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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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CC Academy (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to the 3rd cohort of ML/FE/UX folks
19 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
19 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (2012)
19 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Medieval Minims: The hidden meaning of a medieval pen-twister
19 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Roaring Kitty sued for securities fraud over GME rise
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Open source decentralized social network, like Twitter. Developed with WebRTC
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Russia reports first human cases of H5N8 bird flu
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data
18 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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GKE Autopilot
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801 (In mice)
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Valentina Tereshkova, Russian Pilot Cosmonaut (2010)
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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French Silk Sample Book (ca. 1900)
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking?
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Robinhood: US family sue trading app over son's suicide
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Good Design for a Real Problem (2006)
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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BitcoinPaperWallet ‘Back Door’ Responsible for Millions in Missing Funds
18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Video – Corruption Is Legal in America
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
18 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Legal Design, a designer’s perspective on this new practice
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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TikTok Influencer ‘Isodope’ Is Stanning for Nuclear Energy (2020)
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Firefox is reviving “Sponsored Tiles”
18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally generated plants
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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How to Effectively Manage an Existing Engineering Team
18 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The Wadley Loop (2019)
18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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GameStop Short Squeeze: The Media Has It Wrong
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Firefox Compact Mode Might Get Removed
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)
18 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Born to Be Posthumous (2018)
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Throwing away 8 years of work
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials encryption
18 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Bitcoin Ownership Is Not Highly Concentrated. But Whales Are Accumulating
18 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Show HN: Check if my startup ideas have legs
18 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Tabletop Audio – Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Police seize $60M of Bitcoin from fraudster, but he won’t provide the key
18 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The next generation of VR on Playstation
18 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)
18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Police using DRM algorithms to stop videos of them being posted
18 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Reasoning about Taxes
18 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Journalists Worried About People Having Conversations
18 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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How We ”Email” Hardware to Space (2014)
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Show HN: Turn scripts into fine-tuned voices via Wiki markups
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Spot's Got an Arm
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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The Polaris Laptop from Tuxedo Computers: Another Linux Friendly Option
18 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Man charged in Capitol riot worked for FBI, lawyer says
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Show HN: Guesbook for my static site using GitHub Gist and Netlify Functions
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Despite Scanning Millions of Faces, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports
18 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Linux 5.11 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures
18 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Horror stories and Texas’ power grid Fundamentals Training Manual
18 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Texas inmates stuck with clogged toilets, freezing cells
18 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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mRNA Vaccine
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Automated release process for (Lerna) monorepo
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Making glasses that hide your face from cameras
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail
17 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’
17 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Facebook bans news in Australia as fight with government escalates
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Physicist thrashes simulation theory, says it's basically a religion
17 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Hosting Apps with Always On
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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NASA JPL releases onboard video of Mars Descent and Landing
17 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Comparing ahash to other hashing algorithms
17 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Imaginary Property Rules
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Bladeless Wind Turbines
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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SaaS metrics: why activation rate is so important
17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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London Finance Takes Another Hit as Carbon Market Goes to EU
17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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An analysis of 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot
17 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney
17 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Xiaomi is undercutting the whole tech industry. And it’s working
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Scheme-JS Comparison Edition
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox
17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Falling sperm counts could threaten the human race
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Show HN: I Made a Chat Server
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Can we please discuss Big Tech's suppression of oppressive regimes?
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Criminals laundered $2.8B in 2019 using crypto exchanges
17 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Bank of Canada Deputy Says Crypto Boom Is `Speculative Mania`
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Facebook has banned Facebook's own Facebook page in Australia
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Python/cryptography – Dependency on rust removes support for number of platforms
17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-256
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. (2018)
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Apple cracks down on ‘irrationally high prices’ as App Store scams are exposed
17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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The case for opsimaths
17 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Jim Keller on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Tangram Vision: Why We're Choosing Rust as a Startup
17 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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BioNTech/Pfizer sought 54.08 Euro per vaccine dose from EU (de)
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Next Evolution of Data Catalogs: Data Discovery Platforms
17 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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How the rich got richer: Reddit trading frenzy benefited Wall Street elite
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Black coffee can be good for your heart, studies show
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability score to comply with French law
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Filecoin Now Has a Global Capacity of 2.5B Gigabytes
17 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The psychology behind going viral
17 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Elon Musk triggered a $1.2B dollar short-squeeze on Bitcoin
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency
17 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Open Problems in Distributed Computing (2006) [pdf]
17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2021