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Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones (tampabay.com)

269 points by chha on Jan 17, 2021 | 205 comments

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System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021 (entsoe.eu)

269 points by andreasley on Jan 26, 2021 | 131 comments

483.

The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (buttondown.email)

268 points by iamd3vil on Jan 11, 2021 | 208 comments

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A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun (severe-weather.eu)

268 points by makepanic on Jan 10, 2021 | 189 comments

485.

Suck It, Wall Street (taibbi.substack.com)

268 points by undefined1 on Jan 29, 2021 | 117 comments

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Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL (reslash.co)

266 points by remotelyyours on Jan 6, 2021 | 229 comments

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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report (cockroachlabs.com)

266 points by mohangk on Jan 17, 2021 | 181 comments

488.

Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple (reason.com)

265 points by ksec on Jan 1, 2021 | 206 comments

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Google Images Restored (github.com)

265 points by alphabet9000 on Jan 16, 2021 | 169 comments

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Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent (nutrition.bmj.com)

265 points by whoisburbansky on Jan 20, 2021 | 120 comments

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Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks (politico.eu)

265 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 25, 2021 | 77 comments

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TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England (hackaday.com)

264 points by szczys on Jan 18, 2021 | 553 comments

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Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?

264 points by smoqadam on Jan 13, 2021 | 236 comments

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021 (khashtamov.com)

264 points by adilkhash on Jan 11, 2021 | 137 comments

495.

Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube (techjaja.com)

263 points by drsim on Jan 9, 2021 | 367 comments

496.

Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014) (slatestarcodexabridged.com)

263 points by skinkestek on Jan 22, 2021 | 168 comments

497.

JupyterLab 3.0 (blog.jupyter.org)

263 points by kylebarron on Jan 5, 2021 | 140 comments

498.

Epic acquires RAD Game Tools (epicgames.com)

262 points by jsheard on Jan 7, 2021 | 186 comments

499.

How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress (murilopereira.com)

262 points by mpereira on Jan 3, 2021 | 95 comments

500.

Otokichi (en.wikipedia.org)

262 points by Thevet on Jan 25, 2021 | 71 comments

501.

We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union (nytimes.com)

261 points by ingve on Jan 4, 2021 | 90 comments

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Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works” (arstechnica.com)

260 points by sytelus on Jan 24, 2021 | 564 comments

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Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps (bedogged.substack.com)

260 points by liotier on Jan 2, 2021 | 227 comments

504.

Why Learn Prolog in 2021? (dstrohmaier.com)

260 points by triska on Jan 5, 2021 | 163 comments

505.

Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar (twitter.com)

260 points by blacktulip on Jan 9, 2021 | 149 comments

506.

The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

260 points by hackerpain on Jan 18, 2021 | 104 comments

507.

Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf)

259 points by tusharchoudhary on Jan 23, 2021 | 139 comments

508.

Skynet – Build a Free Internet (siasky.net)

259 points by thesausageking on Jan 10, 2021 | 134 comments

509.

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration (news.utexas.edu)

259 points by based2 on Jan 1, 2021 | 101 comments

510.

PfSense Is Closed Source (github.com)

259 points by zdw on Jan 24, 2021 | 72 comments