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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]
47 points • 52 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
47 points • 7 comments • aug 11, 2021
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The Myths of the Digital Native (2015)
47 points • 48 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Linux Kernel Security Done Right
47 points • 5 comments • aug 03, 2021
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echo 'I wrote a Bash book' >> /dev/world
46 points • 15 comments • aug 07, 2021
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How private is my VPN?
46 points • 39 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD
46 points • 16 comments • aug 09, 2021
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The American diversity meat grinder
46 points • 9 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Amazon GDPR fine is a game changer for privacy tech startups
46 points • 7 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (2017)
46 points • 39 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
46 points • 23 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
46 points • 28 comments • aug 05, 2021
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U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines
46 points • 32 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Analyzing a High Rate of Paging
46 points • 6 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Getting Started with QEMU (2018)
46 points • 20 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox
46 points • 38 comments • aug 18, 2021
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CryptoHack – A fun free platform for learning cryptography
46 points • 5 comments • aug 14, 2021
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A Science in the Shadows
46 points • 29 comments • aug 27, 2021
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A Tale of Two Copies
46 points • 6 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files
46 points • 25 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic
46 points • 56 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Sea monsters and their inspiration: serpents, mermaids, the kraken and more
46 points • 6 comments • aug 08, 2021
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End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx, 50 voices, 9 languages
46 points • 4 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location
45 points • 10 comments • aug 05, 2021
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How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian
45 points • 9 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Balaji: The collapse in state capacity has not been priced in
45 points • 43 comments • aug 21, 2021
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United Asks Crews Not to Duct Tape Passengers to Seats
45 points • 77 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
45 points • 10 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (2011)
45 points • 3 comments • aug 04, 2021
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The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities
45 points • 12 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Apple Ships Mysterious macOS 11.5.2 Update
45 points • 14 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook
45 points • 36 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo Then Deletes It: 80 Gbps and Pam-3
45 points • 43 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Who Is Your Audience?
45 points • 1 comment • aug 05, 2021
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California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
45 points • 42 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Multicore OCaml: July 2021
45 points • 10 comments • aug 02, 2021
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The Highbrow Neanderthal
45 points • 23 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017)
45 points • 0 comments • aug 07, 2021
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High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives
45 points • 16 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized
45 points • 16 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?
45 points • 38 comments • aug 12, 2021
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A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh
45 points • 4 comments • aug 11, 2021
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US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department says it's an “epidemic”
45 points • 8 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Tesla AI Day Event Did a Great Job Convincing Me They're Wasting Everybodys Time
44 points • 19 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees
44 points • 9 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Our most dazzling self-taught students may find college admission difficult
44 points • 30 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Naming Origami Models
44 points • 8 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
44 points • 39 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Long-haul symptoms affect majority of Covid-19 patients, UA study finds
44 points • 39 comments • aug 22, 2021
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The Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”
44 points • 6 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Police Misuse of Facial Recognition – Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting
44 points • 12 comments • aug 12, 2021
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German pensioner given hefty fine for WW2 tank in house
44 points • 67 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Yescrypt – Scalable KDF and password hashing scheme
44 points • 13 comments • aug 14, 2021
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UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
44 points • 7 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project Studying Misinformation
44 points • 5 comments • aug 04, 2021
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My rant about React
44 points • 41 comments • aug 02, 2021
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We’re All Investors Now (2013)
44 points • 41 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon folk dance (2011) [video]
44 points • 9 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11
44 points • 12 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Major Outage on Reddit
44 points • 25 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Wigner Crystals (2017)
44 points • 8 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Teenagers Are Rediscovering an Old Game About Authoritarianism
44 points • 14 comments • aug 18, 2021
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CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]
44 points • 42 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Anna Mazurek on Making It as a Travel Photographer and Digital Nomad
44 points • 43 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Launching Rust Cloud Native
44 points • 23 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics
44 points • 7 comments • aug 07, 2021
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The Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimism
44 points • 4 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Should it be legal to switch privacy policies after purchase?
44 points • 49 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
43 points • 51 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley
43 points • 76 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Is it time to ditch the design grid?
43 points • 30 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j
43 points • 3 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Australian Citizen is told that he wasn't a citizen when renewing his passport
43 points • 6 comments • aug 02, 2021
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OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct
43 points • 42 comments • aug 22, 2021
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A growing area of high-hazard clearcuts and plantations are fueling forest fires
43 points • 8 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)
43 points • 29 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't
43 points • 46 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Demand for air conditioning is set to surge by 2050
43 points • 51 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
43 points • 44 comments • aug 01, 2021
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I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
43 points • 42 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Multi-Chip Intel Core I9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
43 points • 31 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity
43 points • 3 comments • aug 10, 2021
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The Overview Effect
43 points • 21 comments • aug 15, 2021
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A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents
43 points • 48 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Person from Porlock
43 points • 20 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)
43 points • 5 comments • aug 10, 2021
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World’s Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry
43 points • 7 comments • aug 07, 2021
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SaaS Blocks 2.0 – tools for building a SaaS app
43 points • 4 comments • aug 03, 2021
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LiveCode drops its open source support
43 points • 7 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education
43 points • 22 comments • aug 27, 2021
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The Texas Power Grid Is Hanging on by Its Fingernails
43 points • 23 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband
42 points • 35 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review of old videos
42 points • 57 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Why Teslas Keep Striking Parked Firetrucks and Police Cars
42 points • 45 comments • aug 18, 2021
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In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)
42 points • 6 comments • aug 18, 2021
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The case for mutual educational disarmament
42 points • 51 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Turing Uncomputability
42 points • 14 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Focus: Assign multiple engineers to the same task
42 points • 15 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?
42 points • 36 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: Connecting Arduino and Android
42 points • 12 comments • aug 02, 2021