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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings
113 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers
112 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services
112 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
112 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Measuring memory usage in Python: it’s tricky
112 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
112 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising
112 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)
112 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
112 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf]
112 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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The Dig
112 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
112 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness (2016)
111 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Racket v8.2
111 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
111 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system
111 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
111 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Learn Python by doing fun interactive exercises
111 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
111 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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(Risp (In (Rust) (Lisp)))
111 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Amid massive hospital sell-off, corporate giant continues suing patients
111 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction
110 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings
110 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Farmers always worked from home
110 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settle over country
110 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'
110 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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United States sells Wu-Tang album forfeited by Martin Shkreli
110 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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BGP in a Nutshell
110 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Blockly: A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors
110 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?
110 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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The Web from 1989 to 1994
109 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)
109 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)
109 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste
109 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)
109 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video]
109 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
109 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service
109 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Libgccjit AOT Codegen for Rustc
109 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Namedtuple in a Post-Dataclasses World
109 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer
108 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Descriptorless Files for Io_uring
108 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Steam Deck
108 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot
108 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Dean Preston is holding SF back
108 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM
108 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Stop mocking your system
108 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives
108 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook
107 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study
107 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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EV startup Rivian announces $2.5B funding round led by Amazon, Ford
107 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT
107 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (2016)
107 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?
107 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning
107 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs
107 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Why does my installer get flagged by Windows?
107 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Water transformed into shiny, golden metal
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Inside Facebook's Data Wars
107 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Change.org workers form a union
106 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response
106 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? [pdf]
106 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [pdf]
106 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in Cdnjs
106 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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GPT-J: GPT-3 Democratized
106 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Peter the Great’s Beard Tax
106 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Show HN: CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library
106 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999)
106 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
105 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World (2020)
105 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Show HN: Tilemaker – DIY vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data
105 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov
105 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Blitsort is an in-place stable adaptive rotate merge sort
105 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (2015)
105 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Defeating Cookie Banners
105 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Types versus sets in math and programming languages
105 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Accomplishments: Apple Macintosh Group (6/'83 – 8/'87)
105 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Publicly Available Standards
105 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone
105 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Intuit will no longer be a part of IRS Free File program
105 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient
105 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Launch HN: Evidently AI (YC S21) – Track and Debug ML Models in Production
105 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim
104 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Why aren't there more programming-language startups?
104 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)
104 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Ways to ship software
104 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Yet another background music for developer, if you missed working at cafe
104 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
104 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
104 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Edward Snowden on privacy and threats to democracy (2019) [video]
104 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Algorithmic bias bounty challenge
103 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity
103 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Reconstructing Roman Industrial Engineering
103 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries
103 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home
103 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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The global threat from plastic pollution
103 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL
103 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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SQLite: Vulnerabilities
103 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
103 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions
103 points • comment • jul 06, 2021