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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Choose Exciting Technology
149 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool
149 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Talent Is Largely a Myth
149 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
148 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Idioms for the D Programming Language
148 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)
148 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Zooko's Triangle
148 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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Parler is back online after a month of downtime
148 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes
148 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]
147 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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JSON with Commas and Comments
147 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Wayland on Wine: A First Update
147 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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OpenScan Offers 10-Micron 3D Scanning on a Raspberry Pi and HQ Camera Module
147 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her
147 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams
147 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Block Profiling in Go
146 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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The Phrase “Kilroy Was Here” (2017)
146 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
146 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU
146 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer
146 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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The Canary Chirps
146 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport
145 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Databricks is an RDBMS
145 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories
145 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse
145 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing
145 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Stop Using Icon Fonts
145 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar military
144 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020)
144 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died
144 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
144 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021
144 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Red Hat ported OpenJDK to 64-bit ARM: A community history
144 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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EteSync – Secure Data Sync
143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres
143 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders
143 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website
143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?
143 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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McCLIM – GUI toolkit for Common Lisp
143 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller
143 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Finally, a Private Stock Exchange
143 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Jet.jl: A WIP compile time type checker for Julia
143 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Reversible Computing
143 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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A Trip into FreeBSD
143 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
143 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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ANSI escape codes (2019)
142 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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The Database Inside Your Codebase
142 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve
142 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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How .NET container images are maintained
141 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case
141 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Linux Logo (1996)
141 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Super Mario 64 Decompilation
141 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months
141 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B
141 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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A Lisp REPL as my main shell
141 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Python Pattern Matching
140 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Resignation
140 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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What I Think of Bitcoin
139 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Organizations Using the D Language
139 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]
139 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Looking at GSM security 30 years later
139 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
139 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Garuda Linux
138 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Show HN: Screenstab – A tool to turn screenshots into image assets
138 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Employee #1: Reddit (2016)
138 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world
138 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer
138 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Mt. Gox demise as told by a Bitcoin insider
137 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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How my school gamed the stats
137 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser
137 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Photos from the Surface of Venus (1982)
137 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results
137 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Browsers eating RAM
136 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling
136 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
136 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains
136 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
136 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
136 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
136 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
136 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died
136 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
135 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep
135 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Creators of ORCA and their works embracing tech minimalism and software freedom
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (2005)
135 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View
135 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
135 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?
135 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Is Google’s AI research about to implode?
134 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse
134 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments
134 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
134 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020)
134 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside
133 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore
133 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals
133 points • comment • feb 19, 2021