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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure
222 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records
221 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
221 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
221 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Passerine: A small extensible language designed for concise expression
221 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog
221 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's ball and how far he hit it
220 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps
220 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)
220 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants
219 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon
219 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
219 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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I paid for Spotify playlist placements so you don’t have to
218 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Sourcetrail: Free and open-source interactive source explorer
218 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project
218 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The World’s Aging Dams
218 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features
217 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Police misconduct settlements
217 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
217 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
217 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
216 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
216 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
216 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
215 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019) [pdf]
215 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ask HN: What entry-level telescope should I choose?
215 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams
214 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages
213 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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State of Independent SaaS 2021
213 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises
213 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editor
213 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot
213 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal
212 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software
212 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
212 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
211 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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CodeMirror 6
211 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
211 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
210 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API
210 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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An Interview with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan on the Delhi HC Case
210 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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SolarWind, enough with the password already
209 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Fictional Cryptocurrencies
209 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python
209 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus
208 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Preparing to Issue 200M Certificates in 24 Hours
208 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)
207 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark
207 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Academic media censorship conference censored by YouTube?
207 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs
207 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
205 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects
205 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble
205 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?
205 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
205 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”
204 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Frontex Files
204 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops
204 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing
204 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
204 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them
203 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet
203 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?
203 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Melting permafrost cause huge underground methane explosions in Siberia
202 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
202 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Foldable Words
202 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning
201 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Nextcloud Hub 21
201 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction
201 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Pine64 Februrary Update: Show and Tell
201 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
201 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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F# is gaining independence from .NET
201 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Notes on My Chemotherapy
201 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly
200 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)
200 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction
200 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs
199 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery
199 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
199 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play
199 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
199 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
199 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem
198 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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The endless browser wars
198 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)
198 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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50 Years of Pascal
198 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The curious case of the handlebar bag scam
198 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B
198 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup
197 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
197 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth
197 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
197 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing
197 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Monkey.org
196 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated
196 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order
196 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles
196 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The computers rejecting job applications
196 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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If any Ubuntu maintainers are listening: PLEASE STOP DOING THIS
196 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series
196 points • comment • feb 03, 2021