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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Self-Control and Grit: Related but Separable Determinants of Success
24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Check if your bank is funding the fossil fuel industry
24 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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How politics became a contest dominated by two kinds of elite
24 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Industry Towns – Where You Start a Company Matters (2019)
24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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New poo, new you? Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice
24 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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R/NoNewNormal has been quarantined
24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes Might Claim Abusive Relationship in Criminal Fraud Defense
24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Stories of how my research papers were published
24 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts
24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (1995) [pdf]
24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Tim Sweeney praises public domain and GPL software; hints at GPL Epic
24 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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If the Hardiest Species Are Boiled Alive, What Happens to Humans?
24 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Paris speed limit falls to 30km/h (19mph)
24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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NSA Awards Secret $10B Contract to Amazon
24 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Show HN: LiaScript - Markdown for interactive and open online courses
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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My Kids Are Straight-A Students and They Know Nothing (2017)
24 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Show HN: ETSD – Transmit sensitive data encrypted across your organization
24 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Tesla will recycle 100% of its batteries in-house, says the 2020 Impact Report
24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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What better to incorporate a Deleware C-Corp. Clerky or Stripe Atlas and why?
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Show HN: Pylectronics – Reproduce digital electronics in Python
24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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VRBO refusing to offer direct refunds to people in Tahoe Basin
24 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits an athlete
24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Astra Test Launch 6 suffers anomalies [video]
24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Hora 0.1, maybe the fastest AI search algorithm library
24 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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I used to love Bootstrap. God, now I just hate it
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Excel 4, Yes Excel 4, Can Haunt Your Cloud Security
24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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You Can (Probably) Still Drink the World's Oldest Bottle of Wine
24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Increased error rates for DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 Region
24 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Google Pay team reportedly in major upheaval after botched app revamp
24 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Climate Change Kills the Future
24 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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T-Mobile apparently lied to government to get Sprint merger approval,ruling says
24 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
24 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Florida Sheriff's Office Now Notifying People Of Inflicting Pre-Crime Program
24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
24 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Google Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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The labor shortage is the catalyst for sustained inflation
24 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Difference between DevOps, SecOps and DevSecOps
24 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Ask HN: What the HN of Cryptocurrency?
24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Intel’s Gracemont Small Core Eclipses Last-Gen Big Core Performance
24 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity (2012) [pdf]
24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Throwing 99 bottles (of OOP) in the trash
24 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident overseas from leaving
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Any recourse for a f***ed contract?
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Accenture hit with ransomware attack; file publication expected today
23 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Twitch Finally Gets Around to Letting Banned Streamers Know Why They Were Banned
23 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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A Limitlessly Scalable Transaction System
23 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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1960’s Afghanistan Was Different Before the Taliban (2016)
23 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent
23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The sea was never blue (2017)
23 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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OpenAI Codex
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Scratching the surface: perf stat and Hyper-Threading
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Operation Dissimulation: WW2'S Biggest Deception Campaigns
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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GM Recalls All Chevy Bolt Electric Vehicles
23 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How CUE wins
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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AWS US-WEST-2 region (Oregon) is having issues
23 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The xterm terminal emulator can do a lot more than just display text
23 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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US unleashes B-52s in bid to stem Taliban advance
23 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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FDA set to grant approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data
23 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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S.F. restaurant's $72 fried rice was a runaway hit and also the chef's nightmare
23 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Scottish Government wants to make emergency Covid powers permanent
23 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Carbon Footprint Sham – A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign
23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The product manual for NSO's Pegasus spyware [pdf]
23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Show HN: A C# library to help you enforce a Given-When-Then structured Unit test
23 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Google shuts down unified health division as chief leaves company
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are discontinued, says Google
23 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Understanding Monads. A Guide for the Perplexed (2017)
23 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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YouTube suspends filmmaker Oliver Ressler’s account without warning
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Woman ordered to pay $30K for defamation by BC Supreme Court for online review
23 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
23 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Steam Is Down
23 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco
23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Remote work should be a permanent employee benefit
23 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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US Birth-to-Death Ratio Nearing One
23 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock
23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Staying Visual in a CLIP World
23 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes
23 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The Many (Manga) Portrayals of Cesare Borgia (2011)
23 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Grafana Labs Raises $220M Round at $3B Valuation
23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Frisco kids are making $32,000 a month mining Ethereum
23 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Original source code of various Commodore computers and peripherals
23 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Public Statement from Bob Ross Inc
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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New US Antitrust Bill Would Require Apple, Google to Allow 3rd-Party App Stores
23 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Ask HN: What is it like to work at Facebook in your 40s (or older)?
22 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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4G LTE Coverage as of May 15, 2021 (AT&T, T-Mobile, UScellular, Verizon)
22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java application
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Beginning Woodworking
22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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It looks like a product but is a subscription
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Stripe charges twice when payment form is translated. They want me to chargeback
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'
22 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea – Computerphile [video]
22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Live Murder Hornet Spotted in Washington State
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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My Homebuilt 200W Laser (2016) [video]
22 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Electric Cars and Batteries: How Will the World Produce Enough?
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021