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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source
369 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
369 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes
369 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Software engineering research is a train wreck
366 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
365 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out
365 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Goodbye, Fleets
363 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it
363 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots
363 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
361 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
361 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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A digital museum of video game levels
360 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
360 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
359 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
358 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
355 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
355 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
354 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA
353 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot
352 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76
351 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT
350 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
350 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
349 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires
349 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
348 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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An Intern’s Guide to Trading
347 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)
342 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
342 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)
342 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook
341 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research
341 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Soviet Venus Images (2004)
340 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Curated list of personal blogs
340 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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The Perils of M1 Ownership
339 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
338 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending
337 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$
337 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request
337 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan
337 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Netcat – All you need to know
337 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)
337 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
336 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Under the skin of OnlyFans
335 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9
334 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)
334 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale
332 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac
332 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine
332 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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The art of asking nicely
331 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure
331 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
331 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program
329 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field
329 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Blender and the Rabbids
329 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
328 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?
328 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea
328 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
328 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint
327 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
326 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Write a time-series database engine from scratch
325 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
325 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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The Inter typeface family
325 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Planning and estimating large-scale software projects
324 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations
324 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?
324 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
323 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare
323 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It
322 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement
322 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies
321 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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List of Special Elevator Modes
320 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)
320 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December
319 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
319 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Craig Murray will surrender himself for prison
319 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Pharo 9
318 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager
318 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
318 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
317 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues
316 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down
316 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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We don’t use Kubernetes
316 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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What's bad about Julia?
316 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
313 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
313 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Square Banking
312 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies
312 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones
312 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
312 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
312 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after factory reset
312 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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SpriteStack Voxel Editor
310 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”
310 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful
309 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
309 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science
309 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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SQLBolt – Interactive lessons and exercises to learn SQL
307 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
306 points • comment • jul 05, 2021