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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The Era of Easier Voting for Disabled People Is Over
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Impact of Pocket Listings on Housing
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Which processed foods are better than natural?
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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SPA hexagon: Robust app architecture for mobile and web
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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DockerHub Pushing Issues
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Inside The Reddit Forum That Wants to See Bitcoin Die
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Unclassified Summary of Assessment on Covid-19 Origins
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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WHO seeks 'best minds' to probe new pathogens that jump from animals to humans
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Infrastructure bill program will test the feasibility of road usage fees
14 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes gives birth as Theranos fraud trial nears
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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SEC approves Nasdaq's plan to require board diversity
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Hedge Funds Want to Stay Popular
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ode to a Streaming ByteString
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Adumbrations of Aducanumab
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Rethinking Climate Change: The path to 90% emissions reductions by 2035
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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If you’re vaccinated, your main risk from the Delta variant is long-haul
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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As office returns get postponed, workers say they’d take pay cut to wfh
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Ask HN: What is it like working in tech internationally?
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer Breaks All Established Industry Standards
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Confessions of a Sid Meier’s Civilization Addict
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Does your job make the world a better place?
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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NIH scientists develop faster Covid test
14 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A collection of lessons for early stages of building a marketplace
14 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Senators press FB for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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What to Know About the Spying Scandal Linked to Israeli Tech Firm NSO
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Simone de Beauvoir’s Lost Novel of Early Love
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Chinese officials pressured WHO investigation to drop lab-leak hypothesis
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Deniser – Amiga Denise chip replacement
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Paseto Is an Even More Secure Alternative to the JOSE Standards (JWT, etc.)
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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US proof-of-vaccination cards are the wrong size to fit in wallets
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Red Cross Nurse Injects 8,600 with Saline Instead of Covid Vaccine
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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DDR5-4800 Clashes with DDR4-3200 in Alder Lake Benchmarks
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Melatonin may decrease risk for and aid treatment of Covid-19
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the best way to find ideas for niche paying side projects?
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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QR codes have replaced restaurant menus. Industry experts say it isn’t a fad
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A Three-Pronged Attack by Chinese Military Actors Against Major Telcos
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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It Is Immoral to Be a Billionaire
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The secret trauma that inspired German literary giant WG Sebald
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Ask HN: What to do post FI(hypothetically)?
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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JScript
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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It’s time to ban autonomous killer robots before they become a threat (ft.com)
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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A guide to spot-readiness in Kubernetes
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer System
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Show HN: Paper – Bookmarking and note-taking extension for VSCode
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Tesla pure vision FSD Beta completes LA to SF border trip with no disengagements
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Ask HN: How to Stay Organized?
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Windows 365 Pricing Revealed
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged?
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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How to Prepare for Gmail’s Rollout of BIMI
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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I have trained StyleGAN2 from scratch with a dataset of female portraits
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Google docs on Firefox unusable for everyone, or just me?
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect service
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Futurists have their heads in the clouds
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Pining For Feudalism As An Antidote For Modernity (2011)
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Psychology is in a crisis. But not the one you’re thinking of
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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American Shoppers Are a Nightmare
13 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Surging Delta Cases Reverses the March Back to the Office
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Ending Social Media Censorship and the Meteoric Rise of Substack
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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An Analysis of Apple Engraving Censorship Across Six Regions
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Covid origin: US spy agencies publish 'inconclusive' report
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Cory Doctorow on the technological debt in machine learning
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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3-6-3 Rule
13 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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RG3D – Rust 3D Game Engine
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Why do contractors exist if they charge the same as a FAANG FTE?
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Amazon’s New World is shaping up to be Big Tech’s first video game hit
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Is Twitter Dead for Interesting Discussion?
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Detours: Software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications
13 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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What makes agile software development agile?
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram [video]
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The lesson from the past year: Poverty is a policy choice
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf]
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Using Open Source Tools at Your Company
13 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Apple exec: ‘we are the greatest platform for distributing child porn’
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Australian Covid vaccine certificates can be forged within 10 minutes
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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US Senate puts $40k cap on price of electric cars that qualify for EV tax credit
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Media glosses over upsides and caveats in IPCC report
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at PG after collision with athlete
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Blockchains are the new app stores
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Economic Effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown in the US: Cure Worse Than the Disease?
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The Pixel 6, Google’s Take on an ‘Ultra High End’ Phone
13 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Bernard Arnault Becomes World’s Richest Person
13 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Clean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Illinois Bought Invasive Phone Location Data from Banned Broker Safegraph
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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We have to accept some risk of Covid-19
13 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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tHis is a Big troLl
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Covid vaccine safety system has gaps that may miss unexpected side effects
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Germany ‘set for biggest rise in greenhouse gases for 30 years’
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021