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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan
85 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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A Fun List of Browsers
85 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Luxury Surveillance
85 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video]
85 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can record iPhone screens (2017)
85 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty
85 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Tough Turban: an open-source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists
85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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A Twitter addict realizes she needs rehab
85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Plane Food Simulator 2021
85 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Concepts for JavaScript developers to know
85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Macros on Steroids: How pure C can benefit from metaprogramming
85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
85 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Counterfactuals are not causality
85 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Worse Is Better (2001)
85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Royal Mail Rubber Band
85 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation
85 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works
85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams
85 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone
84 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot
84 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with Flask
84 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Jelly: a recreational programming language inspired by J
84 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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BlenderBot 2.0: A chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet
84 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Analysis of large binaries and games in Ghidra-SRE
84 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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A primer on carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments
84 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media
84 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Casio SK-1
84 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study
84 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Component Graph System (2017)
84 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing
84 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps
84 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Aspirin could cut risk of death in cancer patients by 20%
84 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+
84 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator
84 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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On Geofoam
84 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (2019)
83 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Design Engineering Handbook [pdf]
83 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar
83 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Tony Hoare answers questions [video]
83 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Forem Self-Host
83 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story drew the ire of the internet
83 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Flying Only with the Heat of the Sun
83 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020
83 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Galaxy Upcycling: How Samsung Ruined Their Best Idea in Years
83 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (2017)
83 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Show HN: Face Maker AI. Sketch to create photorealistic faces
83 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Launch HN: Payflow (YC S21) – Allow workers to access their wages instantly
83 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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The Gospel of Consumption
82 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016)
82 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic
82 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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When Wiener met Einstein
82 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (2019)
82 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans' data
82 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment
82 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?
82 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously
82 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Jailer: A truly relational database client
81 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval
81 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Show HN: A graveyard for my side projects
81 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire
81 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with a New Physics Simulation Engine
81 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job
81 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling
81 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models [pdf]
81 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Stripe for location – easily build geospatial data into your apps and models
81 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Prince Charles’ experimental city
81 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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How safe is Colin Furze's tunnel?
80 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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API Improvement Proposals
80 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets
80 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds
80 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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How to calculate the alignment between BERT and spaCy tokens
80 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employees debate remote work
80 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Show HN: Ready UI – Bootstrap UI blocks
80 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (2017)
80 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Comparison of Haskell and Julia List Comprehensions
80 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Subscription Changes for Computer Backup
80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'
80 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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The future of programming with certified program synthesis
80 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Vaccines and our return to office plans
80 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub
80 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable
80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Another misstep for Audacity
80 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Don’t submit to conformity
80 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards
80 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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GNU Binutlis 2.37 has been released
80 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Tour of the Sacred Library
80 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
80 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System [video]
80 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
80 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated
79 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center
79 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones
79 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study
79 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Farm – an experiment in distributed peer-to-peer computing
79 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them
79 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Typos, tricks and misprints
79 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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The Galileo Project: Daring to Look Through New Telescopes
79 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Spotting a cherry-picked paper
79 points • comment • jul 11, 2021