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Functorio bartoszmilewski.com \| points: 672 \| comments: 186

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Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? paygo.media \| points: 639 \| comments: 698

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What went wrong with the Texas power grid? houstonchronicle.com \| points: 578 \| comments: 995

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Always Bet on Text (2014) graydon2.dreamwidth.org \| points: 520 \| comments: 307

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Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint reuters.com \| points: 496 \| comments: 808

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IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run architecturaldigest.com \| points: 352 \| comments: 262

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Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow games.greggman.com \| points: 336 \| comments: 208

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NASA’s Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 292 \| comments: 105

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Go 1.16 Release Notes golang.org \| points: 285 \| comments: 141

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An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later arstechnica.com \| points: 267 \| comments: 113

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European Citizens’ Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance reclaimyourface.eu \| points: 263 \| comments: 97

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Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018) xissufotoday.space \| points: 263 \| comments: 80

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Spy pixels in emails ’have become endemic’ bbc.co.uk \| points: 260 \| comments: 305

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Show HN: Ray.so – Create beautiful images of your code ray.so \| points: 260 \| comments: 89

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16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (2016) codegolf.stackexchange.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 23

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GitHub Deceased User Policy docs.github.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 99

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Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds kill-the-newsletter.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 90

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Visualization of 40M Cell Towers alpercinar.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 81

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Malware in open-source web extensions lwn.net \| points: 227 \| comments: 83

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Clubhouse Bio Generator perchance.org \| points: 226 \| comments: 95

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