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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent
138 points • 59 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
138 points • 49 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)
138 points • 91 comments • aug 12, 2021
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How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets
138 points • 74 comments • aug 30, 2021
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The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
137 points • 18 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Cap'n Proto 0.9
137 points • 35 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago
137 points • 36 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Cheap material converts heat to electricity
137 points • 84 comments • aug 03, 2021
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The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings [pdf]
137 points • 87 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
137 points • 63 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees
137 points • 24 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Use Phoenix Channels
136 points • 44 comments • aug 04, 2021
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
136 points • 233 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history
136 points • 76 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
136 points • 84 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
136 points • 152 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]
136 points • 34 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
136 points • 200 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity
136 points • 102 comments • aug 05, 2021
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U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
135 points • 133 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life
135 points • 61 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Competitive programming is useless
135 points • 112 comments • aug 23, 2021
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The uncanny absence of nihilism
135 points • 111 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Bombs vs. Bugs
135 points • 54 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach
134 points • 123 comments • aug 29, 2021
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An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer
134 points • 95 comments • aug 20, 2021
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The smart home is flailing as a concept
134 points • 251 comments • aug 06, 2021
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The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
134 points • 37 comments • aug 08, 2021
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After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M
134 points • 100 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)
134 points • 68 comments • aug 06, 2021
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EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library
133 points • 76 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip
133 points • 59 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Mario Paint Masterpiece
133 points • 50 comments • aug 04, 2021
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MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
133 points • 114 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’
133 points • 110 comments • aug 27, 2021
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AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)
133 points • 26 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Startup Bootstrapping Plan
133 points • 30 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years
133 points • 35 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes
133 points • 34 comments • aug 21, 2021
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System on SO-DIMM
132 points • 70 comments • aug 05, 2021
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
132 points • 72 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)
132 points • 99 comments • aug 28, 2021
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C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide
132 points • 85 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python
132 points • 94 comments • aug 24, 2021
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How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?
132 points • 33 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
132 points • 33 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards
132 points • 69 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Commonly used idioms in the tech industry
132 points • 155 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23
132 points • 91 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE
132 points • 30 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m
131 points • 63 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones
131 points • 191 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Fibonacci Sphere
131 points • 31 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
131 points • 27 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design
131 points • 101 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii
131 points • 43 comments • aug 31, 2021
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DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
131 points • 167 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Google is dismantling its health division
130 points • 83 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++
130 points • 44 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Am I stuck in a local maximum?
130 points • 85 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants
130 points • 57 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser
130 points • 46 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Golang.org will be merged into go.dev
130 points • 90 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’
129 points • 174 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Xerox Alto Emulator
129 points • 35 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
129 points • 104 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Build your own SPARC workstation
129 points • 44 comments • aug 05, 2021
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NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
129 points • 105 comments • aug 30, 2021
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NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars
129 points • 84 comments • aug 07, 2021
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I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family
128 points • 194 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
128 points • 36 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo
128 points • 19 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I
128 points • 47 comments • aug 11, 2021
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The 3x+1 Problem [video]
127 points • 83 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores
127 points • 105 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters
127 points • 16 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Startups now spend more on Airbnb than on office rent
127 points • 123 comments • aug 24, 2021
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An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
127 points • 85 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures
126 points • 132 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Researcher experiences of funder suppression of health trial findings
126 points • 25 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Thought-Terminating Cliché
126 points • 125 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
126 points • 8 comments • aug 08, 2021
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I use Attrs instead of Pydantic
126 points • 69 comments • aug 25, 2021
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JAMMA Video Standard
126 points • 20 comments • aug 15, 2021
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On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words
126 points • 40 comments • aug 01, 2021
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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
126 points • 110 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading
126 points • 63 comments • aug 07, 2021
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ANSI Escape Codes
126 points • 49 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018)
126 points • 12 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons
125 points • 36 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten
125 points • 36 comments • aug 01, 2021
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How green is blue hydrogen?
125 points • 151 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Rust in Production: Qovery
125 points • 22 comments • aug 10, 2021
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The case against crisis-mongering
125 points • 117 comments • aug 13, 2021
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An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions
125 points • 42 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Turning satellite imagery into wall art
125 points • 27 comments • aug 27, 2021
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The history of Google messaging apps
124 points • 69 comments • aug 25, 2021
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After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind
124 points • 39 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Cproc C Compiler
124 points • 36 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
124 points • 82 comments • aug 20, 2021