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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Robinhood order flow, Theranos Trial
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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No-code tools at Lambda School
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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“to grow that ounce of almonds, the process demands 97 gallons of water”
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Pentagon unveils microchip implant that detects Covid in the body
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Lovely Weather Defined California. What Happens When It's Gone?
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Chinese censorship is coming – The internet has never been so authoritarian
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Digital detox: Can taking a break from tech improve your well-being?
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Startup Uses Fungi to Make Artificial Milk
4 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Indiana Pi Bill
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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I Helped Kill the Segway
4 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Where the Gay Things Are
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Anti-vaxxer Monica Smit arrested for ‘incitement’
4 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Female Sex Tourism
4 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ultra-Vaxxed Israel’s Crisis Is a Dire Warning to America
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Biden on Afghanistan Fact-Checked
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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I Need To Stop Scrolling: The diminishing returns of constant Covid news
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Does Twitter Allow Taliban-Affiliated Accounts?
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Tractors Finally Get the Tesla Treatment
4 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Congress Is Slashing a $30B Plan to Fight the Next Pandemic
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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A tale of two armies: why Afghan forces proved no match for the Taliban
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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DataSpell by Jetbrains – New IDE / Notebook – Review by Dario RadečIć
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Gensler Gets Wish as Bitcoin Futures ETF Filings Land
4 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Tesla Dojo chip teaser picture
4 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Anti-Pattern of the Day: Type Keys
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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New study reveals antibodies fall dramatically 3 months after vaccination
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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A comparison of programming languages for a next-gen sequencing tool (2019)
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Top FDA vaccine regulators Gruber, Krause stepping down
4 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Melting Mongolian ice reveals fragile artifacts
4 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Dogged Pursuit of Bug-Free C Programs: Frama-C Software Analysis Platform
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Bullying / Censorship on R/Ruby
4 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The world being left for us by adults
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Activision Blizzard shareholder sues company over sex harassment crisis
4 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Work Two Remote Jobs, Reach Financial Freedom
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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The Case Against Masks for Children
4 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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‘The Ultra Mega’: Taiwan Invasion Could Defy Comprehension
4 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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AWS Service Terms – 42.10
4 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Below: A time traveling resource monitor – Fedora Magazine
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Fire and Motion (2002)
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Oregon Students No Longer Required to Demonstrate Writing or Math Proficiency
4 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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How not to ban a prolific Git developer
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A spritz instead of a jab? Future Covid-19 vaccines may go up your nose
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Mysterious Hacker Group Suspected in July Cyberattack on Iranian Trains
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Amid Covid-19 surge, Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
4 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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New Orleans Has Been Using Same Tech to Drain the City Since the 1910s (2017)
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Pompeii tomb reveals formerly enslaved man’s rise to wealth and power
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Great Game of Smashing Nations
4 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Uranium: Powering the Cleanest Source of Energy
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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China set to begin first trials of molten salt nuclear reactor using thorium
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Glenn Greenwald: the greatest journalist of all time?
4 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Lunar Escape Systems
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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We’re told to ‘follow the science’ – yet some of it is just plain wrong
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Unvaccinated elementary school teacher; half class positive for delta
4 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Advantage in Life: Rich Parents
4 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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One Year of Leaving a MacBook Pro Connected to Power
4 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Silicon Valley, Facebook Giving Up on Reality, Building Terrible Alternative
4 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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High-end E Ink tablet PineNote announced with powerful internals
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Building an LSIF Indexer for a Low-Code Platform
4 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Ask HN: What UI framework to choose for a greenfield LOB Windows-only app?
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Templates to help startup founders grow the company after launch
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Coffee Inflation Is Coming to Your Cup After Blow to Top Crop
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Python and Go are both excellent programming languages
4 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Computer Space and beyond: 50 years of gaming
4 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Wearing ties may raise your risk of eyesight and health issues
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Dear Zoom, Why Is Waiting for Host a System Modal?
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Hurricane Ida forces reverse flow on the Mississippi
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day Gets a Patch
4 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Toxic 100 Air Study Reveals U.S. Super Polluters
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Mistakes to Avoid as a Software Development Manager
4 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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To fight Zoom fatigue, give people the freedom to turn their cameras off
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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20-Year U.S. War Ending as It Began, with Taliban Ruling Afghanistan
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Writing Mobile apps in ClojureScript in 2021
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Apple to Let App Developers Alert Users to Alternate Payment Methods
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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IKEA Has Cleverly Combined an Air Purifier with a Side Table
4 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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The Lion and the Porcupine
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Austria and Croatia set expiry dates on vaccinated travellers
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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New material offers ecofriendly solution to converting waste heat into energy
4 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States
4 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Fauci: Mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea
4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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It’s ‘Back to That Isolation Bubble’ for Workers Pining for the Office
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Big Tech’s Censorship
4 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
4 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Unity Workers Question Company Ethics as It Expands from Video Games to War
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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It’s all fun and games until Naomi Wu shows up to get GPLv2 compliance
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The $600M Poly Network hacker has published part one of a “Q&A”
4 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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PHP “Note That”
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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How much money a single person needs to earn to get by in every U.S. state
4 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Can startups fast-track fusion energy?
4 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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One Road Fork in Yosemite Seems to Have Caused Multiple Tesla Autopilot Wrecks
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs (2018)
4 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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The Nonmachinables
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Carbon Quantitative Easing (2020)
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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PCM: Click Fraud Prevention and Attribution Sent to Advertiser
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Recycle your old Raspberry Pi boards with OKdo
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021