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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Transhumanism: What's the Plan? (2020)
59 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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How did things get this bad? The Axioms of linking (2019)
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053) will lead to terrestrial cooling
59 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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It's time to port your extension to Firefox
59 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Show HN: Bestsnip – Draw animations online with automatic inbetweening
59 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble
59 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Sort by controversial a.k.a. Shiri’s scissor (2018)
59 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Just Launch the Damn Thing
59 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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French ferry firm opens new post-Brexit routes bypassing UK
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Parallel Shells with Xargs
58 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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What is the case against F#? (2009)
58 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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DigitalOcean user portal loads twenty third-party trackers
58 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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“I am dying of a broken heart” (2018)
58 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Why is America getting a new $100B nuclear weapon?
58 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World
58 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness
58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' colors and shapes
58 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Abcjs Music Editor/Player
58 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up]
58 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Pi from High School Maths
58 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Dear Email Industry, We've Got a GDPR Problem
58 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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The US government is inviting inflation
58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Rethinking the IDE for the 2020s
58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Spy pixels in emails have become endemic (BBC)
58 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning
58 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means
58 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin
58 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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“Steven, Bill Gates called. Call him back.”
57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 50B
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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CSI-MURDER: Prevent WiFi CSI from being used to survey environment
57 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby?
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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First vaccine to immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech
57 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Companies must stop requiring people to link their phone numbers
57 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Super fast super property access
57 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Entire school board resigns after accidental public livestream
57 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver
57 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Show HN: Archive as you browse, store locally and/or share with others via IPFS
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Female Fund Manager Opposes Gender Quotas for Startup Boards (no paywall)
57 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What if we prove them wrong
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Linux touchpad like a Mac update: Firefox gesture support live in nightly
57 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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How to issue a central bank digital currency
57 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Screenshots from Developers: 2002 vs. 2015
57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators
57 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Quantitative Economics with Julia
57 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The Chinese Businessman Paradox (2018)
57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Amazon documents reveal company's strategy to dodge India's regulators
57 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Digging Deeper Into Holocaust History
57 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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First time Microsoft 'acknowledged' wine (2005)
57 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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People-Shaped White Rocks
57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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2020 at OCamlPro
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Using ES Modules in Node.js: A Practical Guide (Part 1)
56 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (2015)
56 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Don't Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles
56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Verbz: Voice-based messaging
56 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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How we develop FDA-compliant machine learning algorithms
56 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Pennsylvania town coal mine has been on fire since 1962
56 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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NASA's Space Launch System: is cancellation too good?
56 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Plant Blindness
56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium
56 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Building in Public Definite Guide: Use Transparency to Win
56 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Void Linux Switching Back to OpenSSL
56 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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The Pac-Man Dossier
56 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text-based web browsers?
56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook
56 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Deleting Facebook
56 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Precisely: Better assertions for Python tests
56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Road to Utopia: A manifesto for reclaiming a humanist future (2020)
56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Flowrite: Turn short lists of facts into well-written emails
56 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Apple Platform Security February 2021
56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Launch HN: Polytomic (YC W20) – Get internal data to your business teams
56 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Despite a steadily slipping market share, Firefox is snappy and feature-forward
55 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Alice 4 FPGA Rasterizer (Open Hardware Video Card Related)
55 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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U.S. life expectancy falls by a full year
55 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Stadia Developers Can't Fix the Bugs in Their Own Game Because Google Fired Them
55 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)
55 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android
55 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
55 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Alex Cabal: Standard Ebooks
55 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?
55 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Enabling Rich Statistical Analyses with Differential Privacy
55 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence
55 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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The Kernel Programming Language (2010)
55 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Fastcheck: Property based testing for JavaScript and TypeScript
55 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighborhood
55 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Gemini Earn
55 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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How to design a motherboard for your electronics project
55 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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The Rules of Margin Collapse
55 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Ytmdl-web – download music from YouTube with metadata
55 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class
55 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ohmygit – An open source game about learning Git
55 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Commodore History Part 1: The Commodore Pet
55 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Show HN: A simple website for my JavaScript bundler
55 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Have Time to Be CEO of Amazon
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Show HN: Dato.rss – RSS Search
54 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Not the Onion: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube
54 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Rich countries block India, South Africa's bid to ban Covid vaccine patents
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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New malware nicknamed “Silver Sparrow,” specifically targets Apple M1 chips
54 points • comment • feb 23, 2021