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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
124 points • 150 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers
124 points • 76 comments • aug 31, 2021
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What Is the Most Free TLD?
124 points • 77 comments • aug 30, 2021
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A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)
124 points • 33 comments • aug 31, 2021
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China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies
124 points • 113 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?
124 points • 203 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Essence – An Operating System
124 points • 39 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Launch HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Teaching kids to read with the help of live actors
123 points • 89 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
123 points • 90 comments • aug 04, 2021
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I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic
123 points • 37 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)
123 points • 29 comments • aug 14, 2021
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GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages
123 points • 42 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)
123 points • 33 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL
122 points • 105 comments • aug 29, 2021
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We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys]
122 points • 51 comments • aug 20, 2021
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A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf]
122 points • 46 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD
122 points • 29 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search
122 points • 19 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Book Exploring Async Basics
122 points • 5 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China
122 points • 70 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine
122 points • 36 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)
121 points • 60 comments • aug 17, 2021
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CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors
121 points • 40 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
121 points • 88 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
121 points • 147 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
121 points • 39 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily
121 points • 51 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Youtube-dl is possibly dead
121 points • 39 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography
120 points • 38 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Inflation wiped out America's pay raises
120 points • 111 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes
120 points • 64 comments • aug 15, 2021
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SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)
120 points • 92 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
120 points • 45 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
119 points • 19 comments • aug 08, 2021
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The Ruin of War
119 points • 30 comments • aug 20, 2021
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The Secretive, Semi-Illicit World of WhatsApp Mango Importing
119 points • 86 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech
119 points • 93 comments • aug 18, 2021
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There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
119 points • 224 comments • aug 13, 2021
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LimeSDR
119 points • 119 comments • aug 26, 2021
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I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem
119 points • 231 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Quality and Effort (2018)
119 points • 28 comments • aug 12, 2021
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California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
119 points • 144 comments • aug 15, 2021
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First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
119 points • 36 comments • aug 18, 2021
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A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system
119 points • 65 comments • aug 01, 2021
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PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
119 points • 24 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences (2020)
119 points • 77 comments • aug 28, 2021
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BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]
118 points • 36 comments • aug 09, 2021
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The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
118 points • 62 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)
118 points • 67 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire
118 points • 23 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
118 points • 238 comments • aug 06, 2021
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How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
118 points • 90 comments • aug 04, 2021
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How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
118 points • 29 comments • aug 17, 2021
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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
118 points • 37 comments • aug 11, 2021
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What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019)
117 points • 172 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review
117 points • 80 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
117 points • 76 comments • aug 23, 2021
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A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations
117 points • 34 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up
117 points • 31 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books (2018)
117 points • 11 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search
117 points • 20 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally
117 points • 56 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Latency Sneaks Up on You
117 points • 22 comments • aug 27, 2021
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The Case for Optimism
117 points • 89 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Coinbase removes ‘backed by US dollars’ claim for USDC stablecoin
117 points • 96 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Cat Automatic Sprayer
117 points • 72 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Missile Base for Sale
117 points • 126 comments • aug 28, 2021
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A plain text note-taking system for problem solving
116 points • 41 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas
116 points • 72 comments • aug 20, 2021
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AWS doesn’t know who I am
116 points • 108 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
116 points • 104 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
116 points • 158 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana
116 points • 135 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hold
116 points • 84 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS”
115 points • 38 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows
115 points • 26 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
115 points • 203 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
115 points • 63 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
115 points • 25 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator
115 points • 35 comments • aug 15, 2021
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How Actors Work Internally in Swift
115 points • 44 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Launch HN: SafeBeat Rx (YC S21)- At-home ECG software to replace hospitalization
114 points • 48 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)
114 points • 48 comments • aug 10, 2021
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On Digital Minimalsim (2016)
114 points • 50 comments • aug 13, 2021
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A Bit Overcomplicated
114 points • 211 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks
114 points • 27 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it
114 points • 22 comments • aug 09, 2021
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An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior
114 points • 20 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
114 points • 75 comments • aug 13, 2021
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YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
114 points • 55 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast
114 points • 147 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form
114 points • 74 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals
114 points • 34 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Antigravity.py (2020)
114 points • 43 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South
114 points • 69 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves
113 points • 14 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Memfd_secret() in 5.14
113 points • 45 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Friendship ended with the garbage collector
113 points • 115 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
113 points • 68 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video]
113 points • 93 comments • aug 22, 2021