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Hacker News (Oct 2021)
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What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer
48 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Everyone used to raise hogs (2016)
48 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?
48 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Guantanamo Bay frees mistaken Karachi taxi driver after 17 years
47 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Hiawatha Webserver
47 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop
47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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The Link Between Wandering and Sleeping Minds
47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Nearly half of toys from third-party online sellers found to be dangerous
47 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Brain implant may lift most severe depression
47 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language
47 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century
47 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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PS3 Emulator Will Now Boot Every Game Ever Released on the Console
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites
47 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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VoloDrone Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone Makes First Public Flight
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Why return to the office if you’re just Zooming all day anyway?
47 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Is Your Brain Wired for Numbers?
47 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Dead-End SF Street Plagued with Confused Waymo Cars Trying to Turn Around
47 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent
47 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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RIP Jörg Schilling, cdrtools author
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers
47 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Open-source economics is not what you think
47 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Show HN: Strange Attractor on an Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi Pico
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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A day with the squirrel hawkers of East Texas
47 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”
47 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Show HN: StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Coaching Paradox
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Propositional logic exercises with the lean theorem prover
47 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Exosuit Designed in Woodruff School Helps with Awkward Lifts
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Man spent $150 eating every meal at Six Flags since 2014 to pay off student debt
47 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook
47 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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AWS Communism: How we cut our Load Balancing cost by more than 96%
47 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Heuristics to Ensure Your Team is on The Same Page
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Show HN: Omnino, a windowing system for web apps, inspired by the Acme editor
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Secretive: An app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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The Original Microcell
46 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon
46 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Alibaba has lost $344B market cap in the past year
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Tech Jobs Are Everywhere Now
46 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Casual Raiding and Deliberate Learning (2015)
46 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
46 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)
46 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Meteorology student submits Masters thesis, gets PhD
46 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Raya and the Promise of Private Social Media
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it still worth it to switch companies every few year?
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me
46 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Show HN: Dev's Full Stack Nightmare (an accurate representation)
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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I Spent Weeks Converting This Go Kart to Electric [video]
46 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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You Are Jeff Bezos
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility)
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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2021 MacBook Pro review: Yep, it’s what you’ve been waiting for
46 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem (2012) [pdf]
46 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
46 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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“Progress” by Aldous Huxley (1928)
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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A Prototype Original iPod
46 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Hertz Orders 100k Teslas
46 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private Web Attestation with Multi-Vendor Hardware
46 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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A River Reawakened
46 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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78% of the Web Powered by PHP
46 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Some thoughts on asynchronous API design in a post-async/await world (2016)
45 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Glimmer DSL for LibUI – Simplest Native Cross-Platform GUI Library
45 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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There Is No Shortage of Reasons for the Broken Supply Chain
45 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Coinbase user lost $11.6M in 10 minutes, falling for a fake-notification
45 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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Why this Website is not, and may never be, HTTPS
45 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Cortical Column Networks
45 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Meta shares jump on name-change news, but it's a Canadian materials company
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Aspirin About-Face
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.com with low code
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Unplugging
45 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Yorkshire gang's Game Boy device could unlock car in seconds
45 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
45 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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An update of 455 new words
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Tesla FSD Beta Barely Avoids Crashing into Pole
45 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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The Nernst Lamp
45 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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A pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time
45 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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High-Level Synthesis for RISC-V
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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G7 finance officials endorse principles for central bank digital currencies
45 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Rewriting Go source code with AST tooling
45 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Ask HN: A US programmer makes 3 times that of a EU programmer. Why?
44 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Earn.com will ruin email if it succeeds (2018)
44 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Just Ask for Generalization
44 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust? (2018) [video]
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Europol investigation busts 150 'high value' darknet vendors
44 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Nonconsenting prisoners are the source of many organ transplantations in China
44 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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Remove the Notch
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Show HN: Shadergarden: Create reloadable graphical pipelines with Lisp and GLSL
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Jon Ingold on translating archeology into video games
44 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Show HN: MistQL, a mini-language for querying JSON-like structures
44 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Anthony Levandowski to Larry Page: Google's self-driving project is broken (2016)
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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GitHub Removes GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC Following New Take-Two DMCA Notice
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Gas-powered leaf blowers: the most polluting machinery still in legal use
44 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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The Fairchild Channel F: First and Finest?
44 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Policing of foreign tech investment in the US is broken
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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How to Fire Frank Lloyd Wright
44 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
44 points • comment • oct 14, 2021