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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Cuttlefish can form crystal-clear memories even in their final weeks
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Read the Senate's roughly $1T infrastructure bill
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Pegasus, at the Crossroads of Technology and Politics
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Rapyd raises $300M on $8.75B valuation as fintech-as-a-service continues to boom
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Calls for a Covid Probe Plunged Australia into a Hacking Nightmare
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Insurtech Trends for Now and the Future
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Kanna Finish: Glass-Smooth Surfaces in Wood Without Sandpaper or Varnish
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Michelson–Morley Experiment
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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It’s easy to judge the unvaccinated.
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Coins, the Overlooked Keys to History
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Marijuana Can Induce Feelings of “Oceanic Boundlessness” Similar to Psych (Cont)
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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The List of Sans Cheat Sheets – Sans Institute
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Families of 9/11 victims tell Biden not to attend memorial events
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Google researchers may have created time crystals
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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The IPCC AR6 Hockeystick
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Hiding floppy disks to find a cofounder
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Meaningful Availability
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Don't scan your face to buy glasses
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Engineers grow 3D bioprinted blood vessel
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Ground-effect vehicle
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Florida Is America's Future: Old, Southern and Retired
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Markdown vs. ReStructuredText for Teaching Materials
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: WishAlbum, an online wish list
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Buy a luxury building, then lower the rent: A housing fix for CA’s middle class?
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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One weird trick to shrink convolutional networks for TinyML
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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No. Phone. WTF
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Rings Around a Black Hole
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Instagram apologizes for Almodóvar film’s poster censorship
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Open-Source Insulin
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Non-Profit Ideas
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Facebook,TikTok won’t lift ban on posts promote Taliban after fall Afghanistan
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Letter from Christian Leaders to Prime Minister on Vaccine Passport Proposals
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Tackling Misinformation on YouTube
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Is there a threadreader app for slack like Twitter
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Designing a Scalable Design Organization
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Procedural log cabins using code CAD
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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To Stop a Pandemic in Its Tracks, Coordinate Across Borders
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Bearing Witness to Racism in America Today
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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As US exits Afghanistan, China eyes $1T in minerals
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Talks at Google: Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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You Shouldn’t Get a Booster Shot If You’re Immunocompetent – It’s Risky
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The cracked version of Resident Evil Village runs better, testing confirms
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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DirectStorage Developer Preview now available
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Stingle is a privacy-focused, open-source photo backup application
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Show HN: Papiro is a script for an offline, privacy and security focused, backup
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Too Much Covid Caution Will Be Bad for Schoolchildren
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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We Killed Elixir
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Show HN: A terrible way to calculate absolute value in Python
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an ‘Independent’ Company
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Microsoft MakeCode
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Shared micromobility company Bird launches a consumer electric bike for $2,299
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Yelp to allow users to filter businesses based on staff vaccination requirements
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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A Seattle mecca for running goes dark; city falls short on homelessness
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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How Could Burning Man Get Weirder? When It’s in Your Living Room
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Aspirin may help treat aggressive breast cancer
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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New Zealanders begin life in lockdown as Delta Covid-19 cases edge up
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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More than one million dead in Latin America as Lambda variant spreads [video]
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Prehistoric ‘hobbit’ among fossils showing evolution of mammals after dinosaurs
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner grills Hikvision China human rights abuses
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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George Rhoads, Designer of “ball machines” dies
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Salicylanilides Reduce Covid Replication and Suppress Inflammatory Cytokines
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Sydney, New Zealand Extend Lockdowns as Covid Spread Worsens
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Causes and consequences of purifying selection on SARS-CoV-2
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Reverse Passthrough VR
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Einstein’s Fridge
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Keeping Freedom Alive
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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When did we all become women?
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Carbon Costs Quantified
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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‘If you talk, you live well’: the remote Sardinian village with 8 centenarians
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Sophistry at Duke in Defense of School Mask Mandates
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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New tool allows NPR to track source diversity in real time
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Goodreads: Extortion Scams and Review Bombing
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Intel Winds Down RealSense Camera Biz
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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NASA's 'Quiet' Supersonic X-59 Jet Approaches First Flight
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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The FCC Says It’s Finally Fixing Its Crappy Broadband Maps
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Playdate Teardown
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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The Secret Language of Cults
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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How to support displaced people in Afghanistan
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Pianists fitted with robotic thumb can learn to play with 11 digits
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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China marks Tibet anniversary with call to accept Communist Party rule
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Yuka: A JavaScript Library for Developing Game AI
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Canadair CL-415 Aerial Firefighter
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines?
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Twitter's new font: What's wrong with Chirp, and why users hate it
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A theoretical approach for designing a self-organizing human-swarm system
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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US settles with whistleblower who exposed botched Covid response
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Data Stolen in Microsoft Exchange Hack May Have Helped Feed China's AI Project
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Clubhouse in Afghanistan is removing users photo and bio for users safety
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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CI on Power9 (PPC64LE) LPAR using snapper
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021