Happy 15th birthday Hacker News — Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories — and Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

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Happy 15th birthday Hacker News news.ycombinator.com \| points: 1308 \| comments: 192

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Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories science.org \| points: 667 \| comments: 676

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Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts medium.com \| points: 584 \| comments: 165

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Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning deepmind.com \| points: 417 \| comments: 193

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Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads twitter.com \| points: 340 \| comments: 157

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Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties thelondoneconomic.com \| points: 337 \| comments: 180

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Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots twitter.com \| points: 316 \| comments: 347

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Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech anandtech.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 123

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Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts fmwconcepts.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 40

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Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup theverge.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 283

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The Dubai Debt Trap economist.com \| points: 232 \| comments: 280

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Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers github.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 55

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Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake github.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 52

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Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 232

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The Day AppGet Died (2020) keivan.io \| points: 217 \| comments: 107

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SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel economist.com \| points: 215 \| comments: 399

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From macOS to FreeBSD boucek.me \| points: 202 \| comments: 242

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What I learned during my three days offline raptitude.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 165

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No one cares about your redesign garbageday.email \| points: 196 \| comments: 194

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How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer? sergeyreznik.github.io \| points: 194 \| comments: 51

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