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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Uber CEO Stunned When He Heard Cost of 3-Mile Uber Ride
47 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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“AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Tunnel Vision: CloudflareD AbuseD in the Wild
47 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Intact Giant Panda Skeleton Discovered in Chinese Emperor’s 2k-Year-Old Tomb
47 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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LK-99 crystal verified to be magnetically levitated (with video)
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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SpaceX working with Cloudflare to speed up Starlink service
47 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Tim Bray: Mastodon Status Check
47 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Purism wants Louis Rossman to Delete video exposing refund scam & delay tactic
47 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon
47 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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How Indian artists transformed the Buddha’s absence into presence
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Students foot the bill for flagship state universities
47 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie
47 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5
47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
47 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
47 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter
47 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Illustrated JavaScript coding course for absolute beginners [pdf]
47 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Non-Euclidean Geometry Online: A Guide to Resources (2008)
47 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros – Teardown and Repair Assessment [video]
47 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels
47 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Heat-assisted detection and ranging
47 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had “Unacceptable” Biosafety Protocols
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Europe turns its new $1.5B space telescope on, and happily it works
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Awesome AI-powered developer tools
47 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse its news ban
46 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Google Gemini Eats the World
46 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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First order transition in [LK-99] containing Cu2S
46 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Timelapse of Cigarettes Left in Soil for an Entire Year
46 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Fitch Downgrades US Debt
46 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Future Intel CPUs May Dump Hyper-Threading for Partitioned Thread Scheduling
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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A fungeoid is a typically multi-dimensional language similar to Befunge
46 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)
46 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
46 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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The Status Quo Coalition
46 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Researchers watched 100 hours of hackers hacking honeypot computers
46 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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War Is a Racket
46 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Decoding base16 sequences quickly
46 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
46 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Reimagining the Bioreactor
46 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement
46 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a Covid-19 Joke
46 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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C# Application Markup Language (Csaml): A Preview (2006)
46 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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The Tera Computer System (1990)
46 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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NYU Professor says he's locked out of X after declining to meet with Elon Musk
46 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Airport Pianos: Find Pianos in Airports
46 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze?
46 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends?
46 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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'Cancer-killing pill' is now being tested on humans
46 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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An Open Source Mobile Phone Based on the ESP32
46 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough
46 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Writing a Pathtracer in Lua, Week 1
46 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Scientists develop pill able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research
46 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Toy Models of Superposition (2022)
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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The D Programming Language Conference '23
45 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Firm regrets taking Facebook moderation work
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Venus flytraps count electrical impulses to induce the digestive process (2016)
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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YouTube Is Still Tracking Kids Through Its Ads, Study Says
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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The power of achieving flow state in DevEx
45 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Pornhub Sues Texas over Age Verification Law
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Rail company that launched first H2 line opts for all-electric future
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk
45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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The Lack of Self-Deception
45 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Michael Burry shorts Major index in sizable bets
45 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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This 8-bit computer has two CPUs and one acts as a GPU [video]
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Van Rossum, Gosling, Goldberg, Hejlsberg panel and live discussion at PyData '23
45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists
45 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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mDNS Primer
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes
45 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead
45 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial
45 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Yes, a pigeon is faster for data transfer than gigabit fiber internet
45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing
45 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Friendly Captcha – GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection
45 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Zoom CEO says employees can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie
45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare
45 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Ask HN: Is making a self taught transition to AI/ML related fields possible?
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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What comes after Zoom? (2020)
45 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Exploring the design space of binary search trees
45 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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John Preskill's retrospective on the black hole information paradox
45 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Robert's Rules of Order
45 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf]
45 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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New Hetzner dedicated vCPU cloud servers with AMD Epyc CPUs
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours
45 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
45 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Zeitgeist 2001
45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning
45 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers over remote work
44 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Things I Learned Living Without Technology for a Year
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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We Don’t Need a New Twitter
44 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: How to Contact Stripe Directly?
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
44 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Show HN: Cosmic Media – Search millions of stock photos and videos
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2023