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Hacker News (Aug 2022)
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Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
362 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
362 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards
361 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
361 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Cut the cutesy errors
359 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
359 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Remote startups will win the war for top talent
359 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Excel is pretty dang cool
356 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)
356 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
354 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Visual Sum of Cubes
354 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?
354 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Why are you so busy?
353 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Introduction to Apple Silicon
352 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
352 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Shazam turns 20
351 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy
351 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
351 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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“10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control
350 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe
350 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)
350 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories
349 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition
348 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack
348 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Coding as a greybeard
347 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Why is Snowflake so expensive
346 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
345 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
343 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Color has been disappearing from the world
343 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Linux 5.19
341 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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“Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
339 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Being swamped is normal and not impressive
338 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Tesla Virtual Power Plant
338 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
338 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Sending spammers to password purgatory
337 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection
336 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Ghana bans a Delta Boeing 767 (yes, just one)
335 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
335 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Creativity requires solitude
334 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
333 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
333 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
332 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
331 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
331 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
331 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
329 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Solar canopies on parking lots
328 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Why aren't smart people happier?
327 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
327 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)
326 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
326 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system
326 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
324 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]
323 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
323 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Why does gRPC insist on trailers?
322 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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TypeScript is terrible for library developers
322 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)
321 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Coping with Copilot
321 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
320 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)
320 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961
319 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Cognitive loads in programming
318 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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“Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory
318 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app
318 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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AMD passes Intel in market cap
317 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Accounting for Developers, Part II
316 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]
316 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google
314 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Rust 1.63
314 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
313 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Quirky computing books
313 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
311 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
309 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
308 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor
308 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)
307 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
307 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
307 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Want to found a startup? Work at one first
307 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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I have complicated feelings about TDD
307 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure
307 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
306 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
306 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation
305 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization
303 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
303 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
303 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf]
302 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle
302 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]
302 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
300 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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MyNoise – Background Noise Generators
300 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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What would a “good” WebMD look like?
299 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Google Trying to Solve a UUID
299 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
299 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting
298 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
297 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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John Carmack on avoiding distractions
297 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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The layoffs at Klarna
297 points • comment • aug 14, 2022