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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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As China-Taiwan Tensions Rise, Japan Begins Preparing for Possible Conflict
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: This Idea Does Not Exist
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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What *exactly* does ASML sell? (Contains bonus flow in 17th tweet)
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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We need a free software license for distributed systems
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Henri becomes a hurricane as it moves toward the Northeast
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A Hell of Our Own Making
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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I built a fully automated YouTube channel, 10 months later, I've made $0.17
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It (Chomsky)
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The truth about lab-grown meat
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Rebase Considered Harmful
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Medallion Fund: The Ultimate Counterexample?
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Why is it a “red flag” if someone’s favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye?
17 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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For Every $1 We Spend on Food, We Rack Up $2 in Health and Environmental Damage
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Cox-Zucker_machine
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity (2020)
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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dns_deep_state – Find all secrets about DNS governing a domain
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Artist and Computer (1976)
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Deckhouse: NoOps Kubernetes platform
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ App to Cost at Least $27M
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Is Digital Ocean Down?
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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History of Dean Kamen's Segway
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Get That Job at Grab
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Orlando urges reduced water usage due to Covid-19 related liquid oxygen shortage
16 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Fairphone: Ethical, fairtrade and modular mobile phone
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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MIT study: revenue from 100k digital nomads would equal that of 2.5M tourists
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Editorial Response to BBC Click Article on IoT Device Security
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Of Course “changeme” Is Valid Base64 (2020)
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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A new way of blogging about Golang
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Cornell University – Important updates for faculty and instructional staff
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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College Was Supposed to Close the Wealth Gap for Black Americans
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The world is not near the end of the pandemic – epidemiologist Larry Brilliant
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Samsung Steps Back from Ads in Its Mobile Apps
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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With Covid-19, World Health Organisation's Fall from Grace Is Complete
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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100 Things You Should Know as a Software Engineer
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The Creativity Code
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Show HN: Dopaminite – I wasn't productive, so I built this tool for myself
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Zig Wrinkles
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late–here’s why
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Let's write a compiler, part 7: Arrays
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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WHO chief inspector says 'likely' patient zero was Wuhan lab researcher
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Keyboard Walk Processor (2018)
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Delta to add $200 monthly health insurance charge for unvaccinated staff
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Faraday Invented the Electric Motor, his mentor accused him of plagiarism
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Playdate Teardown
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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‘What do you think you’re doing?’: Sydneysiders stung for eating outside
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new Covid cases
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Why the Host of Jeopardy Matters
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Remove Video Background
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Auth0 Is Down
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Marxism for Newbies: Dialectical Materialism
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Pangrammatic Autograms (2019)
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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LightGBM vs. XGBoost: Which distributed version is faster?
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Amazon Fired Me for Reporting Gender Bias
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Pentagon Poised to Unveil, Demonstrate Classified Space Weapon
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Observe a Service; Not a Server
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to generate solar-power from space
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Just over 100 days of Libera Chat
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Z3 Made Unreasonably Easy
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Paint by Numbers: How Roger de Piles tabulated artistic merit
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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LED Light Spectrum Enhancement with Transparent Pigmented Glazes (2016)
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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When Monks Went Undercover to Steal Relics
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Google approved 85% of employee requests to work remotely or relocate
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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How to Remember What You Read
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, the Brains Sort-Of Developed Eyes
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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End of the Line for Uber
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Microsoft hires former Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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To Catch a Priest (with location data)
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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UMG Seems to Think It Copyrighted the Moon
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Facebook’s WhatsApp Takes Aim at Apple over Child Safety Software Plan
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Waymo has no viable business model
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Atlas – Partners in Parkour
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Dreadful Sanctuary
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Berlin court bans anti-lockdown protests
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Metabolism in adulthood does not slow as commonly believed, study finds
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The Respected Scientists Who Pushed for Alcohol Prohibition in 1920
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Pinball is reviving a small Illinois town
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Kanye West’s Quest for Perfection
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Mini human brains in petri dish end up growing eyes
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Why Year of the Linux Desktop Is Bullshit (2020)
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Flaws in John Deere Systems Show Agriculture's Cyber Risk
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Show HN: UI Guideline – No more friction between designers and developers
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Highest recorded temperature of 48.8C in Europe apparently logged in Sicily
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Our Journey Building Porter
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Watching America’s Crack-Up
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Elasticsearch official Python client changed to not work with forks
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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YouTube is forcing the popular Groovy Discord music bot offline
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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FBI to tech industry: China, Russia are blackmailing your employees into spying
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Russia, Iran and China to hold joint drills in Gulf
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Show HN: Minymon – cute and helpful pets for your website
15 points • comment • aug 19, 2021