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France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row, sources say
35 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
I found that college fails to live up to being “The Great Equalizer”
35 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 3
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Ask HN: What’s the Most Outrageous Belief You’re Confident Is True?
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Catalytic converter thefts in California: Why they are everywhere
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
A 1,300 sq/ft house in Sunnyvale, Calif. has sold for $823,000 over asking
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Police Arrest Two More for Uploading 10 Minute Movie Edits to YouTube
35 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Genghis Khan’s death: An unsolvable riddle or simply a pandemic disease?
35 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Word-Aligned Bloom Filters
35 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
35 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
A Survey of Transformers
35 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc
35 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland; a faithful audience appreciated it
35 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
Celebrating 20 Years of Cube: An in-depth interview with Aardappel
35 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Parliaments of the Earth
35 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
Better.com CEO blasts laid-off employees, accusing them of ‘stealing’
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
South African doctor who raised alarm about omicron variant: ‘unusual but mild’
35 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade voice activity detector
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Measuring Algorithmically Infused Societies
35 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Ask HN: Does anyone else get sick when their vacation starts?
35 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Tracking Micro-Rhythmic Variation in Jazz Performances (2017)
35 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
China shows its true colours – and they're not pretty
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Uber Has Reduced Drunk Driving Deaths by 6 Percent, Study Finds
35 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Chromecast volume controls are disabled on Android 12 due to a ‘legal issue’
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Are NFTs Status Symbols?
35 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
We Can Finally Do Away with the Accursed Beep-Beep of Heavy Machines
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android]
35 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
35 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Show HN: SQLToy – a tiny relational database for learning SQL via code
35 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Launching Eye of the Temple – this was my experience
35 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Two years and 300K downloads since The Program audio series' launch on HN
35 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
Diacritical Marks in Unicode
35 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Natural gas customers in Texas get stuck with $3.4B cold-snap surcharge
35 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Japanese Grammar in EBNF Notation
35 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Ask HN: How to know if you should *stop* doing startups?
35 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
The Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?
34 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released
34 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
The Taliban’s terrifying triumph in Afghanistan
34 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
Christmas is the busy season for ham sniffers
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Fun and Scary Code from Qt and KDE
34 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3k instead of $300k
34 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Five cops sue Tesla over “severe injuries” caused by car on Autopilot
34 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Crime, Punishment, and Chesa Boudin
34 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Ask HN: Other communities with responses as good as the submissions?
34 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
34 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Slowing Down, Yes, but to What?
34 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
Bit Test and Reset vs. Compilers
34 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
App Store chief to Tim Cook: “we should not use these download figures publicly”
34 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19
34 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
South African investment firm vanishes with $3.6B in Bitcoin
34 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
A state syncing framework based on Vuex and rollback netcode
34 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Chris Dixon's Crypto Claims Are Logically Flimsy
34 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
SpaceX turned Apple employee speaks out about sexual harassment at space company
34 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Do ex-South Carolina death row staff support death penalty?
34 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Beanstalk: A Decentralized Credit Based Stablecoin Protocol
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Ask HN: Did you buy Etheria tiles in 2015? You are likely rich
34 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
How I Self-Published My First Technical Book
34 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers
34 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Living violinmakers score a win over Stradivari in double-blind test
34 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Plant-based meat deceleration signals niche future
34 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Soup, Sleep and Shiba Inu
34 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Target, Walgreens make drastic changes due to increase in San Francisco thefts
34 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging
34 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem (2014)
34 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
SaaS Pricing Manifesto
34 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander contract
34 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Soft Serve – Self-hostable Git server for the command line
34 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
34 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Invoking C Code from Golang
34 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Why product research is broken and how we can fix it
34 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph
34 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K on Strength of ETF Debut
34 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Robinhood will fail again: stock trading is broken
34 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
How to Stand Out with Your Job Application as a Junior Software Developer
34 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs
34 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [video]
34 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla
34 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Depression may be a unique state of consciousness
34 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Northrop Grumman Announces Team for NASA’s Next-Generation Lunar Terrain Vehicle
34 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Man explodes his Tesla car with 30 kg dynamite after told repairs is expensive
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Swiss narrowly reject tax hike to fight climate change
34 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Oregon reports first 3 cases of drug-resistant 'superbug' fungus Candida auris
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
MP Maria Miller wants AI 'nudifying' tool banned
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Microsoft Edge may be sending search information to Microsoft
34 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Researchers Identify Weakness in Microsoft WPBT
34 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Automated Time Series Processing and Forecasting
34 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs
34 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
The Black Sky Event
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Russian jets and ships target British warship
34 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
Attacking Natural Language Processing Systems with Adversarial Examples
34 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Ask HN: As an European, what should I expect working for an American company?
34 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2021
34 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Is there any place for monoliths in 2021?
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Oklahoma lawmaker introduces book-banning bill with $10k-a-day penalty
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Leaked document on Amazon compensation ranges with the highest being $715k
34 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
The Right to Remain Silent: A New Answer to an Old Question (2012) [video]
34 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week
34 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
Is there life after death? John Cleese discusses with panel of scientists
34 points • comment • dec 28, 2021