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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Valve Steam Deck
2499 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
2060 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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The Framework Laptop is now shipping
1458 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
1308 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
1259 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
1222 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
1124 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
1036 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
1012 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
955 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
889 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
886 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Who Owns My Name?
872 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
868 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
867 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
863 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Npm Audit: broken by design?
858 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
852 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
841 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
827 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
813 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
806 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
786 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
785 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
784 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
762 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Poisson's Equation
750 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
749 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
748 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
748 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
738 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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People Staring at Computers
729 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
726 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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The Insecurity Industry
696 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
695 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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AWS's Egregious Egress
693 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
691 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Naval Architecture
686 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
683 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
683 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Windows 96
682 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
666 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
664 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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The most precious resource is agency
663 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Our lawsuit against ChessBase
656 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
652 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
647 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
643 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
641 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
630 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Linux Rust Support
629 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Instagram Has Become SkyMall
624 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
623 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
620 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
619 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
618 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
603 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
598 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks
597 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B
597 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
596 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
595 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
595 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
591 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus
590 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Crafting Interpreters is available in print
586 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
585 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
584 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
580 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
578 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
577 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
574 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
574 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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No More Movies
573 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
571 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
571 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
566 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Reddit is forcing SaveVideo to shut down
561 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
559 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
558 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
553 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
551 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Why we're blind to the color blue
550 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Open Insulin Foundation
549 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
548 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
548 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
545 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Self hosting is important
544 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Give me /events, not webhooks
543 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Alphafold
542 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
532 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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IPv4 pricing
531 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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The Untold Story of SQLite
531 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
524 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
520 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
518 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Google Internal Comics
516 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
513 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
513 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
513 points • comment • jul 22, 2021