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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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JING OS Linux Tablet Review
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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China calls for curbs on excess income and for the rich to give more to society
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Proposed coal plants in the United States
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Taliban entering Kabul 'from all sides'
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Brave’s Director of Privacy is answering questions on Reddit today
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How to find a woman technical co-founder?
9 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Ethnocentric Origins of the Learning Style Idea
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Facebook’s New Toxic Stew: Militia Groups and Vaccine Conspiracies
9 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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A Gay Community Helped the CDC Spot Covid Outbreak – and Learn More About Delta
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The west will learn no lessons from the fall of Kabul
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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It looks like the Batmobile, works on solar, and could be the future of cars
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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You aren't legally allowed to know which variant gave you Covid-19 in the US
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Herd immunity 'not a possibility' with Delta, says head of Oxford Vaccine Group
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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“Flipping” the History of Literary Studies
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: To what extent does “shadow suppression” occur on social media?
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Tesla is prepping for giant Supercharger expansion ahead of opening the network
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Invoke Lambda functions directly from Postgres
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Adumbrations of Aducanumab
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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To deal with climate change we need a new financial system
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The search for the largest methane sources
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Only good characters use iPhones in movies
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Coronavirus and Simpson’s Paradox
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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No medical or religious exemptions for B.C.'s vaccine passport system
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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National Grid and SSE to use electricity transformers to heat homes
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Marginalized streamers beg Twitch to ‘do better’ in wake of hate raids, poor pay
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Why I love Bandcamp: Waived-fee Fridays, solid app, no DRM, more
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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FriendlyELEC’s Updated NanoPi R2S
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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We Make a std:shared_mutex 10 Times Faster
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Latin America's Herd of Unicorn Startups Multiplies
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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First-ever water cuts declared for Colorado River in historic drought
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Bi-Partisan “Open App Markets Act”: Allow Side Loading and Payments Providers
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Implicit Ordering in Relational Languages
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Palantir Buys Gold Bars as Hedge Against ‘Black Swan Event’
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Ask HN: What computer vision project are you working on?
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Bauhaus Poster Generator
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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1Password developed a SwiftUI version in parallel to Electron and chose Electron
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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50 Years After Going Off Gold, the Dollar Must Go for Crypto
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Debate, dissent, and protest on Reddit – Reddit's stance on Covid misinformation
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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The Rise and Fall of Didi, the World’s Ride-Hailing Giant
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Should Doxing Be Illegal?
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Sinking Lumber Prices Force Canadian Mill to Curb Production
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Hydraulic Empire
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Moderna Recommends Covid-19 Vaccine Booster to Protect Against New Variants
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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How much should pedestrians be fined for intentionally blocking selfdriving car?
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Kabul airport 'basically closed' as Americans told to shelter in place [video]
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Afghans are forced to choose between staying safe and staying online
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Ivermectin: * Must show pic of you and your horse *
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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RS Ophiuchi in a rare outburst to naked-eye visibility
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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I managed to use JavaScript to fly a drone with my mind
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Interest in Switching to iPhone Drops Among Android Users
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Audi unveils a shape-shifting concept car
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Real life SpongeBob and Patrick Star found by NOAA scientists
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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OpenVAERS has become one of the most powerful tools in the anti-vaxxer community
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in go (2019)[pdf]
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Don't Be Fooled by the Bipartisan, 'Paid for' Infrastructure Bill
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century [video]
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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What Is a “Now Page”?
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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I Moved to Warsaw, Poland from Palo Alto, California
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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How to walk across a parking lot (2011)
8 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Synthetic brain cells that store 'memories' are possible, new model reveals
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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How to Work with Someone Who Creates Unnecessary Conflict
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Want to work 9-to-5? Good luck building a career
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence of Matter Generated by Collisions of Light
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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George Soros Exits Shares Bought During Bill Hwang’s Archegos Implosion
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Microsoft Teams wants Safari's “Prevent cross-site tracking” off to function
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems: Success or Failure?
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The Vaccinated Are Worried and Scientists Don’t Have Answers
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Musk's 'AI Day' confronts tough questions about Tesla's technology
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Matthew Green and Alex Stamos on Apple's client-side scanning
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Synchrony, Asynchrony and Partial Synchrony
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Open-Source Cloud Security Alert Contextualization
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Mindfulness may improve cognition in older adults
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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DeFi Platform Poly Network Hacked, over $600M Potentially Lost
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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$1.5M ‘women-led’ NFT project was run by Russian dudes
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Consider Using Docs-as-Code
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Stablecoins and the Future of Money
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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What We Got Wrong in Afghanistan
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Climate Change as a Biological Accelerator
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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A Deep Math Dive into Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Infation and the national debt, not a concern yet
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Arizona launches a bold new experiment to limit racist convictions
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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“A Big Money Funneling Operation” – Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, CA Superior Court Judge Rules
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Delta Straussians Know How to Live with Covid
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Former Monero Maintainer ‘Fluffypony’ Arrested
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Ask HN: What’s the best way to help people in Afghanistan?
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Apple CASM – Find Your Attorney General and Notify Them
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Is there anyway to protect/enforce your IP using a dev shop in another country?
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Critical Cobalt Strike bug leaves botnet servers vulnerable to takedown
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Only action against corruption can solve the world’s biggest problems
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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I Am Not a Progressive
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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PiGate – Emergency Email Gateway
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021