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1. GPS (ciechanow.ski)
2900 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 18, 2022 | 285 comments
2. Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard (microsoft.com)
2051 points by totablebanjo on Jan 18, 2022 | 1353 comments
3. Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx (nginx.com)
1384 points by nrvn on Jan 18, 2022 | 346 comments
4. Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills (wired.com)
593 points by vishvananda on Jan 18, 2022 | 460 comments
5. Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens (calcalistech.com)
584 points by idoco on Jan 18, 2022 | 341 comments
6. Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML (eyeo.com)
393 points by rmoriz on Jan 18, 2022 | 262 comments
7. CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife (gchq.github.io)
392 points by simonpure on Jan 18, 2022 | 54 comments
8. How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) (archipro.co.nz)
365 points by whereistimbo on Jan 18, 2022 | 326 comments
9. A delightful quirk of relativity theory (twitter.com/markusdeserno)
376 points by sohkamyung on Jan 18, 2022 | 225 comments
10. Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan (spacelift.io)
259 points by cube2222 on Jan 18, 2022 | 132 comments
11. The Intel Split (stratechery.com)
322 points by feross on Jan 18, 2022 | 179 comments
12. Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend (github.com/yousefed)
320 points by YousefED on Jan 18, 2022 | 72 comments
13. Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals (rsc.org)
275 points by Gatsky on Jan 18, 2022 | 258 comments
14. Kakoune Code Editor (kakoune.org)
304 points by michaelsbradley on Jan 18, 2022 | 170 comments
15. No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption (noplacetohide.org.uk)
515 points by intunderflow on Jan 18, 2022 | 318 comments
16. How A.I. Conquered Poker (nytimes.com)
248 points by jdkee on Jan 18, 2022 | 181 comments
17. GNU Emacs Telegram Client (github.com/zevlg)
172 points by medo-bear on Jan 18, 2022 | 32 comments
18. Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux (github.com/ideasman42)
202 points by ideasman42 on Jan 17, 2022 | 62 comments
19. Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years (2020) (theguardian.com)
158 points by mettler on Jan 17, 2022 | 57 comments
20. Personal calculator has key to solve any equation f(x)=0 (1979) [pdf] (eecs.berkeley.edu)
149 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 17, 2022 | 30 comments
21. Automation is reaching more companies (wired.com)
141 points by geox on Jan 18, 2022 | 274 comments
22. Ask HN: Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the source code of FlexOS/386?
112 points by andrewstuart on Jan 18, 2022 | 34 comments
23. Wine 7.0 (winehq.org)
420 points by TangerineDream on Jan 18, 2022 | 151 comments
24. Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf] (up.com)
259 points by tomohawk on Jan 18, 2022 | 469 comments
25. U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed (reuters.com)
159 points by neom on Jan 18, 2022 | 184 comments
26. In defense of flat earthers (2020) (danboykis.com)
220 points by john-doe on Jan 17, 2022 | 441 comments
27. Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker (awstip.com)
122 points by hhaluk on Jan 17, 2022 | 85 comments
28. Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
321 points by reisr3 on Jan 18, 2022 | 375 comments
29. Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990) (cat-v.org)
100 points by rmbryan on Jan 18, 2022 | 70 comments
30. PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks (pawelurbanek.com)
249 points by pawurb on Jan 18, 2022 | 41 comments

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