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Hacker News (Jul 2021)
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TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability
199 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew
199 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage
198 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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The Itanic Has Sunk
198 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: open-source self-hosted web archiving
198 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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No-code startup Bubble raises $100M
198 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
197 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)
197 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Ideas in statistics that have powered AI
196 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia
196 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Concise algorithms written in Julia
196 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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CudaText: Cross-platform code editor
196 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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When static makes your C code 10 times faster
195 points • comment • jul 04, 2021
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Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
195 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis
195 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
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Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust
195 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Evidence found on a second Indian activist’s computer was planted, report says
195 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Choose whether Search can show you personal results based on your Google Account
194 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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The Highest Forms of Wealth
194 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Classified Challenger tank specs leaked online for videogame
194 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains
193 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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A critique of Safari's influence on the web
193 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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When Orcs Were Real
193 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Steven Weinberg has died
193 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science
193 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Headless React
192 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
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Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
192 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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Coding with Character
192 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)
192 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
192 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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How to add eBPF observability to your product
192 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Sub-zero water splitting marks a new dawn for solar hydrogen production
192 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts
191 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’
191 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Is This Prime?
191 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
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FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia
191 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Walmart releases more affordable analog insulin
191 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
191 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator
190 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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I Stopped Using Emojis
190 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Cancer risks increase with alcohol use, leading to over 740k cases last year
190 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
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“Cat Person” and Me
190 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser
190 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery
190 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
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Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable”
190 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
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A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
189 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you
189 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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SVG favicons have some cool benefits
189 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language
189 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule
189 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39
188 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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GitHub Copilot generates valid secrets
188 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?
188 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
187 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
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The LaTeX Font Catalogue
187 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
187 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Temozolomide Is Explosive
187 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
186 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
186 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
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Mastering the Basics of Icon Design
186 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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What did ancient languages sound like?
186 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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GraalVM at Facebook
186 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
186 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
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WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance
185 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund
185 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%
185 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver
185 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
184 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
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UK wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism doesn't exist
184 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Video tutorials now on PeerTube
184 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
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FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood
184 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Show HN: WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games
184 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
183 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture
183 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
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Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment
183 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Bedrock AI (YC S21) – Using ML to identify red flags in SEC filings
182 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
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Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
182 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
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Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
182 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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The Human Side of Elixir
182 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication
182 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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Unleaded Avgas Approved
182 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust
182 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
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A 3°C world has no safe place
182 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President
182 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product
181 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
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Some career advice (2019)
181 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
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Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions
181 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
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Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community
181 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
181 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
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Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (2011)
181 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
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Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go
180 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters
180 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
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The Yoghurt Mafia
180 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
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YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug
180 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation
180 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
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The value of doing a little
180 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
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The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)
179 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change
179 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
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A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny
179 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
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The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit
178 points • comment • jul 18, 2021