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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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M4 as a templating language (2020)
133 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition
133 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class
133 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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How to exfiltrate code from Bitbucket
132 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Getting sweet patron money on the modern internet (2020)
132 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)
132 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation
132 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies
132 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us
131 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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How to Review Code as a Junior Developer
131 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioNTech for delta variant
131 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly
131 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Quantum computing hype is bad for science
131 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid
131 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
131 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Perlin vs. Simplex
130 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
130 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots
130 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it
130 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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M8.2 earthquake near Perryville, Alaska
130 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 and VAX
130 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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The future of deep learning is photonic
130 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities
130 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop applications to the browser
130 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights
130 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)
130 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained
130 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Facebook users said no to tracking, now advertisers are panicking
130 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years
129 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
129 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent
129 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living
129 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
129 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
129 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Audacity: Clarification of Privacy Policy
129 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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macOS Monterey Beta 3: Apple Redesigns Safari Tab Interface Following Complaints
129 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Alcohol-free beer is fizzing
129 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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The Day the Good Internet Died
129 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees
129 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries
129 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Dynamic Linking Best Practices
129 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
129 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago
128 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
128 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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APSE – A Personal Search Engine
128 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin
128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
128 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows
128 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports
128 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
128 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops
128 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?
128 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017)
128 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)
128 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32
127 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network
127 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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'Most homes' in Lytton destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says
127 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Rust GCC back end was officially accepted into the compiler
127 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
127 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function
127 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Paternity leave: The hidden barriers keeping men at work
127 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead in heat wave
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods
127 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
127 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown
126 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming
126 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)
126 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Show HN: Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding
126 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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France fines Google €500M over copyright row
126 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap
126 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]
126 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track down woman
126 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
126 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C
126 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)
126 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser
125 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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You can be shy and still be a CEO
125 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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The Retrocomputing Archive
125 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture
125 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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How to unlearn a disease
125 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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End of an Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark in America
125 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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What the Heck is a Data Mesh?
124 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
124 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life
124 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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RVVM – RISC-V Virtual Machine
124 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
124 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
124 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Elm Compiler Written in Elm
124 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Orbit – open-source design system
124 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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No sane compiler would optimize atomics (2015)
123 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Vulkan Memory Allocator
123 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance
123 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi
123 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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EU legislation allows emails, messages and other communications to be scanned
123 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
123 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
123 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90
123 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Ampache: An open source web based audio/video streaming app and file manager
123 points • comment • jul 25, 2021