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Hacker News (Feb 2024)
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Global study: Wild megafauna shape ecosystem properties
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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“I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid that computation is too carbon intensive”
42 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
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Thomas Stevens (Cyclist)
42 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
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Ask HN: Why isn't there a Rotten Tomatoes for consumer electronics?
42 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
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VMware vSphere ESXi free edition is dead
41 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
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Microsoft's Fast
41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka
41 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Homemade Pasta. Now Is the Time (2021)
41 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
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The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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Ask HN: Are app signup dark patterns getting worse?
41 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
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Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says
41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
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Keeping code simple: moving fast by avoiding over-engineering
41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less
41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
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What is a species, anyway?
41 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
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Oxford PV sets new solar panel efficiency world record
41 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death
41 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
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Attacks on Anonymity Systems: The Theory (2003)
41 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
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Show HN: A Tool to Help You Understand Your Anxious Friends Better
41 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
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Air Canada must pay damages – chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount
41 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
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Async Rust in a Nutshell
41 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
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SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast In-Memory Table Scan (2009) [pdf]
41 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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The Pleasure of Pattern
41 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
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Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions
41 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
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London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime
41 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
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Harpastum – ancient Roman prototype of soccer and rugby
41 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
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Execute any JavaScript from any browser tab on any browser tabs
41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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Nano-scale inks could lighten airliners by hundreds of kilograms
41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
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Google abandoned "don't be evil" – and Gemini is the result
41 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
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I Ran a Background Check on a Startup
41 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
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FuturesUnordered and the order of futures
41 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
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The Bitter Lesson (2019)
41 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
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NTP Timelord Dies
41 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
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An asteroid wiped out dinosaurs – did it help birds flourish?
41 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
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Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
41 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
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Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)
41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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4-day week made permanent for 89% UK firms who took part in Worlds biggest trial
41 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
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Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA
41 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
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Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking
40 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Bell's V-280 Valor Tiltrotor Picked as Army's Black Hawk Replacement (2022)
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
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Learning Rust in 3 Attempts
40 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
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Lenovo's Project Crystal is first laptop with a transparent MicroLED display
40 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
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First Apple Vision Pro Kernel Exploit
40 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
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Review of Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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Show HN: Rank a random subject every day
40 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
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In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter
40 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
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Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe
40 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
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Margaret Mead's LSD Memo
40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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Show HN: SnapCode – a real Java IDE in the browser
40 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
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Problems in Gemini's Approach to Diversity
40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
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Libraries are on the front lines of America's problems
40 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
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Erlang: The Movie [video]
40 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
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Nix-shell shebang: run any script with arbitrary packages, self-contained
40 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland
40 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
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How were photos transmitted by wire in 1937?
40 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
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What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? [video]
40 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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From Go to Rust: The Two Types of Readable Code
40 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
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What Is an Electronic Sackbut?
40 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
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Pigweed: Modern software development for embedded systems
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
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Jetbrains unbundling AI assistant doing the right thing
40 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
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FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4
40 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
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"The issue was detected by our new AI-powered vulnerability scanner"
40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
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McDonald's pushed customers to the brink on price. They're starting to push back
40 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
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Environmental risks of car tyre microplastics and other road pollution runoff
40 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
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YouTuber Friendlyjordies takes down video after alleged death threats
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
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The Benefits of Mangroves (2023)
40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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Open Source Games
40 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
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VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
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DOOM on Husqvarna Automower
40 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
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Poverty in Argentina hits 20-year high at 57.4%, study says
40 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
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'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules
40 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
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So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game
40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
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Cybertruck owners say they're already rusting
40 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
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TechCrunch+ Termination
39 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
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Igalia: The Open Source Powerhouse You've Never Heard Of
39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
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Learning about debuggers
39 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
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Australian Federal Police would repeat undercover operation on autistic teenager
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
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ESP8266 DIY Smart Socket (2017)
39 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
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Brazil's hydro power adds to global gas surplus
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
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Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
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Bloated Google-cloud-CLI contains an entire Python installation (~300MB)
39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Science Fiction Short: Hijack
39 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
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Fort Botox, Where a Deadly Toxin Yields $2.8B Drug (2017)
39 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
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Nvidia open source driver to use NVK and Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs
39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
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OnlyFans Paid Chatters Lawsuit
39 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
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OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us'
39 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
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Show HN: Open-source coding assistant with terminal access
39 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
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Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days
39 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
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Ask HN: Does procrastination advice help you?
39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
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Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
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Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations
39 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
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Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power
39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Transparent Image Layer Diffusion Using Latent Transparency
39 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
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Planito: A 9-day week for a balanced life
39 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
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A famous climate scientist is in court, with big stakes for attacks on science
39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Lift-off: The MDN Curriculum launch
39 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
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Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars
39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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Magnificent 7 profits exceed almost every country in the world. Should we worry?
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
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CERN aims to build €20B collider
39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
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JSON Parsing: Intel Sapphire Rapids versus AMD Zen 4
39 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
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Open-Source Nvidia Driver Moving to NVK and Zink for OpenGL on Newer GPUs
39 points • comment • feb 21, 2024