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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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So You Want to Study Philosophy
165 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
165 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
164 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux
164 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
164 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city
164 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%
164 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design
164 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
164 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years
164 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity
164 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data
164 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport
163 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
163 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour
163 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
163 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Early Retirement (2006)
162 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
162 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months
162 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Trevor Moore has died
162 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
161 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
161 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
161 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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VCs are financing an economy of servants
161 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange
161 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The Apple Psi System [pdf]
161 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work
160 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti
160 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale
160 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Next-gen chips will be powered from below
160 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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This Is Water (2005)
159 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job
159 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off
159 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment
159 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code
159 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
158 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software
158 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Soviet Moon Images (2004)
158 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley
158 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Show HN: Visualizer for High Level System Design
158 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?
157 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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White House Launches US Digital Corps
157 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
157 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe
156 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
156 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)
156 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)
156 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
156 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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How you play Spades is how you play life
156 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
156 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Benefits of Not Using an IDE
156 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Role-based access control like it was meant to be
156 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor
156 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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OpenBSD Router Guide (2020)
155 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks
155 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Show HN: A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch
155 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe
155 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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286 vs. 386SX
155 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source
155 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland
155 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
154 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
154 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
154 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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The Zettelkasten Method (2019)
154 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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home.netscape.com in 1997
154 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense
154 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
153 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago
153 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality
153 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)
153 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
153 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us
153 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video
153 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
153 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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Dumb Phone
152 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?
152 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed
152 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem
152 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi
152 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
152 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)
152 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department
151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind
151 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Guerrilla artist fakes downtown LA freeway sign
151 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Genius Checklist
151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
151 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Xerox Alto Emulator
151 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
151 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Working in One Bit
151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams
150 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services
150 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation
150 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?
150 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi
150 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
150 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Incentives in Computer Science
150 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol
149 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures
149 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours
149 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes
149 points • comment • aug 01, 2021