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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