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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
286 points • 199 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
285 points • 121 comments • aug 28, 2021
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FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
285 points • 151 comments • aug 22, 2021
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macOS in Svelte
284 points • 131 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
283 points • 128 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
282 points • 224 comments • aug 05, 2021
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The Ancient Persian way to keep cool
282 points • 175 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
282 points • 118 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
282 points • 123 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Typography in Alien (2014)
281 points • 95 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux
280 points • 74 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
279 points • 37 comments • aug 09, 2021
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America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot
279 points • 73 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Why is China smashing its tech industry?
278 points • 340 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
277 points • 222 comments • aug 08, 2021
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There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
277 points • 190 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)
277 points • 178 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Screw You, Microsoft Edge
276 points • 141 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
276 points • 124 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
276 points • 251 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Programming Idioms
276 points • 98 comments • aug 15, 2021
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“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”
276 points • 156 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It
276 points • 72 comments • aug 20, 2021
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If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
275 points • 487 comments • aug 30, 2021
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The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System
275 points • 121 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Vue 3.2
275 points • 134 comments • aug 10, 2021
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SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
274 points • 90 comments • aug 15, 2021
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French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid
274 points • 175 comments • aug 30, 2021
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The rise of the one-person unicorn
274 points • 140 comments • aug 15, 2021
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SAML Is Insecure by Design
274 points • 161 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional
274 points • 221 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
273 points • 114 comments • aug 08, 2021
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A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
273 points • 66 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
273 points • 98 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
273 points • 130 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
272 points • 91 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
272 points • 363 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Tools for Thinking
271 points • 119 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008)
271 points • 175 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Hell Is Other REPLs
271 points • 213 comments • aug 29, 2021
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The World of CSS Transforms
270 points • 66 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Urban Dictionary on Hacker News
270 points • 126 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season
269 points • 202 comments • aug 31, 2021
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My Tungsten Cube (2019)
269 points • 311 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France
268 points • 118 comments • aug 24, 2021
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How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion
268 points • 126 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Firefox: Performance in Progress
267 points • 115 comments • aug 05, 2021
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The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy
266 points • 315 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
266 points • 318 comments • aug 01, 2021
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SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI
266 points • 117 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
265 points • 471 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants
264 points • 86 comments • aug 05, 2021
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I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
264 points • 90 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Summary After Four Months with Ada
264 points • 150 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
263 points • 130 comments • aug 26, 2021
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How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)
263 points • 303 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
262 points • 33 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
262 points • 85 comments • aug 05, 2021
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The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
261 points • 74 comments • aug 09, 2021
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I hate almost all software (2011)
261 points • 194 comments • aug 14, 2021
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1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
261 points • 171 comments • aug 08, 2021
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What is ‘elite overproduction’?
260 points • 316 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Tech Interview Handbook
260 points • 107 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells
259 points • 79 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options
259 points • 148 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Writing Programs with Ncurses
259 points • 80 comments • aug 30, 2021
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My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs
259 points • 433 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
258 points • 123 comments • aug 30, 2021
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PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
257 points • 69 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen
257 points • 123 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
257 points • 68 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
256 points • 80 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool
255 points • 41 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date
254 points • 68 comments • aug 03, 2021
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FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
254 points • 74 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
254 points • 343 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
253 points • 47 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Localhost
253 points • 44 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible
251 points • 226 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Receiving FLEXlm Error -88,309: System Clock Has Been Set Back (2020)
250 points • 86 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal
250 points • 117 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts
249 points • 83 comments • aug 25, 2021
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India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
249 points • 203 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
249 points • 127 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Todo apps are meant for robots
248 points • 167 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing
248 points • 141 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021
247 points • 106 comments • aug 28, 2021
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A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff
247 points • 28 comments • aug 19, 2021
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The Orbit of Planet Nine
247 points • 68 comments • aug 29, 2021
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How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video]
247 points • 82 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
247 points • 225 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)
247 points • 216 comments • aug 23, 2021
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San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)
247 points • 156 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
246 points • 453 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Give to Thunderbird
246 points • 108 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
246 points • 153 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Scanning “private” content
245 points • 70 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain
245 points • 109 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox
245 points • 152 comments • aug 23, 2021
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The Bullshit
245 points • 141 comments • aug 15, 2021