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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Coinbase: Board approval to purchase $500M of crypto
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Google Geofence Warrants
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Celebrities Disappear from Internet as China Moves Against Fan Culture
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Debian: Day 3
6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Pelosi Statement on Afghanistan
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Why Can’t Billionaires Advance the Common Good?
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Facebook Cannot Justify Its Opposition To Accountability
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Mercury Is No Longer the Closest Astronomical Body to the Sun
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Masks to be required outdoors at Palo Alto's K-8 public schools
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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World Atlas of Languages – Features
6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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What's New in DevTools (Chrome 94)
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Art and Artificial Intelligence
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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RIP Charlie Watts
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Infra-as-Code is cloud lock-in
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Washington school forces unvaccinated student athletes to wear ankle monitors
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Research on usage of text-only versions of websites?
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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6.2M Burmese could go hungry by October
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021 writeup
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Money vs. Passion – What would you do?
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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How can junior developers find jobs when hiring boards look like this?
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Generate ASCII-art representations of mathematical equations
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Chinese BTC miners sent 200K rigs to Canada but can’t find enough power
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Tell me you’re ex-FAANG without telling me you’re ex-FAANG
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Taliban Declare Victory in Afghanistan
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Mainline Linux Close to Realtime: Preempt_rt Locking Code Merged for Linux 5.15
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Etymology of the use of “Drive” to refer to a digital storage medium
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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India's living dead: 'They stared at me like I was a ghost'
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers
6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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As an Indian, I am enraged by America’s refusal to set vaccine mandates
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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“Glowworm attack” recovers audio from power LEDs
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Project Based Courses
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Should we put a weight rack in the office?
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Man Builds ‘Ultra Large Format’ Camera with a 600mm F/9 Lens
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The Mypillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The cruel history of rum – and why we drink to forget it
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Watch this ‘surreal’ Jupiter eclipse that you probably missed
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Make Room for a New Arduino Competitor – With Native Brainfuck
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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The Eternal Fire at Baba Gurgur (2013)
6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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China Passes One of the World’s Strictest Data-Privacy Laws
6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to Covid Debates – Greenwald
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A Doomsday Covid Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Anti-Semitic Merchandise Persists on Pinterest, Despite Restrictions
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Musk: Bezos retired in order to pursue a job filing lawsuits against SpaceX
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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European Innovation and Technical Capabilities
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Publishers Blast Internet Archive’s Demand for 10 Years of Sales Data
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The Fall of Afghanistan Shows the Failure of Democracy
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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“B*tch to Boss” by Mozilla Firefox
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Ethereal Beauty of Moths Taking Off in Slow Motion
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Unity to acquire Parsec in its biggest acquisition to date
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Charlie's Diary: Why I Hate Star Trek (2009)
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Show HN: The Simplest ML API
6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD
6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Funimation Closes $1.2B Crunchyroll Acquisition to Create Single Anime Service
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Recommended 120v LED Bulbs?
6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Why Innovation Heroes are a sign of organizational dysfunction
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Stingle is a privacy-focused open-source photo backup application
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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E.U. Set to Propose Travel Restrictions on U.S. Visitors
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Biden Poised to Send Some Pot Prisoners Back to Prison
6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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France, Italy Require Proof of Covid-19 Status for Restaurants, Bars
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Toffoli Gate
6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Can you get into security research self taught?
6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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TIL: Press '.' In a GitHub Repo for Magic
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Amazon plans to open its own department stores
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Astronomers Go Nuts for Closest Exoplanet Directly Imaged Ever: Coconuts-2b
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Infrastructure bill could enable government to track drivers’ travel data
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ethical Hacking: Introduction to Exploits
6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (2019)
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Heartbreaking stories of people who regret not getting a Covid-19 vaccine
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The Dacha Is Russia's Summer Cure for Urban Life
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Angry Conti ransomware affiliate leaks gang's attack playbook
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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US dealers see ammunition shortage as sales surge
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Musk Says Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Bernstein v. United States
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Idiot Coin
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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New Orleans Facing Weeks of Darkness on Hurricane Damage
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Cerebras: The largest computer AI chip
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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'ShotSpotter' employee deposition raises questions in Pittsburgh police shooting
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Federal Software Running on AWS Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Ask HN: How did you author and typeset your technical book?
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Haiku Activity Report – Summer 2021
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Collating widely available time/money trades
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Hackers Return Funds from Likely Record DeFi Crypto Attack
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Facebook says it’s hiding friends lists on accounts in Afghanistan
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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How to Create a Free SMTP Server (Plus Tips on Buying vs. DIY-Ing)
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Moderna vaccinations halted in Okinawa after ‘black substances’ found in vial
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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12-year-old is set to earn over $400K after about 2 months selling NFTs
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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1897: London's first electric taxis (with 3 minute battery swap time)
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: Hypertrace: A modern distributed tracing and Observability platform
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Twitter Finds Leader for ‘Decentralized’ Social Media Project Bluesky
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 (2008)
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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RTX 3090 Owner Finds Old Glove Inside $1500 GPU
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021