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Hacker News (Oct 2021)
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34% of white college students lied about their race to improve admission chance
61 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Abusing Terraform to Upload Static Websites to S3
61 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
61 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Binance just transferred 6B Tethers to an unknown address
61 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main instance
61 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Adventures in Category Theory – The algebra of types (2018)
61 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Find images from movies based on what you draw
60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats
60 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020
60 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Unsolved Problems in ML Safety
60 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved
60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?
60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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On Slow Writing
60 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed
60 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Fraidycat
60 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Software for Math Research
60 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Dangerous Logging in Swift
60 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change [pdf]
60 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
60 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Reactive, DAG-based notebooks in Hex 2.0
60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Internet Communities: Otters vs. Possums (2017)
60 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Starting in 2017, Facebook treated emoji reactions as more valuable than likes
60 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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[Resolved] GitHub is returning 500 for all requests
60 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Slack LaTeX
60 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Self-Optimizing A/B Tests
60 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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The Windows 3.1 Virtual Machine Control Block Part 1 (1994)
59 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?
59 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Python 3.10
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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The Trouble with Checked Exceptions (2003)
59 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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C++ is faster and safer than Rust
59 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG
59 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Self-driving Citroën Skate carries swappable pods for inner-city travel
59 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
59 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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After 3.5M-year hiatus, largest comet ever discovered is headed our way
59 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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The brain processes speech in parallel with other sounds
59 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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APL Compiler Based on Tail (Typed Array Intermediate Language)
59 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Is my Facebook activity fucking my finances?
59 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills
59 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs
59 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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The Venus Project
59 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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Watering and draining planets – math and data
59 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Toyota unveils its first all-electric car: the bZ4X
59 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Run Your Favorite 8-Bit Games on an ESP32 (2020)
59 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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The New Timescale Cloud
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Manifold: Java typesafe metaprogramming with IDE support by abusing the compiler
59 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men (2007)
59 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Motorist fined after CCTV confuses his number plate with woman’s T-shirt
58 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Quantum Annealing opens a new door to Simulation Hypothesis
58 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Blue Origin employees say they wouldn't feel safe riding the company's rockets
58 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Intel said it didn't consider UK for new chip-making factory because of Brexit
58 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Do Dev Careers Die at 35?
58 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Conflict-free replicated datatypes solve distributed data consistency challenges
58 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses
58 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Foreign money floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted
58 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
58 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents
58 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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VirtualMEC – a free 3D CAD for MECCANO
58 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers [pdf]
58 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
58 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Radio Station WWV
58 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Why Are American Houses So Flimsy and Poorly Built?
58 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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What does Google think minimum wage is?
58 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained
58 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Publisher copies our app icon and Google Play removes us for impersonation
57 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Ivermectin shows that not all science is worth following
57 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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U.S. regulators exploring how banks could hold Bitcoin – FDIC Chairman
57 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Blamer.el: A Git blame plugin for Emacs inspired by VS Code’s GitLens plugin
57 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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The Kodak Brownie changed privacy rights
57 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Roblox Service Disruption
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary objects as too special to use
57 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Old Mouse Dot Com
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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List of IEEE Milestones
57 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Amiga 68000 Hardware Assembly Programming [video]
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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V8 Release v9.6
57 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Chinese live streamer does $2bn of sales in one day
57 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Chicken and Egg Problem (2000)
57 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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This Real Estate Bubble Won't Pop
57 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Comparing AWS's RDS and PlanetScale
57 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Space-Related Applications of Forth (1998)
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Old towns eager for new blood sell Italy homes for $1
57 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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Perfect Numbers (1983)
57 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Harden and secure browsers in containers, with GUI
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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The internet isn’t buying Robinhood’s GameStop story
57 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for Halloween
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Improving the New York Times’ line wrap balancer
57 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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What is the unit of a text column number?
57 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Incorrect Lift Theory
56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Finding Complex Metal Oxides for Technology Advancement
56 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Tesla’s Texas Move Is Latest Sign of California Losing Tech Grip
56 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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My own personal AWS S3 bucket
56 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust
56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Lavish wealth tolerated more for individuals than groups
56 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Attacked from Within (2009)
56 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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GCHQ award spy agencies cloud contract to AWS
56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (1997)
56 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Gtk4 Tutorial
56 points • comment • oct 21, 2021