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Hacker News (Oct 2021)
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Create and share images of your source code
167 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard
167 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Global Climate Report – September 2021
167 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]
167 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Common Lisp
167 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production
167 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)
166 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Android 12 is live in AOSP
166 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
166 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Dune: A Shell by the Beach
166 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed patient
166 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Attorney General orders unregistered crypto lending platforms to exit NY
166 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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.NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role
166 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on Oct. 2
165 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Explaining Ruby Fibers
165 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Building on soil in Big Sandy: Regenerative organic farming in rural Montana
165 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Chilling Effects
165 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago
165 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Goodnight Dune (2011)
165 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS
165 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning
165 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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We need new data books, so we published one
164 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
164 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions
164 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
164 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status
164 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
164 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife using NSO Pegasus spyware, high court judge finds
163 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
163 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
163 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
163 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community
163 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Scribe – An alternative front-end to Medium
163 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action
163 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”
163 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph
163 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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OpenTelemetry
163 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Swift Distributed Actors
162 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Rivian S-1
162 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins
162 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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The danger of hidden functional roles
162 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
162 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
162 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
161 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway
161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Pro rata is a bad term for founders
161 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
161 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight
161 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)
161 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers
161 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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What a solid made of electrons looks like
161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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U.S. government owes over $100M for TSA's patent infringement
161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres
160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
160 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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Why are our brains shrinking?
160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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How to get back into a hacked Facebook account
160 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC
160 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute
160 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
160 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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International Mail Service Suspensions
160 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Why I built my own static site generator
160 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable
159 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime
159 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
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A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
159 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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China proposes prohibiting private investment in news service sector
159 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Sinclair TV stations disrupted across the US in apparent ransomware attack
159 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka
159 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study
159 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Functional Algorithms, Verified
159 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020)
159 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy
158 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Hugo Themes ranked by GitHub Stars
158 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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HelloSystem
158 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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SRE Doesn’t Scale
158 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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The road to OCaml 5.0
158 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience
157 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
157 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Detailed thoughts on the State of the .NET Foundation
157 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Mac SE/30 Odyssey
157 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
156 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
156 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors
156 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)
156 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefited Google
155 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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New wave of strikes will test worker power
155 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
155 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid
155 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
154 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances
154 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021
154 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems [pdf]
154 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based data processing pipeline
154 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka
154 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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Turmoil at Bezos' Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office
153 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Paxos automatically determined safe and secure
153 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer
153 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
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OK Lenovo, we need to talk
153 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Open Simulator
153 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Tools to Explore BGP
153 points • comment • oct 05, 2021