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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Only Kabul Left Standing as Jalalabad Falls
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Great apes share salutations, like humans
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Prep Act Q&As
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Show HN: CreditHero – extend your AWS free credits
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Lie of Credit – American Express Tells Its Workers Capitalism Is Racist
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Moderna’s HIV Vaccine to Start Human Trials Early as Wednesday
13 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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New York Times editorial in support of drunk driving (1984)
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Petaluma, CA is the first town in America to ban new gas stations.
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Alder Lake Dumps AVX-512 in a Big Way
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Starlink presentation on orbital safety [pdf]
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator (2015)
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Session: A Private Messenger That Doesn't Need Phone Number
13 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The future of software, the end of apps (2013)
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Spanish engineers extract drinking water from thin air
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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PolyNetwork Suffers Record-Breaking $600.3M Hack
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Hunting Predators – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Afghans Tell of Executions, Forced ‘Marriages’ in Taliban-Held Areas
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Nearest Neighbor Indexes
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Tim Cook: Tech industry needs to rebuild user trust after privacy losses
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Remaking the Simpsons: Hit and Run with Unreal Engine
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Show HN: Fabform.io an Alternative to Google Forms
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Microsoft is bringing support for the Open Document Format ODF 1.3 to Office
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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EU moves to reintroduce Covid travel curbs on U.S. -diplomats
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Tracking a Woolly Mammoth
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Show HN: Free to play old-school browser MMORPG
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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CenturyLink selling copper network in 20 states instead of installing fiber
13 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Trump is not ruining democracy, we are
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Credit Suisse’s Oopsie Bonds Go Down
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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AT&T denies data breach after hacker auctions 70M user database
12 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)
12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processor Security Features [pdf]
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues
12 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Who wants project feedback? (August 2021)
12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Beauty of Bezier Curves [video]
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Good React courses for a complete beginner?
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Sundown Towns Are Still a Problem for Black Drivers
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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A New Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Hypothesis
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Western Digital in Advanced Talks to Merge with Kioxia in $20B-Plus Deal
12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation
12 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Global Temperature over My Lifetime (Xkcd)
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live with It
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse already sucks
12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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An immense mystery 11,000 years old
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time
12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Penny Universities
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes
12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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New CDC studies point to waning immunity from vaccines
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Supreme Court blocks Biden's Covid eviction ban
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Why Indigenous Wisdom Is an Antidote to the Climate Crisis
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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SEC Chairman Gensler Agrees with Predecessor: ‘Every ICO Is a Security’
12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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New Dynamics – Now These Are TSMC’s Top 3 Customers
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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CDC: Covid vaccine effectiveness fell from 91% to 66% with Delta variant
12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Toyota Lets Farmers Pay for New Trucks with Corn or Soybeans in Brazil
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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What is the most EVIL code you have ever seen in production?
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Hammer Codex – Leonardo Da Vinci
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Canonical Log Lines 2.0
12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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“Ice Age”, climate change documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy (1978)
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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nsfw.rest – Keep your platform safe of NSFW content, all for free
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The FBI is selling a surveillance plane it used on Black Lives Matter protests
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The America I grew up in is disappearing into a vortex of identity politics
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Algocracy
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Ash HN: Go or Rust for JavaScript developer in the next 20 years?
12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Boston mayor compares NYC's vaccine mandate to slavery
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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I Hate Entrepreneur Fanfiction
12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Our AI art generator isn't being used to generate art
12 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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What Slime Knows
12 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Customer Data Breach
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Report on Archegos Capital Management (How Credit Suisse Lost $6B)
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The lost tablet and the secret documents
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Techies think we’re on cusp of virtual world called ‘metaverse’. I’m skeptical
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Amish community in Lancaster County reaches herd immunity from Covid-19
12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Xiaomi clones the iPad Pro for half the price: $386
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Black women who is a Software Engineer knocked out by Cops
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Albania to accept Afghans who worked with Western forces
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The CEO Trying to Build a Christian Secessionist Tech Industry
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Over-engineering (the root of all evil) (2016)
12 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Zamani Project
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Buddhas of Bamiyan
12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Climate change: UN to reveal landmark IPCC report findings
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Wikipedia: Thagomizer
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Google's payments to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS: $15B in FY21
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Post-Vax Myocarditis Also Mild in Teens, Early Cases Suggest. Follow-Up Urged
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Veritasium: Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective [video]
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Long Legacy of a Short Life
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021