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Hacker News (Aug 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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A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations
123 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
123 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily
123 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form
123 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Deno 1.13 Release
123 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Why Is SQLite Coded in C (2017)
123 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
123 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana
122 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Uber requires nondisclosure agreement before compensating carjacked driver
122 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC
122 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
122 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort
122 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review
122 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
122 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
122 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
122 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography
122 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust
122 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior
121 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South
121 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)
121 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
121 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Launch HN: SafeBeat Rx (YC S21)- At-home ECG software to replace hospitalization
121 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions
121 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals
121 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
121 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Quality and Effort (2018)
121 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas
121 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact
120 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers
120 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Record rise in U.S. rents
120 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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How Actors Work Internally in Swift
120 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610
120 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search
120 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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A Screeching Voice of the Minority
120 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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LimeSDR
120 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance
120 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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On Digital Minimalsim (2016)
120 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Facebook Shuts Down Researchers Looking into Misinformation
120 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks
120 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Pacaso is turning houses into corporations
120 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Linux Kernel 5.14
120 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
119 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
119 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance
119 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences (2020)
119 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
119 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
119 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system
119 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The Ruin of War
119 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
119 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books (2018)
118 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Cat Automatic Sprayer
118 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac
118 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
118 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013)
118 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993)
118 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout
118 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Remind HN: .com prices increase Sep 1, 2021
117 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
117 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
117 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
117 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”
117 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0
117 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia
117 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started
117 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think
117 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
117 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo
117 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Case for Optimism
117 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The quiet battle raging around open banking
116 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
116 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
116 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Interview with a ransomware group
116 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
116 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows
116 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Antigravity.py (2020)
116 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
116 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
116 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
116 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Friendship ended with the garbage collector
116 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS”
116 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Lambdas as values in Excel
116 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Memfd_secret() in 5.14
116 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers
116 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers
116 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)
115 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)
115 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search
115 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
115 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Wild claims about K performance
115 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet
115 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Starship has been fully stacked
115 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights
115 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The End of Social Media
115 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves
115 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
115 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
115 points • comment • aug 07, 2021