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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns
142 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
142 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it
142 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern
142 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Anonfiles is shutting down
142 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Early Days of AI
142 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
142 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Morris Chang founded TSMC, the most valuable company in Asia
142 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair
141 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?
141 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M
141 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein
140 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Lisp in Space
140 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down
140 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
140 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.8 released: “a mark-region parallel GC is available”
140 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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To opt out of Grammarly AI training requires business account with 500+ users
140 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations
140 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
140 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl
140 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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New responsibilities
139 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy”
139 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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ImPlot: Interactive plotting library, ImGui style
139 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts
139 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative
139 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life
139 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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i386 in Ubuntu won't die
139 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V
139 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions
138 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Japanese game publisher Digital Will has filed a lawsuit against Apple
138 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
138 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification
138 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Show HN: Fast vector similarity using Rust and Python
137 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
137 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023
137 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Math Exposition on YouTube
137 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure
137 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
137 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change
137 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
137 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)
137 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter
137 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Peter Pan copyright
136 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves
136 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds
136 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
136 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps
136 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
136 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with
136 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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There is no hard takeoff
136 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)
136 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Be sceptical of your own work (2009)
135 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months
135 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop
135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization
135 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Babylon 5 Is a Perfect, Terrible Series
135 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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UX design patterns for loading
135 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression
135 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs
135 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)
135 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI
135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera
135 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP
134 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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The Plumber Problem
134 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills
134 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016)
134 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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High-Dimensional Probability and Applications in Data Science
134 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Qualcomm starts a RISC-V joint venture
134 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues
134 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash
134 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking
134 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon
134 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Sunak’s family firm signed deal with BP before opening new North Sea licences
133 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C
133 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Do we really need a specialized vector database?
133 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Wet-bulb temperature
133 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
133 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Why Tailwind CSS Won
133 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers
133 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits
133 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol
132 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
132 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques
132 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Autospam and Naive Bayes
132 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started
132 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Graceful behavior at capacity
132 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
132 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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South America is living one of the climate extreme events
131 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse
131 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank
131 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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China's Zombie Economy
131 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
131 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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False canopies on fighters work, one almost killed me
131 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
131 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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How was the size of Earth first measured? (2015)
131 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Java 21: What’s New?
131 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
131 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidate for better solar cell
131 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Domain Repetition
131 points • comment • aug 24, 2023