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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Show HN: Get paid to have engaging conversations with old people
46 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Case of a Man 3 Doctors Declared Dead Who Woke Up Just Before His Autopsy
46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Dear Mom and Dad, please stick with me
46 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license
46 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Impact of Undefined Behavior on Performance
46 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Windows Command-Line Obfuscation
46 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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The Geography of Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub
46 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed
46 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
46 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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What does the "mean" really mean?
46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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C++ Is the New Python
46 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Technology Traps (1978) [video]
46 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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The long history of 'Bombay time' and resistance to colonial rule
46 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Apple can't handle the truth, so they delete and bury it
46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous Author
46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Solving the Three Stooges Problem
45 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Workspace Trust in VS Code
45 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Photonic Computing for Transformative AI
45 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (2009)
45 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Sweden is being shot up
45 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Target finally explains why nearly all its SF stores have reduced hours
45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Don’t Buy a Desktop PC with One of Intel’s Newest Processors
45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Time lapse doodle: Mark Weiser’s 1991 “Computer for the 21st Century” [video]
45 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Wasp – A programming language that understands what a web app is
45 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Measuring GNSS accuracy on Android devices (2019)
45 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Pegasus Project found numbers of Ten PMs, three presidents and a king
45 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
45 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Representations of Uncomputable and Uncountable Sets (2008)
45 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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TypeScript's Type System Is Turing Complete (2017)
45 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with his face’
45 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up
45 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Launch HN: Coinrule (YC S21) – Automated Trading Made Easy
45 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (2017)
45 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Tweezers of sound can pick objects up without physical contact
45 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Entropy coding in Oodle Data: the big picture
45 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?
45 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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A century of science fiction that changed how we think about the environment
45 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Measuring memory usage: virtual versus real memory
45 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
44 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Brave New LA: Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles (2013)
44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Bullshit ability as an honest signal of intelligence
44 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Daniel Hale, a ‘Second Snowden’, Leaked Drone Wars Documents
44 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Internet Classics Archive (1994)
44 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your favourite stocks/options trading platform?
44 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Maine passes nations first law to make companies pay cost of recycling packaging
44 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Random Variable Algebra
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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How to Properly Archive a Project
44 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Whittier, Alaska, a community under one roof (2015)
44 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history
44 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development
44 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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A journey through the troubled former Yugoslavia
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Faster sorted array unions by reducing branches
44 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax
44 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Cop investigated for blasting copyrighted music while being videoed by protester
44 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Show HN: Flash your ESP32 from the browser using JavaScript
44 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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An Introduction to Medieval Geomancy (1999)
44 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Debian bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14
44 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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The Quiet Mysticism of Almanacs
44 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)
44 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Israeli government raids NSO Group offices
44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Freenode is pointing irc.libera.net to chat.freenode.net
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Against Persuasion
44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Reid Hoffman interviews Michael Seibel [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?
44 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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How to plant a forest: Context is key
43 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation
43 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Identifying Valuable Pointers in Heap Data [pdf]
43 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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EXIF-based intrinsic image sizing explainer
43 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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How to model application flows in React with finite state machines and XState
43 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die
43 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video]
43 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Cakebrew: GUI for Homebrew
43 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate
43 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science
43 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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1997: Achaea
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]
43 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Blizzard Recruiters Asked Hacker If She ‘Liked Being Penetrated’ at Job Fair
43 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Netflix will start publishing video games, has hired former EA exec
43 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?
43 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Jobs in Software/Technology Activism?
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup (2018)
43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Spanish Sketches
43 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Least Religious Countries 2021
43 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Can a soundbar rival a surround-sound system in a blind listening test? (2020)
43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem
43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Ask HN: How can I/we make the most of a hot job market?
43 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Fishing under ice (2012) [video]
42 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?
42 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook
42 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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USB-C Cable Colour Codes
42 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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The History of Karate
42 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Instacart CEO will be replaced by Facebook executive
42 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU's Sepa network
42 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Are there flaws in some ARM64 instructions?
42 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2
42 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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In praise of the novelization, pop fiction’s least reputable genre
42 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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How to make a leather piston seal (2007)
42 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus
42 points • comment • jul 21, 2021