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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Airborne DNA used to detect insect species in breakthrough for ecologists
5 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The Mirage of Knowledge (2018)
5 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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A man who made Germans admit complicity in the Holocaust
5 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Going from Coder to Slack Engineer
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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NASA Testing Space-to-Earth Optical Communications
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Did a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Deceive Hundreds of Musicians?
5 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Covid Policy Analysis
5 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Rocket scientists and brain surgeons are NO smarter than you are, study claims
5 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Obituary for Ned Seeman, Inventor of DNA Nanotech
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Twitter acquires Quill, a would-be Slack rival; team will work on DMs
5 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The hardware behind my old mail filtering server
5 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Is this weird folder name indication of attempted log4shell attack?
5 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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'I thought I was going to die': British man bitten 26 times by roving otters
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Covid vaccination: Aspiration recommended before injecting vaccine [video]
5 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Not getting into tech even if I have a tech-related degree?
5 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Are quantum-ready co’s peddling snake oil?
5 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The Mirrortable
5 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Immune imprinting causes varied patterns of protection against Covid-19 variants
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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A Mathematical Duel in 16th Century Venice
4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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What is the best resource for learning to lead a software team?
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Scholar Sets Off Gastronomic False Alarm (2001)
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Eng Managers, start setting expectations, it works like magic if done right
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to a 13-year-old wrecked his career (2008)
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Big Tech braces for breakups as UK opens new era of enforcement
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Py-MADCAD 0.10
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Cracking the Spotify Code
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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SpaceX Starlink satellites twice came too close, China tells UN chief
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Bitcoin is solving one of the largest and most important issues of our time
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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How We Used eBPF to Build Programmable Packet Filtering in Magic Firewall
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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The PS4 9.00 Jailbreak
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Is cryptocurrency an alternative to remittances or an additive factor?
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Omicron has unique insertion mutation of putative viral/human genomic origin
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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SpaceX Wins More NASA Flights as Boeing Starliner Stumbles
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Photographing Apollo 8's Orbit Toward the Moon
4 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Schools across US respond to vague shooting threat circulating on TikTok
4 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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The Politics of Blasphemy and Lynching
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Can China's Quantum Radar Detect Any Submarine?
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Epistemology
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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The red color of Mars is only inches deep
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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RTX2010: A Radiation-Hardened Stack-Based CPU For Spaceflight
4 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you inspect JSON logs?
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Large Roman fort built by Caligula discovered near Amsterdam
4 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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The only hedge against inflation is quality
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Teenage engineering computer–1 build guide
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Programming: Exact Instructions for PB&J Sandwich – Josh Darnit (2017) [video]
4 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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The Omicron Situation
4 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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An American Secession? It’s Not That Far-Fetched
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Covid-19 Post-Acute Sequelae Among Adults: 12 Month Mortality Risk
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Google reportedly says employees defying vaccine policy will lose their jobs
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Boeing and Airbus warn US over 5G safety concerns
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Epic vs. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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End of Year Pay Report 2021
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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After AWS outage, Larry Ellison says Oracle’s cloud ‘never ever goes down’
4 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Audapolis: An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription
4 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you seen any Web3 products with broad adoption?
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I report vulnerabilities and bugs?
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Carmaker’s $23B Plan to Keep You Paying Long After You’ve Bought Your Car
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Static-get: Portable binaries for Linux
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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How we dispose of worn-out car tires
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Open-source FDTD software for electromagnetic simulations
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Ask HN: What is the best database to use for a self-hosted GIS application?
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn Xbox games into iPhone apps
4 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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AWS Re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community
4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Free Software
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Review: ‘Bitcoin Widow,’ by Jennifer Robertson (QuadrigaCX)
4 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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ATtiny555 Replaces 555 Timers with a Microcontroller That Simulates 555s
4 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Will Containers Replace Virtual Machines?
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Blood or saliva THC levels found to be poor sign of driving impairment
4 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Finnish man blows up his Tesla Model S with 30kg dynamite
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Dutch say 14 air passengers from S. Africa with Omicron were vaccinated
4 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Visual Studio Code November 2021
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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How to earn $1.5M in revenue from a JavaScript component
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Former Ubiquiti employee charged with hacking, extorting company
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it possible to use AI to program a synthesiser to mimic a sound?
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Maths researchers hail breakthrough in applications of artificial intelligence
4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Tesla test drivers believe they’re on a mission to make driving safer for all
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Arducam Unveils Low-Cost 16MP Autofocus Camera Module for the Raspberry Pi
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Virtual Femto Photography
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone have arthritis in their fingers? How to keep working with it?
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ask HN: How to formalise an ad-hoc maintenance arrangement
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Evaluating Syntactic Abilities of Language Models
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Bitcoin Mining Is Reshaping the Energy Sector and No One Is Talking About It
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Who Reads Time?
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Paywalls Everywhere? Get to the Goodies with These Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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On the Artist/Craftsman Divide
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential
4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Rejecting client work at last minute
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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YouTube Processes 4M ContentID Claims a Day, Transparency Report Reveals
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Which came first? OpenStep on PPC? Or the MacOS UI on a NeXT derived OS?
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Activist Teachers Recruit Kids
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Healthsea: An end-to-end spaCy pipeline for exploring health supplement effects
4 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Microsoft Vancouver leaking website credentials via overlooked DS_STORE file
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021