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Hacker News (Sep 2021)
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Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
311 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
310 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
310 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation
310 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
310 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards
309 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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iPhone remains findable after power off
309 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?
308 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
307 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
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Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel
304 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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How to Study Effectively
303 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Resource efficient Thread Pools with Zig
300 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)
297 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
297 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
295 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon
295 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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How Docker broke in half
293 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot
292 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC
292 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
289 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking
289 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Spook: Side channel attack which could read the memory from password managers
289 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
289 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B
288 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories
288 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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I tried 30 mustards this summer
288 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas prices soar
287 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia
287 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Why Authorization Is Hard
287 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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Rainbow Six Vegas, SWAT 4 unplayable due to disabled ad server
286 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Asynchronous Programming in C#
286 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
286 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go
286 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities
285 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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The Problem of Marital Loneliness
285 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
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Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs
285 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy
285 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
284 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
283 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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2006: Dwarf Fortress
283 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company
283 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends
283 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
283 points • comment • sep 25, 2021
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Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
282 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network
282 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits
282 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet
281 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Checkboxland
281 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance
280 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
280 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck
279 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors
279 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco
277 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023
277 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K 60
277 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England?
276 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim
276 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
275 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say
273 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?
272 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces
270 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod
270 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
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Russia restricts opposition election voting app
270 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
269 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
269 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Fortran Web Framework
269 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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MIT Mathlets
268 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
268 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)
267 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Sci-Hub new published papers are now available
267 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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AI movie posters
267 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker
267 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go
267 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon
267 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10
266 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
266 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam
266 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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We killed our end-to-end test suite
266 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)
266 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Facebook under fire over secret teen research
266 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]
264 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal
264 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'
264 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
263 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
263 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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How to Visualize Decision Trees
262 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry
262 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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S.Korea fines Google $177M for blocking Android customisation
262 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Ask HN: How Do You Learn?
262 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
261 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers
260 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
258 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby
258 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster
258 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
258 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)
258 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
258 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M
257 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
256 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
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How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defence team
256 points • comment • sep 20, 2021