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Testing the strength of different wood species (woodgears.ca)

256 points by Ivoah on Dec 17, 2021 | 77 comments

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Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match (en.chessbase.com)

255 points by S4M on Dec 11, 2021 | 139 comments

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The Container Throttling Problem (danluu.com)

255 points by rognjen on Dec 26, 2021 | 87 comments

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Approx. 24 hours ago, Tether printed 1B $USDT out of thin air (whale-alert.io)

254 points by hh3k0 on Dec 5, 2021 | 257 comments

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Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017) (k-international.com)

254 points by mojuba on Dec 13, 2021 | 211 comments

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Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

253 points by behnamoh on Dec 8, 2021 | 297 comments

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Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015) (issendai.com)

253 points by jasonhansel on Dec 28, 2021 | 201 comments

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Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS

253 points by Karsteski on Dec 9, 2021 | 188 comments

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Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning (theguardian.com)

253 points by sizzle on Dec 22, 2021 | 183 comments

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I lasted three minutes at Amazon (old.reddit.com)

253 points by ruined on Dec 7, 2021 | 182 comments

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Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020) (soccermatics.medium.com)

252 points by thinkafterbef on Dec 29, 2021 | 282 comments

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Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ (wsj.com)

252 points by jkuria on Dec 4, 2021 | 169 comments

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A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (github.com)

252 points by ruidlopes on Dec 23, 2021 | 85 comments

464.

A Farewell to LWN (lwn.net)

252 points by guiambros on Dec 23, 2021 | 28 comments

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Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life (brian.jp)

251 points by lofties on Dec 24, 2021 | 187 comments

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37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet (itu.int)

251 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 26, 2021 | 177 comments

467.

Scala at scale at Databricks (databricks.com)

251 points by lihaoyi on Dec 10, 2021 | 166 comments

468.

This Year in Matrix (matrix.org)

251 points by Arathorn on Dec 22, 2021 | 106 comments

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To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension (tools.google.com)

250 points by asimpletune on Dec 18, 2021 | 186 comments

470.

Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts (bellmar.medium.com)

250 points by mbellotti on Dec 20, 2021 | 87 comments

471.

Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway (blog.haschek.at)

250 points by DeathArrow on Dec 5, 2021 | 82 comments

472.

Papers with Code (paperswithcode.com)

250 points by mbildner on Dec 25, 2021 | 41 comments

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Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips (bosch-presse.de)

249 points by Tomte on Dec 2, 2021 | 240 comments

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Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in (mothminds.com)

249 points by DanteVertigo on Dec 1, 2021 | 125 comments

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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads (portableapps.com)

249 points by JohnTHaller on Dec 23, 2021 | 100 comments

476.

Up all night with a Twitch millionaire (washingtonpost.com)

248 points by breckenedge on Dec 10, 2021 | 304 comments

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All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022 (publicdomainreview.org)