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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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AMD Threadripper Zen 3 Chagall CPU Rocking 64 Cores Seen Orbiting MilkyWay Home
10 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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‘It Happened So Fast’: Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Accident
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Most of the power sector’s emissions come from a small minority of plants
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Actors Working as Protestors
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Incels: A new terror threat to the UK?
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Zippy (2020)
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Afghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team Tries to Escape Country
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Tokyo Olympics: [Online] Chinese nationalists turn on their athletes
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Stack Overflow Architecture in the year 2070
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Matter Generated by Collisions of Light
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Apple Open to Expanding New Child Safety Features to Third-Party Apps
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Vitalik Buterin: Things that matter outside of DeFi
10 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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WA high schools face controversy for asking students wear Covid ankle monitors
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Matrioshka Brain
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Sandboxing Zoom
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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A French Novelist Turns the Tables on History
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Work Is a False Idol
10 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Jeffrey Epstein Got Away with It
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Anti-aging foundation sacks CSO Aubrey de Grey for disrupting harassment probe
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Why Does the Steam Deck Run Linux? Blame Windows
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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US healthcare org sends data breach warning to 1.4m patients following
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an Independent Company
10 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Facebook's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Amiga 500 replica is coming in 2022 for $140
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The Beauty of Bézier Curves
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Apple will scan local storage photos on iPhones for child abuse images
10 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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One Billion Years of Time Are Missing in the Grand Canyon
10 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Richard Jewell
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Should You Get a Booster Shot? Here’s What We Know
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Russian Cross
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Delta variant renders herd immunity from Covid ‘mythical’
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Women-Are-Wonderful Effect
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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It Takes More Than Just Developers. The Must-Have Roles to Create an App
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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£700 vs. £7M: Astrophotography Shoot Out
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Can you collect unemployment benefits if you're fired for not being vaccinated?
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Show HN: Shirtbot irresponsibly easy t-shirts in slack
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The Infrastructure Bill’s Targeting of Cryptocurrencies Makes Americans Poorer
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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A big study about honesty turns out to be based on fake data
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Taliban now controls one of the world’s biggest lithium deposits
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Tesla Announces Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Why use secrets managers?
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof–and Nobody Notices
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Google Channels Jony Ive in Ad Promoting Pixel 5a Headphone Jack
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Netimpair – simulates bad network conditions on Linux machines
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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#ifdef Confirmed Harmful – Promoting Understandable Software Variation
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award
10 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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DuckDuckGo’s surprisingly simple plan to make the internet more private
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Scientists Invented a Simple New Test for Creativity, and You Can Try It Out
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Hacker is returning $600M in crypto, claiming theft was just “for fun”
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Tenecent plummets as China calls online gaming as “opium of the mind”
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Bitcoin mining operation is now being forced to shut down
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Show HN: Canonic: Visual Development Platform
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Paris to Berlin in an hour: The future of high-speed rail travel in Europe
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Firefighters Lead Protests Ahead of Vaccine Passports Being Required in France
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apocalypse Never Slide Deck
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Electric car leader Tesla left out of White House event
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Texas man who led anti-mask protests in name of ‘freedom’ dies of Covid-19
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Caffeine appears to reduce the volume of gray matter, effect being reversible
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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How did the world's oldest hat shop survive pandemic lockdown?
10 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption, sending data to Facebook and Google
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The Python Launcher for Unix
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Israel’s active Covid cases pass 50k, just 2 months after they hovered at 200
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Beyond the Web
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Is it bad to reuse plastic water bottles?
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Doing History with Born Digital Files: The Rhoda Métraux and Ed Lorenz Papers
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: LifeBits – share memories, not posts
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Brain and testis: more alike than previously thought?
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Texas governor tests positive for Covid, in ‘good health’
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Debian Bullseye Is Released
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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100 years ago today, the battle of Blair Mountain
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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“Are you actually IO bound? Because I seriously doubt it.”
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Where’s the Accelerator?
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Square Agrees to Acquire Afterpay for $29B in All-Stock Deal
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Newline Guide to Creating React Libraries from Scratch
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Hubble Captures a 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying the Depths of the Universe
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Using JavaScript and GPT-3 to connect a contextual speech bot to Clubhouse
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Recognizing ancient Greek with machine learning and citizen science
9 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Securing a Modern Web Application
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Opium prices triple in Afghanistan after Taliban announces poppy ban
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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A “no math“ (but seven-part) guide to modern quantum mechanics
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The latest on Elastic’s stance on open source
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Idea: Non-Recourse Founder Loans
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Zoom reaches $85 mln settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, 'Zoombombing'
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The Turning Point Review – How Charles Dickens Built Bleak House
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021