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Hacker News (2021)

Ways to think about water (2015)
51 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
Coding Qualitative Data
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Wall St Tumbles over 2%
51 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
China bans BBC World News from broadcasting
51 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
The Construction of Bit Mixers
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter
51 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
A Historical Look at the VAX: Microprocessor Economics (2006)
51 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Facebook bans Law Enforcement Today from posting
51 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
Conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It happened, insists Bloomberg
51 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Is Pure Mathematics
51 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
51 points • comment • may 18, 2021
Reversals in Psychology (2020)
51 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
Rare extragalactic objects are now easier to spot
51 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Abram Petrovich Gannibal
51 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Comparing trips between cellphone towers and Google timeline (GPS)
51 points • comment • may 20, 2021
Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
51 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies
51 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Fermat's Library: software to help illuminate academic papers
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
Constant-Time Big Numbers: An Introduction
51 points • comment • may 21, 2021
Show HN: Hetchr, a Developer's Homepage
51 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
High-Speed Internet at a Crossroads
51 points • comment • may 21, 2021
Magpie Driven Development (MDD)
51 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria
51 points • comment • may 13, 2021
How do modern zero-knowledge proofs, and PLONK specifically, work? (videos)
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Several US utilities back out of deal to build novel nuclear power plant (2020)
51 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
How smallpox claimed its final victim
51 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
Researchers estimate the richest 1% dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income
51 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
Scaleway: Incident SSD was stolen during a secure transport between datacenters
51 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. Justice Department
51 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
Socialist Cyborgs
51 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
The bacterial 'homing missiles' that scientists want to harness
51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
Genny – Generate Nim library bindings for many languages
51 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
In southeastern Colorado, robots disarm WWII-era chemical weapons (2017)
51 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
Improve Docker performance on macOS by 20x
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Brain Differences Between Men and Women: Evidence from Deep Learning
51 points • comment • may 15, 2021
Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code
51 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Shit User Story
51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security
51 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119M
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
BigDecimal – JavaScript Polyfill for proposed Decimal data type
51 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
Our main problem in health policy is overemphasis on medicine (2007)
51 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Misskey: Alternative Fediverse software that also uses ActivityPub
51 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
Buf raises $93M to deprecate REST/JSON
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality
51 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
Reimagine Atomic CSS
51 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
How to Make Cyanotypes (2020)
51 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor
51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Fully Remote: Home Office Should Not Be a Financial Burden on Employees
51 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
Bun – fast JavaScript and CSS bundler
51 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
Code in ARM Assembly: Working with Pointers
51 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Better Bash in 15 Minutes
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Lessons Learned: A severe vulnerability in the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set
51 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
The APA No Longer Represents Good Science or Clinical Practice
51 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
NASA solved a $100M vibration problem cheaply by strobing the display
51 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
51 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
The Yggdrasil Screen Reader Project
51 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?
51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Ultorg: A General-Purpose User Interface for Relational Databases (2020) [video]
51 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Programming War Stories in Microsoft
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Slow Money Movement
51 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
The Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System
51 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare
51 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context (2014)
51 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-of-Life
51 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Public Domain Day 2022
51 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
How to scrape and extract hyperlink networks with BeautifulSoup and NetworkX
51 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
Ask HN: Favorite Thing Built to Last?
51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Ask HN: How do you manage or avoid meltdowns?
51 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Ask HN: What are some of the best well-written books on computer science?
51 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
Elixir v1.13 Released
51 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Flags vs. Gates
51 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
Voyager 1 and Reed-Solomon
51 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Rocky Mountain Basic
51 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Tell HN: Google deleted my developer account
51 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
What Animals Think of Death
51 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Culinary Diplomacy
51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said
51 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System (2020)
51 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game
51 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Ghost riders: the invisible lives of Johannesburg food couriers
50 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot
50 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
A cross-platform Markdown editor focused on speed and usability
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows
50 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
The Last Warrior of Africa’s ‘Forgotten Army’: Gambia and WWII
50 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Cryptocurrency and the unbanked
50 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Post Infocom: Boffo Games
50 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Copilot and Conversational Programming
50 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
900-mile mantle pipeline connects Galápagos to Panama
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005
50 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
How to Open a Door (1979) [video]
50 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Depressed People See the World More Realistically
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
U.S. Workers Are Realizing Life's More Than Just a Job
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Sticker
50 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Rules of static linking: libstdc++, Libc, libgcc (2012)
50 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Increases in Covid-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?
50 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Usenix LISA2021 BPF Internals (eBPF)
50 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why?
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2021