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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Phones containing magnets inhibit implantable cardioverter defibrillators
94 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
94 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit
94 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
94 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
94 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second
94 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon
94 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead
94 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Where did the web archive go?
94 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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James Gosling Interview
94 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020
93 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Back to Linux
93 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Darktable: An open source photography workflow application
93 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX
93 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions
93 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Leap Smear
93 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
93 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Apple censors engraving service, report claims
93 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2021
93 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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A newfound biomolecule, consisting of RNA modified by sugars
93 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
93 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition
93 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago
93 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way
93 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The lost tablet and secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army
93 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing
93 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Best RealSense replacements?
93 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
93 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods
93 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms
92 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021
92 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content
92 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration
92 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Toledo’s Last Swordmakers
92 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia
92 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit
92 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
92 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Is Zoom Illegal in the EU? Unpacking the Hamburg DPA’s Decision
92 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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On Time, Money and Health
92 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health
92 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The Middle East is running out of water, and parts are becoming uninhabitable
92 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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NetBox: Infrastructure resource modeling application for network automation
92 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains
92 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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How to compare two PDF documents
92 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]
92 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
92 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]
92 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Stanford researchers make rechargeable batteries that store 6x more charge
92 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Dual-Drive IDE Hell
91 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Tech Companies with Four-Day Work Weeks
91 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Adult Obesity Facts
91 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released
91 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)
91 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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TLA+ is hard to learn (2018)
91 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Launch HN: Iona Mind (YC S21) – App-based cognitive behavioural therapy
91 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Getting the maximum of your C compiler, for security
91 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Rick and Morty’s Thanksploitation Deciduous Decision Tree
91 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Traintrackr – Live LED transit maps
91 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta
91 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Zorin OS 16 is Released
90 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Schema on write is better to live by
90 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Almost 600 Louisiana sites with toxic chemicals lie in Hurricane Ida's path
90 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece
90 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The problem of effects in Rust (2020)
90 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?
90 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Go 1.17 Is Released
90 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Amazon Genomics CLI
90 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Scylla – Real-Time Big Data Database
90 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective
90 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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The Case for a Shorter Workweek
90 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
90 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Away from Exceptions: Errors as Values
90 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
90 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?
90 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago
90 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
90 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Vieb – Vim Inspired Electron Browser
90 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do
90 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Developers Complain as App Store Feature Promotes Rip-Off Apps
90 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
89 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Amplitude (YC W12) IPO S1
89 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line
89 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards
89 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?
89 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong
89 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Archaeologists Discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor'
89 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech
89 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Progress Quest
89 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Collaborative Editing Options for Emacs
89 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Show HN: ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation
89 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware
89 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)
88 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Supine Computing (2019)
88 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?
88 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Leaving Well
88 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Apple's Past Sideloading Plans
88 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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First image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game by Harry McCracken
88 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Notes from the Architect (2016)
88 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Why observability requires a distributed column store
88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021