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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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From First Principles: Why Scala?
6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Finland shows that education is best tool to fight ‘deepfakes’
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing? [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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70% of top “civic” Facebook groups are toxic or violent, report finds
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Microsoft's Junk Repo
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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DIP switches don't age well -- after years of nonuse, they fail open
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Obesity may exacerbate the effects of Alzheimer’s disease
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Popperian falsification enabled the rise of neoliberalism
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
6 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Esoteric Programming Languages – The Obscure and Unconventional
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Facebook Restoring News to feeds in Australia
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Effort
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Longest-serving juvenile ‘lifer,’ now 83, is finally free
6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Trust and the Viability of Cryptocurrency
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Shark Deaths Have Left a 'Gaping Hole' in Ocean Life, Chilling Report Shows
6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Apple Inc. settles logo dispute with Prepear
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Conventions of Safety (2019)
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Show HN: Recursive – A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Damn, this is lit – I Miss My Bar
6 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Calls for Bank of America boycott grow after data given to FBI
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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LED Holographic Display
6 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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North Dakota Senate Rejects App Store Bill Apple Said Would “Destroy the iPhone”
6 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack
6 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Apple cracks down on apps with ‘irrationally high prices’ in response to scams
6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Baby food brands contain ‘dangerous’ toxic metals, US panel finds
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Fact check: Are Covid-19 vaccines causing deaths?
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Just-World Hypothesis
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Ohyay – create any virtual space that you can imagine
6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Explaining the Great 2020 Homicide Spike
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Texas Crisis Exposes a Nation's Vulnerability to Climate Change
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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On Being Present
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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You can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films now
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Mars Perseverance Livestream
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Australian Greens political party request a publicly-owned search engine
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The Flying Saw (2009)
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Issues Amber Alert for Victim of Horror Doll Chucky
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Clubhouse, a Tiny Audio Chat App, Breaks Through
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Scientist recruits albatrosses to pinpoint illegal fishing boats
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Mistakes and Memes
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Global Weather Disruption if Sahara Desert Covered in Solar Panels
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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A History of Videogames [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Intrepid Navigators: Migration’s demands on birds
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Exposing sequential IDs is bad Here is how to avoid it
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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At Amazon, Pretending to Be Green Takes a Lot of Energy
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Oregon Was Founded as a Racist Utopia
6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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School Board members caught on tape mocking parents who want school reopened
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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LibreSOC Still Striving to Produce Open-Source Hybrid CPU/GPU Built on OpenPOWER
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores
6 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Apple Is the $2.3T Fortress That Tim Cook Built
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Camera to Cloud
6 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Old Organizers Collection
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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New Zealand's Path to Prosperity Began with Rejecting Democratic Socialism
6 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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MariaDB 10.6.0 Release Notes
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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TimescaleDB 2.0 is now Generally Available
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Russia Refutes Criticisms of Its Missiles by Showing One Blowing Up a Hospital
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Virologist: WHO Team Found No 'Credible Link' Between Wuhan Labs, Covid-19
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Blue Sky Studios Shut Down
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes resists government efforts to detail her CEO lifestyle
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Intel Sapphire Rapids 10nm SuperFin Xeon Server CPU and Pinout Spied in Photos
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Offline Speech Recognition in Flutter: No Siri, No Google, and No, It’s Not STT
6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Sony winds down Japan Studio to focus on Astro’s Playroom team
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The VIP Party: Why the 1% Love ‘Ritualised Waste’
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Resolved: DNSSEC records still not passed to applications
6 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Black America, 1895
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Media trust hits new low
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans–‘We Need to Inflict Pain’
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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UAE Mars probe successfully enters Red Planet orbit
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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2x Stronger Resin Prints with Electroplating [video]
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Why Nuclear Tanks Could Have Been the Ultimate Nuclear Nightmare
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Flim is a smart database of keyword-searchable movie screenshots
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Heat Pumps: The Future of Home Heating
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Narrowest Commercial Building in the World
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Inflation Depends on Where You Look for It (Maybe Asset Prices))
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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The /r/CryptoCurrency moderators just banned. Mass censorship and manipulation
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The Artist Disappears: Helen Frankenthaler’s Earthbound Genius
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Ford 'brilliantly' steals spotlight from GM Super Bowl ad in Twitter battle
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Is This the End of Tipping?
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Google is weighing an anti-tracking feature for Android, following Apple’s lead
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Cosmologists Create 4000 Virtual Universes to Solve Big Bang Mystery
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Pablo Hasel protests: Thousands demand rapper's release in Spain
5 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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What Anti-Tech Bias Looks Like
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Glengarry Glen Ross: Working from Home Edition
5 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Facebook to reverse news ban, government to make amendments to media code
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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PostgreSQL Database Security: Authentication
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Tesla invest $1.5B in Bitcoin plans to accept BTC as payment
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Why is Gentoo adding an Escape to tmux attach
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Raspberry Pi CM4 carrier has M.2 and GbE
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Why Brokers Had to Restrain Trading in GameStop Shares
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Is Taiwan a Ticking Time Bomb in the Semiconductor Supply Chain? – The Diplomat
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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New Malware Hijacks Kubernetes Clusters to Mine Monero
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021