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Hacker News (2021)

‘Building back badly’: Global power sector emissions soar
36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's real (2009)
36 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
The Begum's Fortune
36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Linux 5.16 Has a Nice Performance Gift for AMD Ryzen Laptops
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
The Future of Weight Loss
36 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
COP26 agrees new global climate deal
36 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
China hoards over half the world's grain
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Google Fires VP over Bizarre Anti-Anti-Semitic Rant
36 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Ask HN: Is Wikipedia running out of money?
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Improving a Machine Learning System – Broken Abstractions
36 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain
36 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Show HN: Git-fired tells you who was fired / added based on Git log
36 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache
36 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?
36 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
Chat.sr.ht: a persistent IRC session for Sourcehut users
36 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Intergenerational mobility over six centuries (2016)
36 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Ask HN: Is This Parenting or Scrum?
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks
36 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
The $900B Cash Pile Inflating Startup Valuations
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story
36 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
Israeli Researchers Discover Tiredness Mechanism
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
Diving into “Ghost Ships of the Baltic Sea”
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Google Play banned my highly rated app with no real justification
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
History as Weather
36 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Christmas in 19th-Century America (1995)
36 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Patterns of Legacy Displacement
36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
TigerBeetle – A Million Financial Transactions per Second in Zig
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Misterhouse: An open source home automation program written in Perl
36 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Yamaha RA-100 Rotating Speaker Organ Amp
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
If Microsoft Made Cars
36 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Assembly Language is Number 8
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
Mario Kart and the Doppler Effect
36 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
The explosion in stablecoins revives a debate around “free banking”
36 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban
36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
Decoding DART
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Sen. Manchin call with billionaire donors re fillibuster and Jan 6 commission
36 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
Show HN: I've made a Figma plugin that converts design to HTML with TailwindCSS
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
We All Live on Permafrost
36 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
Reflections on a Year with HomeKit
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed over the Philippines
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
George Orwell Outside the Whale
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Debian Bullseye Fully Frozen
36 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
BuzzFeed to go public, after shareholders approve SPAC deal
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Favico.js – Make use of your favicon with badges, images or videos
36 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Telegram is anything but secure; even Facebook is safer, says Signal founder
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Vinix, a new OS written in V, now runs mlibc and bash
36 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
You're Not a 10x Programmer
36 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution
36 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
WIP: Hacking the Nokia Fastmile (T-Mobile's 5G Gateway)
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Announcing Vitess 12
36 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
George Saunders: what writers do when they write (2017)
36 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
Lessons Learned from 5 years using Pivotal Tracker
36 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Show HN: JWEB (a modern implementation of the CWEB Literate Programming system)
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Textdistance: Compute distance between sequences with 30 algorithms
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Designer Diary: The Seeds of Stardew Valley: The Board Game
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
Show HN: Nhi – capture every information about each executed command [video]
36 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
On Generative Algorithms (2016)
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Video shows fire in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline rupture
36 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
Proctorio's Anti-Cheating Software Exposes Students to Hackers
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Sunscreen Worries Grow as Another Potential Carcinogen Found
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Rosette: A solver-aided programming language
36 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Amazon suspends popular electronics manufacturer for buying reviews
36 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Frame.work laptop now accepting pre-orders from UK, Germany and France
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Learning to Speak Shrub
36 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies
36 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Tiny primate may join the ranks of the world’s model organisms
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Unsealed Emails Show How J&J Shaped Report on Talc's Links to Cancer
36 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
The Attack on Rooftop Solar Power in California Is Beyond Stupid
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, has died
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
PlutoCon 2021
36 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
App Tracking Transparency causing 15% to 20% revenue drop for advertisers
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Simhashing (Hopefully) Made Simple (2012)
36 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
TSMC founder questions US move to rebuild chip supply chain
36 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
36 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Amazon abruptly banned Washington state treat-maker Chukar Cherries
36 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
The Distribution Vector That Changed Linux Forever
36 points • comment • may 07, 2021
Get Rid of Failed Leaders, Publicly
36 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Martin Kleppmann's Cambridge Lecture Course on Distributed Systems
36 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
I'm a Luddite. You should be one too
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Why SpaceX Wants to Make Landing Super Heavy More Difficult
36 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
36 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Show HN: Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language
36 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
America, Stop Moving West
36 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Etna is erupting
36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Why masterclass isn't about mastery
36 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
Superintelligence
36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Man’s Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing
36 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
Sat Nav CD (1986) [video]
36 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
Domino Robot Trajectory Generation
36 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math
36 points • comment • may 04, 2021