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Hacker News (2021)

Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?
36 points • comment • may 29, 2021
We All Live on Permafrost
36 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math
36 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Face ID stops working if you replace the iPhone 13 screen with 3rd-party repair
36 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
Norway to Decriminalize Personal Drug Use in ‘Historic’ Shift
36 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
Python 3.10
36 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Panasonic’s Innovative Augmented-Reality HUD Could Be in Cars by 2024
36 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Steven Weinberg: What Is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is? (1997)
36 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Show HN: Run SQL on Spreadsheets
36 points • comment • may 23, 2021
Textdistance: Compute distance between sequences with 30 algorithms
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Yeti Foods is a Facebook-Free business
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
The Math of Hunting Lions
36 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Is Mathematics Real? (2020)
36 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
The Missing Missing Reasons
36 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Why Californians have sky-high electricity bills
36 points • comment • may 08, 2021
TigerBeetle – A Million Financial Transactions per Second in Zig
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Baldur's Gate 2 reincarnated in the browser using WebAssembly
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Amazon's Jeff Bezos 'may have lied to Congress'
36 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
What If GitHub Is the Devil?
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Ask HN: What non-American news sources do you recommend?
36 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
New York City Renters Owe More Than $1B in Unpaid Rent
36 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Why worker loyalty is at a breaking point
36 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Ask HN: Is there anywhere to get help with employment contracts?
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Ask HN: What hardware/furniture/hack greatly improved your WFH setup?
36 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Stock Sale Day Before Fed Emergency
36 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Small Satellite Launchers – A Comparison
36 points • comment • may 29, 2021
The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US
36 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast for Humans to Fight, U.S. General Warns
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Waterford has Ireland's 2nd highest Covid incidence with 99.7% fully vaccinated
36 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
World Beer Index 2021: The Cost and Consumption of Beer Around the World
36 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
COP26 agrees new global climate deal
36 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Google admits to running experiments which remove some media sites from results
36 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
A side project story: octave.im
36 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet
36 points • comment • may 18, 2021
Ay Chavrusa, Ay Meesusa
36 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math
36 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Domino Robot Trajectory Generation
36 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked
36 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
Assembly Language is Number 8
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
PayPal Fires Customer, Refuses to Provide Explanation
36 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
A Convivial Chap Led Easily Astray: On G. K. Chesterton
36 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications
36 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Zepto (YC W21), a grocery delivery app in India, raises $60M
36 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
Ask HN: How to write documentation for a medium size engineering org?
36 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Hacker News [keybase] proof just broke
36 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
The Black Death: A New Culprit?
36 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
React Ruined Web Development
36 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly
36 points • comment • may 30, 2021
G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report
36 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
CDC now says valved N95 has better source control than cloth/surgical masks [pdf]
36 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
Unknown Dürer drawing bought for $30 at a house clearance could sell for $50m
36 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Tesla Reports Only 12.2 Miles of Autonomous Mode Testing in 2019
36 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
Video shows fire in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline rupture
36 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
Pico-8: Cab Ride
36 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
Convert macros to functions in the Python C API
36 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
Confessions of an Overnight Millionaire
36 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution
36 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Interview with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC (2014) [video]
36 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
Favico.js – Make use of your favicon with badges, images or videos
36 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers
36 points • comment • may 06, 2021
Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans
36 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
How China’s State-Sponsored Social Networks Control Misinformation–and Dissent
36 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
Fed balance sheet tops $8T for first time -data
36 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas
36 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Yagni Exceptions
36 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
Show HN: I built a service to share source code without signing up
36 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Learning to Speak Shrub
36 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world – and I hate it
36 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Labour market reallocation in the wake of Covid-19
36 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
Pompeo lifts 'self-imposed restrictions' on U.S.-Taiwan relationship
36 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Europe’s aggressive new emissions rules put gas engines on notice
36 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy
36 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
Sen. Manchin call with billionaire donors re fillibuster and Jan 6 commission
36 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
Neuroscience: Idle minds (2012)
36 points • comment • mar 07, 2021
Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain
36 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Not knowing how to flirt is the main reason behind “involuntary singlehood”
36 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
36 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Drawing the Tube Map on a BBC Micro [video]
36 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies
36 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Fixing a Bricked SSD with JTAG
36 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Moral Majority Media Strikes Again
36 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Address Sanitizer for MSVC Now Generally Available
36 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
Announcing Vitess 12
36 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Show HN: Asymmetric stackful cross-platform Coroutines in pure C
36 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
Ask HN: How do you deal with mediocrity?
36 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
The Miseducation of America’s Elites
36 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
CEOs are at their wits’ end – they don’t know how to get their employees back in
36 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Papers Without Code
36 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
Django SQL Dashboard 1.0
36 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
The Distribution Vector That Changed Linux Forever
36 points • comment • may 07, 2021
Intergenerational mobility over six centuries (2016)
36 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Meme Stocks Lose $167B as Reddit Crowd Preaches Defiance
36 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
Dataset of Linus Torvalds' rants ranked by hate
36 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps
36 points • comment • may 05, 2021
As US Schools Prioritize Diversity over Merit, China Is Becoming the Stem Leader
36 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism
36 points • comment • may 01, 2021
A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
36 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
Mac mini is now configurable with 10 Gigabit Ethernet
36 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
Misterhouse: An open source home automation program written in Perl
36 points • comment • jul 27, 2021