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Hacker News (Jan 2022)
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LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
285 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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The Shameful Decline of Scientific American
284 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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It takes $420k per year to run Lichess
284 points • comment • jan 16, 2022
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My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
284 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice
284 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding
283 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study
283 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter
282 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?
282 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting
282 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI
282 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
282 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots
281 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
280 points • comment • jan 16, 2022
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LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required
280 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?
279 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)
279 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Wire is now on F-Droid
279 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
279 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
277 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
276 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
276 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
275 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
275 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
275 points • comment • jan 30, 2022
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Why skyscrapers are so short
275 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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The SNESticle Liberation Project
274 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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GNU Radio
274 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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The State of Web Scraping 2022
273 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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The Zen of Drinking Alone
273 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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War Is a Racket (1933)
273 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account
273 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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UK government plans publicity blitz against encrypted communications
273 points • comment • jan 16, 2022
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I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS
272 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes
272 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
272 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
272 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology
271 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)
270 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Rare real colour photos of WWII
270 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals
270 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows
270 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
269 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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The Block Protocol
269 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection
268 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
268 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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I Built a Shed (2020)
268 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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How much did a tunic cost in the Roman Empire? (2021)
267 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Go Fuzzing
267 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
267 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service
266 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers
266 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
266 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics
265 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures
264 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes
264 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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Jerrycan
263 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests
263 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
262 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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An Ode to Ruby
262 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
262 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH
262 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
261 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California
261 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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The case against masks at school
261 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Interactive piano reference to major and minor scales
261 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?
260 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Window System X (1984)
259 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing
259 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension
259 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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The Manga Guide Series
259 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Zendesk pretends to be open source?
259 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming
258 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps
258 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Format Strings in Rust 1.58
257 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules
257 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
256 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Send text messages for free using Python
256 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
256 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)
255 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines
255 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online
254 points • comment • jan 23, 2022
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Hacker Laws
254 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage
253 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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Life at 800 MHz
253 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf]
253 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan
253 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching
252 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy
252 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON
251 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Linux kernel heap buffer overflow in fs_context.c since version 5.1
251 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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Reasons for servers to support IPv6
251 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software
251 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
250 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Show HN: My 486 Server
250 points • comment • jan 16, 2022
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Highlights from Git 2.35
250 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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Sega quits arcade business after 50 years
250 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal
249 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Cost of Attrition
249 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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TypeScript Features to Avoid
248 points • comment • jan 18, 2022