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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)
308 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
308 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
307 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware
305 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)
304 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)
304 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
303 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide
302 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust
302 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
302 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills
302 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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An interactive guide to CSS transitions
302 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Rust const generics MVP hits beta
302 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
300 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes
300 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
299 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag
299 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
299 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
297 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week
297 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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How this Ends
297 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Reminder: Terraria Dev’s Google Story Is Not Unusual at All
296 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
295 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD
295 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities
295 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Commenting vs. Making
294 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Map of my personal data infrastructure
294 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
293 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
293 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Elfstedentocht
293 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
292 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
291 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Global debt soars to 356% of GDP
291 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood
290 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
290 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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South Africa suspends rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
288 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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How to lower the price of plant-based meat
287 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Firefox 86.0
287 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Mold: A Modern Linker
287 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Parler CEO says he was fired by board
286 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)
286 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
286 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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You need to be able to run your system
285 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore
285 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Military seizes control in Myanmar
285 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Architecture of the Playstation 2
285 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)
284 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Go 1.16 Release Notes
284 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Best practices for REST API design (2020)
283 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
283 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review
283 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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SDL Moves to GitHub
283 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
283 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
283 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Peter Naur's view of programming
282 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
282 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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BTC Endgame
281 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D
280 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate
280 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Rust-Analyzer Architecture
279 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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From First Principles: Why Scala?
279 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
279 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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What Is Huffman Coding?
278 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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RIP Flynn.io
278 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Goodbye YC
277 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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gemini:// space
276 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM
276 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
276 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
275 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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The Beirut Bank Job (2017)
275 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Haxe 4.2
275 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
274 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
274 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy
274 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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1977: Zork
274 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Racket v8.0
273 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions
273 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Pattern Generator – Create Seamless, Royalty-Free Patterns
272 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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My Life in E-Ink
272 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs
272 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
272 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Running Nomad for a Home Server
271 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
270 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
270 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Write a Shell in C
270 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand
270 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish
269 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it
269 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming
269 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Vertical farming does not save space
268 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)
268 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Quitting Twitter
267 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
267 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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How to Kill a Unicorn
266 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?
266 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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How They SRE
266 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
266 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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On navigating a large codebase
265 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Me and ADHD
265 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance
263 points • comment • feb 17, 2021