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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction
104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
104 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Life After White Collar Crime
104 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011
104 points • comment • aug 21, 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
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Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses
104 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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A Cartrivision Player TV
103 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant
103 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A Message to Our Customers (2016)
103 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Linux Kernel Defence Map
103 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border
103 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point
103 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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‘Horizon Workrooms’: remote collaboration reimagined
103 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Homemade computer chips / integrated circuits
103 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities
102 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Jackson structured programming
102 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)
102 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released
102 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images
102 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now
102 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The World’s Largest Computer Chip
102 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot
102 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The QSBS Tax Exemption: A Valuable Benefit for Startup Founders and Builders
102 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer
102 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Progress Beats Perfect
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States
101 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux
101 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Golang Security Checker
101 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window
101 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The growing market of not cutting down trees
101 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Chicago sues Grubhub and DoorDash for allegedly deceptive practices
101 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
101 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
101 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Racer Trash
101 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79
101 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent
101 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The 20x24 Polaroid instant camera
101 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions
100 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
100 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Event Sourcing (2005)
100 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Jsc: My New Best Friend
99 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Allbirds S-1 IPO
99 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Beyond coupling and cohesion: strategies for un-fucking yourself
99 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets
99 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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George Mason professor wins Covid antibody lawsuit as vaccine exemption
99 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Jaipur’s Last Stand
99 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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How we paid for the War on Terror
99 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)
99 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
99 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps
99 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed
99 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Sputnik V: fraudulent clinical trial data
99 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Show HN: Judo - Build Native App Experiences with No Code
99 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Image2Lego: Customized Lego Set Generation from Images
98 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM
98 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers
98 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The best books on assassinations
98 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers
98 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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WeWork Book: The $10T Mirage
98 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017)
98 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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The Kawa Scheme Language
98 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool
98 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Ford Mustang Mach-E Was Norway’s Best-Seller in May – Report
98 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Unix and Microservice Platforms
97 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror
97 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
97 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora
97 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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How does one get close to mastering software engineering?
97 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Facebook announces privacy-enhancing technologies
97 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection
97 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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How to Paint 50k Miles of Lines
97 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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A Classic RPG Made of Handcrafted Dioramas
97 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Wealth Shown to Scale
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Building a Desktop Application for Datasette
96 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Duke Mansion Mystery
96 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Live electricity production/consumption CO2 map
96 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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; Echo “Shell Injection”
96 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Tesla valve
96 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #8
96 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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D2X-XL – an OpenGL modification of the classic video game Descent 2
96 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Reversing ocean acidification with aggressive CO2 removal will take 700+ years (2015)
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system
96 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The ATS Programming Language
96 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Btrfs inode-number epic (part 1: the problem)
96 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs Towards Sustainable Development
95 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD
95 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Reasons Not to Use Apple
95 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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GitHub Discussions is out of beta
95 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
95 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age
95 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple
95 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)
95 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees
95 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
95 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD
95 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Surveillance Under Surveillance
95 points • comment • aug 09, 2021