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Hacker News (Sep 2021)
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YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
545 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Web-based editor
544 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
540 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Home Price to Income Ratio
536 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Deploy a website on imgur.com
536 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
535 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Epiousios
533 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
525 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication
520 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades
519 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
516 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
514 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
513 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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ClickHouse, Inc.
507 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
503 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
499 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
498 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
497 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
495 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
495 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
495 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
492 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
489 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
489 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
488 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
487 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
486 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure
477 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
475 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
471 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
469 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight
468 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
465 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
464 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
464 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux
463 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
462 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
462 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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Imgur Acquired by Medialab
461 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
461 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
460 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Reactive Clojure: A web language
458 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
453 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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The Mom Test – How to talk to customers
452 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
448 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)
447 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model
447 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
445 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Windows 11: Just say no
442 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
438 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS
438 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
436 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
435 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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The code worked differently when the moon was full
435 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
434 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Building apps in minutes, not months
433 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
432 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
432 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use
432 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit
430 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
428 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do
423 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
421 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok
421 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
419 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Maintain It with Zig
419 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why
418 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
417 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
416 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for commercial service in parts of Bay Area
416 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Reasons to Quit Social Media
415 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account
413 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
412 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
412 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Google Docs in a clean-room browser
411 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
409 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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More Casio Watch Mods (2017)
409 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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A different kind of keyboard
408 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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Anonymous Hacks Epik
404 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
403 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?
402 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
402 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
401 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Transmission torrent client ported to C++
398 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections
397 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
397 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)
395 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Offline First
394 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
394 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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I'm working on open source full time
393 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)
393 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
390 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception
390 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect
390 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
388 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes
387 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
387 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed
387 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
386 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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Designing Low Upkeep Software
385 points • comment • sep 26, 2021