Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org — and 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org idw-online.de \| points: 938 \| comments: 83

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90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before bbc.com \| points: 654 \| comments: 219

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Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map datastories.shopify.com \| points: 377 \| comments: 101

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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert nature.com \| points: 345 \| comments: 405

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Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet [pdf] tug.org \| points: 282 \| comments: 61

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Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020) gist.github.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 225

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The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018) atlasobscura.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 287

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Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts shuffle.dev \| points: 233 \| comments: 77

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Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge portswigger.net \| points: 186 \| comments: 128

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Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern who.int \| points: 181 \| comments: 156

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B.1.1.529 twitter.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 142

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Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity torrentfreak.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 275

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The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov \| points: 168 \| comments: 171

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Umarell en.wikipedia.org \| points: 153 \| comments: 33

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Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider phys.org \| points: 147 \| comments: 87

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GetElementById vs. QuerySelector blog.wesleyac.com \| points: 142 \| comments: 88

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The Underhanded C Contest underhanded-c.org \| points: 142 \| comments: 11

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Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox” wh0.github.io \| points: 139 \| comments: 54

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I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world” ctrsec.io \| points: 134 \| comments: 99

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What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge knowablemagazine.org \| points: 133 \| comments: 74

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