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1.
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy (bbc.co.uk)
1128 points by playpause on Feb 9, 2022 | 792 comments
2.
Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station (kuow.org)
729 points by walrus01 on Feb 9, 2022 | 537 comments
3.
Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm (spacex.com)
840 points by ortusdux on Feb 9, 2022 | 487 comments
4.
Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting? (zoom.com)
687 points by mangala_murti on Feb 9, 2022 | 383 comments
5.
Our User-Mode WireGuard Year (fly.io)
482 points by xrd on Feb 9, 2022 | 165 comments
6.
Words known better by males than females, and vice versa (observablehq.com)
673 points by yurivish on Feb 9, 2022 | 650 comments
7.
The data are clear: The boys are not all right (washingtonpost.com)
574 points by paulpauper on Feb 9, 2022 | 1154 comments
8.
Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again (economist.com)
431 points by helsinkiandrew on Feb 9, 2022 | 96 comments
9.
Open Textbook Initiative (aimath.org)
435 points by turingbook on Feb 9, 2022 | 87 comments
10.
The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019) (paulbutler.org)
271 points by airstrike on Feb 8, 2022 | 122 comments
11.
Travel is no cure for the mind (2018) (moretothat.com)
339 points by wallflower on Feb 6, 2022 | 242 comments
12.
The dangers of high status, low wage jobs (economistwritingeveryday.com)
424 points by jger15 on Feb 9, 2022 | 372 comments
13.
ASCII art for semantic code commenting (asciiflow.com)
290 points by anonymous_they on Feb 9, 2022 | 78 comments
14.
Disney Filmmaking Process (disneyanimation.com)
276 points by mariuz on Feb 7, 2022 | 166 comments
15.
Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink (ounapuu.ee)
261 points by hddherman on Feb 9, 2022 | 107 comments
16.
TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes (cnbc.com)
474 points by underscore_ku on Feb 9, 2022 | 355 comments
17.
Show HN: PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover (github.com/levkk)
233 points by levkk on Feb 9, 2022 | 54 comments
18.
OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster (ochafik.com)
266 points by voussoir on Feb 9, 2022 | 103 comments
19.
Single dependency stacks (brandur.org)
225 points by jeffreyrogers on Feb 9, 2022 | 107 comments
20.
Advice gathered from people smarter than me (sashachapin.substack.com)
221 points by unixfg on Feb 7, 2022 | 70 comments
21.
I decided to build a nine-bit computer (madned.substack.com)
180 points by mad_ned on Feb 9, 2022 | 67 comments
22.
Simutrans – Transport Simulator (simutrans.com)
214 points by colejohnson66 on Feb 9, 2022 | 90 comments
23.
So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020) (jaycarlson.net)
233 points by sebg on Feb 9, 2022 | 76 comments
24.
Sikorsky X-Wing (2013) (sikorskyarchives.com)
130 points by jeffreyrogers on Feb 9, 2022 | 32 comments
25.
Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web (cloudpilot-emu.github.io)
147 points by pjmlp on Feb 7, 2022 | 55 comments
26.
Understanding LSM trees: What powers write-heavy databases (2020) (yetanotherdevblog.com)
149 points by branko_d on Feb 9, 2022 | 45 comments
27.
A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015) (nautil.us)
101 points by porterbeats on Feb 9, 2022 | 19 comments
28.
Open Salary and Equity Database (topstartups.io)
249 points by bspear on Feb 9, 2022 | 74 comments
29.
Launch HN: Pelm (YC W22) – Plaid for Utilities (pelm.com)
101 points by drewkim on Feb 9, 2022 | 88 comments
30.
Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex? (collabora.com)
134 points by sph on Feb 9, 2022 | 82 comments

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