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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Book Review: “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends”
15 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Should I be wearing two masks?
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Tech Censorship Is Accelerating
15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Bill Gates all but admits that he was shorting Tesla (TSLA)
15 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Amazon’s Lack of Public Disclosure on SolarWinds Hack Angers Lawmakers
15 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop
15 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Query Optimization in Postgres with pg_stat_statements
15 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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List of Helicopter Prison Escapes
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Twitter reveals 'Super Follow' paid service, new groups feature, more
15 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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The Great Suspender Chrome ext has been flagged
15 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist v1.1
15 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Software and programming languages on the Mars Perseverance mission
15 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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China's spyware copy-pasted the NSA's spyware from 2017
15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Is it just me that feels stuck in annual SaaS Contracts?
15 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles
15 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Microsoft Slips It In
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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PEP 634, pattern matching, was merged into CPython today
15 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) (2006)
15 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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U.K. and Ireland Celebrate 50 Years Since 'Decimal Day'
15 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Teach Music, Not Coding, According to MIT
15 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Google fires second AI ethics researcher following internal investigation
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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VLC 4.0 sneak peek–a look at its work-in-progress new interface
15 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Decade-long plan to FIRE starting just under age 40?
15 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Finesse: Using LD_PRELOAD for high performance kernel bypass FUSE [pdf]
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The billionaire takeover of civil society
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Inside the Cryptocurrency Casino
15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian]
15 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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What's behind those$15,000 electricity bills in Texas
15 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Python 3.10.0a5 is now available
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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US carries out air strike targeting ‘Iranian-backed’ militia in Syria
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Instacart Is Punishing Its Gig Workers for Orders They Can't Deliver
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Single Board Computer thoughts and Amiga stuff
14 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Web API Controversy
14 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The Wall Street Gambling Is Coming from Inside the House (Look at SPACs.)
14 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Twitter thinks ads about climate change are bad. Big Oil's disinfo is fine
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Google's Stadia Problem
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Don't start a business. Work on a side project instead
14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Facebook will start showing some of its users less political content
14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five deaths globally
14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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High-performance computers are under siege by a new backdoor called Kobalos
14 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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McKinsey Is an MBA Case Study in Crisis as Kevin Sneader Looks Set to Exit
14 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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The insane engineering of the Perseverance rover [video]
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you invest your money? Is it too late for small time investors?
14 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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195 gigapixel 360-degree panorama of Shanghai
14 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Modern Electrics: Electric Discharges Producing Artistic Photographs (1909)
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Manhattan Office Supply Hits Record High with Skyscrapers Empty
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Bitcoin Market Cap Hits $1T
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Bitcoin Is a Useless Currency
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Imec Demonstrates Capacitor-Less IGZO-Based DRAM Cell with 400s Retention Time
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Angry customers show up at Robinhood’s headquarters in the wake of trading chaos
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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A collection of cast-iron doorstops
14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Border agents can search phones freely under new circuit court ruling
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Why so many big companies become greedy when they grow?
14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service Drizly for $1.1B
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet – video explainer [video]
14 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Scrapped GoldenEye 007 game 'remaster' leaks online
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Microsoft Excel is now Turing-complete
14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Resume review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Smart Contracts Are Useless
14 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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People Are Worried About Payment for Order Flow
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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For the Love of All That's Holy, Use CCL to Control Complexity in Your Systems
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars?
14 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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EToro secretly setted SL for GameStop holders
14 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Undici – an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js
14 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Ex-Stadia developers dish on Google’s mismanagement and poor communication
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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“Reasoning about code” is a scam
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Nick Huber Has a Message for Entrepreneurs: Ignore Silicon Valley
14 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Private Click Measurement, PCM
14 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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The Age of Steam
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Robert L. Herbert, 91, Dies; Saw Impressionism with a Fresh Eye
14 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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GPT-3 Meets Figma
14 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades
14 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Doctor who treated Navalny after poisoning dies
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Team building with “I dare you” challenge
14 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Stompenberg FX: Testing guitar effects pedal remotely
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Are Disagreements Honest? (2004) [pdf]
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Celebrating 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Census: The Rise of Operational Analytics
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Rick Perry says Texans would rather be without power over more federal oversight
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Google Search Hiding News Results for Timnit Gebru
14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open-Source Project
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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1980's Japan
14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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'People should be alarmed': air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers
14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Machines, Minds, and Madness: Review of “The Cybernetic Brain” (2011)
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Consequences of Moving from Industrial to Financial Capitalism
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Launching OSV – Better vulnerability triage for open source
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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In Iran, power outages reveal the secret business of Chinese Bitcoin farms
14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Twitter suspends over 500 accounts in India after government warning
14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Why France’s new 'repairability index’ is a big deal
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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A Primer on Analog Computing
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021