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574
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Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
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528
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388
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379
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Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
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305
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285
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241
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232
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https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/01/study-reveals-immune-driver-of-brain-aging.html
231
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Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
228
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217
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216
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Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII
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206
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205
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Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs
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198
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196
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93
Android Ported to RISC-V
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/21/android_riscv_port/
65
Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low
http://xerces.org/blog/monarch-population-in-california-spirals-to-another-record-low
184
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https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-21-access-control-for-github-pages/
179
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165
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164
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160
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https://rocketgems.com/blog/saas-marketplaces/
159
49
Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making-win32-apis-more-accessible-to-more-languages/
146
Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Most-read-in-2020/Toyota-s-game-changing-solid-state-battery-en-route-for-2021-debut
132
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Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations
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128
Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
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123
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https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/01/smashingmag-performance-case-study/
117
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Show HN: Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans
https://gitnews.tech
116
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Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
http://autoredistrict.org/
115
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Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F#
https://gist.cafe
109
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https://randoc.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/sony-news-portable-workstation-nws-1250/
Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25875386
108
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Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software
https://agfundernews.com/splinter-cargill-open-sources-software-to-build-a-better-agrifood-supply-chain.html
104
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ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP
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14
Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan
https://blog.flipperzero.one/review-and-producing-plan/
Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
https://www.wired.com/story/palantirs-gods-eye-view-of-afghanistan/
92
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On the complexity of JSON serialization (2020)
https://einarwh.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/on-the-complexity-of-json-serialization/
43
Show HN: Welder – Record high-quality remote interviews
https://www.getwelder.com/
83
5
Programming Language Foundations in Agda
https://plfa.github.io/
82
16
Show HN: WickedBlocks – Tailwind Blocks ready to copy-paste
https://blocks.wickedtemplates.com/
80
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Show HN: Userbase – Auth and E2E encrypted storage in a few lines of code
https://userbase.com/?home
75
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I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
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135
Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673
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French news sites prevail in negotiations with Google over "neighboring rights”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/google-agrees-to-pay-french-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic/
72
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When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020)
https://newrepublic.com/article/160719/historical-fiction-crime-ahmet-altan-turkey
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r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680
27
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https://github.com/PDP-10/its
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