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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness
226 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
226 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
226 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ‘90s
226 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Personal finance experts don’t get wealthy by following their own advice
226 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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macOS 11’s hidden security improvements
225 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game
225 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out
225 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen
225 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Goose flying upside down is simply showing off, say experts
224 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Big Oil methane emissions: ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting
224 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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GNU nano is my editor of choice
224 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Don't attach tooltips to document.body
223 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
223 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]
223 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks
223 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
222 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
222 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus
222 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Houses in Japan are going for as little as $500
222 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
221 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
221 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions
221 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write
221 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Stages of Denial
221 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
221 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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What domain name to use for your home network
221 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
221 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings
221 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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What it was like developing for NES back in 1990
220 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation
220 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin
220 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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NodeJS security cheat sheet
220 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
220 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
220 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
219 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Kind: A Modern Proof Language
219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Mailable Live Animals
218 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux
218 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
218 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
218 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
218 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games
218 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards
217 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
217 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but
216 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI
216 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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HyperPhysics (2016)
216 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Tapedeck.org
216 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds
216 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Something is killing gray whales
214 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Where does the plastic in oceans come from?
214 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Turing Pi V2 is here
214 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival
214 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship
214 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Six Years of Professional Clojure
213 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Atlas robot does parkour
213 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?
213 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
213 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars
213 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
212 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)
212 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds
212 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions
212 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
212 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Mental health impacts of a big tech job
212 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine
211 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1
211 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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A Dyson sphere around a black hole
211 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Affinity 1.10
211 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021
211 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis
210 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The Real Story of Pixar
210 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases
210 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse
209 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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React Renderer for Three.js
209 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Bad News
209 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
209 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)
208 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
208 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal
208 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
208 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study
207 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing
207 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk
207 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Software Development Waste
206 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Fighting Like Taliban
206 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Pyret Programming Language
206 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality
206 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
206 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
205 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust
205 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code
205 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
204 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself
204 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)
204 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
204 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Archegos was too busy for margin calls
204 points • comment • aug 03, 2021