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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
166 points • 42 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s
165 points • 89 comments • aug 17, 2021
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
165 points • 31 comments • aug 19, 2021
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JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter
165 points • 97 comments • aug 10, 2021
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A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation
165 points • 13 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types
165 points • 46 comments • aug 06, 2021
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The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
165 points • 222 comments • aug 06, 2021
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Powering the Lunar Base
165 points • 199 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water
165 points • 59 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
165 points • 81 comments • aug 24, 2021
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LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves
164 points • 39 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go
164 points • 99 comments • aug 25, 2021
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TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
164 points • 49 comments • aug 28, 2021
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A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data
164 points • 83 comments • aug 21, 2021
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Illustrated Redirection Tutorial
164 points • 15 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]
164 points • 214 comments • aug 25, 2021
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When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?
164 points • 103 comments • aug 18, 2021
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How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
164 points • 71 comments • aug 17, 2021
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The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%
164 points • 160 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby
163 points • 319 comments • aug 25, 2021
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Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
163 points • 107 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)
163 points • 10 comments • aug 20, 2021
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As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all': study
163 points • 203 comments • aug 18, 2021
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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
163 points • 158 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
163 points • 116 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Journal of Controversial Ideas
163 points • 77 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport
163 points • 116 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Swiping left on magnetic stripes
162 points • 266 comments • aug 16, 2021
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Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
162 points • 87 comments • aug 10, 2021
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Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
162 points • 23 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
162 points • 87 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Porn Spam on Google Maps
162 points • 118 comments • aug 15, 2021
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LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser
162 points • 46 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels
162 points • 115 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
162 points • 103 comments • aug 27, 2021
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For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
162 points • 148 comments • aug 27, 2021
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Framework Patterns (2019)
162 points • 41 comments • aug 07, 2021
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The macOS Sandbox File Limit
161 points • 13 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep
161 points • 55 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
161 points • 25 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Fundamentals of Incident Management
161 points • 54 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
161 points • 117 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’
161 points • 115 comments • aug 23, 2021
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The Winners of Remote Work
161 points • 241 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Apple is now an antifragile company
161 points • 249 comments • aug 01, 2021
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Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
161 points • 76 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home
161 points • 192 comments • aug 29, 2021
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You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls
161 points • 113 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
161 points • 74 comments • aug 24, 2021
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Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business
160 points • 128 comments • aug 16, 2021
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First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
160 points • 168 comments • aug 13, 2021
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Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
160 points • 112 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Indian inventor dies in homemade helicopter accident
160 points • 159 comments • aug 16, 2021
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M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti
160 points • 74 comments • aug 14, 2021
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When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
160 points • 81 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
160 points • 89 comments • aug 15, 2021
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One does not simply calculate the absolute value
160 points • 98 comments • aug 22, 2021
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The Drunken Bishop Algorithm
160 points • 38 comments • aug 05, 2021
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OCaml at Bloomberg
160 points • 106 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Going mouseless
160 points • 166 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
159 points • 46 comments • aug 09, 2021
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The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire
159 points • 97 comments • aug 10, 2021
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DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
159 points • 79 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water
159 points • 162 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations
159 points • 92 comments • aug 02, 2021
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Git 2.33
159 points • 57 comments • aug 17, 2021
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With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
159 points • 113 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Black Hat USA 2021 Review
158 points • 22 comments • aug 14, 2021
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California Megafires Are Solvable
158 points • 134 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas
158 points • 75 comments • aug 20, 2021
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Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]
158 points • 40 comments • aug 14, 2021
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The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream
158 points • 435 comments • aug 11, 2021
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Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
158 points • 233 comments • aug 04, 2021
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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale
158 points • 165 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia
158 points • 61 comments • aug 23, 2021
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Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off
158 points • 46 comments • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux
157 points • 41 comments • aug 30, 2021
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Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?
157 points • 121 comments • aug 08, 2021
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Next-gen chips will be powered from below
157 points • 78 comments • aug 28, 2021
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When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software
156 points • 24 comments • aug 07, 2021
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Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it
156 points • 82 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Early Retirement (2006)
156 points • 253 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months
156 points • 24 comments • aug 03, 2021
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Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm
156 points • 26 comments • aug 14, 2021
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Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)
156 points • 96 comments • aug 31, 2021
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GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs
156 points • 69 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Launch HN: Flow Club (YC S21) – Virtual co-working space for focused work
155 points • 63 comments • aug 18, 2021
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White House Launches US Digital Corps
155 points • 178 comments • aug 31, 2021
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Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
155 points • 74 comments • aug 29, 2021
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Trevor Moore has died
155 points • 38 comments • aug 08, 2021
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The Apple Psi System [pdf]
155 points • 85 comments • aug 07, 2021
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The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
155 points • 97 comments • aug 31, 2021
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
154 points • 227 comments • aug 04, 2021
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Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication
154 points • 48 comments • aug 09, 2021
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A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)
153 points • 51 comments • aug 09, 2021
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The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality
153 points • 96 comments • aug 11, 2021
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This Is Water (2005)
153 points • 65 comments • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
153 points • 31 comments • aug 09, 2021
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Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks
153 points • 116 comments • aug 12, 2021
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Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads
153 points • 30 comments • aug 09, 2021