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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]
165 points • 35 comments • jul 22, 2021
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What is the Axiom of Choice?
165 points • 148 comments • jul 14, 2021
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Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?
165 points • 293 comments • jul 15, 2021
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80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
164 points • 135 comments • jul 10, 2021
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Columbo: an origin story (2018)
164 points • 91 comments • jul 27, 2021
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EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition
164 points • 157 comments • jul 04, 2021
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A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny
164 points • 144 comments • jul 07, 2021
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Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything
164 points • 78 comments • jul 12, 2021
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AWS Cost Saving Recommendations
164 points • 78 comments • jul 13, 2021
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HiveNightmare a.k.a. SeriousSAM – anybody can read the registry in Windows 10
163 points • 154 comments • jul 24, 2021
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Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation
163 points • 103 comments • jul 17, 2021
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Functional Programming in OCaml
163 points • 81 comments • jul 27, 2021
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Programming Language Memory Models
163 points • 72 comments • jul 06, 2021
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Garden Hermit
162 points • 23 comments • jul 05, 2021
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Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”
162 points • 67 comments • jul 02, 2021
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Apache Heron: A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine
162 points • 117 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements
162 points • 38 comments • jul 12, 2021
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The value of doing a little
161 points • 42 comments • jul 23, 2021
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PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language
161 points • 45 comments • jul 01, 2021
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macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel
161 points • 125 comments • jul 07, 2021
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Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video]
161 points • 298 comments • jul 30, 2021
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The Colorado River is shrinking
161 points • 231 comments • jul 21, 2021
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Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse
161 points • 126 comments • jul 10, 2021
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Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
161 points • 128 comments • jul 08, 2021
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Oracle loses bid to upend HP’s $3B win
160 points • 113 comments • jul 30, 2021
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Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued
160 points • 29 comments • jul 21, 2021
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Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019)
159 points • 39 comments • jul 18, 2021
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Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture
159 points • 140 comments • jul 28, 2021
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Freespin: C64 demo running on 1541 floppy drive
158 points • 30 comments • jul 03, 2021
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Some locals say a Bitcoin mining operation is ruining one of the Finger Lakes
158 points • 145 comments • jul 06, 2021
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A critique of Safari's influence on the web
158 points • 160 comments • jul 28, 2021
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Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker
158 points • 66 comments • jul 12, 2021
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Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures
158 points • 159 comments • jul 12, 2021
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Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
158 points • 106 comments • jul 23, 2021
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What time-weighted averages are and why you should care
158 points • 25 comments • jul 26, 2021
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Facebook's “see no evil” strategy
157 points • 186 comments • jul 15, 2021
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The Secret Life of Machines
157 points • 24 comments • jul 05, 2021
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RustViz: Generates Visualizations of Rust Lifetime and Borrowing Mechanism
157 points • 10 comments • jul 05, 2021
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; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD
157 points • 27 comments • jul 12, 2021
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GOP Rep. on cyber committee dumped MSFT shortly before $10B contract scrapped
157 points • 54 comments • jul 15, 2021
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Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)
156 points • 193 comments • jul 16, 2021
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Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]
156 points • 81 comments • jul 23, 2021
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
155 points • 141 comments • jul 24, 2021
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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39
155 points • 105 comments • jul 01, 2021
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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
155 points • 119 comments • jul 25, 2021
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Gaussian Processes from Scratch (2019)
155 points • 13 comments • jul 11, 2021
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Fortran adds conditional expressions
155 points • 77 comments • jul 01, 2021
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Update: SaveVideo is Back
155 points • 51 comments • jul 14, 2021
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Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs
155 points • 44 comments • jul 02, 2021
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
155 points • 69 comments • jul 22, 2021
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Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
155 points • 27 comments • jul 04, 2021
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0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)
154 points • 23 comments • jul 21, 2021
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Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design
154 points • 32 comments • jul 04, 2021
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Inserting 130M SQLite rows per minute from a scripting language
154 points • 21 comments • jul 24, 2021
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The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
154 points • 119 comments • jul 22, 2021
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Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements
154 points • 201 comments • jul 14, 2021
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Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
154 points • 179 comments • jul 20, 2021
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Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
153 points • 191 comments • jul 12, 2021
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Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says
153 points • 170 comments • jul 06, 2021
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Show HN: Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance
153 points • 18 comments • jul 12, 2021
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GPU Architecture Types Explained
153 points • 31 comments • jul 20, 2021
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The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser
153 points • 43 comments • jul 16, 2021
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Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
153 points • 133 comments • jul 29, 2021
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Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed
152 points • 90 comments • jul 15, 2021
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Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons
152 points • 96 comments • jul 21, 2021
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AI Explorables: big ideas in machine learning, simply explained
152 points • 67 comments • jul 05, 2021
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What modern animals would look like if we drew them in the same way as dinosaurs
152 points • 37 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Apple MagSafe Battery Pack
152 points • 183 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition
152 points • 19 comments • jul 03, 2021
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I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse
151 points • 99 comments • jul 08, 2021
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Miniflare – Local simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
151 points • 26 comments • jul 05, 2021
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Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke
151 points • 132 comments • jul 01, 2021
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Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf
151 points • 28 comments • jul 27, 2021
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Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
151 points • 71 comments • jul 27, 2021
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Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods
151 points • 72 comments • jul 17, 2021
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Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations
151 points • 67 comments • jul 29, 2021
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Show HN: Magic Mushroom Map
151 points • 94 comments • jul 19, 2021
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Rust for Linux redux
150 points • 149 comments • jul 24, 2021
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The House That Vanished
150 points • 157 comments • jul 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)
150 points • 114 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco
149 points • 154 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Yarn 3.0
149 points • 127 comments • jul 30, 2021
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First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
149 points • 229 comments • jul 02, 2021
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SDF Fractal Noise
149 points • 42 comments • jul 13, 2021
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Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim
149 points • 62 comments • jul 25, 2021
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Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
149 points • 107 comments • jul 07, 2021
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Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors
148 points • 42 comments • jul 29, 2021
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Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why
148 points • 62 comments • jul 08, 2021
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Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996)
148 points • 16 comments • jul 07, 2021
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NodeMCU ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE IoT boards show up for about $4
148 points • 101 comments • jul 12, 2021
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AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
148 points • 170 comments • jul 21, 2021
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Enough is enough
148 points • 104 comments • jul 21, 2021
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Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
148 points • 113 comments • jul 03, 2021
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Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
147 points • 52 comments • jul 12, 2021
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List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
147 points • 165 comments • jul 11, 2021
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In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
147 points • 152 comments • jul 27, 2021
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State Department to pay up to $10M for information on foreign cyberattacks
147 points • 53 comments • jul 16, 2021
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Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
147 points • 226 comments • jul 23, 2021
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PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption
146 points • 186 comments • jul 26, 2021
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GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
146 points • 19 comments • jul 30, 2021