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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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VisiData – open-source data multitool
56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimism
56 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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To become a good C programmer (2011)
56 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Analyzing a High Rate of Paging
55 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Async Overloading
55 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'
55 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Descartes’s Evil Genius
55 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The Mighty Fallen: Argentina and the Great Depression
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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QBE: Compiler Back End
55 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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AIX Running on Apple's M1
55 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Using Emacs in an IDE World
55 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The rich get richer and rates get lower
55 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Today I made one of the most important discoveries of my PhD
55 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Supporting half-precision floats is annoying
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1
55 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
55 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Parametric Programming – an equational approach to OO and beyond
55 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Multicore OCaml: July 2021
55 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]
55 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo
55 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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DecisionOps: Effective Engineering Management
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Work-life balance: A perspective from Jack Nicklaus
55 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python
55 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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NYC Emergency Executive Order 225
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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There's currently a British guy called Lord Miles in Kabul having a great time
54 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
54 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Launch HN: Tavus (YC S21) – AI-generated personalized videos for sales outreach
54 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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My rant about React
54 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Main sci-hub.do domain was banned
54 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: BerylDB – a small key-value database
54 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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What Is Value?
54 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Savvy Punditry Isn’t Smart
54 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Pandas Manual [pdf]
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Unfolding the Hippocampus
54 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ticket Monkey
54 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Hue Color Comparisons (2019)
54 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Launch HN: Financial Choice (YC S21) – Checking accounts with market returns
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional – Uber
54 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby
54 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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HBO is about to lose 5M customers, and it isn’t concerned
54 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Freshly disclosed vulnerability CVE-2021-20090 exploited in the wild
54 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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ChaosDB: Unauthorized Privileged Access to Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
54 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy
54 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years
53 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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A Tale of Two Copies
53 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Why do the children pretend play? [pdf]
53 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library
53 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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ISPs quietly selling netflow data, can be used to trace traffic through VPNs
53 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)
53 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
53 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Liquid cooling next-gen servers getting hands-on
53 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Getting Started with QEMU (2018)
53 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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In praise of the lesser known siblings of mythology
53 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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For centuries, England’s go-to apple utensil was a sheep bone
53 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Questions about Trees (2020)
53 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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A tweet cost him his doctorate: the extent of China’s influence on Swiss Unis
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo Then Deletes It: 80 Gbps and Pam-3
53 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Best resources to support a partner with depression?
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Attitude Determines Your Success
53 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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FairyTailor: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Storytelling
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Writing Great Alt Text: Emotion Matters
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Merchants can keep charging your card even if it's cancelled/expired
53 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
53 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Stacked/Accordian-style presentation of pages that are already visited
53 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Spherical Panoramas
53 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized
53 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Australian Citizen is told that he wasn't a citizen when renewing his passport
52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Codesigning, untrusted CAs and why certain Mac apps aren’t launching
52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly
52 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Children of the night: the strange and epic tale of modern Romania
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Yescrypt – Scalable KDF and password hashing scheme
52 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Coinbase slammed for terrible customer service after hackers drain accounts
52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Our vacation rental had surveillance cameras. The landlord used them a lot
52 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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When Amazon Customers Leave Negative Reviews, Some Sellers Hunt Them Down
52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Sea monsters and their inspiration: serpents, mermaids, the kraken and more
52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Launching Rust Cloud Native
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Social media should be treated like the tobacco companies
52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Where did this interaction come from? – a brief history of interaction design
52 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Specifying Installation Requirements for Python Projects
52 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?
52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Notes on Living in Los Angeles
52 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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DOS Haven: 21st century DOS games
52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks
52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Frontpage – Terms of Service; Didn't Read
52 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Lee “Scratch” Perry inventor of Dub dies at 85
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Whats your ideal PhD workflow
52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Germany arrests British diplomat suspected of spying for Russia
52 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Online Trolls Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds
52 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Apple’s $100M settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for devs
52 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’
52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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How mindfulness could make you selfish
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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How the airline industry got wise to seat belts
52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics
52 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Workers don’t want their old jobs on the old terms
52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Why does validating a user require 14000 files?
52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Our most dazzling self-taught students may find college admission difficult
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021