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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix
169 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes
169 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?
169 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Perseverance Has Landed
169 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python
169 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Get a Life
169 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
169 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Roaring Kitty to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers
169 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking
169 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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The Relentless Jeff Bezos
168 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Bevy: A game engine built in Rust
168 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
168 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system
168 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Pravetz Computers
167 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Show HN: Archivy – Extensible Self Hosted Knowledge Base – v1 Release
167 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Shopify employees accessed customer databases without authorization
167 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?
166 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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NRA bankruptcy lets critics peer into gun lobby’s inner workings
166 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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“Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
166 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The road to electric is filled with tiny cars
166 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be?
166 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
166 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime
165 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes
165 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
165 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Coinbase is a decentralized company, with no headquarters
165 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed
165 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii
165 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics
165 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally
164 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg
164 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Nyuzi – An Experimental Open-Source FPGA GPGPU Processor
163 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Performance Impact of Ad Blockers (2020)
163 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration
163 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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A Warning to Users of NurseryCam
163 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes
163 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number
163 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect
162 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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PureScript and Haskell
162 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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OMU – “One Man Unix”
162 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]
162 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC
162 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent
162 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Leaving Mozilla
162 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019)
162 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Petabyte tape cartridges are coming
162 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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The Pretty JSON Revolution
161 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
160 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Before you buy a Soviet Camera
160 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo
160 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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New model could explain old cholesterol mystery
160 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files Slapp Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
160 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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EPA Takes Action to Protect Scientific Integrity
160 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)
160 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode
159 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
159 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Posix Threads Programming
159 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work
159 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy
158 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
158 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Clubhouse’s Inevitability
157 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
157 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't (2019)
157 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage
157 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator
157 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
156 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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You don't really need a virtualenv
156 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week
156 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes
156 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant
156 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Enzyme – High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM
155 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python
155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Microsoft’s big win in quantum computing was an ‘error’ after all
155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Tusk – Short-lived anonymous feedback
155 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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New Bone Cell Type Identified
154 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident
154 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Datatype99: C99 with Sum Types, v0.1.0
154 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Mouse studies show gene therapy can cause big drop in latent herpes infections
154 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users
153 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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A Minimal Email Client
153 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch
152 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged
152 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Opinion: Don’t Stop at Big Tech–We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too
152 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Jacquard by Google
152 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
152 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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RNA Memory Hypothesis
152 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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What's an SPF Record?
152 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features
151 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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DVD-Drive Based Laser Scanning Microscope
151 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study
151 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Launch HN: Milk Video (YC W21) – Edit online event recordings quickly
151 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
151 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'
151 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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FPGA Developer Tutorials
150 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Coinbase mafia shows how tight a circle holds sway over Bitcoin
150 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation
150 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
150 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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A Python interpreter rewritten in Rust, that can run pip
150 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Command Line Shell for SQLite
150 points • comment • feb 17, 2021