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Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity
72 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
A study in North Carolina of dying trees
72 points • comment • may 26, 2021
An Elegant Revolution Followed by Slaughter
72 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Valve opens up a Steam Deck to explain why it thinks you shouldn’t
72 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
Polyglot Assembly – assembly code that runs on multiple architectures
72 points • comment • may 04, 2021
94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows
72 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?
72 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
Xcode 13 adds Vim mode
72 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Apple works with China but not the FBI (2016)
72 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
Bulb: Another teeny-tiny interpreted language that runs on Super CHIP-8
72 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
Building a Design System at a Startup
72 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
Jeremy Clarkson did more for farmers in one series than Countryfile in 30 years
72 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Show HN: QueryCal – calculate metrics from your calendars using SQL
72 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
Setting the record straight: There is no 'Covid heart'
72 points • comment • may 14, 2021
A dynamic approach to detecting browser fingerprinting
72 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently
72 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
Vulture: Find Dead Python Code
72 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]
72 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
Show HN: Fast Rolling Quantiles for Python
72 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks
72 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
OCD Is Not a Joke
72 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds
72 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
Show HN: Watchpoints, an easy to use watchpoints equivalent library for Python
72 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
How narcissists climb the career ladder quickly
72 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Roku buys Quibi content for less than $100M
72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Some Days I Can’t Do Life – When everyday life becomes a struggle (2020)
72 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Log Pattern Recognition: LogMine
72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
The 'Dead-Internet Theory'
72 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Ask HN: How do you run better meetings?
72 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
‘I Had Never Faced the Reality of Death’: A Surgeon Becomes a Patient
72 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Canon CR3 Fileformat
72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Optical-Cavity-Induced Current
72 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
Accelerating Neural Networks on Mobile and Web with Sparse Inference
72 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
A friendly introduction to machine learning compilers and optimizers
72 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
Drivers new to level 2 driving assistance had lower awareness of on-road events
72 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
Prefix Sums and Their Applications (1990) [pdf]
72 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos
72 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
M1 MacBook Screen Crack Investigation
72 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
The KK Computer: A Radical 6502 Redesign (2018)
72 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
72 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
The making of Dark Castle (2018)
72 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
Quick Analysis for the SSID Format String Bug
72 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt
72 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing a credibility crisis
72 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
The Sovietization of the American Press
72 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
Bayesian histograms for rare event classification
72 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
Stacker (YC S20) lets anyone transform spreadsheets and databases into web apps
72 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
Instagram took down post with figure from paper showing male advantage in sports
72 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Museum of Bad Art
72 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
The trouble with regret minimization
72 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption
72 points • comment • mar 15, 2021
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
72 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
72 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?
72 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)
72 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted?
72 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks
72 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
Apple II Double High Resolution Graphics (2017)
72 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
Was German unification inevitable?
72 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
NPM silently suspends package adoption
72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
ZPL: (Almost) C99 Powerkit
72 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
This Year, Autonomous Trucks Will Take to the Road with No One on Board
72 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Tell HN: YouTube is asking for age verification to watch Bret Weinstein's video
72 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Chinese regulators to push tech giants to share consumer credit data
72 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day
72 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)
72 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
The Covid lab-leak theory goes mainstream
72 points • comment • may 15, 2021
Project Pockit, a modular ARM computer runnig Linux
72 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
Round rectangles are everywhere (1981)
72 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
The case of the curiously slow shader
72 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029
72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
The Art of the Cover Letter
72 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”
72 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
When constitutions took over the world
72 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
Why Don’t Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?
72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
It 'Might Take Weeks' to Free Ship Stuck in Suez Canal
72 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
Ask HN: How to disconnect from work?
72 points • comment • may 29, 2021
Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (2018)
72 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism
72 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
How to Get Startup Ideas
72 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project
72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
The Darkhad, the soul guards of Genghis Khan
72 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
Show HN: Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool
72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Launch HN: Taste (YC W21) – Recreate nice restaurant experiences at home
72 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Freenode resets its IRC network, drops all channels and accounts
72 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain
72 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
A return to the general-purpose database
72 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Free as in Climbing: Open Data Project Threatened by Bogus Copyright Claims
72 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
Ask HN: In Emacs, is there an alternative to GPG encryption in Org Mode?
72 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
Many models workflows in Python: Part I
72 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
72 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform
72 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles
72 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Science of Aging Is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute
72 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
reMarkable Connect subscription plans
72 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
RAM is the new disk – and how to measure its performance (2015)
72 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes
72 points • comment • may 13, 2021
Tesla's EPA Driving Ranges Didn't Hold Up to Testing
72 points • comment • mar 29, 2021
How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste
72 points • comment • may 30, 2021