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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker
56 points • 34 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Working with Postgres Types
56 points • 10 comments • aug 07, 2021
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In praise of defensive football
56 points • 39 comments • aug 01, 2021
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The Tail End (2015)
56 points • 3 comments • aug 19, 2021
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High heat: Spain clocks prelim record of 47.2 C (116.96 F)
56 points • 35 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Mixed views on new DNS top level domains
56 points • 37 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Prop 22 found unconstitutional by California Superior Court
56 points • 19 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents
56 points • 104 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Emu68: M68K Emulation for ARM
55 points • 7 comments • aug 09, 2021
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The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist
55 points • 54 comments • aug 29, 2021
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New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August
55 points • 22 comments • aug 03, 2021
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India approves first DNA Covid vaccine
55 points • 47 comments • aug 21, 2021
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The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago
55 points • 54 comments • aug 12, 2021
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The world of cats: what our feline friends do when we’re not looking
55 points • 54 comments • aug 05, 2021
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How Drawpile works
55 points • 8 comments • aug 17, 2021
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pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
55 points • 21 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Diggin’ and Fetchin’ with TruffleRuby
55 points • 9 comments • aug 24, 2021
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We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge
55 points • 33 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Air Independent Propulsion Could Create Silent Killer Submarines
55 points • 39 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
55 points • 24 comments • aug 13, 2021
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We don't 'do' learning. It does us
55 points • 9 comments • aug 21, 2021
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The logic driving China’s big tech clampdown
55 points • 48 comments • aug 01, 2021
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2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes
55 points • 20 comments • aug 12, 2021
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I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”
55 points • 40 comments • aug 05, 2021
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South Park creators say they’ve reached agreement to buy Casa Bonita
55 points • 9 comments • aug 15, 2021
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In the US, wind power is getting bigger and better, report says
55 points • 38 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Working around a case where the Postgres planner is “not very smart”
55 points • 52 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Pinterest Required to Spend $3B on AWS
55 points • 54 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Fall of Saigon
55 points • 42 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience
55 points • 52 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: BokehCamera – Blur webcam background photorealistically using RealSense
55 points • 24 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Defunctionalization: Everybody does it, nobody talks about it (2019)
55 points • 22 comments • aug 06, 2021
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I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit
55 points • 1 comment • aug 23, 2021
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Solopreneurship
55 points • 51 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
55 points • 15 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011)
55 points • 30 comments • aug 31, 2021
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The Mighty Fallen: Argentina and the Great Depression
54 points • 81 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Show HN: Chrome extension that summarizes text content using DistilBART model
54 points • 20 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet
54 points • 8 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Stonewall Nation
54 points • 38 comments • aug 17, 2021
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SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’
54 points • 61 comments • aug 20, 2021
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EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives
54 points • 34 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values
54 points • 40 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth
54 points • 49 comments • aug 26, 2021
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The First Delta Force Trainee Class
54 points • 43 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages
54 points • 47 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Man arrested in mistaken identity case locked in mental hospital for two years
54 points • 12 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Alex Stamos on Apple's new child safety protections
54 points • 49 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development
54 points • 6 comments • aug 10, 2021
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17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world
54 points • 16 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Grab says 1.7MB/user/day
54 points • 21 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Unfolding the Hippocampus
54 points • 5 comments • aug 03, 2021
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LinuxPhoneApps
54 points • 19 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials
54 points • 60 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Pandas Manual [pdf]
54 points • 52 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Hue Color Comparisons (2019)
54 points • 17 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Optical adversarial attack can change the meaning of road signs
53 points • 76 comments • aug 16, 2021
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The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
53 points • 48 comments • aug 21, 2021
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AIX Running on Apple's M1
53 points • 23 comments • aug 13, 2021
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A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80
53 points • 11 comments • aug 26, 2021
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In praise of the lesser known siblings of mythology
53 points • 2 comments • aug 25, 2021
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U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome
53 points • 73 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Why do the children pretend play? [pdf]
53 points • 44 comments • aug 21, 2021
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France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books
53 points • 59 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Today I made one of the most important discoveries of my PhD
53 points • 9 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Questions about Trees (2020)
53 points • 7 comments • aug 27, 2021
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The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement
53 points • 38 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Georgia Minute by Minute
53 points • 26 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Grokking Fenwick Trees
53 points • 5 comments • aug 30, 2021
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“I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)
53 points • 26 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Attitude Determines Your Success
53 points • 27 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required
53 points • 13 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?
53 points • 51 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
53 points • 46 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
53 points • 35 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union
53 points • 13 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Ask HN: It's 2021 and QuickTime still doesn't export MP4. What is going on?
52 points • 53 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)
52 points • 30 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Show HN: BerylDB – a small key-value database
52 points • 20 comments • aug 31, 2021
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It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’
52 points • 49 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Children of the night: the strange and epic tale of modern Romania
52 points • 30 comments • aug 17, 2021
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What Is Value?
52 points • 29 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs
52 points • 55 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Codesigning, untrusted CAs and why certain Mac apps aren’t launching
52 points • 20 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library
52 points • 23 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Tavus (YC S21) – AI-generated personalized videos for sales outreach
52 points • 70 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Liquid cooling next-gen servers getting hands-on
52 points • 51 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Reasons Not to Use Apple
52 points • 11 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Launch HN: Zen (YC S21) – Posture-correcting software via webcam
52 points • 36 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Writing Great Alt Text: Emotion Matters
52 points • 11 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Write Your Next Ethereum Contract in Pyramid Scheme
52 points • 4 comments • aug 31, 2021
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How green is blue hydrogen?
51 points • 31 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Work-life balance: A perspective from Jack Nicklaus
51 points • 30 comments • aug 29, 2021
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What Irony Is Not (2020)
51 points • 39 comments • aug 08, 2021
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The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python
51 points • 50 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't'
51 points • 8 comments • aug 01, 2021
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The Construction of Bit Mixers
51 points • 7 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby
51 points • 38 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings
51 points • 58 comments • aug 04, 2021
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AWS recruiter doesn't want to show what's new out there
51 points • 27 comments • aug 12, 2021