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Hacker News (Sep 2021)
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Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library
254 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
254 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
254 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits
254 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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A $10k poker win changed how I think
254 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely
254 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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The goal of standards is to improve our future actions
253 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list
253 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Vintage Byte Magazine Library
253 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal
253 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
252 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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William Gibson is a literary genius
252 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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Chekhov's Gun
252 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Scikit-Learn Version 1.0
251 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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Slack is experiencing a service disruption
251 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright?
250 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
250 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking
250 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
249 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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On YouTube’s recommendation system
249 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
249 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
249 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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Donate to the Internet Archive
249 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Telling the Bees
248 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
248 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Record number of environmental activists murdered
248 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain
247 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020)
247 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Fourier Series Visualisation with D3
246 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y
246 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?
246 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser
246 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
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Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language
245 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage
245 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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What if I were 1% charged? (2013)
245 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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Neurocracy
245 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Deno 1.14
244 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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AlphaGo documentary (2020) [video]
244 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
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Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarre floating point bug
243 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair
242 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
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GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
242 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Domain-Driven Design
242 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
242 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
242 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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Pinky and the Brain
242 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics
242 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40M conference call gone wrong
242 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Borb – A Python library to read, write, and edit PDF files
241 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
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Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)
241 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds
240 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
240 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail
240 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future
240 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram
240 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
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Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers
240 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings
239 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia
239 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?
238 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
237 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers
237 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout
237 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile
237 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
236 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees
236 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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‘Every message was copied to the police’
236 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
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Researchers successfully potty-train cows
235 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New
235 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
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Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video]
234 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS
234 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
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Stripe launched 10 years ago today
233 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Fast Rust Builds
233 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964)
233 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
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Software should convey a sense of calm
233 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
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CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught
232 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
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If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
232 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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MDMA reopens child-like “critical periods” in the brain
232 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
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I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash
231 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
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Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness
231 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests
231 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
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Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces
230 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
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When McDonalds Came to Denmark
230 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap
229 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)
229 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
229 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
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FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app
229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make
229 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
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Using RSS to replace social media
229 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
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Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel
228 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
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Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy
228 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
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Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)
228 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines
227 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
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No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny
226 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
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An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19
226 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
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Write More, but Shorter
226 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
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Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)
226 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
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Spherical Gear [video]
224 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
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FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis
224 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
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John Carmack on Hiring
224 points • comment • sep 07, 2021