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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Computational algebraic geometry for high school students
149 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours
149 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys]
148 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’
148 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000)
148 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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SnakeOS: Bootable x86 snake game in Rust
148 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The smart home is flailing as a concept
148 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Reasonable Person Principle (2009)
148 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Competitive programming is useless
148 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)
147 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market
147 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
147 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach
147 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source
147 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA
147 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
147 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
146 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record
146 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
146 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)
145 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]
145 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault
145 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
145 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Commonly used idioms in the tech industry
145 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS
145 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Science hobbyist website since 1994
145 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?
144 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The Semiconductor Heist of the Century
144 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)
144 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
144 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
144 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S.
144 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Perceptual Illusions (2018)
144 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings [pdf]
144 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes
143 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees
143 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning
143 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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How the pandemic has affected people’s perspective on travelling to work
143 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Startup Bootstrapping Plan
143 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice
143 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow
143 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Use Phoenix Channels
143 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True
143 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator
142 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
142 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Modern XMPP
142 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it
142 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Mario Paint Masterpiece
142 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards
142 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
142 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
141 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years
141 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life
141 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets
141 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent
141 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees
141 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
141 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
140 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)
140 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Cap'n Proto 0.9
140 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD
140 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip
140 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library
140 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year
140 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)
139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
139 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer
139 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history
139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
139 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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What Is the Most Free TLD?
139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The uncanny absence of nihilism
139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
139 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies
139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
138 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Startups now spend more on Airbnb than on office rent
138 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)
138 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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How green is blue hydrogen?
138 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones
138 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style
138 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Cheap material converts heat to electricity
138 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
138 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
138 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Golang.org will be merged into go.dev
138 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Fibonacci Sphere
138 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Google is dismantling its health division
138 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
138 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
137 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers
137 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m
137 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
137 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
137 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python
137 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M
136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)
136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser
136 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family
136 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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C++20 Modules with GCC11
136 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
135 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The history of Google messaging apps
135 points • comment • aug 25, 2021