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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
540 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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OnlyFans suspends plan to ban "sexually explicit" content after outcry
540 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities
538 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Canistilluse.com
537 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
537 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Elementary OS 6 Odin
534 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring
533 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
531 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
522 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
515 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
513 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
510 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
504 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
498 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Gail.com
494 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
493 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
491 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone
489 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them
488 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX
487 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
486 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Sci-Hub is fundraising
486 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
483 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
477 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
477 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A street snack that has baffled botanists
474 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
470 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
470 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
469 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
469 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF
466 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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My dead dad’s journal
462 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The Future of discord.py
459 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
459 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
458 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
457 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
456 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Weird Languages
454 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Australia is becoming a surveillance state
453 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
451 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
450 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
447 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
446 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Where are the robotic bricklayers?
444 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Mosh: The Mobile Shell
442 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view
442 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis
439 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
437 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The rise of user-hostile software
436 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
436 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization
435 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The art of not taking things personally
433 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Deno on MDN
430 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
427 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
426 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster
425 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
425 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
423 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous
423 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
423 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
423 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system
423 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Git password authentication is shutting down
422 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Problem with Ethereum
421 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
421 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free
419 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
419 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support
415 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
415 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
415 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
415 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
414 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
414 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
414 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
413 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking
413 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The 5-Hour CDN
413 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
412 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Work Hard (2007)
412 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)
410 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
407 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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An Introduction to JQ
407 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
407 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
406 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
406 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
403 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
403 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal
402 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Life Improvements Since the 1990s
402 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Extreme Ironing
402 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
401 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
400 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
399 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
397 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds
396 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Train Wheels Are Cones
394 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
394 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
390 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
389 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)
389 points • comment • aug 17, 2021