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Hacker News (Oct 2021)
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Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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A thread about a smash and grab I witnessed today at Brannan and Embarcadero
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Alzheimer's: The heretical and hopeful role of infection
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Environmentalists argue Peter Thiel’s NZ lodge will destroy lake landscape
5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Show HN: Vibes.art Generative Art on Ethereum
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Transparent Engine Cylinder – How an Engine Works in 4K Slow Motion
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Open Source Streaming In-Memory Graph Database
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolut
5 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Tesla's Sentry Mode now offers drivers a live view of their car
5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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What It’s Like to Drive a Groundbreaking Electric Car from 1908
5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop
5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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MS's .NET Foundation under fire, resigning board member questions its role
5 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Smart CSS solutions for common UI challenges
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble (2020)
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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“Making Webapps Collaborative with Composable CRDTs” by M. Weidner and H. Miller
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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When Safe Proved Risky:Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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I Still ‘Lisp’ (and You Should Too)
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Facebook can’t keep its head in the sand
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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HN 10 Years Ago
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Spoofing someone in Slack is terrifyingly easy
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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New app places caregivers under digital surveillance
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Are Political Freedoms a Fluke?
5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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The pandemic could be leading to a golden age for unions
5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Hertz Orders 100k Teslas in Rental-Market Shake-Up
5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Did Vikings and their stowaway mice beat Portugal to the Azores?
5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees (2019)
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Social Security payments to rise nearly 6% in 2022; largest hike since 1982
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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A new way to be mad: healthy people seeking amputations (2000)
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Anybody enabled IOMMU on AWS metal servers?
5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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What It's Like Inside the US Processing Center Welcoming Thousands of Afghans
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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U.S. Border Authorities Failed to Prepare for Influx of Migrants
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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California will require large retailers to provide gender neutral toy sections
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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German supermarkets are allowed to lock out unvaccinated people
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7B acquisition
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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When bullish finance stories are not what they appear
5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Bits Related to Alpine Security Initiatives in September
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Crypto and Fiat Currencies
5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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‘We don’t need to buy more stuff’: the people who kit out their homes for free
5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Ivermectin: How False science created a Covid miracle drug
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to Connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC
5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Why did Quora fail so bad?
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Samsung To Mass Produce 2nm Chips in 2025
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Yes, You Can Put Out a Burning Gas Well with a Nuclear Bomb
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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The hidden ways the ultra rich pass wealth to their heirs tax free
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Applications to Running Barefoot or in Minimal Footwear
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Newsom proposes $3.2B in EV investment as part of economic recovery package
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Middle-class Americans face retirement insecurity, analysis finds
5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Brave Search Uses Click Data in Search Ranking Algorithm
5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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The Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter
5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Will the “Social Media Bad” trend die out like the “Video Games Violent” trend?
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?
5 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Bonnette à Réseau Pour Spectroscopie
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Google halves its revenue share of in-app subscriptions on the Play store
5 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Fermiac / Monte Carlo Trolley
5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’
5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Encryption Security Architecture – Cryptomator
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Scientists look beyond the individual brain to study the collective mind
5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Covid-19 can damage cerebral small vessels and cause neurological symptoms
5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Signs of first planet found outside our galaxy
5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Bergamot: Client-Side Machine Translation in Firefox
5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Why Right-Wing Extremists Love the Unabomber
5 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Telstra, Australian gov’t combine funds for $2.1bn purchase of Digicel
5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Why Merck’s Celebrated Covid Pill Could Be Riskier Than People Think
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Social media’s ‘queer tax’ is exhausting, unfair, and unavoidable
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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How chemical companies avoid paying for pollution
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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People Don't Understand NFTs
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Sci-fi anthology 'AI 2041' presents hopeful realities of artificial intelligence
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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PayPal Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Pinterest in $45B Deal
5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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What I learned from trying Linux Desktop as a WSL user
5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Full WireGuard Setup with OpenBSD
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider–now they’re fired
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society
5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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The Christians who mock wokeness for a living
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Dancing Mania
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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An Overview of the Singularity Project – Microsoft's Experimental OS [pdf]
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Dropbox Acquires Command E
5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Ursula K Le Guin prize for fiction to launch in 2022
5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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China preparing for possible war with Taiwan
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Remembering the Astronaut Who Smuggled a Sandwich into Space
5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Quickly and Easily Install Nextcloud
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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RPCS3 now able boot all PS3 games
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Ransomware gang says it targeted National Rifle Association
5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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China Is Probably the Most Overvalued Property Market in the World
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Putting Judge to the Test
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Conjectures on the Kuramoto–Sevashinsky Equation
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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NeRF: Training Drones in Neural Radiance Environments
5 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Seeding Accounts for Kindergartners and Hoping to Grow College Graduates
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021