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1.
The New York Times buys Wordle (nytimes.com)
902 points by lucis on Jan 31, 2022 | 581 comments
2.
Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials (them.us)
1049 points by grawprog on Jan 31, 2022 | 449 comments
3.
Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web (imlefthanded.com)
705 points by decrypt on Jan 31, 2022 | 805 comments
4.
The GNU Name System (gnunet.org)
307 points by simonpure on Jan 31, 2022 | 124 comments
5.
Decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex for sale (zillow.com)
350 points by otras on Jan 31, 2022 | 209 comments
6.
The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed (askamanager.org)
1018 points by amadeuspzs on Jan 31, 2022 | 599 comments
7.
Pay attention to WebAssembly (sheth.io)
344 points by hsheth2 on Jan 31, 2022 | 244 comments
8.
Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers (khanna.law)
279 points by hkhanna on Jan 31, 2022 | 101 comments
9.
Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
245 points by gballan on Jan 31, 2022 | 172 comments
10.
Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy (americanaffairsjournal.org)
151 points by gok on Jan 30, 2022 | 160 comments
11.
My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi (twitter.com/isislovecruft)
559 points by _Microft on Jan 31, 2022 | 581 comments
12.
The Story of Maxis Software (1999) (archive.org)
154 points by ecliptik on Jan 30, 2022 | 59 comments
13.
The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones (benkuhn.net)
227 points by sebg on Jan 31, 2022 | 190 comments
14.
Please make a dumb car (techcrunch.com)
633 points by wrycoder on Jan 31, 2022 | 655 comments
15.
Pyflow – Visual and modular block programming in Python (github.com/bycelium)
229 points by amai on Jan 31, 2022 | 90 comments
16.
Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021) (lwn.net)
244 points by pabs3 on Jan 31, 2022 | 51 comments
17.
SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch (awelm.com)
210 points by hackthesystem on Jan 31, 2022 | 51 comments
18.
I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS (infosecwriteups.com)
283 points by boyter on Jan 31, 2022 | 77 comments
19.
Request bodies in GET requests (evertpot.com)
219 points by treve on Jan 29, 2022 | 151 comments
20.
Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs (theregister.com)
207 points by laktak on Jan 29, 2022 | 176 comments
21.
Yemen's bifurcated monetary system (jpkoning.blogspot.com)
160 points by rwmj on Jan 31, 2022 | 92 comments
22.
Giant Pyrosome (oceana.org)
147 points by integrale on Jan 31, 2022 | 39 comments
23.
What is the inverse of a circle? (mattferraro.dev)
224 points by mferraro89 on Jan 29, 2022 | 45 comments
24.
Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
134 points by johncarlosbaez on Jan 30, 2022 | 21 comments
25.
Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system (github.com/jscd)
244 points by rgun on Jan 31, 2022 | 173 comments
26.
Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero (acm.org)
155 points by joak on Jan 31, 2022 | 113 comments
27.
The rising human cost of sports betting (nytimes.com)
198 points by jbegley on Jan 31, 2022 | 321 comments
28.
Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal (cnbc.com)
309 points by daveaiello on Jan 31, 2022 | 259 comments
29.
Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results (twitter.com/krebs_adrian)
333 points by hubraumhugo on Jan 31, 2022 | 162 comments
30.
The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018) (two-wrongs.com)
169 points by Tomte on Jan 31, 2022 | 27 comments

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