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Hacker News (Aug 2022)
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U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline
176 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Google to pay $60M for misleading representations
175 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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An opinionated approach to GNU Make
175 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Introducing multitasking to Arduino
175 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
174 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems
174 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Is El Salvador Up?
174 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies
174 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
173 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)
173 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Godot 3.5
173 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
173 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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So you want to be a consultant? (2005)
173 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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GitHub-Next
173 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Marc Andreessen and Ultra-Wealthy Neighbors Thwart Housing in California Town
173 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
173 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
173 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)
172 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles
172 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept
172 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
171 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Asdf Performance
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable
171 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Fintech is making credit cards weirder
171 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
171 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
170 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Apple releases macOS 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, patches for two zero-day vulerabilities
170 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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JiraCLI
170 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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The endless search for a crypto use case
170 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality
170 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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A Graph-Based Firebase
169 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Falsehoods programmers believe about time
169 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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What to read to understand how economists think
169 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb
169 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Rights, Laws, and Google
169 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Requiring MFA on popular gem maintainers
168 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it
168 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
168 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
168 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early stage employees?
168 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero
168 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Putting Tailscale on the Steam Deck
167 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Engineering Festivus
167 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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How to stay focused while working on your startup and having a 9 to 5
167 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Learning algebra in my 60s
167 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
167 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD
167 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder
167 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Launch HN: Iollo (YC S22) – At-home metabolomics test to extend healthy lifespan
167 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem
167 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?
167 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Launch Attempt Scrubbed
167 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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QEMU Internals (2021)
167 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Quaternions: A Practical Guide
166 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Minify your container
166 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte
166 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Visualizing Toxic Air
166 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than pricier Dell laptop
165 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled
165 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux
165 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Software engineering research questions
165 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Hacker’s Delight (2012)
165 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution
165 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Google Maps' moat is evaporating (2020)
165 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Ask HN: Who do you talk to about system architecture and design?
165 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
165 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year
164 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
164 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users
164 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park
164 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Ushering out strlcpy()
164 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Dublin Whiskey Fire
164 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
164 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Solein – Protein out of thin air
164 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature
163 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Having, a less understood SQL clause
163 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)?
163 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)
163 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Political Chips
163 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs
163 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Issues with upstream DNS provider
163 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation
163 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell
163 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
163 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)
162 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths
162 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers
162 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
162 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts
162 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
162 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Switcher (2004)
162 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Why does everything on Netflix look like that?
161 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Open-source tool to enforce privacy/security best-practices on Windows, macOS
161 points • comment • aug 12, 2022
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TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
161 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Against Discipline
161 points • comment • aug 04, 2022
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Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
160 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released
160 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible
160 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95
160 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007)
159 points • comment • aug 07, 2022