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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Who Tells Them Things They Don't Want to Hear?
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Insane Biology Of: The Dragonfly [video]
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Pro-Trump social network becomes safe haven for ISIS
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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OnlyFans CEO on why it banned adult content: ‘the short answer is banks’
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Things the Establishment Got Wrong About Covid-19
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Orientation of USB-C matter
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Apple Store vs. Repair Shop: What the Right to Repair Is All About
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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8/12/09: White House Press Briefing
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Facebook to require all U.S. on-campus employees to wear masks
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Have problems with PostgreSQL? Try using Hive (2015)
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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A five-day course of ivermectin may reduce the duration of Covid-19
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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All the best emails from the Apple vs. Epic trial
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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App stores will likely be legislated to relinquish their control on developers
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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How do transistors work? Like a flush toilet
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ransomware happens and how to stop it
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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China doubles down on baseless 'US origins' Covid conspiracy amid Delta outbreak
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Chinese government acquires stake in domestic unit of TikTok owner ByteDance
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Thousands of Patients Were Implanted with Defective Heart Pumps
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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DigitalOcean Is Down
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project
8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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StackOverflow Developer Survey 2021 Insights
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Computing the Riemann zeta function at 3
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Unix and Linux Books Humble Bundle
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Live: Starship Prototype Ship 20 Being Stacked on Super Heavy [video]
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Xiaomi gifts all 184K Mi 1 first-time buyers a ¥1999 (~$308) voucher
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Mathematics for Gamblers
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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All Work and No Play
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Why every software engineering interview should include ops questions
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Why is Afghanistan falling to the Taliban so fast?
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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One Rogue User Took Down Our API
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Can You Hear Me Now?: A new history of teletherapy
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Show HN: A toy compiler of a Scala subset
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (August 2021)
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Flags Concerns at Georgia's Plant Vogtle Expansion
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Test launch of Boeing's Starliner delayed due to stuck valves
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Best use of WebAssembly so far?
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Cuba to authorise and regulate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Solid state batteries, ready to ship
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Srcset and Sizes (2014)
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Book Review: Your Computer Is on Fire
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Meaning of Dbg Function Names
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Dopamine plays a key role in consciousness
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Show HN: Hurricane Ida's pressure falling in Louisiana, data from Android phones
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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School mask battles rage on as more children fall ill, fill hospitals
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Open sourcing Winterfell: A STARK prover and verifier
8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Oregon governor Kate Brown announces outdoor mask mandate
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Going Deep with Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? (2020)
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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50% would give up Amazon, Netflix for a year to be able to work remotely
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Australia’s capital city to enforce snap lockdown after one new Covid-19 case
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Reddit turns down moderators who want action on Covid misinformation
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Ask HN: How to prepare for climate change events
8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Hospital produced a video showing Covid from a patient's perspective
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Animation of “Mechazilla” catching Booster is “pretty close”
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Network Security in the Medium Term, 2061-2561 AD
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Volt: A tiny native desktop client for Slack, Discord, and more
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015)
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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What's makes one a troll – a new study found the defining traits: narciss (cont)
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Raspberry Pi Display Driver Patches Updated for 4K 60Hz Support
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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French scientist who pushed unproven Covid drug may be forced from post
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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3 U.S. senators test positive for coronavirus
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Iranian Prison Hacked – Real-time footage from control room leaked
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Safer Illinois, Isn’t
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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California judge rules classifying drivers as contractors as unconstitutional
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Manhole Covers Site
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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“The software comes for free, but my time is not”
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Moving a project to C++ named Modules
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Officer who responded to US Capitol attack is third to die by suicide
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology [pdf]
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Senators Call for Investigation of Tesla’s Marketing Claims, 'Full Self-Driving'
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Picture on the cover of the book “Introduction to Analytic Number Theory”
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Clubhouse removed personal info from users’ accounts in Afghanistan
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A British 4channer went to Kabul for lulz. Now he’s stuck there
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you have plans for staying fully remote?
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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LudoTune
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Show HN: My Covid Project: An LED Dreamcoat
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Functional programming in Kotlin vs. Scala advantages/disadvantages?
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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I Regret Being a Hipster in Tech
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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S.Korea set to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it just me or is Twitter pretty good these days?
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Bezos’ Blue Origin takes NASA to court over lunar lander contract to SpaceX
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What is a good Python project for a mid lv engineer to contribute to?
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Women’s Sensitivity to Men’s Past Relationships
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Gresham’s Law of Time Management
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Census: Rural America shrinks as people flock to big cities
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The teens who'd prefer to catch Covid rather than take the vaccine
7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Launching Steve.Ai – Fastest way to create Videos in seconds
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds, at Any Cost
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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DeepMind Cofounder's Google Promotion Followed HR Complaints, Settlements
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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How Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club
7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Yo (App)
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Cnnfyi.com (2000)
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Parasitic Computing
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation (1987) [pdf]
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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McFarlan Moore Lighting and the Central London Railway (2019)
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2021