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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
113 points • 25 comments • aug 09, 2021
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25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0
113 points • 80 comments • aug 14, 2021
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The quiet battle raging around open banking
113 points • 52 comments • aug 02, 2021
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PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac
113 points • 62 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC
113 points • 29 comments • aug 29, 2021
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A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)
112 points • 27 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Modern LZ Compression (2019)
112 points • 36 comments • aug 17, 2021
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A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself
112 points • 14 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode
112 points • 42 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Deno 1.13 Release
112 points • 46 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013)
112 points • 44 comments • aug 25, 2021
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PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
112 points • 105 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Interview with a ransomware group
112 points • 120 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort
112 points • 26 comments • aug 27, 2021
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
112 points • 71 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
112 points • 9 comments • aug 08, 2021
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RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust
112 points • 45 comments • aug 23, 2021
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8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet
112 points • 26 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
111 points • 13 comments • aug 30, 2021
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‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
111 points • 33 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse
111 points • 137 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started
111 points • 28 comments • aug 21, 2021
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0 A.D. A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
111 points • 11 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers
111 points • 94 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Rustdoc résumé
111 points • 87 comments • aug 16, 2021
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The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance
111 points • 69 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips
111 points • 63 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
111 points • 71 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml
111 points • 18 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)
111 points • 204 comments • aug 17, 2021
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0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
110 points • 25 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Building Container Images with Nix
110 points • 61 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
110 points • 15 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
110 points • 52 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment
110 points • 45 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610
110 points • 93 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle)
110 points • 7 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Why query planning for streaming systems is hard
110 points • 10 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Why Is SQLite Coded in C (2017)
110 points • 91 comments • aug 23, 2021
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The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
110 points • 112 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Pacaso is turning houses into corporations
110 points • 181 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
109 points • 25 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
109 points • 61 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
109 points • 116 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
109 points • 99 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Carolyn Shoemaker has died
109 points • 6 comments • aug 16, 2021
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What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)
109 points • 46 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Memory Bandwidth
109 points • 25 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Uber requires nondisclosure agreement before compensating carjacked driver
109 points • 48 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
109 points • 73 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive'
109 points • 57 comments • aug 12, 2021
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The End of Social Media
109 points • 99 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)
108 points • 90 comments • aug 13, 2021
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A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data
108 points • 35 comments • aug 23, 2021
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From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo
108 points • 39 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Rain at the Summit of Greenland
108 points • 43 comments • aug 19, 2021
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C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)
108 points • 83 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
108 points • 79 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine
108 points • 30 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Linux Kernel 5.14
108 points • 19 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule
108 points • 37 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Record rise in U.S. rents
108 points • 81 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain
108 points • 70 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Life Before Unicode
108 points • 131 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Observability: A New Theory Based on the Group of Invariance
108 points • 30 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
108 points • 54 comments • aug 15, 2021
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I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
108 points • 58 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
108 points • 49 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00
107 points • 61 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths
107 points • 96 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Redwood World – Pictures and Locations of Redwoods in the British Isles
107 points • 50 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?
107 points • 41 comments • aug 25, 2021
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RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights
107 points • 57 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
107 points • 113 comments • aug 10, 2021
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July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe
107 points • 31 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
107 points • 108 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Wild claims about K performance
107 points • 57 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style
107 points • 46 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
106 points • 45 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet
106 points • 35 comments • aug 25, 2021
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“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978)
106 points • 51 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Remind HN: .com prices increase Sep 1, 2021
106 points • 40 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
106 points • 104 comments • aug 04, 2021
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For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks
106 points • 47 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout
106 points • 260 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]
106 points • 70 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
106 points • 32 comments • aug 23, 2021
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The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
106 points • 124 comments • aug 14, 2021
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The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think
106 points • 52 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast
105 points • 50 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
105 points • 63 comments • aug 08, 2021
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The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
105 points • 124 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Lambdas as values in Excel
105 points • 50 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city
105 points • 158 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Satan should chair your meetings: A literature lover’s guide to office politics
105 points • 38 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels
105 points • 60 comments • aug 21, 2021
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A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers
104 points • 13 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Life After White Collar Crime
104 points • 68 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store
104 points • 22 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based
104 points • 13 comments • aug 08, 2021