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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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A lost Edith Wharton play debuts on stage
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano?
17 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Thank You to the Terraform Open Source Community [video]
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Europe spent €600M to recreate the human brain in a computer. How did it go?
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Walmart cuts pharmacist pay, hours while workload piles up
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Tiny Birds in Japan Look Like Fluffy Little Cotton Balls
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Functional Programming 1
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Why McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken and How to Fix Them
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Apple searlized the iPhone 14 backglass [video]
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Ask HN: Best WFH Purchases?
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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SF bar target of wild extortion text involving bear spray, $20K
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Ned Wright's JavaScript Cosmology Calculator
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Pwn.college
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Abstract Nonsense
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Amazon reportedly in talks to become an anchor investor in Arm's IPO
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Show HN: Remote terminal via WebRTC, incl. file-transfer – no SSH/VPN required
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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New Dungeons and Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Jama: Evidence does not show that common cancer screening tests extend lifetime
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Show HN: A website for remote workers to find Airbnb's with good Internet
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Boring Billion
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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NASA plus – Ad-free, no cost streaming service
17 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Finding Home in Ah Ying: A Special View of 1980s Hong Kong
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share Psychological Features (2019)
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Veriff laying off 55 people in Estonia
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet (May 2023)
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Ask HN: How do you organize your data and maintain digital hygiene?
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Wagner Chief Prigozhin Listed Aboard Crashed Jet, Reports Say
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too)
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Ask HN: Stuck at $500 MRR and Seeking Distribution/Marketing Advice
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Austin company unveils humanoid robot
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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New data: global wealth rises, inequality falls
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Show HN: CoolReadME, a way to display GitHub profile readmes with custom CSS
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Original Wipeout game has been ported to the browser
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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My Distaste for Your Solution Does Not Mean Disregard for the Problem
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Moving my Blog off of Linode and back Home (Sort of)
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Software CEO worth almost $12B says he goes to office ‘about once a quarter,’
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Abusing Zoom's Zero Touch Provisioning for Remote Attacks on Desk Phones
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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“Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions Of
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Show HN: E-Ink Powered UK Rail Departure Board Using Badger 2040W
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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How to shuffle a big dataset (2018)
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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For Women with Money Issues, an A.D.H.D. Diagnosis Can Be Revelatory
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Babur the Naturalist
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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If you’re a criminal I will not use any application you write
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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The working-from-home debate gets old
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried finally inducted into the Disgraced Database
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Chronosort
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Tune PaLM 2 with your own RLHF training data
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Elon Musk Shows Self-Driving Tesla Accelerating into Oncoming Traffic
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Mozilla Langview: A library for language models to respond with GUI
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off?
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Imapsync
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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A Novel OS Built Just for Databases [video]
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Is there a hidden cost to noise cancelling?
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Actix-Web: v4.4.0
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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10xjobs.net, High paying tech jobs (US)
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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SF store clerk killed after robbery, assault with bat
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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How does event-driven programming even work?
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer–and His Byline
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (2013)
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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San Francisco Landlords may lose everything [video][40 mins]
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Elections watchdog reveals it was hit by cyber attack
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Maker of Chrome extension with 300k users tells constant pressure sell out
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Show HN: A NextJS boilerplate to automate all the boring stuff
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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NewOS (2005)
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Not everything is secret in encrypted apps like iMessage and WhatsApp
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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San Francisco’s robotaxi experiment is getting out of hand
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Novak Djokovic credits the TaoPatch for his success: What does the science say?
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Null Island
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Intel Downfall: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Show HN: 20x faster pgvector alternative written in Rust
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Firefox desktop extensions to run on Android browser
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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The Green Hydrogen Debate Is Much Bigger Than Hydrogen
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Ask HN: Are there any fulfilling careers in tech anymore?
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Guide to Generative AI and Political Misinformation
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Cloud Cost Handbook
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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USAF KC-135 crew records St Elmo’s fire during hurricane evacuation
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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ChatGPT costs 700k/day to run; may go bankrupt in 2024
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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AI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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A New Wave of Peer-to-Peer Apps Heralds a Farm-to-Table Internet
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Apple is finally ready to play nice with right to repair
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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US Space Force creates first unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Leaving the Office at 5 Is Not a Moral Failing
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Longtime Super Mario voice actor Charles Martinet retires from the role
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Llama 22B: 13B V2 with 33B attention heads frankensteined on
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Sports leagues ask US for “instantaneous” DMCA takedowns and website blocking
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Awk programming language 2nd edition
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Nvidia Has Practically Stopped Production of Its 40-Series GPUs
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2023