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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
389 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Space Station incident demands independent investigation
388 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses
388 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
388 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes
387 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
385 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)
384 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes
384 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
384 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
383 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
381 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
380 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
380 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
380 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
378 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
378 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
378 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record
377 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
377 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
373 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)
372 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence
370 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]
368 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]
368 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Very fast rocket
365 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Sailfish 4
365 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
363 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
362 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
362 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)
362 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition
361 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags
361 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses
360 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
359 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
356 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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OpenAI Codex
356 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6
355 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)
353 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
352 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Stop Waiting for Godot
352 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
352 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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“My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”
350 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)
349 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults
347 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Google employees who work from home could lose money
346 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’
345 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Dating in Delhi when you're poor
344 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Charlie Watts has died
343 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
343 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Why is it so hard to be rational?
342 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers
342 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
341 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The complicated reality of doing what you love
341 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
341 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Clickbaitification of Netflix
341 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate
340 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors
340 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
337 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads
337 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
337 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021
336 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader
336 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023
335 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead
333 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Why Erlang?
331 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
331 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
328 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical
327 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
327 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework
327 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
326 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)
326 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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App store payments will have increased competition
326 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Thunderbird 91.0
323 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
323 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
322 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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How to Hack APIs in 2021
322 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
322 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse
321 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date
320 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm
320 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)
318 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free
318 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
317 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux
317 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]
317 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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We Hire Old People
316 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The rise of the one-person unicorn
315 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Helvetica Now Variable
315 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
314 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Postgres.app
313 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem
313 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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TikTok requests access to devices on local network
313 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo
312 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
312 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How to Remember What You Read
311 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Ancient Persian way to keep cool
308 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
307 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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My small revenge on Apple
306 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Google Groups kills RSS support without notice
305 points • comment • aug 16, 2021