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Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

262

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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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WebAssembly Studio

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Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant

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Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)

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How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley

146

PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon

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Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)

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Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world

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The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

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Nim in 2020: A Short Recap

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Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

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What Is Life? (2019)

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UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

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Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38B in 2020 as Stock Surged

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USDS Digital Services Playbook

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What caused Shimano's Coasting-program to fail? (2010)

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Rust 1.49.0

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My Favorite Books 2020

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“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited

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MF DOOM Has Died

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Eagle Cash

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FCC orders phone companies to help trace illegal robocallers

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Drone users face new rules across Europe and UK

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Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML

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Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music

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Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller

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The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]

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I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again yet struggling to see how to avoid it

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The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators

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The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]

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The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution

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When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare

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Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

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When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'

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Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable

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Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction

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What Happened In 2020

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Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform

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How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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The best things and stuff of 2020

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Being bilingual makes swearing easier

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The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)

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The largest dam-removal in US history

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Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2

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Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020

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Apple Took Three Years to Cut Ties with Supplier That Used Underage Labor

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Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks

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Jair Bolsonaro: Organized Crime and Corruption 2020 Person of the Year

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Show HN: SharePad.io – A collaborative code editor and compiler

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Best of HN 2020

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Sparse Matrices (2019)

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Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon

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Tall people are less supportive of government redistribution of wealth

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National Strategy for Planetary Protection

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Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm

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How are Docker images built? A look into overlay file-systems

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Spirulina Algae Photobioreactor (2017)

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Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture

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Deleted words from Xi's economic policy speak volumes

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Woolly Rhino from Ice Age Unearthed in Russian Arctic

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AI Update, Late 2020 – Dumpster Fire

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Libriscv: RISC-V Binary Translation

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The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

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How the Comics Industry Avoided a 2020 Implosion

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How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters

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Game of Life running on Penrose tiles

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Elasticsearch new features: 2020 year in review

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Businesses Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government

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Simplifying the Treatment of Snake Bites

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Freud and Fathers

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Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020

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Doubting Thomas

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The economics of the human hair trade

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The Kate Text Editor in 2020

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Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues

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Massachusetts to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

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Instacart Is a Parasite and a Sham

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Racial priority for Covid-19 vaccine distribution poses problems

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Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: 'We can get the web we want' (2019)