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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Using Burrows-Wheeler transform to identify SARS-CoV-2 mutants
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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First successful face and double hand transplant completed
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Facebook ban on news in Australia provokes fierce backlash
5 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Exposing the Robinhood Scam: Here’s How Much Citadel Paid to Robinhood
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The high price of broadband is keeping people offline during the pandemic
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Russell's Teapot
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Sounds of Mars
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Nuclear Reactor Pulse Experiment
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Thousands reportedly attempt to obtain easily forged vaccinated certificate
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Reddit’s WallStreetBets Founder Sells Life Story to Movie Producer
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Texas Power Retailers to Customers in Face of Freeze: Please, Leave Us
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Why the Morality Plays Inside The New York Times Won’t Stop
5 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Denuvo Cracker Empress “Arrested”, Blames FitGirl and Reddit for Witch-Hunt
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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ESA mulls sending robot explorers into lunar lava tubes
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Facecrook: Dealing with a Global Menace
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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New Browser-tracking Favicon Hack Works Even When Flushing Caches or Incognito
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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'Unique' petrified tree up to 20m years old found intact in Lesbos
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Oil giants are swapping oil rigs for offshore windfarms
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's auction
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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TikTok reaches $92M settlement over nationwide privacy lawsuit
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Introduction to ARM Semihosting
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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E Ink, Wacom and Linfiny Announce Next-Generation Digital ENote Solutions
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Turns out Oracle is marketing its data analytics software to Chinese police
5 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Ask HN: Any research labs/companies using neuromorphic chips in production?
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Build a Video Chat App in Phoenix LiveView
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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NASA discovers six-star system
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Twitter says thread with DMs taken without consent do not violate their rules
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Venezuela's Internet resurrection begins in Maracaibo
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Houston doctor fired for giving away doses of Covid vaccine
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Uighurs’ genocide: Cost of China’s fight against terror
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Frys Electronics permanently closes doors nationwide
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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New evidence that Richard III murdered the princes in the tower
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Using deep-sea fiber optic cables to detect earthquakes
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Common asthma treatment reduces need for hospitalisation in Covid-19 patients
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Tony Hsieh and the Mirage of High-Functioning Addiction
5 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Opinion – The Economy Does Much Better Under Democrats. Why?
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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GNU Forth
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production
5 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Robert Altman, Video Game Mogul Who Survived Scandal, Dies at 73
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Berkeley may eliminate historically racist single family zoning
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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California Is Making Liberals Squirm
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Archaeologists find unique ceremonial vehicle near Pompeii
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Coin Metrics Is Now Tracking the ‘Real’ Supply of Bitcoin
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Fry's electronics is closing all stores
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Old Computers Museum – 1253 Systems Online
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Coca Cola Confirms Training Employees ‘Try to Be Less White’
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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How do you format your external drive in 2021 to use with both: Linux and macOS?
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Show HN: That $100 you didn't invest in Bitcoin because they said so
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Command-line tools for feigning productivity (2018)
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Does New York Need an All-Night Subway?
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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The Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Facebook restricts sharing or viewing news content in Australia
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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E INK and Sony have developed new e-notes
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Elon Musk Picks the Money Now
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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It’s the wombat’s strange intestines, not its anus, that produces cubed poo
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Identify a Flag
5 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Kafka vs. RabbitMQ – A Comparison
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Open Letter to Noam Bardin
5 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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How the Apollo Guidance Computer landed Apollo 11
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Reddit is down for web and mobile
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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The Best Way to Consume Information
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Delivery Drones Physically Impractical
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Tracking My Water Intake with NFC Tags
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Australia Passes Law Making Facebook, Google Pay for News
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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My Tastemaker service helps you to discover new music every day
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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The Elevated Era (2018)
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm. Qualcomm is not happy about it
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Debugging C Code on macOS
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Vala Programming Langauge
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Glacier breaks in India due to global warming killing 9 people
5 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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China gives up ambitious $20B semiconductor investment project
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Margaret E. Knight
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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UK universities face fines as part of 'twin assault' on cancel culture
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Perspectives: Amazon Removes Book About Transgender Issues
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Yes My Dear, All White People Are Racists
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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React Best Practices for 2021
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Mailchimp Employees Have Complained About Inequality for Years
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Is Bitcoin the perfect cover for the singularity?
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Unexpected consequences, Zoom/niece edition
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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A Student Stole My Academic Work and Gave Talks Pretending to Be Me
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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The Riemann zeta function and the prime number theorem
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Does your company give devs DB dumps to use for local development?
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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State of the OpenVMS x86 Port
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Henley Passport Index
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Why Bitcoin Cash?
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Intel benchmarks say Apple's M1 isn't faster: Reality checked claims
5 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Is an $800 purifier best to clean your home's air? Marketplace tested top
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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“Ambush” Lockdowns in Hong Kong
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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India warns Twitter over lifting block on accounts and noncompliance of order
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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How the Internet Has Turned into the Modern-Day Battlefield
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Neuralink has wired up a monkey to play video games using its mind
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Former Reddit CEO is wants to solve Climate Change by planting 1T trees
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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The Game Moves on to Silver
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Uceprotect: When RBLs Go Bad
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021