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation
85 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Typing, RSI, and what I do differently
85 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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SnowFS – a fast, scalable version control file storage for graphic files
85 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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How Robinhood Misled the Poor and Rewarded the Rich
85 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020)
85 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper
84 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Effective Property-Based Testing
84 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod
84 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
84 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The Adams Event
84 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
84 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit
84 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Web Spectrogram using your Mic
84 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info
84 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit
83 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Show HN: Doppler Share – Share one-off secrets with end-to-end encryption
83 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers
83 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”
83 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Why we are still using PBKDF2-SHA256 despite being aware of its limitations
83 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently?
83 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Cosmopolitan Libc: your build-once run-anywhere C library
83 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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KeePassXC 2.6.4 Released
83 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Show HN: Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum
83 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies?
83 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Deepfake Voice Technology: The Good. The Bad. The Future
82 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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NSan: a floating-point numerical sanitizer
82 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Sequoia Capital says it was hacked
82 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo
82 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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A Beginner's Guide to NFTs
82 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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How to write cuneiform
82 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Show HN: An Event Sourced Minesweeper
82 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers into Brutal 'Megacycle' Shifts
82 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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The Reshaped Mac Experience
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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M1 Air with Thermal Pad Mod
82 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
82 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database
82 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Front-of-the-Front-End and Back-of-the-Front-End Web Development
82 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing
82 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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The Misguided Mythology of Ayrton Senna
82 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released
81 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Clj-3DF: Clojure(Script) Client for Declarative Dataflow
81 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare
81 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
81 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Photographer Sues Kat Von D over Miles Davis Tattoo
81 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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GameStop shares soar more than 100% amid executive shuffle
81 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies
81 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015)
81 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Kea parrots perform domain-general statistical inference
81 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Interactive Data Visualisation with Rust
81 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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In their own words: Trinity at 75 – The First Nuclear Bomb
81 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Van Gogh hiding at the back of a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing
80 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free
80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Boeing 757 cargo door opens after takeoff
80 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Bangui magnetic anomaly
80 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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The GameStop Mess Exposes the Naked Short Selling Scam – The American Prospect
80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
80 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Launch HN: Insight (YC W19) – an iOS browser with easy-to-make extensions
80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Zio: Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala
80 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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You Shall Not Pass
80 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Automatic differentiation does incur truncation errors (kinda)
80 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The Art of Negativity
80 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger
80 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Restoring Nominet’s Purpose
80 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cripples hash rate of RTX-3060
80 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics'
80 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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I am releasing all my recent eBooks for FREE
80 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems
80 points • comment • feb 27, 2021