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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Canistilluse.com
518 points • 327 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Elementary OS 6 Odin
513 points • 289 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities
513 points • 331 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
511 points • 189 comments • aug 17, 2021
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The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
501 points • 271 comments • aug 02, 2021
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EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
497 points • 182 comments • aug 21, 2021
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New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
497 points • 229 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
496 points • 239 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
492 points • 199 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
490 points • 322 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
488 points • 174 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Gail.com
475 points • 100 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them
467 points • 117 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX
466 points • 155 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone
466 points • 154 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
465 points • 221 comments • aug 03, 2021
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A street snack that has baffled botanists
463 points • 187 comments • aug 08, 2021
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New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
460 points • 100 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
460 points • 116 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
459 points • 180 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
455 points • 513 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Sci-Hub is fundraising
454 points • 103 comments • aug 07, 2021
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The Future of discord.py
452 points • 146 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF
451 points • 115 comments • aug 16, 2021
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On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
451 points • 196 comments • aug 22, 2021
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My dead dad’s journal
449 points • 84 comments • aug 24, 2021
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WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
448 points • 307 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
445 points • 451 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Weird Languages
441 points • 484 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Australia is becoming a surveillance state
440 points • 339 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
439 points • 470 comments • aug 10, 2021
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
437 points • 224 comments • aug 04, 2021
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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
435 points • 371 comments • aug 11, 2021
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
434 points • 297 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
432 points • 395 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
432 points • 101 comments • aug 09, 2021
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American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
429 points • 474 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view
428 points • 270 comments • aug 06, 2021
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The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis
426 points • 136 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Mosh: The Mobile Shell
426 points • 146 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
424 points • 169 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
423 points • 373 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Where are the robotic bricklayers?
422 points • 518 comments • aug 03, 2021
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FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization
422 points • 312 comments • aug 02, 2021
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We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous
421 points • 106 comments • aug 19, 2021
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The Problem with Ethereum
419 points • 290 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Deno on MDN
419 points • 176 comments • aug 23, 2021
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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
418 points • 89 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
415 points • 288 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
414 points • 90 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
412 points • 698 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Git password authentication is shutting down
411 points • 300 comments • aug 12, 2021
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I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
408 points • 53 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
408 points • 291 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support
408 points • 196 comments • aug 11, 2021
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The art of not taking things personally
407 points • 142 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
406 points • 163 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
405 points • 733 comments • aug 05, 2021
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FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
404 points • 127 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
404 points • 176 comments • aug 14, 2021
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T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
403 points • 228 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
402 points • 168 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
401 points • 72 comments • aug 04, 2021
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The rise of user-hostile software
401 points • 251 comments • aug 24, 2021
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MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking
401 points • 95 comments • aug 29, 2021
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T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
401 points • 179 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal
397 points • 254 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
397 points • 60 comments • aug 09, 2021
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German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system
395 points • 60 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
395 points • 353 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
394 points • 87 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)
394 points • 107 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
393 points • 241 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds
393 points • 205 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Extreme Ironing
391 points • 166 comments • aug 31, 2021
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An Introduction to JQ
391 points • 66 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
390 points • 197 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
388 points • 76 comments • aug 13, 2021
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An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
388 points • 127 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
388 points • 152 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
387 points • 166 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Work Hard (2007)
387 points • 173 comments • aug 26, 2021
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A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
387 points • 336 comments • aug 20, 2021
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NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
386 points • 1284 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
381 points • 335 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Space Station incident demands independent investigation
380 points • 121 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
380 points • 153 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Second IC
379 points • 74 comments • aug 13, 2021
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After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
379 points • 293 comments • aug 07, 2021
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The 5-Hour CDN
378 points • 75 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
377 points • 359 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses
374 points • 102 comments • aug 11, 2021
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How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes
374 points • 193 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Life Improvements Since the 1990s
374 points • 432 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Train Wheels Are Cones
371 points • 155 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
370 points • 197 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
366 points • 78 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)
365 points • 255 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
365 points • 238 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
365 points • 717 comments • aug 06, 2021