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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Herd immunity 'not a possibility' with Delta variant
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation for Robot Learning
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Breakthrough: Quantum computers will soon fit in your phone – Sifted
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Major US river that supplies water to 40M people is drying up
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Fortune Global 500 2021 Edition
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Apple strong-arms state legislatures with investment promises and threats
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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30 years ago today, the first email from space was sent from a Mac Portable
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Early Wuhan Covid Samples Had Genetically Modified Henipah Virus
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Covid reinfection rates reduced by 2.3x if also vaccinated
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Tetlock and the Taliban
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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TCP is a wrong choice for datacenters in every way
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Death, Taxes, and Database Migrations
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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A lost tablet and secret documents – Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Chaitin's Constant
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Strategy vs execution
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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A Fed-issued digital dollar could print money – for the people
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Extinct 'Hobbit' creature the size of a house cat discovered in Wyoming dig site
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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NASA host a conference at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss an OSIRIS-REx important finding
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Behold, Carbon-Free Steel Now Exists
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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US Treasury Secretary accused of corruption – $7.2Mil in 'speaking fees'
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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PHP: A fractal of bad design (2012)
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The Silent Partner Cleaning Up Facebook for $500M a Year
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Morgan Stanley Just Reduced TSMC’s Value by $25B
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Milk Crates in the Hood Mania
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Cox–Zucker Machine
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 (2008)
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in July
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Video Fingerprinting
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in QNX operating system
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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SRE Case Study: Mysterious Traffic Imbalance (2018)
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Crime-tracking app Citizen now includes a premium-priced safety help line
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The world’s first electric autonomous container ship
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Apple Announces Free Repair Program for iPhone 12 Models with Receiver Issues
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Blank Box or Buttons? Which Format Increased Online Donations?
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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International scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Every euro invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Why Snow in the Alps Is Turning Red
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Coworker ported a C++ rendering engine to WebAssembly
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Encrypted devices unravel knots of worldwide organised crime
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Show HN: Open-source low-code BI tool
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Climate Scientists Reach ‘Unequivocal’ Consensus on Human-Made Warming
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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I appreciate when men interrupt even if I'm trying to tell them there's a fire
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to Covid Debates
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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OpenAPI as code. What do you think?
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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CO2 Users Face Supply Issues, Higher Prices as Carbon Sequestration Grows
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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What it’s like to be an older worker in tech
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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NASA stands by its astronaut after incendiary Russian claims
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Install NetBSD 9.2 on a Dec Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Non-Disclosure Agreements
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Ultra-lifelike robot nurse unveiled
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Lisa Shaw: Presenter's death due to complications of Covid vaccine
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Win10 Admin Rights Tossed Off by yet Another Plug-In
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Designing Virtual Worlds book is free for limited time [pdf]
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Twitter's AI image algorithm biased towards younger skinnier and whiter people
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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U.S. officials' decision on Covid-19 boosters baffles and upsets some scientists
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Amsterdam ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate gay victims of Nazis
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Sexual racism on New Zealand's dating scene – and how apps are making it worse
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Ask HN: How to manage multiple interviews alongside a full-time job
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Helm by Matt Tytel
5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Tesla Sells ‘Full Self-Driving,’ but What Is It Really?
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Netflix and Video Games
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All? PhDs
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Airbnb listing: Company is 'deeply compromised' by Israeli settlement properties
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Dirac Lecture on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1962)
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Waymo scaling up autonomous trucking operations in Texas, Arizona and California
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Let’s Not Pretend That the Way We Withdrew from Afghanistan Was the Problem
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Show HN: Pulse – An open-source Baremetrics / ProfitWell alternative
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Three-month-olds born during the pandemic now score around 80 on IQ tests
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Scientists Reveal World’s First 3D-Printed, Marbled Wagyu Beef
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Scientists discover common North American plant to be part-time insect eater
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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NASA Announces Date for SpaceX’s 23rd Cargo Resupply Mission
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Eating out for big occasions is correlated with a lower quality of food
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Robinhood’s revenue more than doubles to $565M last quarter
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, potential risk for mass vaccination?
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Neanderthals, the World’s First Misunderstood Artists (2018)
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Chase bank cancel General Flynn account because of Reputational Risk
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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US military conducts unmanned airstrike against ISIS-K planner
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Apple’s Double Agent
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Unruly air passengers hit with $500k in new fines
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Starlight Could Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The FDA Is Begging You Not to Take Horse Dewormer for Covid-19
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Pfizer’s Shares Record All-Time High with Covid-19 Vaccine Showing Great Success
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Why do bats have such bizarrely long lifespans? (2019)
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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The lost tablet and the secret documents pointing to a shadowy Russian army
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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China allows couples to have third child to avert a demographic crisis
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Some Bat Pups Babble Just Like Human Babies
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Paris to Berlin in an hour: Welcome to the future of high-speed rail travel
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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A Quine Made with Love
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Why Do Bitcoins Have Value?
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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ElectronNET: Cross platform GUI for .NET 5
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021