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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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This looks to be the first major confirmed orbital collision in a decade
42 points • 2 comments • aug 15, 2021
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What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
42 points • 10 comments • aug 30, 2021
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London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
42 points • 9 comments • aug 23, 2021
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What science can tell us about C and C++'s security (2020)
42 points • 45 comments • aug 02, 2021
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C++20 Modules with GCC11
42 points • 15 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Google may cut pay of staff who work from home
42 points • 44 comments • aug 11, 2021
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CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists
42 points • 3 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Metal artifacts in Southeast Asia challenge long-held archaeological theory
42 points • 4 comments • aug 07, 2021
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On Diego Rivera
42 points • 4 comments • aug 15, 2021
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79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet
42 points • 19 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics
42 points • 9 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Saving $30k a month by improving garbage collection
42 points • 5 comments • aug 11, 2021
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I think I built a Liberal Arts college on the internet
42 points • 15 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (2014)
42 points • 5 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Go 1.17 Is Released
41 points • 6 comments • aug 16, 2021
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ISPs quietly selling netflow data, can be used to trace traffic through VPNs
41 points • 4 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Peer recognition works better than bonuses
41 points • 42 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase
41 points • 27 comments • aug 05, 2021
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I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying
41 points • 14 comments • aug 04, 2021
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America’s losing battle against diabetes
41 points • 59 comments • aug 13, 2021
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A Simple Interpreter in Python
41 points • 5 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Frontpage – Terms of Service; Didn't Read
41 points • 7 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Postman raises $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation
41 points • 51 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
41 points • 15 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium
41 points • 2 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases
41 points • 37 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?
41 points • 75 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015)
41 points • 15 comments • aug 03, 2021
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There's currently a British guy called Lord Miles in Kabul having a great time
41 points • 4 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Script to compare Postgres data between two points in time
41 points • 1 comment • aug 13, 2021
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Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postgres_fdw
41 points • 5 comments • aug 18, 2021
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A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
41 points • 14 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Robot police dog that scans homeless people sparks debate
41 points • 44 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange
41 points • 22 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday
41 points • 45 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial
41 points • 18 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong
41 points • 38 comments • aug 08, 2021
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OnionShare with Just Tor and Redbean
41 points • 6 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City
41 points • 5 comments • aug 06, 2021
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The Programming Language B (1973)
40 points • 21 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Mkinitcpio v31 and UEFI Stubs
40 points • 11 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years
40 points • 13 comments • aug 03, 2021
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US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
40 points • 24 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Big Tech Is Coming to Small-Town America, but at What Cost?
40 points • 42 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Perhaps WSL2 Should Be a Wake-Up Call
40 points • 24 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
40 points • 9 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Technological Prudence: What the Amish Can Teach Us (2011) [pdf]
40 points • 7 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Convincing Xcode to map Vim keys
40 points • 5 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Scientists discover how high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields
40 points • 5 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Learnfun and playfun: a general technique for automating NES games (2013)
40 points • 2 comments • aug 01, 2021
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William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
40 points • 10 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague
40 points • 95 comments • aug 25, 2021
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The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football
40 points • 6 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Kroah's Game Reverse Engineering Page
40 points • 3 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: flagship features at half the price
40 points • 39 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Instagram launches hate-speech 'limits' to hide abuse
40 points • 61 comments • aug 11, 2021
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A Catalogue of Chords Example
40 points • 10 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Afghan civilians cling to landing gear of USAF planes and fall to their death
40 points • 5 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling
40 points • 22 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
40 points • 0 comments • aug 06, 2021
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What’s it like living with a phenomenal memory and can it be learned?
40 points • 19 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Pitfalls of Data Anonymization
40 points • 5 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Drunk-driver detectors for cars mandated in infrastructure bill
40 points • 49 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Overuse of the word “the” in “Macbeth”
40 points • 50 comments • aug 26, 2021
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New York City adds 629,000 people, defying predictions of its decline
40 points • 35 comments • aug 17, 2021
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A Subway Named Mobius (1952)
39 points • 10 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Generate art from any text with deep learning
39 points • 6 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Lee “Scratch” Perry inventor of Dub dies at 85
39 points • 2 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Why Facebook Shelved an Earlier Report on Popular Posts
39 points • 4 comments • aug 21, 2021
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PNG File Chunk Inspector
39 points • 11 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games
39 points • 10 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Texas Instruments new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator
39 points • 46 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
39 points • 29 comments • aug 15, 2021
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More Is More: The End of Minimalism
39 points • 52 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild
39 points • 5 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: What has improved You as a Developer?
39 points • 37 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Germany arrests British diplomat suspected of spying for Russia
39 points • 15 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Dasher: Information-efficient text entry (2007) [video]
39 points • 11 comments • aug 13, 2021
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eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF
39 points • 17 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
39 points • 23 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
39 points • 16 comments • aug 18, 2021
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The Other Invisible Hand
39 points • 52 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Super Mario 64 on the Web
39 points • 0 comments • aug 20, 2021
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The math that says egalitarianism is possible
39 points • 34 comments • aug 17, 2021
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40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast
39 points • 47 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: MergeFeed – Paste a bunch of links to create a multifeed
39 points • 26 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?
39 points • 34 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Gall’s Law and how I ignored it
39 points • 10 comments • aug 28, 2021
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U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918
39 points • 34 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Humans could recolonize Earth after mass extinctions with ectogenesis
39 points • 48 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators
39 points • 9 comments • aug 31, 2021
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SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow
39 points • 10 comments • aug 24, 2021
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PG_DBMS_JOB – PostgreSQL extension for Oracle DBMS_JOB compatibility
38 points • 12 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry About It
38 points • 22 comments • aug 17, 2021
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The Perl Foundation faces more departures
38 points • 9 comments • aug 13, 2021
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VisiData – open-source data multitool
38 points • 0 comments • aug 05, 2021
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GNU Taler 0.8
38 points • 6 comments • aug 25, 2021
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The Semiconductor Heist of the Century
38 points • 2 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I reliably prevent autoplay in Firefox 91?
38 points • 19 comments • aug 10, 2021
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NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon
38 points • 11 comments • aug 31, 2021