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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning
179 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack
178 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
178 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory
178 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
178 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Comma Three [video]
178 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water
178 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
178 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
177 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
177 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Corporations Are Crappy Archivists
177 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
177 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
176 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
176 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Git 2.33
176 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
175 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Intro to Deep Learning
175 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]
175 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation
175 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
175 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history
174 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Youtube-dl is possibly dead
174 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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EU to make Bitcoin traceable, ban anonymous crypto wallets
174 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)
174 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Going mouseless
174 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job
174 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab
174 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry
174 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
173 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price
173 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images
173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
173 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust
173 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations
173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Docker container security cheat sheet
173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble
172 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream
172 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?
171 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water
171 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads
171 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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The Principles of Newspeak (1949)
171 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Empty Epsilon: a fully open-source spaceship bridge simulator game
171 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Framework Patterns (2019)
171 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
170 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
170 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
170 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
170 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
170 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all': study
170 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Powering the Lunar Base
170 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types
170 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
169 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE
169 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
169 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
169 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos
169 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home
169 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
169 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
169 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas
169 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Illustrated Redirection Tutorial
169 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go
169 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication
169 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
168 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Porn Spam on Google Maps
168 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Swiping left on magnetic stripes
168 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
168 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s
168 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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One does not simply calculate the absolute value
168 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]
168 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Journal of Controversial Ideas
168 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Indian inventor dies in homemade helicopter accident
168 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter
167 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
167 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
167 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia
167 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The macOS Sandbox File Limit
167 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep
167 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The Drunken Bishop Algorithm
167 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’
167 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The Winners of Remote Work
167 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
167 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it
167 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?
167 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs
167 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
167 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Fundamentals of Incident Management
166 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
166 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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OCaml at Bloomberg
166 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves
166 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business
166 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls
166 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse
166 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Black Hat USA 2021 Review
166 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby
166 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat
166 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire
165 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser
165 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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California Megafires Are Solvable
165 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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So You Want to Study Philosophy
165 points • comment • aug 31, 2021