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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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In This Essay I Will: On Distraction
34 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Blink WEI “will not ship in current form”
34 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Is Slack Down?
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter (2022)
34 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Conclusive Evidence for Modified Gravity
34 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Cow Tools
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Google just killed the Firebase stripe extension – zero warning
34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases
34 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Launch AI-Science Moonshot
34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Internet Explorer is EVIL! (2002)
34 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Striking the Right Balance: Over-Engineering vs. Under-Engineering Software
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Tesla Could Be Fined Daily over Autopilot’s Nag-Free ‘Elon Mode’
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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What's your go to Nix/NixOS pitch?
34 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Lightweight Virtualization: Libkrun, Vsock, Metallize
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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An early look at HNSW performance with pgvector
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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More Than Half of Earth's Species Live Underground
34 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Thomas Sowell's greatest insight – Konstantin Kisin [video]
34 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Googlecloud dropped our 1M req/day quota causing our site to alarm and error out
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Bringing Safety check to the Chrome://extensions page
34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Building the Future of X
34 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) [pdf]
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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ACM Skills Bundle Add-On
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Google Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste
34 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The Wizard of Oz Approach (2016)
34 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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In addition to the iPhone 15, Apple may add USB-C to iPhones from last year
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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‘San Francisco changed dramatically’ – Nordstrom is bailing on a flagship store
34 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Lahaina residents worry a rebuilt Maui could slip to the hands of rich outsiders
34 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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''Vinegar Syndrome'' Decaying Archives of Cellulose Acetate Microfilm Stock
34 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Microplastics found in human heart tissues
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Superconductor showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure
34 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Comparing PostgreSQL-Compatible Databases: From Amazon RDS to YugabyteDB
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Busting a myth: “only writers subscribe to genre magazines”
34 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Silicon Valley “Pronatalists” Oppose Remote Work Despite Boosted Fertility Rates
34 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Arizona driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died
34 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Academy Software Foundation Announces OpenPBR, a New Subproject of MaterialX
33 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Covid is back on the rise across America
33 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Marijuana, hallucinogen use, binge drinking at historic highs in U.S. 35-50Y
33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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“Once” one-time concurrent initialization with an integer
33 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data
33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Moonbit: The fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
33 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Russian ruble now worth less than a penny, infuriating Vladimir Putin’s circle
33 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Chrome Sync privacy is still bad
33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Landlords Are Pushing the Supreme Court to End Rent Control
33 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Apple to pay up to $500M to iPhone users
33 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Poor Clares Convent Cemetery
33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Detroit woman falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition tech
33 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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New York Times: The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange
33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Is ChatGPT a Bit Unsporting?
33 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Making Large Language Models work for you
33 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver pleaded guilty
33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Show HN: I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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More than 50,000 startups in the U.S. are at risk of high capital shortage
33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Long Covid in a highly vaccinated population – Australia, 2022
33 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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The Fundamental Theorem of Engineering: Everything's a Tradeoff
33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Efficient keyboard layout for English and Spanish
33 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to Photosynthesize, Scientists Warn
33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Texas couple dies in home after air conditioning failure
33 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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The pork industry’s forced cannibalism
33 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Investors brace for turbulence as Fed balance sheet shrinks by $1T
33 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Build a Business, Not an Audience
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Learning via Negativa
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore?
33 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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There are too many honeybees
33 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Ask HN: Nicknames for Computer Science Books?
33 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Scientists reveal how sensory protein changes shape with nanometer resolution
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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What can I do as an amateur hacker to get the best programming job next year?
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise
33 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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More than 500 daily high temperature records were set across the U.S. this week
33 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Chris Lattner on Julia programming language [video]
33 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Python 3.11.5 (2023)
33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Japanese houses have limited lifespans (2018)
33 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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99% of top Python packages are now wheels
33 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Automated assembly – molecular mechanisms from text mining and curated databases
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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‘Flat’ company structures rarely work, but some firms aim for middle ground
33 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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The Age of the Clever Fool
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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The Rise and Fall of Qualcomm Mirasol E-Readers (2018)
33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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An End, and a Beginning
33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54%
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Phone.wtf
33 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Show HN: Wildcams from every region in the world to spot your favorite animals
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Texas could get a bullet train between Houston and Dallas
32 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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AnkiDroid 2.16.2 released (first update in 3 years)
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
32 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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California court dismisses lawsuit over nuclear power plant
32 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Uber CEO stunned by $52 fare for 3-mile ride
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi?
32 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Bordeaux should be a climate change red flag for the wine industry
32 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Why SMTP still matters today
32 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Direct speech reconstruction from sensorimotor activity and deep learning models
32 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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NYC Will Spend $38,000 per Pupil. What Does That Buy?
32 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns
32 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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How to Write Software with Zero bugs – 25 years after qmail 1.0 – D. Bernstein [pdf]
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Firefox 116 Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities
32 points • comment • aug 02, 2023