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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Stefan Tilkov has died
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps
101 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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The Cuts at WVU
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
101 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Encyclopedia of Life
101 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)
100 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
100 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
100 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?
100 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Far Manager: files and archives in Windows
100 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Wavefont: A Typeface for Rendering Data
100 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days
100 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity
100 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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The case for Nushell
100 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
100 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web
100 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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The process of making fake food [video]
100 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators
100 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games
100 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards
100 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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The Physics of Readability
100 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD
100 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Ways to teach kids to code (2016)
99 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret TETRA primitives [video]
99 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August
99 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Your brain on emoji
99 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
99 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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The gamification of reading is changing how we approach books
99 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Oxocards: Interactive programmable minicomputers
99 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next
99 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Stan Lippman has died (2022)
99 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance (2020)
98 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark
98 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument
98 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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What Is Happening with ChatGPT?
98 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)
98 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos
98 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Universal Design Guide Playbook
98 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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The life of a lawyer in the late Roman republic
98 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
98 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code
98 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]
97 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Lesser Known Postgres Features (2021)
97 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Scientists are working to bring the woolly mammoth back
97 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Jim Larkin, Backpage exec, has died
97 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [video]
97 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do
97 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]
97 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem
97 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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How to Read an RFC (2018)
96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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AMD Inception Mitigations Cause 20% Performance Drop in Database Servers
96 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Iterators in Go: A proposed extension
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
96 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created
96 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?
96 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Show HN: TRS-GPT – ChatGPT client/server for the TRS-80
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Support ActivityPub for merge requests
96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Inactive Google Account Policy
96 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut
96 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
96 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Who and What Is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Film Review: BlackBerry
96 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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“Please do not make it public” (Tencent’s Sogou Input Method)
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?
96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Bluegrass Archive
96 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers
96 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick
95 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
95 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Show HN: Query your database using plain English on premise
95 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity
95 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Damaging results of mandated return to the office: it’s worse than we thought
95 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin
95 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Solving a simple puzzle using SymPy
95 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges
95 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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The Downsides of C++ Coroutines
95 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Waku: The Minimalist React Framework with Server Components
95 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The brain connections between our hands and tongues
95 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video]
95 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Unit: A visual programming system [video]
95 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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How to enjoy SF
94 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code
94 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers
94 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Simple Networking in Linux
94 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Flatpak is not the future (2021)
94 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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My job search story
94 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
94 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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StarCitizen Server Meshing Architecture
94 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`
94 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]
94 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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DisplayPort: Taming the Altmode
94 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Weeds May Be a Better Friend to Pollinating Insects Than We Assume
94 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
94 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]
94 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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World’s Oldest Cat Door Has Let Working Cats Enter the Cathedral Since 14c
94 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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A JVM in Rust part 5 – Executing instructions
94 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)
94 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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How to Program in Your Sleep
94 points • comment • aug 24, 2023