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Hacker News (Aug 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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Net Positive
41 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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LineageOS for MicroG
41 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Perl Foundation faces more departures
41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Dasher: Information-efficient text entry (2007) [video]
41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Nike's End of Men
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Redis Labs is now simply, Redis
41 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Are our immune systems out of practice?
41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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A new path: vm86-based venix emulator
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Good Software Takes 10 Years to Make (2008)
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Scientists discover how high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields
41 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Gall’s Law and how I ignored it
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Ads Don't Work That Way (2014)
41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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More Is More: The End of Minimalism
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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SEC Charges Decentralized Finance Lender for Raising $30M
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Texas Instruments new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague
40 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this
40 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Programmers Don’t Understand Hash Functions
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Google Play Had a Profit of $8.5 USD Billion in 2019 with Margins of 62 Percent
40 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Ask HN: What has improved You as a Developer?
40 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Bonkers Cyclocopter Flies in a Unusual Way
40 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Capturing the Disappearing Sounds of the Workplace
40 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The Day the Space Station Lurched
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Fuck Going Back to the Office
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Plasma Kinetics May Revolutionize Hydrogen Storage for EVs
40 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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When does living your “best single life” backfire?
40 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Convincing Xcode to map Vim keys
40 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Full vaccination suppresses SARS-CoV-2 delta variant mutation frequency
40 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Afghan civilians cling to landing gear of USAF planes and fall to their death
40 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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GM recalls every Chevy Bolt ever made, blames LG for faulty batteries
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets [pdf]
40 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?
40 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Expanded Protections for Children – FAQ [pdf]
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia
40 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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US subsidizes oil and gas so investors never lose
40 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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No Surprise, Uber and Lyft Lied About Helping Workers
40 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Think Sustainability Is Simple? This Sheep Farmer Would Like a Word
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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You Don't Need a Good Idea to Start a Great Company
40 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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What’s ugliest about M1 Macs and needs improvement
40 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Second Hottest July in Europe on Record, Third Warmest July on Record Globally
40 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Some Ways that PyPy uses Graphviz
39 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)
39 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Lulu is the free and open source macOS firewall (like Little Snitch)
39 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
39 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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“Apple has removed iDOS 2 from AppStore, citing the same old 2.5.2.”
39 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Show HN: C++ virtual_vec vector implementation
39 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?
39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell
39 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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K/V Benchmark: PostgreSQL vs. Redis vs. Memcached
39 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Indie developer turned down a pretty big game publishing contract
39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Afghanistan: Taliban to reap $1T mineral wealth
39 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Japan finds more contaminated Moderna vaccines
39 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $2M
39 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion
39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918
39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Philosophers Should Care about Computational Complexity [pdf]
39 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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The Stealthy Politics of Urban Advertising
39 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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A person without abnormalities learned to change his pupil size
39 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Tell HN: Stripe shut down my 4-year business with no explanation
39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Who Are the Taliban?
39 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Supernova shoots a dying star made of metal out of Milky Way at 2M MPH
39 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry About It
39 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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MIT Researchers Make Hydrogen Fuel from Aluminum and Water
39 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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A Subway Named Mobius (1952)
39 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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We Ship Every Week
39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Environmental awareness: Tackling waste management at CERN
39 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Waymo Post: How We’ve Built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver
39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Aesthetics Wiki
39 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The WWW is 30 years old today
39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Design a Camera with Python and PyRayT: Part One – Fotonix and Gizmos
39 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Rich Don't Penny Pinch
39 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle
38 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Microsoft deleted all comments on its Windows 11 outreach video
38 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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1982 Exxon Memo to Management About CO2 Greenhouse Effect
38 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Musk says Starship orbital stack to be ready for flight in few weeks
38 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding –-- to the URL
38 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Poseidon’s Wrath
38 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Conversations on Quantum Gravity
38 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Death of Behavioral Economics
38 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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PonderNet: Annotated PyTorch Implementation
38 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Internet and TV providers get away with jacking up your bill
38 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet
38 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Water management innovation is central to the future of ICs
38 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Hit '.' On Any GitHub Repo
38 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Regulators Are Investigating Boeing's Safety Culture Amid Engineers Complaints
38 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Windows 10 blocks Potentially Unwanted Apps by default now
38 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”
38 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY
38 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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My Dad’s Argus C3 (2019)
38 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Jabs mostly fend off the Delta strain but breakthroughs are infectious
38 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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White House More Than Doubles Its Inflation Forecast in New Update
38 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Asteroid Bennu now has a greater chance of hitting Earth through 2300
38 points • comment • aug 15, 2021