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Hacker News (2021)

The true costs of research and publishing (2019)
28 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Eytzinger Binary Search
28 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
PNC Bank app blocks access for “security reasons” if not allowed to scan files
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
‘I don’t have a computer’: Seniors share hardships competing for vaccine spots
28 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
I Have Decided to Stop Supporting My Family's Non-Linux Devices
28 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
How HashiCorp Works
28 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
Liink by J.P. Morgan
28 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
Text Encryption Based on Glider in the Game of Life (2016)
28 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
German man loses 400k GBP about $500k in Twitter Bitcoin scam
28 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
Apple Discusses “Screeching Voices of the Minority” in Internal Memos
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
"Irssi does not take a political stance"
28 points • comment • may 27, 2021
Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
Why have cameras and lenses become so expensive?
28 points • comment • may 31, 2021
Ian Fleming and American intelligence (Part 1) (2011)
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses
28 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
WD to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit at $160 per Drive
28 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
Oxford/AstraZen Covid jab far less effective against SAfrican strain,study shows
28 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
Total Beginners Guide to Guns
28 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Reddit sued for failing to pull child sexual abuse content
28 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
Is Word Error Rate a Good Metric for Speech Recognition Models?
28 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms (2018)
28 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
Britney Spears: 'I got my first iPad today'
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
GNU Project Needs Volunteers to Write JavaScript Drop-Ins for Non-Free Web Apps
28 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
Multiplayer Prototyping: If your tools aren’t fun, you’re not doing it right
28 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
ROM site owner made $30k a year–now owes Nintendo $2.1M
28 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
Shebeen Queens: Review of “A World History of Women and Alcohol"
28 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Chip-8 (and Emulators) in Plain English
28 points • comment • may 22, 2021
Covid super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
FBI conducts bulk warrantless seizure of phone records related to Capitol attack
28 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
Coding Interviews Are BS (largely)
28 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Atlas V launch seen from airplane passenger
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, Israel Study Suggests
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
Automated Propositional Sequent Proofs in the Browser with Tau Prolog
28 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class (2020)
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
AirPods Max teardown makes Sony and Bose headphones look ‘like toys’
28 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
Western Digital shuckable drive price tracker
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
The deep fake threat hardly anyone discusses
28 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
Nestle-Backed Child Slavery Continues in the Ivory Coast
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Microsoft halts rollout of Windows 10 KB5001649 emergency update
28 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
RSA deleted the greatest tweet ever made
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’
28 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
German government will push for a European federation
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
UK Government Wants to Sell Your Medical Records – Here’s How to Opt-Out
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Tidelift – A managed open-source subscription
28 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
The ecological disaster that is Bitcoin
28 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Einstein Ring Spotted by Hubble
28 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
Effect of the Last Week on Ruby on Rails
28 points • comment • may 01, 2021
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
28 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
28 points • comment • may 06, 2021
I learned that stadiums can have different ads depending on channel and country
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
28 points • comment • may 05, 2021
Is Calendly Rude?
28 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
What's the deal with tab size (8 spaces) in the GitHub UI?
28 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
Show HN: Sendfiles.dev – quick, secure P2P file transfer using WebRTC
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
We’ve sold 5% of Explosion – the spaCy Company
28 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
TikTok no worse than Facebook for privacy, says Citizen Lab
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
DIY Manual to Building a Cloud Chamber (2020) [pdf]
28 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
Barren American Suburbs
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
New type of Supernova explains ancient mystery
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
Book Review: Antifragile
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
Python 3.10.0 Is Available
28 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
Ask HN: Why are you pro/anti Bitcoin?
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Still Pushing Ahead of Windows 10, Latest Windows 11
28 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
We don't need a string type (2013)
28 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Apple is reportedly relying on states to pay for digital ID rollouts
28 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
How to Use White-Labeling to Create Profitable Apps
28 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
After Whistle-Blower Goes Public, Facebook Tries Calming Employees
28 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says
28 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Hospital to Run GNU Health, OpenSUSE
28 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
Andreessen Horowitz plans $1 bln cryptocurrency VC fund
28 points • comment • may 03, 2021
You Need a Novelty Budget (2018)
28 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Ask HN: How does performance appraisals happen in your organisation?
28 points • comment • may 15, 2021
Cold outreach strategy that works (2020)
28 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
Browser ‘Favicons’ Can Be Used as Undeletable ‘Supercookies’ to Track You Online
28 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Amazon reportedly has a ‘key’ to thousands of apartment buildings in US
28 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Pence and Lawmakers Evacuate as Protesters Storm Capitol, Halting Count of Votes
28 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
Ask HN: Have you switched from management to IC?
28 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
How we implemented replication in Memgraph DB – Our approach and challenges.
28 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Oil Companies Placing Big Bets on Pyrolysis Oil
28 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
China Makes It a Crime to Question Military Casualties on the Internet
28 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
If-then-else had to be invented
28 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
Ask HN: Getting back to C++ and looking for ideas
28 points • comment • may 08, 2021
When CDs Launched in America (2016)
28 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
If I fits I sits: An investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in cats
28 points • comment • may 06, 2021
China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
Intel to fab chips for startups, including RISC-V designs
28 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
Peter Bourgon: I have been permanently banned from all Golang community spaces
28 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
GitHub Account hijack through broken link in developer.twitter.com
28 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Unvaccinated are 5X more likely to catch Delta, 11X more likely to die
28 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Show HN: Peek into a remote repo from GitHub or Gitlab quickly
28 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
Stop Death Shaming
28 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin
28 points • comment • mar 29, 2021
If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?
28 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began
28 points • comment • mar 29, 2021
America’s workers are exhausted and burned out- some employers are taking notice
28 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Show HN: Pomospendo – A Gamified Pomodoro Application
28 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
Covid vaccine immunity is waning – how much does that matter?
28 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
WTF Microsoft “I saw you you spun up an Ubuntu image on Azure.”
28 points • comment • feb 11, 2021