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1.20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower (wikimedia.org)
1388 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Feb 8, 2021 [ext] | 362 comments [ext]
2.OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities (lyft.com)
880 points by clarecorthell on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 243 comments [ext]
3.Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (illinois.edu)
595 points by ngzhian on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
4. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
4.New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies (legacysurvey.org)
523 points by soheilpro on Feb 8, 2021 [ext] | 252 comments [ext]
5.Creeping as a Service (every.to/divinations)
358 points by dshipper on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
6.Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) (snoyman.com)
258 points by anuragsoni on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
7. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
7.Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (lidskialf.net)
373 points by miles on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
8.The Queen has more power over British law than we thought (theguardian.com)
376 points by anonymfus on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 577 comments [ext]
9.Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012) (economist.com)
336 points by smk_ on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 252 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Haxe 4.2 (haxe.org)
279 points by Gama11 on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
11.José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] (thinkingelixir.com)
358 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
12.Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla (hacks.mozilla.org)
232 points by g0xA52A2A on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
13. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
13.No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack (nosupportlinuxhosting.com)
354 points by ourmandave on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 268 comments [ext]
14.The World’s Aging Dams (yale.edu)
220 points by robbybaron on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
15.SDL Moves to GitHub (libsdl.org)
292 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 266 comments [ext]
16. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
16.Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog [ext]
226 points by pranay01 on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
17.Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work (tenthousandmeters.com)
163 points by rbanffy on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
18.Looking at GSM security 30 years later (harrisonsand.com)
142 points by 8sfLes on Feb 8, 2021 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
19. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments
19.Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest (roboflow.com)
234 points by rocauc on Feb 8, 2021 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
20.Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs (thedrive.com)
279 points by clouddrover on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
21.Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round (reuters.com)
235 points by mathattack on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 411 comments [ext]
22. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
22.Stop defacing quotes with brackets (slate.com)
242 points by howsilly on Feb 8, 2021 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
23.Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling (odysee.com)
139 points by ashitlerferad on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
24.ReactOS Updates (reactos.org)
226 points by jeditobe on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
25. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
25.A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community (github.com/net4people)
243 points by 1una on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 275 comments [ext]
26.Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data (bbc.com)
327 points by bmcn2020 on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
27.Dr. Geo: Interactive Geometry in Smalltalk (drgeo.eu)
95 points by cableclasper on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
28.HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world (roguetemple.com)
142 points by lnyan on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
29.Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018) (openculture.com)
91 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 7, 2021 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
30.Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review (bbc.com)
292 points by pseudolus on Feb 9, 2021 [ext] | 252 comments [ext]
31. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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