Brad Cox has died — Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain — and Please don't say just hello in chat

Issue #292 — January 24, 2021

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Brad Cox has died legacy.com \| points: 834 \| comments: 170

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Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain swp.org.uk \| points: 515 \| comments: 495

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Please don’t say just hello in chat nohello.net \| points: 425 \| comments: 322

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Larry King has died twitter.com \| points: 383 \| comments: 301

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One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected tass.com \| points: 379 \| comments: 300

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Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second jvns.ca \| points: 287 \| comments: 48

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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them lincoln.metacannon.net \| points: 274 \| comments: 182

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Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014) slatestarcodexabridged.com \| points: 257 \| comments: 161

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Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer? vole.wtf \| points: 254 \| comments: 135

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New six-film series from Adam Curtis bbc.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 133

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Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid rysolv.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 98

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PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances percona.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 60

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FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol wusa9.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 290

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Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors onlysponsors.dev \| points: 199 \| comments: 114

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.NET GC Internals mini-series tooslowexception.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 68

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Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation scientificamerican.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 104

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Java 1.0 Turns 25 infoq.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 194

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Replicating GPT-2 at Home bkkaggle.github.io \| points: 173 \| comments: 31

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But how, exactly, do databases use mmap? brunocalza.me \| points: 164 \| comments: 89

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Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months news.ycombinator.com \| points: 152 \| comments: 56

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