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Hacker News (Nov 2021)
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Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?
90 points • comment • nov 22, 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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A Review of “The Man Who Solved the Market”
90 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Node-RED: How an open-source tool is establishing itself in Industrial IoT
89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Neo-Andean Architecture in The Highest City in the World
89 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops
89 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Decaying but beloved, Tokyo’s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future
89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2014)
89 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Simula One – office-focused, standalone VR headset based on the Linux Desktop
89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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SpaceX shut down part of Dishy's API
89 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Toyota Children's Web Site (1995)
89 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Vivian's TV Head Costume
89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Why are cross-country train tickets in EU still so complex?
89 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers
89 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around
89 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl
88 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
88 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis
88 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric
88 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth's Global Warming
88 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family
88 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction
88 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)
88 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Contract for Sale of Soul
88 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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City View Center – A shopping center built on toxic land (2020)
88 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)
88 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Godot Engine – Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish
88 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?
88 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Transcrypt – Python in the Browser
87 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
87 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility
87 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models
87 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Jack on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter
87 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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MuditaOS And Mudita Center are now fully Open Source
87 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day
87 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Nullc: Fast C-like programming language with advanced features
86 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Duff’s Device in 2021
86 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Bridge spiders build webs that double as acoustic arrays
86 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?
86 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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$200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here
86 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Elements may have been forged on Earth, as well as in space
86 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze
86 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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MLAT order from Luxembourg for Signal user data
86 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Making a game to memorize facts about every country
86 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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The history of Flash games in China
86 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
85 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes life meaningful" poll
85 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications
85 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Why NFTs are bad: the long version
85 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Knapsack algorithm in PostgreSQL source code
85 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Expanding our private information policy to include media
85 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]
85 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Energy, and How to Get It
85 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Ephemeral Postgres Databases
85 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Git techniques
85 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)
85 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Netflix released a horror movie written by a bot and it's spectacular
85 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds
85 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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I write a parenting advice column (or how I became famous in my neighborhood)
84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Seattle residents launch Approval Voting initiative for representative elections [pdf]
84 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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A quantum walk down Wall Street
84 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Async Python is not faster (2020)
84 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Doing Fraud on Securities Fraud
84 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Career progression vs. meaningful/appealing products?
84 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization
84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Welcome to C# 10
84 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Why Python needs to be paused during profiling – but Ruby doesn't always
84 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console
84 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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A small scheme VM, compiler, and REPL in 4k
84 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature
84 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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WWWBrowser – a Haskell web browser (2019)
84 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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On the future of Akka and Lightbend
84 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Art Bell Back in Time
84 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Types of Parser Combinators
84 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Capturing and Archiving MiniDV Tapes on macOS
84 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts
83 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Show HN: Grapic – Real whiteboards online using AR
83 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
83 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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App is getting 500 server error. Cant connect
83 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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The Pentagon’s view of climate change and the risks of state collapse
83 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
82 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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DBS Bank outage well into its second day with no meaningful update from DBD
82 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages
82 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News?
82 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
82 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
82 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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Born to be cool: The life and music of Chet Baker
82 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Pretty inline symbolic mathematics in Org-mode
82 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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Faster software through register based calling
82 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day
82 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Alan Kay at UCLA (2016) [video]
82 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Go Where No Drone Has Gone Before
82 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Billionaire defends windowless dorm rooms for California students
82 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Falsehoods programmers believe about names – with examples (2018)
82 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Kubernetes Cluster API v1.0, Production Ready
81 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter
81 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web
81 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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3MF file format and why it’s great (2019)
81 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)
81 points • comment • nov 16, 2021