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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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The history of Google messaging apps
135 points • comment • aug 25, 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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Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)
135 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design
134 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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System on SO-DIMM
134 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse
134 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants
134 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23
133 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Build your own SPARC workstation
133 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE
133 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I
133 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
133 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
133 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Tensions rise as Iranian dams cut off Iraqi water supplies
133 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores
133 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii
132 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The case against crisis-mongering
132 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Turning satellite imagery into wall art
132 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++
132 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’
132 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
132 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem
132 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech
132 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones
132 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0
132 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Thought-Terminating Cliché
132 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes
131 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo
131 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Am I stuck in a local maximum?
131 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons
131 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
131 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
131 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)
131 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars
131 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten
130 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally
130 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
130 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL
130 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China
130 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic
130 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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0 A.D. A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
130 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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1Password for Mac Moving to Electron
130 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words
130 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
130 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
129 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Book Exploring Async Basics
129 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The 3x+1 Problem [video]
129 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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I use Attrs instead of Pydantic
129 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Rain at the Summit of Greenland
129 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode
129 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
129 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t
129 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Essence – An Operating System
128 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)
128 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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ANSI Escape Codes
128 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
128 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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JAMMA Video Standard
128 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions
128 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018)
128 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading
128 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters
128 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
128 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)
128 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Researcher experiences of funder suppression of health trial findings
127 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
127 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Cproc C Compiler
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]
127 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
127 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine
127 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Rust in Production: Qovery
127 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search
127 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Inflation wiped out America's pay raises
127 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?
127 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator
126 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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A plain text note-taking system for problem solving
126 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors
126 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself
126 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The secretive, semi-illicit world of WhatsApp mango importing
126 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Launch HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Teaching kids to read with the help of live actors
126 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video]
126 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019)
125 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up
125 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Latency Sneaks Up on You
125 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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A Bit Overcomplicated
125 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
125 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
124 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf]
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages
124 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)
124 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Missile Base for Sale
124 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast
124 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire
124 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
124 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
124 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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AWS doesn’t know who I am
124 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hold
124 points • comment • aug 28, 2021