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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Getting old is a crisis more and more Americans can’t afford
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Self-Hosting a Blog Mailing List
22 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Show HN: Practice Python Projects eBook for beginners
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single Covid Case
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
22 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Microsoft Kin
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Is Covid-19 making us irrational?
22 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’
22 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Chinese breakfasts are almost beyond the imagination
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Graphreader: Extract Values from Graph Images
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich?
22 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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48 pct of Americans say government should restrict “false” information online
22 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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NLRB recommends Amazon union election results be scrapped over improprieties
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Taxing the Rich Is Failing to Ease the Global Housing Crunch
22 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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“Inescapable” Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known Covid Strains
22 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
22 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Association of Myocarditis in Children with Messenger RNA Covid-19 Vaccine
22 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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I Failed My Startup and Tactical Advice So You Don’t Fail Yours (2 of 4)
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women
22 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Show HN: Certificate Maker Built with GSlide, Gsheets and Gmail
22 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Paragon NTFS driver might finally make it into Linux
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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MDcat – Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converter
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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WHO calls for moratorium on booster vaccines
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Has the Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Failed?
22 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error Correction
22 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Project Horizon – Technical Considerations and Plans (1959) [pdf]
22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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A Pacific Gold Rush
22 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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On Variance and Extensibility
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Yahoo Pipes
22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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OnlyFans’ inexplicable ban on porn might be explained by this BBC investigation
22 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Anti-Sabotage Your Hiring
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you ever written code that you later regretted for ethical reasons?
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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A Case Against Dynamic Linking
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Scales for building your own slide rule (1999)
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Programmatic ads are no longer allowed on Reddit
21 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Johnson and Johnson’s HIV vaccine fails first efficacy trial
21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Science Saturday: How disease, diet, and genomics interact with gut virome
21 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Kubegres: Kubernetes Operator for Postgress
21 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The State of Python in 2021
21 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The study of obesity is the study of mysteries
21 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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As deadly weather disasters sweep globe, is a 1.5°C warming target impossible?
21 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Lawmaker says Facebook move to cut off researcher access is 'deeply concerning'
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-Less OLED with 25% Less Power
21 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big Bang debate
21 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The Censored: Hitler
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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CookUnity fabricated an order with random items and charged my credit card
21 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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On Veganism – and why it shouldn't be easily mocked and written off
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Hush-Hush Boom-Boom: Spymasters
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Why Lying About Storage Products Is Bad: An IBM DeskStar Story
21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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OSU Bipedal Robot First to Run 5K
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The FDA Should Remove Its Restrictions on the ‘Abortion Pill’ Mifepristone
21 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Why America keeps building corrupt client states
21 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Maze: Applied Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Problems
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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uBlock Origin – Free, open-source ad content blocker
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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'We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub'
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Achieving 2.5Gbps with the UDM Pro
21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Blue hydrogen is worse for the climate than coal
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Endgame for Cryptocurrency
21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Queer Past Gets Deleted on eBay
21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor of California?
21 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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pg_timetable: Advanced Scheduling for PostgreSQL
21 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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“We are set on a path that looks disastrous”: Alabama hospitals near collapse
21 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: A Pure SQL Raytracer
21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Bagram’s new Taliban masters uncover horrors of US jail in Afghanistan
21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking
21 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report
21 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Dixie Fire Is Now the Largest Single Wildfire in California History
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Understand and Reduce Your Technical Debt
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Zambia: Social media blocked amid 2021 general elections
21 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: Facata – Connect to SQL Databases from Python
21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A Diet Lacking in Tryptophan Alters Gut Microbiota, Increases Inflammation
21 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Pfizer to pay $2.3B, agrees to criminal plea (2009)
21 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Why we don't waterbomb at night?
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers?
21 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
21 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Mexico Helped the Times Get Its Journalists Out of Afghanistan
21 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Force Click for Layer Selection
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Buried in the 2700 page infrastructure bill
21 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”
21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Solar-Powered Refrigeration Trucks Will Cut Pollution from Idling Diesel Engines
21 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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FTC rejects Facebook justification for cutting off NYU researchers as inaccurate
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Common Problems with Bank Partners
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Stop Using UI Frameworks
21 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Facebook's Atlantic Coucil
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2021