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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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38M Records Were Exposed Online–Including Contact-Tracing Info
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Karl Menger’s Vienna Colloquium
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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What Happened to the Democrats Who Never Accepted Bush's Reelection (2020)
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Is the Fed creating a housing bubble by keeping rates low?
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Should I even bother competing for React jobs?
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Hit by Ida, New Orleans faces weeks without power
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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NumWorks Calculator Changes Licensing (June 2021)
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Source of America’s Rising Rage
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Secret Bank Behind the Fintech Boom
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Ain is a terminal API client
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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King Tut’s Mysterious Black Dagger Was Truly Out of This World
15 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Duke profs almost made $2M off public domain images
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Two-Front War on Academic Standards
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The Philosophy of Posthumous Art
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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6.2M Burmese could go hungry by October
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The U.S. ignored corruption within the Afghan government. Did that lead to fall?
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t (2018)
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Free or cheap UI design course?
15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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The Sunk Cost “Fallacy” Is Not a Fallacy
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Awingu: Simpler Citrix alternative
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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'Black Myth: Wukong' trailer shows off Unreal Engine 5 gameplay with DLSS on
15 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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I covered Hong Kong for decades. Now I am forced to flee China’s ‘white terror’
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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NYPD spent $159M on surveillance tech
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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High Voltage SID Collection – Commodore 64 music for the masses
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
15 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Does London need a gigantic glowing orb the height of Big Ben?
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you use a Linux-first laptop? (System76, Librem, Dell XPS Dev Ed)
15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The inflation-adjusted SP500 has never recovered from the 2000 peak
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Fixing under-engineered code vs. fixing over-engineered code
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Glowworm Attack – Optical Tempest Sound Recovery via a Power Indicator LED
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Will [US-collected] fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: List of the top 100 open startups (with revenue displayed)
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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All Biomass in one graphic. Humans only 0.01%
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Installation of M-13 (“Katyusha”)
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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What Are You Willing to Sacrifice to Stop Climate Change?
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The California tourist town that’s running out of water: ‘It’s a shock’
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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La Puente man steals 620k iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Nuclear reactor making fusion viable by 2030
15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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GitHub Codespaces is generally available
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Senators have a deal on the crypto amendment, and Treasury won’t oppose it
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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FBI funded neo-Nazi book publisher, court docs reveal
15 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Hacker News Summary Service (HNSS)
15 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Ethereum inventor says blockchain with 'run the metaverse' in ten years
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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OnlyFans Reverses Its Decision
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Platform Engineer
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone had a positive mentor/mentee experience as a software engineer?
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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SpaceX Preps 'Ruggedized' Starlink Dish for Cars, Boats, and Planes – PCMag
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Portrait Gallery
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Emergency SOS on Your iPhone
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: What we as community can do to adopt IPv6 faster?
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Covid-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents (PDF; Aug 22)
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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#TSLAQ
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Show HN: KSON Is JSON with SQL and Networking
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Don't Rush to Adopt QUIC
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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mRNA Vaccine Badge
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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This is Why I Stick with Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops for Linux
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Bringing more reliable context to conversations on Twitter
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Germany’s hidden hunger: On the breadline in Europe’s richest country (2017)
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Story of Neo Geo (2020) [video]
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Mask mandate and use efficacy for Covid-19 containment in US States
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Julia Computing funded by DARPA to Build AI-Based Digital Phased Arrays w/ GPUs
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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US Army fields first combat-capable laser weapon prototype
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Travels the World: The Story of the Indian SCL6502
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Firefox browser UI is a web page (link only works on Firefox)
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Human shielding and how things impact a person
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Spanish village tells tourists to suck up roosters and braying donkeys
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Google gave phone makers extra money to ditch third-party app stores
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction?
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Goodreads' Problem with Extortion Scams and Review Bombing
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Household debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15T in second quarter
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Aircraft ADS data can be used to map winds
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Starlink's network faces significant limitations, analysts find
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Perceptrons: The building blocks of Deep Learning
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Do people hire for A+ certification
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Is your name ruining your life?
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How to Deal with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
14 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Product frameworks for the challenges every founder faces
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Why You Suddenly Need to Delete Google Chrome
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Facebook Is Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Google co-founder Larry Page is now a New Zealand resident
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The gems in Java 16 and Java 17
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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U.S. officials provided Taliban with names of Americans, Afghan allies
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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TCP BBR – Exploring TCP congestion control
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Droning On
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Louis Rossmann: More NYC businesses refuse to become vaccine police
14 points • comment • aug 16, 2021