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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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GNU Taler 0.8
44 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project Studying Misinformation
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Learnfun and playfun: a general technique for automating NES games (2013)
44 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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What’s it like living with a phenomenal memory and can it be learned?
44 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Nissan's Leaf S is now the cheapest EV in the US at $27,400
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
44 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Mean World Syndrome
44 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?
44 points • comment • aug 30, 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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My debloating experience with Poco F3
44 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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US Forces Being “Rushed” to Kabul Airport as Embassy Evacuation Underway
44 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work (2020)
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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A Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data (2014)
44 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe, 11 Mar 2010
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Co-Founder and Former CEO of Headspin Charged with Fraud
44 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Texas Power Grid Is Hanging on by Its Fingernails
44 points • comment • aug 12, 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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2 Hackers are suing the Iowa sheriff who imprisoned them for pentesting
43 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Google’s new ad goes full Jony Ive on the Pixel 5A headphone jack
43 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Why Teslas Keep Striking Parked Firetrucks and Police Cars
43 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Person from Porlock
43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Metal artifacts in Southeast Asia challenge long-held archaeological theory
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media
43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon
43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Aaron Swartz
43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'
43 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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China takes down Duolingo, Memrise, and other foreign language learning apps
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Nuclear scientists as assassination targets (2012)
43 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Vaccination Should Be Compulsory
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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OnionShare with Just Tor and Redbean
43 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Tests show all driver assist systems can be fooled
43 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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University moves 70-ton rock off campus after student backlash
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing with Tesla Bot
43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Overview Effect
43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Oatly loses trademark battle against British farm over oat milk
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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California’s proposed new math curriculum defies logic
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Danny DeVito was unverified on Twitter after supporting union strike
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast as fiber or cable
43 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Pitfalls of Data Anonymization
43 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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PNG File Chunk Inspector
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild
43 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: flagship features at half the price
43 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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What science can tell us about C and C++'s security (2020)
43 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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On Diego Rivera
43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Julian Assange: US extradition bid gets a legal boost
43 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Demand for air conditioning is set to surge by 2050
43 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Only action against corruption can solve the world’s biggest problems
43 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics
43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Ask HN: How do I reliably prevent autoplay in Firefox 91?
43 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?
42 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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China Propaganda Network Targets BBC Media, UK in Large-Scale Influence Campaign
42 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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SF school board recall hits critical milestone to qualify for the ballot
42 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Mkinitcpio v31 and UEFI Stubs
42 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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A Long, Painful History of Time (1999)
42 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Multiple subreddits are acknowledging the misinformation being spread on Reddit
42 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Security researcher receives $1M bug bounty for saving company from $350M bug
42 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: KmCaster – display keyboard and mouse events on-screen
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Show HN: Connecting Arduino and Android
42 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The Other Invisible Hand
42 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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PG_DBMS_JOB – PostgreSQL extension for Oracle DBMS_JOB compatibility
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Feeding cows seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions from their burps
42 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Declined invitations go over more graciously when lack of money is cited
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators
42 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Cancel Me: John Cleese to present Channel 4 show on ‘woke’ thought
42 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Turing Uncomputability
42 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Delta variant will acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Those of you who left tech, where are you now?
42 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Bay Area residents fighting a mysterious startup taking over their quiet street
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2021)
42 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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GM expands recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs including EUV, blames LG
42 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Google may cut pay of staff who work from home
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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South African Unemployment Rate Rises to 34.4%(Highest in the World)
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Generate art from any text with deep learning
42 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Perl Foundation faces more departures
41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Kroah's Game Reverse Engineering Page
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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ChaosDB: We hacked thousands of Azure customers’ databases
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Rivian Files for IPO, Seeking About $80B Valuation
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Lignum Nephriticum
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Index cards are pretty cool (2009)
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Show HN: Hippobase – easily self-host open source databases
41 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them
41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Barbie launches six new dolls celebrating female scientists
41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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OnlyFans shows Visa and MasterCard are 'choke-points' of online speech
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Scientists discover how high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields
41 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Nike's End of Men
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying
41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Gall’s Law and how I ignored it
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Things I have learned from creating my own SaaS
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go into the Office Again
41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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More Is More: The End of Minimalism
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Linux Evangelist Turned Dentist, handrolls all IT infra in his dentist practice
41 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Forgotten heroes of the Enigma Story (2018)
41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ads Don't Work That Way (2014)
41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015)
41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Apple pushes back against child abuse scanning concerns in new FAQ
41 points • comment • aug 09, 2021