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Hacker News (Nov 2021)
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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
98 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities
98 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Ask HN: What HN threads most influenced your thinking about startups?
98 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529
98 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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A Busy Beaver champion derived from scratch
98 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
98 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Mystery of high-performing solar cell materials revealed
97 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)
97 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding
97 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Analog Devices AD1139
97 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters
97 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?
97 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org (2019)
97 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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A look at power on the new M1 Max
97 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students
97 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Oil 0.9.4 – User Feedback
97 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Intel Hardware allows activation of test or debug logic at runtime
96 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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C³: A "cool" route to the Higgs boson and beyond
96 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Generate Musical Accompaniment with R
96 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Mandate is hereby stayed pending further action by this court [pdf]
96 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Games for IBM AS/400
96 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Skeptical about electric-powered planes
96 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
96 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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ASCII Video Player
96 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Tiger Global: How to Win
96 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Zstandard RFC 8878
96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Lambda Based Apps
96 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Taking digital X-ray shots for cheap
96 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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TPM Sniffing
96 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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India's salesmen face ruin as Ambani targets mom-and-pop stores
96 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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RetroBrew Computers
96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]
96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video]
96 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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The million-dollar drug (2018)
96 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?
96 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language
95 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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The joy of concurrent logic programming
95 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Why nuclear fusion yields more energy than fission
95 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Open Source Ticker Tape
95 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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The Bug in Paxos Made Simple
95 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)
95 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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What happens to used electric car batteries?
95 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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White Collar Holler – Stan Rogers
95 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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The Secret History of ATAPI
95 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Sonic: A fast JSON serializing and deserializing library
95 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking
95 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
95 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Const Generics in Rust
95 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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JSONiq: JSON Query Language
95 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, says Sweden
94 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Pyheatmagic: Profile and view your Python code as a heat map
94 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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The Personal Analytics of My Life (2012)
94 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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EU lawmakers pass strict new rules affecting big U.S. tech
94 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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A guide to organizing settings in Django
94 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP to Tackle Ethereum’s Sky-High Gas Fees
94 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Costly Airbus paint flaw goes wider than the Gulf
94 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies
94 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Scripting languages of the future
94 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? (2002)
93 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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What Is AMD ROCm?
93 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Web Streams at the Edge
93 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development
93 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn
93 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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ProtonMail demanded private user data, because someone wrote about them badly
93 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Shadow Palette Generator
93 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Godot Engine receives $100k donation from OP Games
93 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Implementing secure leaderboards for my game
93 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance
93 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs
93 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Show HN: WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator
93 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Current value of the top 30 YC companies is about $575B
93 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst
93 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (2018)
92 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt
92 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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The intellectual incoherence of cryptoassets
92 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
92 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis
92 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrastructure bill
92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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A 100LOC C impl of memset, that is faster than glibc's
92 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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The welfare effects of eviction policies
92 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware
92 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Apple, its control over the iPhone, and the internet
92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Do something different for a week
92 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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Haskell IHP framework, from a technical and business perspective
92 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data
92 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to secrecy of U.S. surveillance court
91 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (2015)
91 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Dam the Bering Strait, use nuclear-powered propellers to melt poles (2020)
91 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Foundations of Dawn: The Untyped Concatenative Calculus
91 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink
91 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain
91 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Software development pushes us to get better as people
90 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Raising a Stink
90 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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The fabulous Flamingo, a motorhome made from an abandoned aircraft
90 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands
90 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Cellular Automata in F#
90 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
90 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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A Review of “The Man Who Solved the Market”
90 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?
90 points • comment • nov 22, 2021