1727
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/
5 years ago
1266
267
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
654
405
Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
https://asahilinux.org/
633
318
Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-for-hacking-a-rival-company/
604
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GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
https://twitter.com/sebslomski/status/1344219609923276801
490
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My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
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488
229
Telegram publishes users' locations online
https://blog.ahmed.nyc/2021/01/if-you-use-this-feature-on-telegram.html
365
276
Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25643940
362
340
Termux no longer updated on Google Play
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux_Google_Play
345
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U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/69?s=1&r=7
342
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Wasmer 1.0
https://medium.com/wasmer/wasmer-1-0-3f86ca18c043
297
183
Moral Competence
https://evanjconrad.com/posts/moral-competence
295
234
Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650224
279
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https://unclack.app
275
185
New Defaults
https://stratechery.com/2021/new-defaults/
263
140
JupyterLab 3.0
https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-3-0-is-out-4f58385e25bb
260
163
Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
http://dstrohmaier.com/why-learn-prolog-in-2021/
257
65
An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
https://bigattichouse.medium.com/an-experimental-open-source-memristor-programmable-diode-4476c1874d72
247
192
Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-westjet-1.5861635
239
74
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http://www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/shioya/pdfs/Mashimo-FPT%2719.pdf
235
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Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)
https://mymodernmet.com/pakistan-truck-art/
232
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5G Advocates Renew Attempts to Poach Wi-Fi’s 6GHz Spectrum
https://www.eetimes.com/5g-advocates-renew-attempts-to-poach-wi-fis-6ghz-spectrum/
230
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Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors
https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1346183432876019712
224
Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817
216
73
Understanding Connections and Pools
https://sudhir.io/understanding-connections-pools/
79
Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
https://www.descript.com/
215
322
Danes Get 20-Year 0% Mortgages
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/danes-get-20-year-0-mortgages-as-interest-rates-keep-sinking
213
The Lab Leak Hypothesis
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
212
45
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https://www.ioccc.org/2020/
Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-scientists-academics-teachers-and-students-protest-blocking-lawsuit-050121/
203
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Learn Go in five minutes
https://gist.github.com/prologic/5f6afe9c1b98016ca278f4d507e65510
199
109
Is Everything Securities Fraud?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3664132
195
92
How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-i-learned-to-love-and-fear-the-riemann-hypothesis-20210104/
194
127
EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/eff-fincen-stop-pushing-more-financial-surveillance
190
Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/05/electric-cars-record-market-share-norway
187
50
A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines
https://github.com/geohot/minikeyvalue
58
Show HN: Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser
https://handel-pl.github.io
131
Matomo: Open-source analytics platform
https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
120
Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
http://datacolada.org/95
160
42
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https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/system-design-interview-an-insiders-guide-review/
157
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Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
https://ruky.me/2021/01/05/you-might-want-to-block-pinterest-to-save-your-data/
115
Jack Ma Is Missing
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/where-in-the-world-is-jack-ma.html
145
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In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
https://www.wired.com/story/india-smartphones-cheap-data-giving-women-voice/
142
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81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
https://www.zdnet.com/article/81000-uk-owned-eu-domains-suspended-as-brexit-transition-ends/
141
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Designing Engineering Organizations
https://jacobian.org/2021/jan/5/designing-engineering-organizations/
139
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Parable of Alien Chess
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/chess
135
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Load testing is hard and the tools are not great
https://ntietz.com/tech-blog/load-testing-is-hard-but-why/
167
Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/gravity-energy-storage-will-show-its-potential-in-2021
40
Space things happening in 2021
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1730399
8
Graphqurl: Curl for GraphQL, with Autocomplete and Subscriptions
https://github.com/hasura/graphqurl
124
Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)
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119
10
Clip: Connecting Text and Images
https://openai.com/blog/clip/
117
22
An Incomplete Guide to Ethereum Rollups
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html
283
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https://www.wints.org/blog/2021.01.04/
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https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-statement-following-authorized-dosing-schedules-covid-19-vaccines
35
A Plan Made to Shield Big Tobacco from Facts Is Now EPA Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html
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https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1
107
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Payment processor for Amazon India had leak of over 100M users
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/over-100-million-debit-and-credit-card-users-data-has-been-leaked-online-from-payments-processor-juspay-amazon-and-swiggy/articleshow/80096472.cms
21
Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool
https://locust.io/
16
The Now Habit
https://www.2uo.de/the-now-habit/
25
Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour
https://psyarxiv.com/3ntku/
102
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LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-04/los-angeles-hospitals-cannot-keep-up-covid-19-surge-illness
Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650905
99
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I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake
https://keygen.sh/blog/how-i-replaced-baremetrics-and-chartmogul-with-rake/
94
28
Show HN: Build your own programming language in C++
https://github.com/codr7/alang
90
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Epic Games just bought a North Carolina mall for its new headquarters
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213774/epic-games-north-carolina-mall-new-headquarters
89
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Microsoft job posting suggests a major user interface update expected in 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-plans-sweeping-design-changes-to-show-that-windows-is-back
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