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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Ligeti Stratos – First Open Source Microlight Aircraft (2013)
79 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire departments
79 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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EyeDraw – Draw with your eyes using computer vision
79 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack
79 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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B8ta closing another San Francisco store after armed robbery
79 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry
79 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Enable hibernation when Lockdown is enabled
79 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention
79 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?
79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (1999)
79 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The most important part of modern government is database management
79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Show HN: Pageturner – a community for building a reading habit
79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Google hasn’t updated their iOS apps for 2 months to avoid new privacy labels
79 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Fully convolutional naturalistic video reconstruction from brain activity
79 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Squad: Forth on Chip-8
79 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy
79 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing
79 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Google Cloud lost $5.6B in 2020
79 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers
78 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’
78 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi
78 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Mainframe Programming vs. Cloud Computing
78 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal
78 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)
78 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
77 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Dairy Made from Grass in a Fermentor
77 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP
77 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Semgrep: JavaScript browser security concat bypass not detected
77 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Iamlive – Generate an IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring
77 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Curl is C (2017)
77 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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You cannot contact Google Cloud support team if you are locked out your account
77 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins
77 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Arb: Efficient Arbitrary-Precision Midpoint-Radius Interval Arithmetic (2016)
77 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
77 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Privacy Policy Changes
77 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk
77 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem
77 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review
76 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers?
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for Almost a Century
76 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Launch HN: Worksphere (YC W21) – Manage flexible in-office or remote workspaces
76 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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What Inception Net Doesn't See
76 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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When Everyone’s a Genius: A Few Thoughts on Speculation
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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How libraries decide which books to keep (2014)
76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Ex NSA person subverting cryptography joins AWS as Director of Applied Crypto
76 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines
76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Early Illustrations of the Nervous System
76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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The evidence linking nitrates and nitrites to cancer
75 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's auction
75 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Python Cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
75 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Illegal involuntary sterilisations in California’s women’s prisons
75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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The Art of Picking Intel Registers (2003)
75 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Immersive Linear Algebra
75 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
75 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Why trademark Open Source software
75 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams
75 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Locating Humans with DNS
75 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable
75 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app
75 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections
75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"
75 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings
75 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent
75 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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The divide between political parties is smaller than we think (2020)
74 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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I Love Coding on Linux
74 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Improving texture atlas allocation in WebRender
74 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? (2018)
74 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Slide Rules
74 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Argdown – a simple syntax for complex argumentation
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Why LuaJIT's interpreter is written in assembly
74 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Show HN: One thousand in – I've built an IPO “FOMO” web app
74 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Killer Whales: 'Transient' Orcas Are Thriving
74 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your Applications
74 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Robinhood CEO, Reddit Co-Founder and Others Testify on GameStop Stock
74 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker
74 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The APL Orchard
74 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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A Grand Anticlimax: The New York Times on Scott Alexander
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The frame rate of the universe (2009)
74 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
74 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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The Shannon Limit (2010)
73 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020)
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The Bombard Story
73 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study
73 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Fast character case conversion, or how to really compress sparse arrays
73 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Programming Book Profits (2008)
73 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals [pdf]
73 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C)
73 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Always on low power home server
73 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Online glassboard (like Lightboard) but using just free software
73 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The Cult of Best Practice
73 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Guthib
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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How the Brain Responds to Beauty
73 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?
72 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Introduction to the 'Why use F#' series (2012)
72 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Science of Aging Is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute
72 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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How and why I stopped buying new laptops
72 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Launch HN: Taste (YC W21) – Recreate nice restaurant experiences at home
72 points • comment • feb 10, 2021