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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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How the coronavirus infects cells – and why Delta is so dangerous
17 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Time Travel: Running Python 3.7 on XP (2018)
17 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long Covid’
17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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FSF call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
17 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online
17 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Twitter employee and grandfater died after getting “swatted”
17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Sourcegraph raises $125M at $2.6B valuation for universal code search
17 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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This Week in KDE: Better HiDPI on X11
17 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Money Talks: A Short History of Roman Currency
17 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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On Leaving UNC
17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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New Mercedes C-Class 2022 production plant in Germany
17 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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M1 Mac SSD Wear Issue Tested and Explored [video]
17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Plandemic: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 Infodemic
17 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Largest Australian ISP using private Twitter account information for identity
17 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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$HOOD stock down on the first day of trading
17 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Old.reddit.com Isn't Working
17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Show HN: Stop tracking TODOs. Start getting things DONE
17 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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WhatsApp to let users message without their phones
17 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional
17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon
17 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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The Day the Good Internet Died
17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2
17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Oracle cloud unit employees told to prepare for 24/7 work
17 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration
17 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Can Bitcoin Grow Faster Than the Internet?
17 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Simple RNA tweak boosts potato and rice yields by 50 percent
17 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Northwest heat wave was statistically “impossible”
17 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Earth heads for tipping point as it could reach 1.5°C over next 5 years
17 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Why do people hate inflation?
16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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BBC removes Bitesize page on climate change ‘benefits’ after backlash
16 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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How we made Befriendus accessible
16 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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VA: What Is Moral Injury?
16 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Officials: Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from an uncontrolled blackout
16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Apps with 5.8M Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords
16 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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SF family held at gunpoint, robbed after father is ambushed while washing car
16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees at U.S. Offices
16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius
16 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe
16 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Linus Torvalds was paid $1.6M in 2018
16 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Chinese astronauts complete first space walk outside new Tiangong space station
16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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A Polynomial Time Algorithm for 3SAT (P=NP?!)
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Square is going to make a hardware wallet for Bitcoin
16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Understanding Early Arc Lamps
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Europe Plans Aggressive New Laws to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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UK councils to display EU flags after UK dips into Covid recovery cash
16 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Brickit scans your pile of legos and shows you what you can make
16 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Mystery of Intel Cpuid 21H Leaf
16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Loops in Lisp Part 3: Iterate (2016)
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Some iOS versions refuse to show ‘69’ as the temperature in iPhone Weather app
16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Truman Capote and 1950s personality research (2018)
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Pinched ink: is it wrong to steal a tattoo?
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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It’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work
16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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One Laptop per Child
16 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Google to block logins on old Android devices starting September
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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A 10x Developer Story
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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How cops get away with murder: qualified immunity [video]
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Colorado web designer who refused to make same-sex wedding websites loses appeal
16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Kodak Deletes Post by Photographer Who Called Xinjiang an ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme
16 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Delta variant viral load 1k times higher than original coronavirus strain
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Los Angeles Covid Surge Being Driven by White, Affluent Neighborhoods
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Early-Morning Light Exposure Makes Mice Less Depressed
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Open Letter: Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework
16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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This is how democracy dies
16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Microsoft Edge Used More Than Firefox
16 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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William Shatner: Humanity won’t survive to reach a Star Trek future
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Sargable Queries and MUL Indexes; or Why My Query Is Slow
16 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Dell Xps 13 Developer Edition availability?
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who did it
16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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EU to tighten rules on cryptoasset transfers
16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Stop just using “Front end” or “Back end” to describe the Engineering you like
16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Covid-19 and lasting erectile dysfunction: Here’s what we know
16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Hong Kong Was Promised 50 Years of Autonomy – It Got 23
16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin Is ‘Mathematical Miracle’
16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT
16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Games Workshop is trying to shut down fan animations
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
16 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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XDA member unknowingly bought a Pixel phone with an FBI backdoor
16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Covid-19's Effects on Kids Are Even Stranger Than We Thought
16 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Electrify America Will Begin to phase out CHAdeMO In 2022
16 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Ask HN: What benefit is there to the enter username then enter password pattern?
16 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Trump announces lawsuits aimed at social media companies alleging censorship
16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Pingdemic: Bar staff being told to delete NHS Covid-19 app
16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Model sued for posting photo of herself on Instagram
16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Woo! Yeah!
15 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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News Sites Including Huffington Post, Vox, Newsweek, Riddled with Pornography
15 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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How Great Is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship [pdf]
15 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Apple Launches $99 MagSafe Battery Pack
15 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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The sociopaths are cocksure while those with empathy are full of doubt
15 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Nobelists decry Chinese government’s censorship attempts at the Nobel Summit
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
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Cryptocurrencies could lead to ‘limitless’ losses for UK government
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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DigitalOcean Outage
15 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First
15 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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52-Hertz Whale
15 points • comment • jul 18, 2021