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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors (2019)
88 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Why observability requires a distributed column store
88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
88 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Apple's Past Sideloading Plans
88 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Notes from the Architect (2016)
88 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Google: 'Reverse Warrants' Becoming Law Enforcement's Go-To Investigative Tool
88 points • comment • aug 28, 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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Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)
88 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
88 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
88 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks
87 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The Elasticsearch Saga Continues
87 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
87 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias
87 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage
87 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp
87 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Show HN: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support
87 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Thinking about “traceability”
87 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials
87 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
87 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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One Week of Bugs (2014)
87 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk
87 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003)
87 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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The wild pizzas of southern Italy
87 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed
87 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021
86 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Annual reminder of Uber missing this goal
86 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves
86 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days
86 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores
86 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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View your browser's TLS fingerprint
86 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game
86 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Judge freezes UC Berkeley's student enrollment at 2020-21 levels
86 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016)
86 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (2016)
86 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo, but few use it
86 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model
86 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping
85 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS
85 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Loom: Project Loom Early-Access Builds
85 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional
85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Animals changed by proximity to humans
85 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Sentenced by Algorithm
85 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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In praise of habits
85 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Windows 96 Story
85 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Airliner Number 4
85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
85 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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3D printable cat feeder (2020)
85 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?
85 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?
85 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf]
85 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?
84 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Edward de Bono Obituary
84 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam
84 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys
84 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate files
84 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Freeing Your Goats
84 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Adda as a Way of Life
84 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
84 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
84 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
84 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Show HN: SlashApi – a web platform to build REST APIs without code
84 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Show HN: Bhagavad Gita Android App for searching verses by topics like anxiety
84 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental
84 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The unknown features of Python's `operator` module
84 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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PureBasic switches to a C backend
84 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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YouTube suspends Rand Paul over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks
84 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Alternative Milks
84 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015) [pdf]
84 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization
84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources
84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning (2020)
83 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app
83 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Ray Tracing Gems II
83 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The Psychology of Online Political Hostility
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Connection Strings Reference
83 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Yale study finds social media ‘likes’ train users to act outraged
83 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Inconsistent expression calculation between programming languages
83 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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An attempt at demystifying graph deep learning
83 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Snaprecovery: Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat
83 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived
83 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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High blood pressure cases double in 30 years
83 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows
82 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Modern IRC Client Protocol
82 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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An Introduction to AI Story Generation
82 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Snap: A microkernel approach to host networking (2019)
82 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Image synthesis and editing with stochastic differential equations
82 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf]
82 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Launch HN: Ancana (YC S21) – Fractional ownership of vacation homes
82 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Intel's Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued
82 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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MusicXML and Percussion Notation
82 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found
82 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
82 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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You and Your Research (1986)
81 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
81 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The leak that brought the H-bomb debate out of the cold
81 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
81 points • comment • aug 09, 2021