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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience
60 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers
60 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci's bridge design to the test (2019)
60 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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What cats do when we’re not looking
60 points • comment • aug 05, 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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Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
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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Pitfalls of rolling your own E2EE protocol
60 points • comment • aug 14, 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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Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim
60 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Ramp raises $300M
60 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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LibreOffice 7.2 Community is strong on interoperability
59 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives
59 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011)
59 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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India approves first DNA Covid vaccine
59 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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What is server-side conversion tracking?
59 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The logic driving China’s big tech clampdown
59 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ulam Spiral
59 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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On the proliferation of try, and soon, await (2020)
59 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Google considers switching FLoC to a topic-based approach
59 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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These People Who Work from Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Show HN: Physically-Based GPU Pathtracer with Mitsuba XML Support
59 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems
59 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Drug-resistant bacteria found in the guts of lemurs who live around humans
59 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Cracking into the Sun Ray General Dynamics-Tadpole M1400
59 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020)
59 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Write Your Next Ethereum Contract in Pyramid Scheme
59 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Sustainable web design
58 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
58 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge
58 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: BokehCamera – Blur webcam background photorealistically using RealSense
58 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union
58 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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What to expect after the eviction moratorium
58 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’
58 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Stonewall Nation
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11
58 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Show HN: Textual – An async-powered terminal application framework for Python
58 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apple employees organizing for 'systemic change' in workplace
58 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The Semiconductor Heist of the Century
58 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Portal Windows for Electron
58 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement
58 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans
58 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Data protection ‘shake-up’ takes aim at cookie pop-ups
58 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Burning Buried Sunshine (2003)
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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A serious critique of Genshin Impact [video]
58 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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We don't 'do' learning. It does us
58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Why do bats have such long lifespans?
58 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?
58 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir
58 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Japan’s Sixth-Gen F-X Fighter Jet
58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
57 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)
57 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”
57 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial Success (2018)
57 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Apple employees are organizing, now under the banner AppleToo
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Interstellar nuclear-powered transport (FJ Dyson) (1968) [pdf]
57 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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China cuts children's online gaming to one hour
57 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Fall of Saigon
57 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Defunctionalization: Everybody does it, nobody talks about it (2019)
57 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Job opening at U.S. Embassy in Kabul
57 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
57 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Ultra Wide Monitors – A pain in the neck? (2020)
57 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox
57 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago
57 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones
57 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The First Delta Force Trainee Class
57 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books
57 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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In praise of defensive football
57 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Georgia Minute by Minute
57 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The American diversity meat grinder
57 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required
57 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Emu68: M68K Emulation for ARM
56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Air Independent Propulsion Could Create Silent Killer Submarines
56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Optical adversarial attack can change the meaning of road signs
56 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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How to Boost Innovation
56 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Testing in production: using JSON Schema for 3rd party API response validation
56 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Pythonic monotonic
56 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Write a System Call (2016)
56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world
56 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome
56 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Opus – an open source parallel corpus
56 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes
56 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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No copyrights on any content (NSFW)
56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Distributed Systems in Haskell
56 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Ask HN: It's 2021 and QuickTime still doesn't export MP4. What is going on?
56 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Diggin’ and Fetchin’ with TruffleRuby
56 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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VisiData – open-source data multitool
56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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echo 'I wrote a Bash book' >> /dev/world
56 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Human Rights Are Not a Bug
56 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Launch HN: Level (YC S21) – Flexible financing for early-stage lending startups
56 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”
56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD
56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds
56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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To become a good C programmer (2011)
56 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH
56 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials
56 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Lisping at JPL (2020)
56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021