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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Google Groups kills RSS support without notice
305 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
304 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
301 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It
301 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware
301 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy
300 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
300 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The US should be held accountable: Gitmo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
299 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Why is China smashing its tech industry?
298 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
298 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System
298 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual
298 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Typography in Alien (2014)
297 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional
297 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
297 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)
297 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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SAML Is Insecure by Design
295 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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macOS in Svelte
293 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
293 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight
293 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France
292 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
292 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
292 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
291 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
290 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom
290 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers
290 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”
289 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
289 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid
288 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
288 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008)
288 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux
287 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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I hate almost all software (2011)
287 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)
287 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)
287 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
286 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
286 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Screw You, Microsoft Edge
286 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
286 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
284 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
284 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
284 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
283 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion
283 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
283 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot
283 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Hell Is Other REPLs
283 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI
283 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Programming Idioms
282 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
282 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Firefox: Performance in Progress
281 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Tools for Thinking
281 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The World of CSS Transforms
281 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
280 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
280 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Vue 3.2
278 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Summary After Four Months with Ada
278 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Tech Interview Handbook
278 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff
278 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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What is ‘elite overproduction’?
277 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
277 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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My Tungsten Cube (2019)
277 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants
277 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)
276 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect messages, scan for abuse images
276 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
276 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
276 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
275 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
274 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Elm at Rakuten
274 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
274 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government
273 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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End of the line for Uber?
273 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
272 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
272 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible
272 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
271 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
271 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
271 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems
270 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
270 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season
270 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Writing Programs with Ncurses
268 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
268 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
267 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
266 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs
266 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs
265 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON
264 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Todo apps are meant for robots
264 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
264 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Localhost
263 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells
263 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
263 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
262 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
261 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options
261 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
261 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts
261 points • comment • aug 25, 2021