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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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How to talk about autism respectfully
66 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes
66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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A project to bring back the northern white rhino from the edge of extinction
66 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Nearly 3/4 of the World’s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance
66 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Show HN: Tact – A simple chat app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS
66 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper
66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning
66 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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The Politics of Wine in 18th-century England
66 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Docopt
66 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Tragic story – AWS hacked account
66 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures
66 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]
65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
65 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Cal 9 1752
65 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron
65 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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UniFi Network Application 6.5.54
65 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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The U.S. Air Force Has Doubts About the F-35
65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Queue Despair: Ordering and Poison Messages
65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some good Rust code samples?
65 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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New record levels of private aviation flights
65 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Researchers find a treatable indicator of blood clotting in Covid patients
65 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Robin Hanson Discusses the Karnataka Health Insurance Experiment
65 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
65 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website
65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work
65 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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The quest to trap carbon in stone
65 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Please rename aux.py
65 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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All Placebos are not created equal
65 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Automerge: a new foundation for collaboration software [video]
64 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities
64 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Aosta Valley Autonomus Region
64 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed
64 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Louis Wain: An artist who changed how we think about cats
64 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Richard Feynman – Session IV (1966)
64 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less (2020)
64 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Borderless Media Consumption: Geoblocking Reform
64 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Alien Mathematics
64 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Do large language models understand us?
64 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases
64 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Oldest family tree created using DNA
64 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Teletext Archive – open repository for teletext recoverers
64 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Why the demographic transition is speeding up
64 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there a “wall of shame” for ISPs that don't respect DNS TTLs?
64 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Pgmigrate: Write migrations using plain SQL
63 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop
63 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere
63 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Dungeons and Dragons Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art
63 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Sshell: Serverless Shell
63 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Logout4Shell
63 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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UK’s largest flow battery energised
63 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track quantum position
63 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?
63 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired
63 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Bitcoin’s ‘One Percent’ Controls Lion’s Share of the Cryptocurrency’s Wealth
63 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Learning how to ride a bike
63 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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But what about the bus factor?
63 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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The debate about nuclear power and climate change
63 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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The Omicron Question
63 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Alpha Fold promises to revolutionize biochemistry
63 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Paper Airplane Designs
63 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Court Tells Cops That of Course Framing People for Crimes Is a Rights Violation
63 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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San Francisco Mayor Declares State of Emergency to Fight City’s ‘Nasty Streets’
63 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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NewLimit: a company built to extend human healthspan
62 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Tcl library for Go-style concurrency based on Communicating Sequential Processes
62 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Space Weather Live
62 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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LibreQoS: QoS for ISPs
62 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Show HN: Lexiscore – a nutritional label for food for thought
62 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Mathematical Notation, Past and Future (2000)
62 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Canon Confirms We’ve Seen Its Last Flagship DSLR
62 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Legal Drafting and Computer Programming
62 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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"Log4j trigger in my signature so I can see logging copies of my mail"
62 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (2013)
62 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask Hacker News Weekly
62 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Apple Employee Blows Whistle on Illegal Spying and Toxic Working Conditions
62 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The vagaries of 1990s 32-bit Windows networking
62 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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The Phrase “No Evidence” Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Communication
62 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark
62 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets
62 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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A Binary Musical Instrument
62 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Catching Lightning in a Bottle
62 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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What I told the students of Princeton
62 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data
61 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Wordle
61 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Covid-19 Vaccination in US Vaccine Safety Datalink [pdf]
61 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
61 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Introducing the Arc Institute
61 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Partial functions and total functions
61 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Revolutionaries at the Workplace
61 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Coming to Agreement, a logic puzzle for Oxford admissions interviews
61 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart
61 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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C++ Compile Time Parser Generator
61 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017)
61 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Tether created $1,5B Worth of USDT Out of Thin Air in the Last 24h
61 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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AWS (Honest) Service Health Dashboard
61 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Collection of Unix ASCII Games
61 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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FAA Shows ‘Sample NOTAMs’ for Possible 5G Restrictions
60 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Gigantism is a never-ending temptation
60 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf web applications
60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud
60 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Mechanical Computer – Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]
60 points • comment • dec 07, 2021