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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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The Big Idea from Bill Gates’s New Climate Book
9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Show HN: Constexpr.js
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Sentiment Analysis for Trading with Reddit Text Data
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans like here on Earth
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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A Surprising Security Vulnerability on the Google Search Results Page
9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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The mathematics of speeding
9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Dirty gold is infiltrating world markets under faked brands (2019)
9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Fed outage shuts down US payment systems for more than an hour
9 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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What WebRTC Means for You
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Nike's new sneaker innovation? No hands required
9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Chamath Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health gets notice of SEC investigation
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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China's Vanishing Muslims: Undercover in the most dystopian place in the world
9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Apple positioned to offer cryptocurrencies: RBC report
9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures?
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Angkor Wat not enough? Theme park planned near site of ancient Cambodian temple
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Despite 2018 promises, John Deer won't provide repair info/equipment to farmers
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Clubhouse is siphoning people’s contacts
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Palantir: Unlocked and Almost Loaded
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Apple requests return of Apple Silicon DTK, offers $200 credit
9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science
9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot
9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: “We need to inflict pain”
9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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What Are Magazines Good For?
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S.
9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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High-performance computers are under siege by a newly discovered backdoor
9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Bitcoin’s value just passed $1T
9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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We Destroy Things
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Top banks join Linux and open-source patent protection group
9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Hackers steal gift cards using artificial intelligence
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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FAA - Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Boeing 777 with PW4000 engines
9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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We’ll likely have a 3rd Covid vaccine soon; J&J vaccine clears last hurdle
9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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How to Simulate I/O Faults at Runtime
9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Honey bee hives decrease wild bee abundance, fruit count on farms
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Green Thumb Scores the First U.S. Pot IPO
9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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COVID Tracking Project is shutting down
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Cancel The New York Times
9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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100M Edits to OpenStreetMap
9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Nobody’s Autobiography: Janet Malcolm examines Stein and Toklas in her new book
9 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Hacker tries to poison water supply of Florida city
9 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Boeing 757 bound for Seattle makes emergency landing
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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E-Prime English
9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Scott Alexander's email shows staunch support for scientific-racism a.k.a. “HBD”
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'
9 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores
9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Why Amazon Is Flooding the Country with $15 Minimum Wage Ads
9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Citibank just got a $500M lesson in the importance of UI design
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Pfizer Covid vaccine 94% effective, study of 1.2m people finds
9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Facebook Considers Facial Recognition for Upcoming Smart Glasses
9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Fun with a Functional Programming Interview Question
9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Mars Rover Footage Compiled into an Astonishing 4K Video
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It happened, and with bad BIOS
9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Fitness Camera: Turn Your Phone's Camera into a Fitness Tracker
9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors
9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Is this simple landing page clear enough?
9 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Humidifier: Healthy or Harmful?
9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Show HN: Block Out – Line and Block Puzzle Game
9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s the Fix
9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Show HN: DeKarmaHN, a Chrome extension to hide karma and more
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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My attempt on functional programming in PHP
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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What a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about AI
9 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Lake Tahoe Property Sells for $1.6M in Bitcoins
9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser
9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Down the Gopher Hole (2007)
9 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone'
9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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JavaScript performance beyond bundle size
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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I used GPT-3 to generate some cocktails, they turned out pretty good
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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SEO Forecasting in Google Sheets
9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Show HN: An interactive map of the 1M most-assigned books in college syllabi
9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Mass Layoffs Said to Hit Terrafugia Weeks After Its Flying Car Was FAA-Approved
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Forcing Foreign Money Out Is Academic’s Fix for Canadian Housing
9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Why I was wrong to be optimistic about robots
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Our new social network is adding over 1000 new users per day
9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Bitcoin’s price rises to $50k as mainstream institutions hop on
9 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Why Diaspora does not support ActivityPub (2019)
9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Waze CEO on Leaving Google: ‘I Was Just Worn Down by the Nature of the Beast’
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Bill Gates on the Climate Crisis
9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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“Don't fall for quantum hype” video by Sabine Hossenfelder
9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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A diet of U.S. MREs alters gut microbiota composition
9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Any companies that pay in BTC?
9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you find personal tech blogs?
9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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King James Programming
9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds
9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Are You Familiar with SPACs?
9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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CrewLink: Open-source Among Us proximity chat
9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Show HN: A new(?) approach for your bookmarks
9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Man plans becoming an Uber Eats driver to get paid to pick up his own McDonald’s
9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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A new way to visualize General Relativity
9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Metaplane – “Is this dashboard broken again?”
9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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App trackers sell your location data to the government
9 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Who makes those scam popups?
9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Self-Organising Textures: Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation
9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine
9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Wun Tarnip Pleese
9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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The SPAC Bubble Is About to Burst
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Hunter S. Thompson's Irreverent Eulogy for Nixon (1964)
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Native Linux game Valheim sells 1M units in its first week
9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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NYT reporter Donald McNeil Jr ousted after using n-word with students
9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021