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Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903259
Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/19/global-sales-of-electric-cars-accelerate-fast-in-2020-despite-covid-pandemic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25898391
Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
Link: http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897535
PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
Link: https://pgm.di.unipi.it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899286
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/24/whatsapp-loses-millions-of-users-after-terms-update
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897736
Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
Link: https://news.osu.edu/lack-of-sleep-stress-can-lead-to-symptoms-resembling-concussion/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891678
SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to NVIDIA is hitting antitrust wall around the world
Link: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/SoftBank-s-plan-to-sell-Arm-to-NVIDIA-is-hitting-antitrust-wall-around-the-world
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25890653
Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forever-chemicals-are-widespread-in-u-s-drinking-water/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887385
Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
Link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891464
Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
Link: https://filmulator.org/v0-11-0/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25885760
How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
Link: https://www.vinography.com/2020/12/how-long-does-a-bottle-of-wine-last-after-it-is-opened
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887200
Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
Link: https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/f/why_wfh_stick1_0.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25882704
Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
Link: https://pagely.com/blog/whitehouse-gov-chooses-wordpress-again/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887674
Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
Link: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25886218
Pip has dropped support for Python 2
Link: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#id1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25888249
Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
Link: https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-6-years
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887373
FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
Link: https://www.wusa9.com/article/features/producers-picks/fbi-tracks-cell-phones-that-were-near-capitol-insurrection-and-riot/65-ca268165-a5c5-46a4-8b88-943a8517343a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25882688
I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
Link: https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25885348
Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-less-than-a-second/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883253
Please don't say just hello in chat
Link: https://nohello.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881800
