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Hacker News (Aug 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
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A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)
65 points • comment • aug 14, 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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Working with Postgres Types
64 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Mitigating dataset harms requires stewardship: Lessons from 1000 papers
64 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences
64 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the orbital fly-by
64 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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What happens when all of your co-workers quit?
64 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
64 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Betrayal of Afghan Interpreters
64 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Secret IRS Files Reveal How Ultrawealthy Gained by Trump “Big Beautiful Tax Cut”
64 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Single-sequence protein structure prediction using language models
64 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Introduction to statistical learning, 2nd edition
64 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Clock Synchronization (2020)
64 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras
64 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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The Future Is a Landscape
64 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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What to do if you think that you’ve found a meteorite
64 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH): Practical and Illustrated Guide
64 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The Science of Underground Kingdoms
64 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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What Bobby McIlvaine left behind
64 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists
64 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Occlusion-Aware Video Object Inpainting
64 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Working around a case where the Postgres planner is “not very smart”
64 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
63 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Slack's Secret STDERR Messages
63 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Tail End (2015)
63 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August
63 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Open Source Is Throwing AI Policymakers for a Loop
63 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals
63 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Google bookmarks won't be supported past September 31, 2021
63 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth
63 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx, 50 voices, 9 languages
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga
63 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?
63 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web
63 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine
63 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Apple’s biggest problem is only getting bigger
63 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
63 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Making Sense of Satellite Data, Open Source Workflow
63 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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AWS recruiter doesn't want to show what's new out there
63 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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SWE interviews should be paid
63 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Why you should learn SQL
63 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book
63 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination
63 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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What we can learn from Google Plus (2014)
63 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages
62 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Anthropic Bias (2020)
62 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Partisan attachment: How politics is changing dating and relationships (2020)
62 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist
62 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Tesla AI Day Live Stream
62 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values
62 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Allegations against Aubrey de Grey
62 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Grab says 1.7MB/user/day
62 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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A novel approach to entity resolution using serverless technology
62 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
62 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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FTC requests Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram
62 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man
62 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity
62 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic
62 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9
62 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Impressive “Simpsons: Hit and Run” Remake Was Made by Fan Using Unreal Engine
62 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River Dave
62 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Put This In Your Pipe (2013)
62 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Implementing a class with void*
62 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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United Airlines bans duct tape restraints
62 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration
62 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
61 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs
61 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Human stories behind emoji designs
61 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Three Clocks Are Better Than One
61 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
61 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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End-to-End Encryption through Kafka
61 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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New evidence shows this uranium cube is likely relic of Nazi A-bomb program
61 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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In the US, wind power is getting bigger and better, report says
61 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids
61 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The big-load anti-pattern
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Creative Code Management
61 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Miniretro: Testing Emulators at Scale
61 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Pfizer, Moderna seen reaping billions from Covid-19 vaccine booster market
61 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)
60 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: Chrome extension that summarizes text content using DistilBART model
60 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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How good is Codex?
60 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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The ABS Programing Language
60 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Grokking Fenwick Trees
60 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Self-powered diaper sensors that monitor urine sugar levels
60 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Prop 22 found unconstitutional by California Superior Court
60 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'
60 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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High heat: Spain clocks prelim record of 47.2 C (116.96 F)
60 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Empty NPM package '-' has over 700k downloads
60 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The Anatomy of Assholes (2020)
60 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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How Drawpile works
60 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker
60 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought
60 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Does the Tuskegee experiment explain black vaccination rates?
60 points • comment • aug 05, 2021