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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe
30 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is still sinking
30 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The 'snake' who saved the monarchy
30 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Off-grid shower heated by compost
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Overweight/obesity of 5-11 yr olds increased from 36% to 45% during the pandemic
30 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead of Hurricane Ida
29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Investigation Finds 37% of Japan Businesses Are Guilty of Illegal Overtime Work
29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Steve Jobs on Privacy (2010) [video]
29 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Ask HN: What does database (internals) development look like?
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules
29 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Distributed consensus (blockchain) simulation and visualization
29 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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If you’re vaccinated, risk from the Delta variant is probably long-haul Covid
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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The Wendelstein 7-X Nuclear Fusion Device Concept Proves Its Efficiency
29 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A new algorithm to compute minimal surfaces [pdf]
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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MIT graduates cannot power a light bulb with a battery
29 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it
29 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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John Rawls: Visions of Justice
29 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Reversing the Pokémon Snap Station Without a Snap Station
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Gaming can officially improve mental health: 5 essential relaxing titles to play
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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APK Editor Studio v1.5.0
29 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Ruthless Prioritization
29 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Steven Seagal on Hook for SEC Crypto Fine Despite Move to Moscow
29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Life Without Google: Australia Is Now Facing the Unthinkable
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Newtonian physics IS deterministic (sorry Norton) (2017)
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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An Ode to Marmara
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Show HN: Made an internal communication app with just SWIFTUI
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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SPWN – A programming language that compiles to Geometry Dash levels
29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Pumpers, Dumpers, and Shills: The Skycoin Saga
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Best of .bashrc
29 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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To catch a paedophile, you only need to look at their hands (2017)
29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Can we have two golds?
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Kids Can’t Use Computers
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams (2020)
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Block io recycling can improve io_uring almost 10% in high IOPS scenarios
29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Twitter locked the dnalounge account; won't tell which tweet was abusive
29 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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“Belarusian Cyber-Partisans” Hacked the Belarusian Police and Interior Ministry
29 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row
29 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Automatic daily updates for over 8000 Debian packages
29 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Debian celebrates our 28th Anniversary
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Horton Hears a Whostyle
28 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Can ‘smart thinking’ books give you the edge?
28 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A few useful Xcode debugging tricks
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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ONE MILLION! (2011)
28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship
28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, Israel Study Suggests
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Ian Fleming and American intelligence (Part 1) (2011)
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Apple Discusses “Screeching Voices of the Minority” in Internal Memos
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Windows 11 won’t give up on making it super annoying to swap browsers
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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A Framework for the Metaverse
28 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Inverted Totalitarianism
28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Rob Pike Essentials
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Britney Spears: 'I got my first iPad today'
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Afghanistan: We Never Learn
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The Cold War Fashion Showdown
28 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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T. rex’s jaw had sensors to make it an even more fearsome predator
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The age of the à la carte internet
28 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Caltech's Most Famous Pranks
28 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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New NTSB chief warns against false claims on automated driving
28 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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South Atlantic Anomaly
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Video game addiction: China imposes gaming curfew for minors
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The US Government Lied for Two Decades on Afghanistan
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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You don't need external assets in an HTML file
28 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Lex Fridman at the Joe Rogan Experience [audio]
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software
28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?
28 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Blue Origin Sues NASA over Lunar Lander Contract Given to Rival SpaceX
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Ask HN: Any HN users with ties to Afghanistan or adjacent regions?
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York
28 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Photos app gets worse with every single update
28 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The GAFAM poster campaign toolkit
28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Why so many workers have lost interest in their jobs
28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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MIT's “Small ITS” Logo timesharing system
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Top of My Todo List (2012)
27 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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T-Mobile is definitely not trying to charge you $10 more
27 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Disgraced Theranos founder will blame ‘abusive’ ex-boyfriend in fraud trial
27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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An emulator for the Elliott 803
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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SEC Chairman Says Banning Payment for Order Flow Is ‘On the Table’
27 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech Debt
27 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Is Britain becoming more meritocratic than America?
27 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Intel 486: 30 years old and still fascinating
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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So Long, Traditional Lawn. Conventional grass is costly, high-maintenance
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Hackers steal $600m in major cryptocurrency heist
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Silicon Valley's Fake Diversity Problem
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations (2020)
27 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A Brief Introduction to Termios
27 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Unstable Rust Features
27 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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“This Is Going to Change the World” (The Failure of the Segway)
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Patera – Dynamic Documents
27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Nftables 1.0.0 Release
27 points • comment • aug 20, 2021