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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Machhapuchhare - The Himalayan Peak Off Limits to Climbers
40 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Bill would allow tech companies to form local governments
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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YouTube removes two videos from a U.S. Senate committee
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Massively parallel ultrafast random bit generation with a chip-scale laser
40 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Himalayan glacier bursts in India, 100-150 feared dead in floods
40 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2021)
40 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Finding new species in the Western Ghats
40 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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C++11 Tuple Implementation Details (2012)
40 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Build a Star Tracker for Your DSLR and Make Your Own Star Charts
40 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Zero Bug Tolerance
40 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Tesla buys $1.5B worth of Bitcoin
40 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Single-Shot and First Doses First
40 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back
40 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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LEGO2NANO – Open-Source Atomic Force Microscope – What Is an AFM?
40 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Unix Implementation for MSX (2005)
40 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Wombat poop: Scientists reveal mystery behind cube-shaped droppings (2018)
40 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel
40 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The German government decided on a new, extremely strict copyright reform
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Born out of suffering: the inspiration of Dostoevsky’s great novels
40 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Risk over Time
39 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history (2018)
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Tim Berners-Lee says Australian media pay law would make internet unworkable
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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The Ramanujan Machine is an intellectual fraud (2019)
39 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Spotify announces HiFi, a lossless streaming tier coming later this year
39 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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If Aliens Exist, Here’s How We’ll Find Them
39 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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“555” and related telephone prefixes
39 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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YC Build Sprint Winter 2021 – Get feedback on your YC application
39 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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CIA Recruited 'Mind Readers' to Spy on the Soviets in the 1970s
39 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Taxing Families Like Companies
39 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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ColdMac – a 2009 iMac self-serving graphs of it’s temps in a cold outdoor shed
39 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Fueling Reddit’s Future
39 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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An amateur cloud society that rattled the scientific community (2016)
39 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Chemicals in plastics damage babies' brains and must be banned immediately
39 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player
39 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration
39 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Show HN: Play Games in Slack
39 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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GameStop, 'Reddit rally' stocks slide more, Yellen vows scrutiny
39 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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DuckDuckGo search engine – The privacy browser is growing rapidly
39 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Chick Corea, Groundbreaking Jazz Pianist, Dead at 79 – Rolling Stone
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year
39 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (1980)
39 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Practical problems in real name policies
39 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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China takes aim at BBC as dispute w Britain intensifies
39 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Unfortunate things about performance reviews
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
39 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The Trade Effects of 3D Printing [pdf]
38 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Socialhome HQ
38 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Censors Conservatives
38 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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This is how Google will collapse
38 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole
38 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig'
38 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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GNSS Jamming and Spoofing – Galileo's Authentication Algorithm Part 3 (2020)
38 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Reply All Is Having Its Own Reckoning Now
38 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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It looks like Elon Musk isn’t moving Tesla out of California after all
38 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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The Almost Mythical 1984 Sinclair FM Radio Watch
38 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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I Am Conscious and I Am Hurting
38 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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QWaitCondition: Solving the Unavoidable Race (2014)
38 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Designing for Voice User Interfaces
38 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Ask HN: How to self-learn graphics programming?
38 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Optimal boarding method for airline passengers (2008)
38 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks
38 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Securing my personal SSH infrastructure with Yubikeys
38 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map
38 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Data Immutability, Verifiability and Integrity Without the Blockchain Overhead
38 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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The programme of art plunder initiated by Hermann Göring
38 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Raspberry Pi: 68k Hardware Emulator
38 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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China promotes education drive to make boys more 'manly'
38 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits
38 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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You Shall Not Pass
38 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Open Problems in Communication and Computation [pdf]
38 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual
38 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ban All Big Mergers. Period
38 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
37 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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'Putin's palace': Builders' story of luxury, mould and fake walls
37 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks etc.
37 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Apple Says Kernel Extensions Won't Be Supported on Future Apple Silicon Macs
37 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice is working on WebAssembly port
37 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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One of the Most Prolific Cybercriminals Has Retired and May Be a Billionaire
37 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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On the Toxicity of Zed A. Shaw (With Bonus 0days)
37 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Boss ignoring me – what next?
37 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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SARS-CoV-2 causes brain inflammation and induces Lewy body formation in macaques
37 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimidated' by tech giant
37 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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If you use Carta to manage your cap table, they will spam all your investors
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Bill Gates Has a Master Plan for Battling Climate Change
37 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
37 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Best tech talks/videos of 2020-1?
37 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Casinos as a Business Model
37 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
37 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Planting of 85,000-tree Isle of Man 'people's wood' begins
37 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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North Dakota votes down bill that would regulate app stores
37 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The Media and Silicon Valley Are at War
37 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
37 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ketogenic diets inhibit mitochondrial biogenesis and induce cardiac fibrosis
36 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Force Directed Graph of London's Railways
36 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Meme Stocks Lose $167B as Reddit Crowd Preaches Defiance
36 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Final Calvin and Hobbes Strip
36 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Avast sells its users data (2020)
36 points • comment • feb 07, 2021