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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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German police start measuring distances between people with folding rulers
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block
14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Chrome
14 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Baseline pupil size is related to cognitive ability – ScienceDirect
14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Unruly Passengers Will Lose TSA PreCheck, Officials Say
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Life is too short to be miserable
14 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in an offline version of Stack Overflow?
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Pfizer pushes back FDA submission for pediatric Covid vaccine
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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America’s Lost Boys and Me
14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The first octopus farm – should it go ahead?
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico (2017)
14 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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How I Demolished My Life
14 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Cryptocurrencies: A Necessary Scam?
14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Oysters Are Helping to Filter NYC Waterways
14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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MiniTorch: DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers
14 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Wireshark for macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon) is now available
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Dell's easy-to-repair Luna Concept laptop aims to reduce waste, carbon emissions
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Is freeing everyone from the Matrix a good idea
14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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I Don't Understand NFTs
14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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China files complaint to UN about near collisions with Starlink satellites [pdf]
14 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Investigations show pathophysiological alterations from Covid vaccines
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find
14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Dissecting Performance of Production QUIC [pdf]
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Why the hell is supabase using Auth0 for its auth?
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Why dont operating systems make sounds anymore
14 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Using WebScript
14 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Wine 7.0-rc1 is now available
14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Are there algorithms down ranking YouTube videos by words said in them?
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Minecraft CPU with Branch Prediction
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Email saying my Amazon Route53 domains will be transferred?
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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The Filing Cabinet: a vertical history of information
14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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New UK law means online racist abusers could face 10-year bans from football
14 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps
14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Dodge Is Cancelling the Hemi V8
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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We’re blaming the wrong things for San Francisco retail theft
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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James Webb Orbit
14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential
14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Open-Source board for converting Jetson nano to Brain-computer interface
14 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The Sopranos: Endings and Non-Endings
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors with New Adaptive Tech
14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Headed for a 6th mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink
14 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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How to analyse and aggregate data from DynamoDB (2020)
14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Our neighbor was hit by a self-driving car: sanfrancisco
14 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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A Response to Economics as Gauge Theory
14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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All companies can implement the four-day workweek. Here’s how
14 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Don’t Overdose on VC: Lessons from 166 Startup IPOs
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Show HN: KatLang – Language for Calculations
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Cancel Mainstream Media
14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Qubes OS or just separate VMs for separating work and private files?
14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Woman with signal blocked-TV loses appeal contesting her obligation to pay NHK
14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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People keep stealing my art and making NFTs.
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Meat packers' profit margins jumped 300% during pandemic
14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Charter Funds Group to Try and Kill Small Maine Town's Plan for Better Broadband
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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What’s Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy
14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Google News without Covid or Lack Thereof
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Why 1,320 Therapists Are Worried About Mental Health in America
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?
14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Facebook Says Fact Checks Might Not Actually Be Factual
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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How Coinbase Thinks about the Metaverse
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: How to manage a large static HTML site?
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Using PostgreSQL and SQL to Randomly Sample Data
14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size
14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Beijing unleashed a propaganda campaign to redefine democracy
14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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DTable a new distributed table implementation in Julia using Dagger.jl
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Car break-ins on the rise across the Bay Area; how some are 'risking it all'
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31M in digital coin
14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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5-dimensional analogue of Rubik's cube
14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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A trebuchet can be supersonic
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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MythTV: An Open Source Digital Video Recorder
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87
14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee
14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Librem 5's lead time for new orders: 52 weeks
14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Show HN: Cycle Labs – Testing software after it gets deployed to production
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Gravatar Data Breach
14 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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PostgREST on Fargate – 500QPS for $20/mo
14 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ireland frets as criticism over Big Tech links goes mainstream
14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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One Year of Writing Fault
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Algebra of the Standard Model
14 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Ask HN: What Are My Options?
14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Let's Encrypt Service Disruption
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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The evidence that Reddit user MaxwellHill is Ghislaine Maxwell
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Apple won’t be required to make changes ordered in Epic ruling during appeal
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Making Engineering Team Communication Clearer, Faster, Better
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Messari Report Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]
14 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Lessons in trust from us-east-1
14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Tell HN: GitHub is experiencing an undeclared outage
14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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The Indian state of Kerala has a communist government and India's highest HDI
14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What to Do When You Lose Your Account?
13 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Klein Bottles – 4D Toys Version 1.7
13 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Show HN: Piou – Build beautiful command-line interfaces with type validation
13 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What might the world look like 100 years from now?
13 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
13 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Intel plans to take self-driving car unit public in the U.S. in mid-2022
13 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Computational modeling revives 19th century theory of grass leaf formation
13 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Crypto Rich Are Moving to Puerto Rico, World’s New Luxury Tax Haven
13 points • comment • dec 12, 2021