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1.The New York Times buys Wordle (nytimes.com)
902 points by lucis on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 581 comments [ext]
2.Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials (them.us)
1049 points by grawprog on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 449 comments [ext]
3.Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web (imlefthanded.com)
705 points by decrypt on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 805 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.The GNU Name System (gnunet.org)
307 points by simonpure on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
5.Decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex for sale (zillow.com)
350 points by otras on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 209 comments [ext]
6.The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed (askamanager.org)
1018 points by amadeuspzs on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 599 comments [ext]
7. Your Suppliers Are Your Cheapest Growth Channel — Within Limits ()
292 points by atz2712 787 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Pay attention to WebAssembly (sheth.io)
344 points by hsheth2 on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 244 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers (khanna.law)
279 points by hkhanna on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
9.Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
245 points by gballan on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
10. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
10.Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy (americanaffairsjournal.org)
151 points by gok on Jan 30, 2022 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
11.My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi (twitter.com/isislovecruft)
559 points by _Microft on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 581 comments [ext]
12.The Story of Maxis Software (1999) (archive.org)
154 points by ecliptik on Jan 30, 2022 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
13. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
13.The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones (benkuhn.net)
227 points by sebg on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 190 comments [ext]
14.Please make a dumb car (techcrunch.com)
633 points by wrycoder on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 655 comments [ext]
15.Pyflow – Visual and modular block programming in Python (github.com/bycelium)
229 points by amai on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
16. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
16.Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021) (lwn.net)
244 points by pabs3 on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
17.SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch (awelm.com)
210 points by hackthesystem on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
18.I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS (infosecwriteups.com)
283 points by boyter on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
19. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
19.Request bodies in GET requests (evertpot.com)
219 points by treve on Jan 29, 2022 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
20.Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs (theregister.com)
207 points by laktak on Jan 29, 2022 [ext] | 176 comments [ext]
21.Yemen's bifurcated monetary system (jpkoning.blogspot.com)
160 points by rwmj on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
22. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 475 days ago | hide | 135 comments
22.Giant Pyrosome (oceana.org)
147 points by integrale on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
23.What is the inverse of a circle? (mattferraro.dev)
224 points by mferraro89 on Jan 29, 2022 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
24.Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
134 points by johncarlosbaez on Jan 30, 2022 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
25. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system (github.com/jscd)
244 points by rgun on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
26.Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero (acm.org)
155 points by joak on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
27.The rising human cost of sports betting (nytimes.com)
198 points by jbegley on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 321 comments [ext]
28. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal (cnbc.com)
309 points by daveaiello on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 259 comments [ext]
29.Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results (twitter.com/krebs_adrian)
333 points by hubraumhugo on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
30.The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018) (two-wrongs.com)
169 points by Tomte on Jan 31, 2022 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
31. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments

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