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Hacker News (Aug 2022)
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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
297 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Why React Re-Renders
296 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
295 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text
294 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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The great Miyazaki watch of 2022
293 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) [video]
293 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
293 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins
292 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
291 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
291 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)
291 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
291 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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VLC media player banned in India
290 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
289 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing exculpatory evidence
289 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
289 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
288 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
287 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
287 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
287 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
287 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
286 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved
285 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
285 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
285 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
285 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
284 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal
284 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google
283 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Django 4.1
283 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
282 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process
282 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
282 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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LibGen's Bloat Problem
281 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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MiniRust
280 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution
280 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Software engineering books
279 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)
278 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
278 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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The silent majority in software
277 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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TikTok’s Poison Pill
277 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available
276 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work
275 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
275 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
275 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
275 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Is Google.com Down?
275 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Hetzner Price Adjustment
274 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Go 1.19 Released
274 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
274 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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LastPass: Notice of Security Incident
274 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
274 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?
273 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot
273 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]
272 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago
272 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
272 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
272 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order
272 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU
271 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
271 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Our Roadmap for Nix
271 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret
271 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity
270 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
269 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
268 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text
268 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Part of my code makes Copilot crash
267 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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30TB Portable SSD Hits Walmart for $39 but Stay Away from It
267 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop
267 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird
267 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week
266 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast
265 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
265 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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YaCy – your own search engine
265 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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The end of Optane is bad news
265 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent
265 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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How to stop being “terminally online”
264 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Oven: The Company Behind Bun
264 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
262 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection
262 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Podman 4.2.0
261 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js
260 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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OCaml at First Glance
259 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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The erosion of the Mac experience
259 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
258 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
257 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Airflow's Problem
257 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy
257 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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How to present to executives (2021)
256 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)
256 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
256 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
255 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews
255 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network
255 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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The container orchestrator landscape
255 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)
255 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
254 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu
254 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing
254 points • comment • aug 26, 2022