HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals (indianexpress.com)

279 points by sandGorgon on Jan 3, 2021 | 64 comments

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Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018) (nature.com)

279 points by aburan28 on Jan 17, 2021 | 13 comments

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Julia adoption keeps climbing (hpcwire.com)

278 points by newswasboring on Jan 18, 2021 | 300 comments

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AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech (hothardware.com)

278 points by craigjb on Jan 3, 2021 | 155 comments

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Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech (bbc.co.uk)

278 points by mellosouls on Jan 13, 2021 | 82 comments

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US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients (bbc.com)

277 points by williamsharris on Jan 6, 2021 | 331 comments

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EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone (euractiv.com)

277 points by sampo on Jan 12, 2021 | 269 comments

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Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

277 points by InInteraction on Jan 9, 2021 | 226 comments

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Open Letter from Laura Poitras (praxisfilms.org)

277 points by jashkenas on Jan 14, 2021 | 91 comments

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When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? (forbes.com)

277 points by ZeljkoS on Jan 3, 2021 | 1 comments

461.

The Great Software Stagnation (alarmingdevelopment.org)

276 points by azhenley on Jan 1, 2021 | 299 comments

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Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? (ziglang.org)

276 points by mardiyah on Jan 15, 2021 | 259 comments

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Getting Started with Signal (justingarrison.com)

276 points by JustinGarrison on Jan 11, 2021 | 213 comments

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New Defaults (stratechery.com)

275 points by kaboro on Jan 5, 2021 | 185 comments

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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B (spectrum.ieee.org)

275 points by mg on Jan 11, 2021 | 121 comments

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FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain (github.com)

275 points by funkaster on Jan 10, 2021 | 75 comments

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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too (strongtowns.org)

274 points by jseliger on Jan 8, 2021 | 145 comments

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The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker (wired.com)

272 points by spking on Jan 15, 2021 | 200 comments

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German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance (complianceweek.com)

272 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 17, 2021 | 152 comments

470.

Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors (onlysponsors.dev)

272 points by rk06 on Jan 23, 2021 | 138 comments

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Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API (github.com)

272 points by yuvalhazaz on Jan 12, 2021 | 102 comments

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London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing (hsj.co.uk)

271 points by biomene on Jan 6, 2021 | 374 comments

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Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet (bbc.com)

271 points by farseer on Jan 10, 2021 | 347 comments

474.

Show HN: I made an alarm clock (stavros.io)

271 points by stavros on Jan 25, 2021 | 192 comments

475.

Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 (twitter.com)

271 points by mmastrac on Jan 29, 2021 | 73 comments

476.

Container networking is simple (2020) (iximiuz.com)

271 points by zdw on Jan 19, 2021 | 67 comments

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Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal' (wsj.com)

270 points by admiralspoo on Jan 11, 2021 | 412 comments

478.

Zoom improvements requested by music schools (music.yale.edu)

270 points by chat on Jan 14, 2021 | 244 comments

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Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems (foxhound.systems)

269 points by charukiewicz on Jan 11, 2021 | 291 comments

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The Problem with Gradle (bruceeckel.com)

269 points by wheresvic4 on Jan 16, 2021 | 223 comments