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1. 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower (wikimedia.org)
1388 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Feb 8, 2021 | 362 comments
2. OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities (lyft.com)
880 points by clarecorthell on Feb 9, 2021 | 243 comments
3. Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (illinois.edu)
595 points by ngzhian on Feb 9, 2021 | 152 comments
4. New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies (legacysurvey.org)
523 points by soheilpro on Feb 8, 2021 | 252 comments
5. Creeping as a Service (every.to/divinations)
358 points by dshipper on Feb 9, 2021 | 138 comments
6. Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) (snoyman.com)
258 points by anuragsoni on Feb 9, 2021 | 170 comments
7. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (lidskialf.net)
373 points by miles on Feb 9, 2021 | 95 comments
8. The Queen has more power over British law than we thought (theguardian.com)
376 points by anonymfus on Feb 9, 2021 | 577 comments
9. Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012) (economist.com)
336 points by smk_ on Feb 9, 2021 | 252 comments
10. Haxe 4.2 (haxe.org)
279 points by Gama11 on Feb 9, 2021 | 102 comments
11. José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] (thinkingelixir.com)
358 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 9, 2021 | 105 comments
12. Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla (hacks.mozilla.org)
232 points by g0xA52A2A on Feb 9, 2021 | 25 comments
13. No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack (nosupportlinuxhosting.com)
354 points by ourmandave on Feb 9, 2021 | 268 comments
14. The World’s Aging Dams (yale.edu)
220 points by robbybaron on Feb 9, 2021 | 155 comments
15. SDL Moves to GitHub (libsdl.org)
292 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Feb 9, 2021 | 266 comments
16. Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog
226 points by pranay01 on Feb 9, 2021 | 83 comments
17. Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work (tenthousandmeters.com)
163 points by rbanffy on Feb 9, 2021 | 15 comments
18. Looking at GSM security 30 years later (harrisonsand.com)
142 points by 8sfLes on Feb 8, 2021 | 40 comments
19. Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest (roboflow.com)
234 points by rocauc on Feb 8, 2021 | 92 comments
20. Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs (thedrive.com)
279 points by clouddrover on Feb 9, 2021 | 151 comments
21. Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round (reuters.com)
235 points by mathattack on Feb 9, 2021 | 411 comments
22. Stop defacing quotes with brackets (slate.com)
242 points by howsilly on Feb 8, 2021 | 201 comments
23. Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling (odysee.com)
139 points by ashitlerferad on Feb 9, 2021 | 90 comments
24. ReactOS Updates (reactos.org)
226 points by jeditobe on Feb 9, 2021 | 141 comments
25. A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community (github.com/net4people)
243 points by 1una on Feb 9, 2021 | 275 comments
26. Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data (bbc.com)
327 points by bmcn2020 on Feb 9, 2021 | 182 comments
27. Dr. Geo: Interactive Geometry in Smalltalk (drgeo.eu)
95 points by cableclasper on Feb 9, 2021 | 8 comments
28. HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world (roguetemple.com)
142 points by lnyan on Feb 9, 2021 | 34 comments
29. Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018) (openculture.com)
91 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 7, 2021 | 62 comments
30. Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review (bbc.com)
292 points by pseudolus on Feb 9, 2021 | 252 comments

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