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Hacker News (Aug 2022)
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Prison Money Diaries: What People Make (and Spend) Behind Bars
121 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists
121 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?
121 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Metal Archives 20th Anniversary
121 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Prometheus: Fuel from the Air
121 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Heroku to discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts
121 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Spiders Seem to Have REM-Like Sleep and May Even Dream
120 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (2012)
120 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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TinyTapeout: Get your design on an actual ASIC
120 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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NetBSD 9.3
120 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Ask HN: More “experimental” UIs for editing/writing code?
120 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert
120 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Physically Based: A Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials
120 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?
120 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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DuckDuckGo Email
120 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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The Penguin Random House trial
120 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives
120 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?
120 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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GM gives customers no choice to opt out of $1500 onstar subscription
120 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022
120 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body
120 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]
119 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
119 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Removal of Heroku Free Product Plans FAQ
119 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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So you have decided to start a free software consultancy
119 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Starlink is reducing your monthly service fee
119 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]
119 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Zoom macOS app quietly added back cs.disable-library-validation entitlement
119 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Are we going back to the cable days?
119 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Mudge's redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure [pdf]
119 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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How to Make a CubeSat
119 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Why is solar more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries?
118 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
118 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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A short sci-fi story written with GPT-3 and illustrated with DALL-E 2
118 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
118 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Another ship stuck in Suez Canal – Affinity V
118 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming
118 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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What is the cost of a cashless society?
118 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
118 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
118 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese
118 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance
118 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
118 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Let's Talk SkipList
117 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)
117 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)
117 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
117 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
117 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Launch HN: Sematic (YC S22) – Open-source framework to build ML pipelines faster
117 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Understanding UseMemo and UseCallback
117 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime
117 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots
117 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea
117 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Slab City reaches its boiling point
116 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Using SSH_config Match to connect to a host using multiple IP or Hostnames
116 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser
116 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity
116 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?
116 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Android 13
116 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Apple to mandate three days in a week in the office by Labor Day
116 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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The Quest for Fuel in World War II (1993)
116 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Programming and Writing
116 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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P5.play
116 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server
116 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Best Practices for Using Webhooks
116 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them? (2019)
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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The top layer: a solution to z-index:10000
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Ask HN: Are we building a tech dystopia?
115 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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FDIC issues cease and desist letter to FTX US [pdf]
115 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning
115 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use
115 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
115 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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The silence of risk management victory
115 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative
114 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]
114 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
114 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Free online textbooks work
114 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally leaking uninitialized data from the microarchitecture [pdf]
114 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Americans will soon be able to renew passports online
114 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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We switched to cursor-based pagination
114 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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What the Hell Is Up with Dilbert?
114 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)
113 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Chezmoi – Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely
113 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns
113 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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OpenCore Legacy Patcher
113 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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The Google Pixel 6a highlights the problem with the U.S. phone market
112 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”
112 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch
112 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot
112 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Abolish the PhD (2016)
111 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon
111 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Researcher finds a new method for recycling polystyrene
111 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Auto Traffic Control – A gRPC Programming Air Traffic Control Game
111 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color
111 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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How prestige outlets get away with copypasta
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go
111 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)
111 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Debian Turns 29
111 points • comment • aug 16, 2022