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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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IBM 1401's implemented pounds, shillings, and pence conversion math in hardware
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Scientists may have finally figured out a way to reverse aging in the brain
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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I discovered FaaS and what it changed for me
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Sauna bathing may prevent dementia (a study of 14k Finnish adults)
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Colin Kaepernick Targets a Socially-Driven Billion-Dollar Company with New SPAC
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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NASA's Mars Parachute Had a Hidden Code. Meet the People Who Cracked It
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Worst Bug in Amazon's History
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Google Analytics is being shimmed by Firefox
12 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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It’s All Rigged
12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Essential Japanese: The Mental Model [pdf]
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Recursive Islands and Lakes
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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H.R.127 – Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Covid/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
12 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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A Guide to NFTs, and How They Are About to Revolutionize Pretty Much Everything
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Mount Sinai study finds Apple Watch can predict Covid-19 diagnosis before test
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Explosiv, a JSX static site generator (not React, just JSX)
12 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Tell HN: I just plugged in 3 USB2.0 ports correctly the first time
12 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Hackers can trick a Tesla into accelerating by 50 miles per hour
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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The Protestant impact on literacy and education
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Squawking bird blows the whistle on fake video trying to tilt Ecuador election
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Covid/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Could this be Satoshi Nakamoto's Twitter account?
12 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Hedge funds emerge mostly unscathed from Reddit trader drama
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Reddit Day Traders Lost Wall Street Battle
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkish government to censor
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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MDMA proves a promising alcoholism treatment in world-first trial
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Factcheckers, media worry about Clubhouse
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Unauthorized RCE in VMware VCenter
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Association of Daily Wear of Eyeglasses with Susceptibility to Covid Infection
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Many engineers are unprepared for the autonomy and freedom they demand
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Geant4: A Simulation Toolkit
12 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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The ATF is giving out machine guns, whether you want one or not
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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India Should Buy Bitcoin
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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You Don’t Want an Apple Car
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Fix Fast for finding and fixing regressions
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Show HN: Jiga 3D CAD viewer for Gmail – view CAD files directly in Gmail browser
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Star Lifting
12 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Thieves Nationwide Are Swiping Catalytic Converters
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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How did India go from 90k cases per day to just over 10k
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the Weird New USPS Truck
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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The Elon Musk Twitter scam is out of control
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Research Study: What happens when software developers are (un)happy (PDF)
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Can We Break the 2nm Barrier in Silicon Fabrication?
12 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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The Pyramid Principle
12 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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SEC reportedly probing whether fraudulent social media posts boosted GameStop
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Tesla bows to pressure from NHTSA, issues recall for Models S and X
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Book Review: Why We're Polarized
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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LSD Lets the Brain 'Free Itself' from Divisions Dictated by Anatomy
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Wayland has serious accessibility issues, low priority fixes
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers
12 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Anybody want to work on something together?
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Not-a-Boring Competition
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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HelloSystem Wants to Be the “macOS of BSDs” with a Polished Desktop Experience
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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The Fed's system that allows banks to send money back and forth is down
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Texas Supreme Court Justice Probes Section 230 Immunity
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Containerize all the things with Ubuntu Core 20
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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The ‘stonk’ bubble poses significant global risks
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Plants smell explosives and send emails
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Comma AI, open source, less then 10M funding and profitable
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Clubhouse confirms data spillage of its audio streams
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Show HN: FlowTrack – Increase Sales with Automation. Design Automate Engage Sell
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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What's the Future of Microsoft SQL Server?
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Alexey Navalny was sent to prison by Putin for 2.6 years
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Retro DOS Games on Kubernetes
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is Wayland is discussed as replacement rather than alternative?
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Anti-Solar Panels May Generate Power at Night Soon
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Coup Underway in Myanmar; Aung San Suu Kyi arrested in early AM raids
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Why are we still so bad a weather forecasting?
12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists
11 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Part 2 – Looking at GSM 30 years later
11 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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The Pentagon Turns on Wall Street
11 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Ask HN: How often do You write a comment/reply to this forum but not submit it?
11 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Zen 4 rumor bulldozer smashes Zen 3 with alleged and25% IPC uplift,+40% total
11 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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How does Boston compare to SV and what do MIT and Stanford have to do with it?
11 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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There’s One Big Problem with Electric Cars They’re Still Cars
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Reddit Down
11 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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What American Values?
11 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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NASA’s Perseverance Has Landed
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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What’s Missing in the Electric-Vehicle Revolution: Enough Places to Plug In
11 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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UK and California variants of coronavirus combined into a heavily mutated hybrid
11 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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100M Edits to OpenStreetMap
11 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Before Christianity, Judaism and Islam, There Was Zoroastrianism
11 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Ask HN: How does a private, nearly-inactive Twitter account get suspended?
11 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Show HN: 95 people voted for me to make this voting platform
11 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Tesla PG&E Megapack 182.5 MW Battery Storage Installation Makes Progress
11 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Griddy Barred from Texas Power Market for Payment Breach
11 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Ask HN: My school is making me use ExamSoft, how do I preserve my privacy?
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Toyota Broke Its Just-in-Time Rule Just in Time for the Chip Shortage
11 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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GitHub Actions Is Down
11 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Intel benchmarks say Apple's M1 isn't faster
11 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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3D printed house in 48 hours
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2021