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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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What happens to your brain when you give up sugar
75 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
75 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)
74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)
74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Julian Assange: peering through the murk
74 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postgres_fdw
74 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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MacKenzie Scott’s Money Bombs Are Single Handedly Reshaping America
74 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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What makes an interview podcast good or great?
74 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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14M ton of carbon offset forest is burning in California
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The Principles Underlying Radio Communication
74 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Adding Optimistic Locking to an API
74 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Supercritical CO2 Tech Team
74 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Companies address labor shortages by pursuing current or former prisoners
74 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Former college professor accused of serial arson is denied bail in California
74 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Aggregate streaming data in real-time with WebAssembly
74 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic
74 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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IEEE 754 round-off errors
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: Ots – share a secret via one-time URL
74 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Toyota halts all self-driving e-Palette vehicles after Olympic village accident
74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Growing open source from Torch to PyTorch
74 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Navajo Water Project
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The logic behind three random words
73 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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“I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
73 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Has web development become insane or am I stuck in my ways?
73 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub
73 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Solopreneurship
73 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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The Local Minima of Suckiness
73 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Vega Strike
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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All you need is call/cc (2013)
73 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits (2001)
73 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The Unsolved Mystery of the D-Day Puzzles
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky decides to allow employees to work remotely for good
73 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
73 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Spring is a free RTS game engine
73 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
73 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen
73 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response
73 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Rise of Meson
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Non-Radiating Antenna
73 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Micro-models: purposefully overfit models that are good at one specific thing
72 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks
72 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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NPM silently suspends package adoption
72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
72 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
72 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Show HN: Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool
72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029
72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project
72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
72 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows
72 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity
72 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany
72 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Official recommends rerun in Amazon union fight
72 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Why Don’t Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?
72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Game Timers: Issues and Solutions (2012)
72 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Reading Hayek in Holland
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Fun with regular expressions: part I
72 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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FCC proposes fining conspiracists $5.1M for voter suppression robocalls
71 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Data Wrangler
71 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Compiling C Programs Into “Mov” Instructions (And Only “Mov” Instructions)
71 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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YAML and Configuration Files
71 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Testing quantum mechanics in space
71 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor
71 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)
71 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible
71 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018)
71 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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2020 U.S. Migration Map
71 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal
71 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test results out of trial
71 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager
71 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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What can you learn from an IP address? (2019)
71 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved
71 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)
71 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Dresden Job
71 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary
71 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film
71 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Next.js 11.1
71 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
71 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades
70 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Better Than Free (2008)
70 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Modern SQL
70 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array
70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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America’s response to 9/11 contributed to our national decline
70 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Alex Stamos on Apple's new child safety protections
70 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The radical power of the book index
70 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
70 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Guide to Software Project Estimation
70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard
70 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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LinuxPhoneApps
70 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k
70 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)
70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
70 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Challenge of “Chronic Lyme” (2018)
70 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2021