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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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How this summer is a ‘preview’ of Earth’s coming climate crisis
6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Jensen's Kitchen was a lie: Nvidia reveals GTC 2021 keynote nearly 100% fake
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Is 5% a reasonable cut for a middle-man when selling shares privately?
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Show HN: Where I get the last word
6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor (2009)
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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50 Years After Going Off Gold, the Dollar Must Go for Crypto
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Why Electron apps are fine
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Death Trash early access is on Steam
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Following Torvalds' nudge Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel
6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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QR Codes Aren't Magic
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Starlight Could Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Dyode: A low-cost, DIY data diode for ICS
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Show HN: Play online chess with real chess board
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Braking and Turning Your Bicycle
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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China's Sputnik Moment?
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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FYPM wants to give power to creators
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Facebook Does Kill People
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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“Russian Flu” pandemic from 1889 to 1891 might have been a coronavirus pandemic
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Radio Log from Police Copter's Chase of Bizarre Craft over Tucson Add to Mystery
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Better Coordination, or Better Software?
6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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YouTube Is Underwhelming
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Crowd in Kabul attempts to climb into USA army air transport
6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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First-Ever Bitcoin Post On Reddit (2009)
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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US psychologist justifies quote “whites should commit suicide as an ethical act”
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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City of Chicago Sues DoorDash, Grubhub for Allegedly Deceiving Customers
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Bodies stacked to the ceiling as Covid creates backlog at Florida crematories
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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A lead engineer at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has left to join Elon Musk's SpaceX
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Developing on a M1 Mac with Visual Studio for Mac – Visual Studio Blog
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15B?
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Why it’s time to move on from Covid – spiked
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Have you deleted your data from your device when you dispose of it?
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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China's Busiest Ports Closes Container Shipments Due to Covid
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Severe Drought Could Threaten Power Supply in West for Years to Come
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Git's new guidelines for gender-neutral documentation
6 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Long Covid Might Be the Manifestation of a Different Virus Reawakened in Body
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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China overtakes US in AI research
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Gmail locked me out of my own account
6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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If its not great, why the hell is it being tested on public roads?
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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AMP Runtime Self-Hosting
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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A Tour of Twist
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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No medical/religious vaccine passport exemption will be made in British Colombia
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Last-ditch effort to salvage cryptocurrency tax deal underway in Senate
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Taliban may have seized biometric data that can ID US allies in Afghanistan
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Rootkits Come to Containers and Bring Trouble with Them
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Why America keeps building corrupt client states
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Microsoft commits to spend $20B to cybersecurity over five years
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1.2KLOC
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Costs of the Afghanistan War, in Lives and Dollars
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Wealth of Endpapers
6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Branch-Stack Workflow for Git
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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President's situation room photo has wrong times sparking conspiracy theories
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Glowing Profile of Enron's Award-Winning CFO in CFO Magazine (1999)
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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A Century in Stanislaw Lem’s Cosmos
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Google+ class action starts paying out $2.15 for G+ privacy violations
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Spies for Hire: China’s New Hackers Mix Espionage and Entrepreneurship
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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China Reportedly Working on “Ultra-Large“ Spacecraft That's Miles Across
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Challenge of Finding Security Advice for Smart Home Devices
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Walrus Operator: Python 3.8 Assignment Expressions
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Scientists repurpose CRISPR to identify antibodies in patient blood samples
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Covid-19 Could Disrupt the Fight-or-Flight Response for Months, Study Suggests
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Hackers start to return some of the $600M they stole from Poly Network
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam's coronavirus response widened the gulf
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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New HHS Documents Reveal Millions in Federal Funding for Human Organ Harvesting
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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China plans control of tech algorithms that US can only dream of
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Starbase Launchpad Tour
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Ask HN: How can I programmatically manage my streaming subscriptions?
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Processing (Language) Turns 20
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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China proposes strict control of algorithms
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Zen of Python
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Algorithms Look at X-Rays–and Somehow Detect Your Race
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Xi Jinping’s assault on tech will change China’s trajectory
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Individual Choices, Not Lockdowns
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Vulcan, West Virginia
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Google considered teaming up with Tencent to take down Epic
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Gateway Teams – First experiences of your organization matter
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Pantograph
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Copilot Copies Text Verbatim
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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10k women die in car crashes each year because of bad design
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: Free Backlink Checker
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Boston Dynamics: Atlas – Partners in Parkour [video]
6 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Nearly million people in England became addicted to alcohol during the pandemic
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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DuckDuckGo’s simple plan to make the internet more private
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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How to Defend Yourself Against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Sustainable scotch: Hebridean distillery aims for net zero whisky
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Using Yfinance to Download Financial Data (Python)
6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you manage one-off internal scripts?
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021