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Hacker News (Jan 2022)
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Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
325 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)
324 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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Dark Web – Justice League
324 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
324 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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The Color of Infinite Temperature
324 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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A neuroscientist prepares for death
324 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
323 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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We have jetpacks and we do not care
323 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless NFTs are
323 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
321 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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IPython 8.0
321 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Woob: Web Outside of Browsers
321 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download
320 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
320 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
319 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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The Internals of PostgreSQL
319 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals
318 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
318 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
318 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory
318 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
318 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
317 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Google kills free G Suite / Workspace versions for existing customers
316 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
316 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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The Intel Split
314 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
313 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
312 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Pay attention to WebAssembly
311 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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Iconoir – An Open-Source SVG Icons Library
311 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
311 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner
310 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests
310 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
310 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension
309 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons
309 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend
309 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database
309 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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How E Ink developed full-color e-paper
308 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice
308 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Foundations of Computer Science
308 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
307 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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How to mentor software engineers
307 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID
307 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months
305 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
305 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?
304 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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OCaml Multicore merged upstream
304 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall
304 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
304 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
304 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Why might you run your own DNS server?
304 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Quit Your Job
303 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?
303 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
303 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad
303 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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Sci Hub Injector
303 points • comment • jan 16, 2022
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Embrace slow productivity
302 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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_Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object
302 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Are We Really Engineers? (2021)
301 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg doses
300 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death
300 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network
300 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
300 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Unix in the Browser Tab
299 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Kakoune Code Editor
299 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021
299 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park
299 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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I Have a Dream (1963)
299 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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The GNU Name System
299 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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How Video Streaming Processing Works
298 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)
298 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
298 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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RSS feeds are available for many U.S. Government collections
298 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz
297 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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Foobar2000
297 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal
296 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents
296 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
296 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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DuckDuckGo Traffic
296 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
295 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials
295 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Postgres Indexes for Newbies
294 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
294 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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BitTorrent v2 (2020)
293 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
293 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Approved Cameras
293 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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PHP in 2022
292 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems
292 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
292 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube
291 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Open Infrastructure Map
290 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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The WebSocket Handbook
289 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
289 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Masterclass on mathematical thinking
289 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Healthy soil is key to feeding the world
289 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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Sir David Cox has died
288 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong
288 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (2018)
286 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)
286 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
286 points • comment • jan 06, 2022