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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Big Tech deplatforming should be disturbing for everyone, regardless of politics
23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Citibank can't get back $500M it wired by mistake, judge rules
23 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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10k Salesforce Employees Never Have to Buy Lunch Downtown Again
23 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Should individuals who already had a SARS-CoV-2 infection receive 1 or 2 shots? [pdf]
23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Twitter considering subscription fees to ensure 'revenue durability'
23 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Fry’s Electronics going out of business
23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What's your best advice for someone turning 30 today?
23 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Apple Bought Another Company Every 3 to 4 Weeks for Last 6 Years, Tim Cook Says
23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip
23 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Show HN: GitHub Repo to Local Editor In Less Than 1 Second
23 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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$5,152 Power Bill? Texas’ Winter Storm Hell Only Gets Worse
23 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Clubhouse Is Suggesting Users Invite Their Drug Dealers and Therapists
23 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some hobbies for a 72-year-old retiree? Maybe OSS?
23 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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90-year-old man takes out $10K ads to tell AT&T CEO about slow network
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Is Requiring a College Degree Discrimination? Yes, It Is
23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Reducing Real-Time Query Latency with an HTAP Database
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans
23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Tom Stoppard’s Double Life
23 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Scaling TypeScript Compilation (2020)
23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Which smartwatch is the best in self-hacking/quantified self?
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Elon Musk puts up $100M for global carbon reduction competition
23 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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The SEC calls, DeFi Money Market shuts down – it begins
23 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Coronavirus Mutants Are Spreading Fast
23 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Atlassian Acquires Chartio
23 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Canada designates the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity
23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The hypocrisy of social media companies acting as “fact-checkers”
23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Show HN: Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered)
23 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Meditations on Moloch (2014)
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Sailor survives for 14 hours in Pacific Ocean by clinging to abandoned buoy
23 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Chicken Bit
23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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CartaX
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?
23 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Three thylacines (Tasmanian wolves) have apparently been photographed alive
23 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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US Senator introduces ‘baby bonds’ bill to give newborns a $1K savings account
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Cryptocurrency Is Gambling
23 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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NumPy 1.20 has been released
23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Maryland becomes first state in the nation to tax digital advertising
23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Short sellers are the only sheriff in town in a rigged market
23 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Charter of the National Association of Wheeled Bin Washers
23 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Surge Pricing, Artificial Intelligence, and Responsibility
22 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Stripe Canceled My Account Today
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Common libraries and data structures for C
22 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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The Other Woman
22 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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SEC Hunts for Fraud in Social-Media Posts That Drove Up GameStop
22 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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LLVM Meets Code Property Graphs
22 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Pfizer seeks to store vaccine at higher temperatures, easing logistics
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Review of the Mustang Mach E
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The Origin of the “MIT License”
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Nvidia made $5B during a GPU shortage and expects to do it again in Q1
22 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Covid-19: World's first human trials given green light in UK
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Sinovac Announces Phase III Results of Its Covid-19 Vaccine
22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Don't add custom system calls to Linux
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Prince Hall, American Revolutionary
22 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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The American-Dream-as-a-Service
22 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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CEO Secrets: 'My billion pound company has no HR department'
22 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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HiRISE captured this image of Perseverance during landing from over 700 km away
22 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Rowan Atkinson: cancel culture is 'medieval mob looking for someone to burn'
22 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Woman who received $9,300 electric bill sues wholesale electric provider
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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California law would give wronged workers a way out of NDAs
22 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006)
22 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied
22 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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German City Builds Solar Power Sleeping Pods to Keep Its Homeless Warm
22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Electricity needed to mine Bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries'
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain
22 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Bitcoin tumbles 17% as doubts grow over valuations
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Playing GTA3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Facebook's New Privacy Pop Up Shows the Company Just Doesn't Get It
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Scala 3.0.0-RC1 – first release candidate is here
22 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
22 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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The GameStop Rally Exposed the Perils of ‘Meme Populism’
22 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Cable Bacteria
22 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Robert’s Rules Suck: Why We Can’t Make Change Until We Change the System
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Severely ill Covid-19 patients fully recovered after treatment with cancer drug
21 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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GNU Artanis-0.5 Released
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Deep Learning for Expressive Piano Performances
21 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Employee Surveillance Is Rising to New Dystopian Heights
21 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Show HN: A review of books and tutorials on Apache Kafka
21 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Goldeneye 007’s lost Xbox 360 remaster has leaked–as a full-game speedrun
21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Show HN: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false negatives
21 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN
21 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Invoke is Too High Level (2018)
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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A man who printed the world of plants
21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Unfinished Metropolis: once and future Berlin (2020)
21 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Facebook Reported 20M Instances of Child Sexual Abuse in 2020
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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The spot price for electricity in Texas is currently about $9000 per MW-hr
21 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Oral Ketamine Experiment Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Two-Thirds of Patients
21 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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XSS Attack Examples and Mitigations
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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28-year-old turned his college side hustle into a $1.3B startup
21 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Apple asking developers to return DTK Mac mini, offers $200 credit
21 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Apple Surpassed Samsung as Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter
21 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Why do we value gold?
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Laver's Law Revisited: A Data-Driven Investigation of Fashion Trends
21 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Chrome's proxy prefetch proposal: Privacy, Security and broader web implications
21 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Feynman's Integral Trick
21 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Croatia's first official 'digital nomad' as country introduces special visa
21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Berkeley moves to replace police with unarmed civilians for traffic stops
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021