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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information
190 points • 26 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Amazon union election should be run again, labor board official says
190 points • 72 comments • aug 02, 2021
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The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)
189 points • 40 comments • aug 26, 2021
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The mutation that helps Delta spread
189 points • 530 comments • aug 20, 2021
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There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse
189 points • 221 comments • aug 12, 2021
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20 Years of Haiku
189 points • 99 comments • aug 20, 2021
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How do I turn off the “Try the new Safari” notification?
189 points • 111 comments • aug 30, 2021
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South Korea: The only middle power of its kind
189 points • 391 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Because I Am Bored
189 points • 156 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Winnebiko
188 points • 30 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture
188 points • 145 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult
188 points • 95 comments • aug 06, 2021
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NodeJS security cheat sheet
188 points • 31 comments • aug 12, 2021
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John Carmack visits Starbase
188 points • 81 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
187 points • 181 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Guide to cognitive biases
187 points • 96 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching
187 points • 284 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources
187 points • 11 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
187 points • 251 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
186 points • 38 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
185 points • 499 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Sweden must repay $1.6M in Bitcoin to convicted drug dealer
185 points • 138 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
185 points • 153 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Show HN: Open-source A/B testing framework
185 points • 36 comments • aug 06, 2021
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How Does FaceTime Work?
185 points • 155 comments • aug 19, 2021
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IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
184 points • 188 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Learning APL
184 points • 90 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes
183 points • 53 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Open Source Illustrations Kit
183 points • 23 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Go 1.17 Release Notes
181 points • 160 comments • aug 16, 2021
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US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says
181 points • 132 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M
181 points • 271 comments • aug 12, 2021
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)
181 points • 51 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases
181 points • 56 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?
180 points • 375 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago
180 points • 130 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Home Lab Hardware Guide
180 points • 98 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture
180 points • 77 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf]
180 points • 58 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Uber allegedly more than doubles prices when battery is low
180 points • 104 comments • aug 20, 2021
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AdObserver Blocked by Facebook
180 points • 45 comments • aug 04, 2021
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WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy
179 points • 52 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Widevine decryption with Ghidra stymied by transform complexity
179 points • 117 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
179 points • 143 comments • aug 09, 2021
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CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions
179 points • 133 comments • aug 26, 2021
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Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine
179 points • 252 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis
179 points • 117 comments • aug 20, 2021
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What I'm Up to Now
178 points • 108 comments • aug 27, 2021
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The insides of pro bowling balls
178 points • 41 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection to Facebook
178 points • 41 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill
178 points • 117 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
177 points • 56 comments • aug 22, 2021
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Amiga Music Preservation
177 points • 70 comments • aug 14, 2021
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NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1
177 points • 89 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
177 points • 202 comments • aug 11, 2021
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A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours
176 points • 70 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Forest Service officials close all California national forests
176 points • 203 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Firefox 91
176 points • 139 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Expanded Protections for Children
176 points • 243 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Zx 3.0
176 points • 152 comments • aug 16, 2021
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The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]
176 points • 115 comments • aug 22, 2021
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$28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
176 points • 215 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Some Reasons to Measure
176 points • 14 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Who Is Being Monitored?
176 points • 77 comments • aug 12, 2021
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FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
176 points • 48 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
175 points • 157 comments • aug 11, 2021
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EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores
175 points • 104 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
174 points • 99 comments • aug 22, 2021
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EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
174 points • 75 comments • aug 05, 2021
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Comma Three [video]
174 points • 78 comments • aug 05, 2021
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The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet
174 points • 138 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory
174 points • 261 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz
174 points • 50 comments • aug 13, 2021
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IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report
174 points • 85 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab
173 points • 32 comments • aug 18, 2021
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AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
173 points • 44 comments • aug 13, 2021
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The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream
173 points • 235 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack
173 points • 33 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Intro to Deep Learning
172 points • 19 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Overthinking
172 points • 68 comments • aug 12, 2021
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
172 points • 26 comments • aug 05, 2021
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A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
172 points • 148 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning
172 points • 38 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job
171 points • 135 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
171 points • 38 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
171 points • 47 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
171 points • 271 comments • aug 08, 2021
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The Principles of Newspeak (1949)
170 points • 123 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021
170 points • 126 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images
170 points • 35 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Ten Years of Bootstrap
170 points • 81 comments • aug 23, 2021
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It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
170 points • 72 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Empty Epsilon: a fully open-source spaceship bridge simulator game
168 points • 37 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble
167 points • 218 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry
167 points • 95 comments • aug 11, 2021
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The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
167 points • 223 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Corporations Are Crappy Archivists
166 points • 58 comments • aug 28, 2021
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CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price
166 points • 79 comments • aug 01, 2021
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A Visual Guide to React Rendering
166 points • 51 comments • aug 19, 2021
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Time to retire the CSV?
166 points • 475 comments • aug 18, 2021