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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Vectorized UTF-8 Validation for Java
42 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Today I learned that random people can send you money on PayPal and disputed it
42 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Show HN: Using LLama2 to Correct OCR Errors
42 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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The Evolution of Senescence (2022)
42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future
42 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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TypeScript Without Transpilation (2021)
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Nordstrom Closing SF Flagship Store After More Than 30 Years
42 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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US lawmaker says high-tech investment 'leaving Israel' amid judicial overhaul
42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack
42 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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How the rich get richer (2020)
42 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Benefits of Inconvenience (“Fuben-Eki”)
42 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Out-of-Distribution
42 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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A Green Revolution in ‘Carbon Valley’
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Wedding Photographer Spent a Year in Jail After Pleading the Fifth
42 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Dell fined $6.5M for cheating customers about monitor discounts
42 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Mimicking natural selection in chemical systems
42 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California
42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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PlayHT2.0: State-of-the-Art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Three security teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space
41 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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‘It’s Not My Responsibility’ to Save the Office Economy
41 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Tatung Electric Cooker (2022)
41 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
41 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer?
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Pentagon Wants to Buy 1,000s of Small, Cheap, Autonomous Drones in Next 2 Years
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Samsung Remote Test Lab: Run Emulated Samsung Phones from the Browser
41 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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37signals Datacenter Overview
41 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Matters Computational – Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code [pdf]
41 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes (2011)
41 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin
41 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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HashiCorp CEO called their community building for Terraform “Malicious” [video]
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters
41 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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USBGuard
41 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives
41 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?
41 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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US Housing Affordability Hits Worst Point in Nearly Four Decades
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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My MNT Reform laptop almost a year on
41 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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We now believe that the game is over. LK-99 is not a superconductor
41 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness
41 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Videogames that teach you stuff
41 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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AirPrint with Cups
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Fiber-Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors
41 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Remembering the Slip: the Manhattan street that birthed a generation of artists
41 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Python proposal (inspired by Lua)
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Understanding Percentiles (2021)
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Seasonal malaria vaccine-drug combo sees dramatic reductions at 5-year mark
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The Python dictionary dispatch pattern
41 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa That Are So Bad, They’re Good
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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The Oregon Resilience Plan (2013) [pdf]
41 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
41 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ask HN: Is GPT 4's quality lately worst than GPT 3.5?
41 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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It’s not intelligent if it always halts: A critical perspective on AI approaches
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Alternative Shells
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Being a short-term rental host has become much harder
40 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Dimeadozen.ai – AI-powered market research for any startup
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Margaret Atwood: My Voice and Mind Are Not Replicable
40 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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No Love for Negative Permissions – DAC/ACL Bypass on Linux
40 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Thinking Fast and Slopes
40 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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A most very unofficial guide to the W65C265SXB
40 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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The U-bend of life: Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older
40 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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UPS driver pay and benefits deal in US to be worth $170k a year, firm says
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Backblaze Product and Pricing Updates
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Subscriber Only: A Technical Post Mortem
40 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter
40 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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The History of Electronic Mail
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Firefox Relay – secure random email and phone number masks
40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Four billionaire techno-oligarchs–Are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
40 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9M Crypto Wallet
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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NHS world first rollout of cancer jab that cuts treatment time by up to 75%
40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Show HN: dnum − A small TypeScript library to handle decimal numbers
40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Rubbing Shoulders: Class Segregation in Daily Activities [pdf]
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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New studies gauge impact and cause of beech leaf disease
40 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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The Republic of Cows
40 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Pricing your SaaS on the demand curve using the Pareto power law
40 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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How the recession doomers got the U.S. economy so wrong
40 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Interview with Shang-Yi Chiang, Former TSMC VP of Research
40 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Ask HN: Is genetic programming still actively researched?
40 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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STL: The Vector
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Bay Area 2023 Maker Faire
40 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees
40 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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People lining up in Argentina to have their iris scanned for Worldcoin
40 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Sony and other music labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing old records
40 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Cleaning Up Dead Bodies in AWS IAM
39 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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OpenWrt Security Advisories
39 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless
39 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Mirantis Unveils K0smotron: An Open-Source Kubernetes Management Project
39 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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What the Heck Happened in 2012?
39 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Paper Straws Have Higher 'Forever Chemical' Concentration Than Plastic Straws
39 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Ask HN: Transitioning from game development to cybersecurity. Tips or advice?
39 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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I Made a Keyboard
39 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Why I Find Bullshit Work Intolerable
39 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the 2022 voting system
39 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
39 points • comment • aug 29, 2023