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The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud (ea.rna.nl)

224 points by rapnie on Jan 10, 2021 | 125 comments

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The Toyota Production System (2013) (blog.toyota.co.uk)

224 points by louis-paul on Jan 3, 2021 | 114 comments

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The Spoon Theory (2003) (butyoudontlooksick.com)

223 points by Eugeleo on Jan 15, 2021 | 128 comments

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The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling (pile.eleuther.ai)

223 points by leogao on Jan 1, 2021 | 60 comments

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Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow (github.com)

223 points by Kinrany on Jan 18, 2021 | 58 comments

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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces (mitjafelicijan.com)

222 points by mitjafelicijan on Jan 25, 2021 | 196 comments

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Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur (opensource.apple.com)

222 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 7, 2021 | 107 comments

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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020) (simplethread.com)

221 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 27, 2021 | 172 comments

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Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience (vantage.sh)

221 points by StratusBen on Jan 12, 2021 | 87 comments

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Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) (livescience.com)

220 points by monort on Jan 10, 2021 | 221 comments

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How Tail Call Optimization Works (eklitzke.org)

220 points by g42gregory on Jan 8, 2021 | 208 comments

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We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril (nautil.us)

220 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 25, 2021 | 150 comments

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Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email (delta.chat)

220 points by buster on Jan 24, 2021 | 148 comments

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Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games (sciencedirect.com)

220 points by ArtWomb on Jan 27, 2021 | 148 comments

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Three reasons fungi are not plants (asm.org)

220 points by chewbacha on Jan 18, 2021 | 101 comments

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India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties (atlasobscura.com)

220 points by fortran77 on Jan 12, 2021 | 78 comments

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Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020 (newyorker.com)

220 points by _pius on Jan 19, 2021 | 37 comments

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M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports (caldigit.com)

219 points by juliangamble on Jan 7, 2021 | 260 comments

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A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3 (github.com)

219 points by jerodsanto on Jan 12, 2021 | 116 comments

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What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington (openculture.com)

219 points by danso on Jan 1, 2021 | 71 comments

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AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to block purchasers of GME (twitter.com)

219 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 28, 2021 | 65 comments

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India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi (bbc.co.uk)

218 points by jfk13 on Jan 30, 2021 | 387 comments

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Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018) (equities.com)

218 points by Khelavaster on Jan 28, 2021 | 69 comments

654.

A rabbit hole full of Lisp (murilopereira.com)

218 points by mpereira on Jan 13, 2021 | 37 comments

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Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page (twitter.com)

217 points by drak0n1c on Jan 12, 2021 | 233 comments

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Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties (businessinsider.com)

217 points by nailer on Jan 19, 2021 | 131 comments

657.

Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico (hackaday.com)

217 points by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp on Jan 22, 2021 | 112 comments

658.

Flow-Based Programming (jpaulm.github.io)

217 points by hypomnemata on Jan 20, 2021 | 103 comments

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Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever (smithsonianmag.com)

217 points by gmays on Jan 25, 2021 | 69 comments

660.

Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

217 points by fossislife on Jan 21, 2021 | 52 comments