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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
70 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning
70 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Blackjack Probabilities, Card Counting – Calculation and Simulation
70 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)
70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Root cause of failure, root cause of success
70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Sicily Hits 48.8°C, the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in Europe
69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program
69 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents
69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
69 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't'
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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A Circumplanetary Disk Around PDS70 C [pdf]
69 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Official Aztec C Online Museum (2009)
69 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks
69 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (2011)
69 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Contract by Email
69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript
69 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Sony's Robot Dog, Aibo
69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant businesses
69 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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An Animal’s Place (2002)
69 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Sign-in on Android 2.3.7 or lower will not be allowed starting September 27
69 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom (cont)
69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Please pray for me: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story
69 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Being on-call is working. FULL STOP
69 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Anglo-Saxon Classroom
69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Alf 2: Collision Detection Is Hard, Blog Posts Are Harder
69 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019)
69 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Libraries can start processes too
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Solving the double (quintuple) declaration Problem in GraphQL Applications
68 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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More and more humans are growing an extra artery, showing we're still evolving
68 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?
68 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development
68 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992)
68 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Garden Market
68 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Agora: Sell Files on the Web
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Better Coordination, or Better Software?
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
67 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf]
67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode
67 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication
67 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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MapReduce is making a comeback
67 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
67 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport
67 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Open source Pocket code
67 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The Rise of Mobile Wikipedia
67 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets
67 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?
67 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed
67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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What if a deadly heatwave hit India?
67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Show HN: Learn to identify the birds at any location
67 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Posh: A Data-Aware Shell
67 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apple and Google seem spooked by bill requiring more app stores and sideloading
67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Tesla battery burned for four days
67 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
67 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
67 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Education of Melvyn Bragg
66 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Nvidia Releases CUDA Python
66 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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A thorough introduction to bpftrace
66 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)
66 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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A man preserving endangered colours
66 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Oasis of Palmyra
66 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me
66 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Designing better batteries for electric vehicles
66 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade
66 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January
66 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes
66 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots
66 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Rooms Where It Happened
66 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships
66 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide
66 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Linux Kernel Security Done Right
66 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires
66 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Dancoland
66 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Teenagers Are Rediscovering an Old Game About Authoritarianism
66 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
66 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Music streaming payouts comparison
66 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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When correlation is better than causation
66 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Lumen – Self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript
66 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Culture and Conduct Risk: The Normalization of Deviance
66 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Difference between dialogue, discussion, and debate
65 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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How database indexing works internally
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (2017)
65 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Console Desktop Guide (2018)
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
65 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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ModelingToolkit, Modelica, and Modia: The Composable Modeling Future in Julia
65 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended off warming
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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South Park creators say they’ve reached agreement to buy Casa Bonita
65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Scientists urged Wisconsin to limit its wolf kill. It didn’t go well
65 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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First THINK C Program (2020)
65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Under Construction
65 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Shadowy Business of International Education
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Battle of Blair Mountain
65 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs
65 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (2012)
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity
65 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Planning for Servers in 2022 and Beyond
65 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads
65 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
65 points • comment • aug 31, 2021