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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Ask HN: How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?
48 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities
48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Who Owns In-Chip Monitoring Data?
48 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't
48 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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A Simple Interpreter in Python
48 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines
47 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Cutting off jobless benefits is found to get few back to work
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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CryptoHack – A fun free platform for learning cryptography
47 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet
47 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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How to Replicate This Business That Is Selling for $400K on Flippa
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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A straightforward way to extend CSV with metadata
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Myths of the Digital Native (2015)
47 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The Highbrow Neanderthal
47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling
47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon folk dance (2011) [video]
47 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Pentagon will require all troops to get Covid vaccine by Sept. 15
47 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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America’s losing battle against diabetes
47 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?
47 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Apple's New Child Safety Technology Might Harm More Kids Than It Helps
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Nftables 1.0.0 Released
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley
47 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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How the Taliban Overran the Afghan Army, Built by the U.S. over 20 Years
47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Long-haul symptoms affect majority of Covid-19 patients, UA study finds
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The Programming Language B (1973)
47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
47 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Cleaning Up Git History
47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian
47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Police Misuse of Facial Recognition – Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting
47 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Book Recommendations
47 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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New York Times Tech Staff to Walk Out, Escalating Union Fight
46 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Apple Ships Mysterious macOS 11.5.2 Update
46 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Balaji: The collapse in state capacity has not been priced in
46 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct
46 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Naming Origami Models
46 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
46 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Mobile phones on aircraft
46 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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GR-1 Anvil – world’s first handheld Gauss Rifle
46 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Who Is Your Audience?
46 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Intel locks down all remaining TSMC 3nm production capacity
46 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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SaaS Blocks 2.0 – tools for building a SaaS app
46 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Climate change is here, it’s a crisis, and it’s caused by fossil fuels
46 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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CIA’s turn to admit to its fiasco
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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We’re All Investors Now (2013)
46 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
46 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Super Mario 64 on the Web
46 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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How private is my VPN?
46 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Amazon GDPR fine is a game changer for privacy tech startups
46 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database
46 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Nailgun: A Rust DNS performance testing client
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Show HN: Script to compare Postgres data between two points in time
45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Big Tech Is Coming to Small-Town America, but at What Cost?
45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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It’s not that hard to be in the top 10% of your field
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Major Outage on Reddit
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Show HN: Hypergraph, a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Influential books on Computer Science and programming
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents
45 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Writing Consistent Tools (2019)
45 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games
45 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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System CPU Usage and Glibc
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange
45 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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New Zealand Covid-19 Delta outbreak spreading rapidly as cases jump
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Quaternion Quantum Mechanics [video]
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Multi-Chip Intel Core I9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
45 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Robot police dog that scans homeless people sparks debate
45 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Wigner Crystals (2017)
45 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband
45 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health
45 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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World’s Largest Solar-Powered Battery Is Now 75% Complete
45 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Craig Federighi Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features
45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Instagram launches hate-speech 'limits' to hide abuse
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Should it be legal to switch privacy policies after purchase?
45 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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RetroBar: Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP taskbar for modern Windows
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Postman raises $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Show HN: Tomatotree.tv – Find your next series to watch using Rotten Tomatoes
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
45 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Firefox Lost Almost 50M Users: Here’s Why It Is Concerning
45 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)
45 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Focus: Assign multiple engineers to the same task
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Technological Prudence: What the Amish Can Teach Us (2011) [pdf]
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe Covid-19 look like
44 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Perhaps WSL2 Should Be a Wake-Up Call
44 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A growing area of high-hazard clearcuts and plantations are fueling forest fires
44 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Peer recognition works better than bonuses
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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A Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data (2014)
44 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The math that says egalitarianism is possible
44 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 17.2M rps DDoS attack
44 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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GNU Taler 0.8
44 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021