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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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Where has all the productivity gone?
224 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
224 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons
223 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
223 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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The Art of the Romanian Haystack
223 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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China unveils 600 kph maglev train
222 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
222 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Git-blame-someone-else
222 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Harvey’s Casino Bomb
222 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business
222 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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A GPIO Driver in Rust
221 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)
221 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Apple's camera design choices from the iPhone 6S Plus to the 12 Pro Max [pdf]
221 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Amazon.com product pages are down
220 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants
220 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
220 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]
220 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES
219 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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How to gain more from your reading
219 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud
219 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Autofill in password managers can allow login credentials to be stolen
219 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis
219 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C
218 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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BLAKE3 1.0
218 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Blue Origin first human flight
217 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
216 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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First new VAX in 30 years?
215 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Tylr: Demo of tile-based editing, a new kind of structure editing
215 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel
215 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)
214 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
214 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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A phone the FBI sold to criminals
213 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Thread Pools on the JVM
213 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
213 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key
213 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Image unshredding using a TSP solver
213 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds
213 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator
213 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Greenland bans all oil exploration
212 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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My app failed: lessons learned
212 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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First detection of light from behind a black hole
212 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source
212 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege
212 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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India bans MasterCard from adding new customers
212 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Node-RED 2.0
211 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology
210 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
210 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
210 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief
210 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
209 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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I might have gone a little bit overboard
209 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia
209 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)
209 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Fun with Unix domain sockets
209 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System
208 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds
208 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Tesseract OCR
208 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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What really happened to Jack Ma?
208 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017)
207 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
207 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course
207 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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F# is the best coding language today
207 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot
207 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms
206 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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My app just got removed with no prior warning
206 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)
206 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)
206 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018)
206 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval
206 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets
205 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind
205 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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One Tenth of a Second
205 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
204 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
204 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
204 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net
204 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
204 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the first time
204 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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The Playdate store is now open
203 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people
203 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team
203 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
203 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?
203 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning
203 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing
202 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above
202 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Do nothing (2020)
202 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan
201 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners
201 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
201 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Why Build Toys
201 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud
200 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
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Wayback Machine Downloader
200 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide
200 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Dabrowski’s theory and existential depression (2020)
200 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Launch HN: InstaKin (YC S21) - Help immigrants to manage tasks in home countries
200 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists
199 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew
199 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability
199 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Neorg: Neovim 0.5’s answer to modern life organization
199 points • comment • jul 11, 2021