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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Some mental abilities seem to improve as we get older
114 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml
114 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Windows 11 available on October 5
114 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?
114 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)
114 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
114 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Rustdoc résumé
114 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Modern LZ Compression (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
114 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet
114 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths
114 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
113 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive'
113 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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I could do that in a weekend (2016)
113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)
113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Observability: A New Theory Based on the Group of Invariance
113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
113 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks
113 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment
113 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Building Container Images with Nix
112 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain
112 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe
112 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Carolyn Shoemaker has died
112 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston
112 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)
112 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate
112 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Mozilla: *Privacy Not Included
112 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
112 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based
111 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Redwood World – Pictures and Locations of Redwoods in the British Isles
111 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
111 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Why query planning for streaming systems is hard
111 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Satan should chair your meetings: A literature lover’s guide to office politics
111 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
111 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips
111 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data
110 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
110 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle)
110 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)
110 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006)
110 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020
110 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Memory Bandwidth
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
109 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Video Game Pricing [video]
109 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]
109 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots
109 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Life Before Unicode
109 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Google has killed Discord's best music bot
109 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978)
109 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
109 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The web browser as a tool of thought
108 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart
108 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Knuth on Dijkstra (2014)
108 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
108 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00
108 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?
108 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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MathML Progress
108 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare
108 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
108 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine
108 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast
107 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
107 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven?
107 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: Python Source Code Refactoring Toolkit via AST
107 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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TSMC’s Speciality Technologies
107 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Liquidsoap – A scripting language for multimedia streaming
107 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Apple workers collecting stories of abuse, injustice in workplace
107 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Strange domain names that developers bought
107 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
107 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Interview with Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor
107 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?
107 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels
106 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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California family dies under mysterious circumstances
106 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started
106 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels
106 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A dubious writing style emerging in science
106 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage, exposing the city’s excesses
106 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says
106 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Show HN: Open by Design
106 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
106 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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When Police Lie, the Innocent Pay. Some Are Fighting Back
106 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround
106 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago
106 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Jewish Problems (2011)
106 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Tesla AI Day Live Stream [video]
106 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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German parliament wants Tim Cook to reconsider CSAM plans
105 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Almost-Billionaires (2014)
105 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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How to write slow Rust code
105 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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DNS alias mode (2020)
105 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful
105 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking
105 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store
105 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase
105 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released
105 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction
104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Story of Playdate
104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Afghan President Ghani relinquishes power, Taliban form interim gov't
104 points • comment • aug 15, 2021