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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Postgres at the Edge Cloudflare
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Genetics makes some people more likely to participate in genetic studies
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Shutting Down? [video]
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Is Twitter on web down for anybody else?
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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WeWork goes from $47B valuation to ‘substantial doubts’ about its future
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Scientists Create New Material 5 Times Lighter and 4 Times Stronger Than Steel
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Long Covid is debilitating 65M people. Where is the urgency to treat it?
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Xtree Fans
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Three-Month-Pangolin
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Defence Intelligence – Communicating Probability
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Slack Is Down
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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WebKit – Touch Bar Web API
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Abandon the idea of ‘great green walls’
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public?
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Ask HN: Startup ideas that you'll never do?
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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OpenAI bought the makers of a Minecraft clone
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Japan: sales of train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Malware loader lowdown: big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Trying to be human, and other mistakes
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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GNOME's Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs to Better Visualize Output
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Airbyte API & Terraform Provider – available in open source
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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86Box 4.0 Released
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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An evaluation of risks associated with relying on Fortran
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s brutal message to remote workers
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Twenty Years of Marginal Revolution
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Famously overworked visual effects workers of Marvel movies vote to join a union
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Open-Source Semantic Vector Search with Pgvector and Instructor
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Russian and Chinese hacked UK foreign office, breach withheld from public
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Stealing from the Saracens
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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“Open” “AI” Isn't
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Ancient Popcorn (2012)
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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‘What have I seen?’: Joel Meyerowitz’s life in photography – in pictures
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Effective Haskell is a practical hands-on introduction for working developers
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Elite Crackdown on Free Speech Worldwide Intensifies
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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RTO orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Scrum Is a Cancer
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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NASA Reestablishes Contact with Voyager 2
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Plausible theoretical foundation for LK99 RTAPS calculated via supercomputer
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Nvidia reports 88% jump in revenue and tops estimates
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Hello from Ares
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Doctors ghost patients, charge for surgeries left to residents
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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How iceberg won the lettuce wars
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Young people took on fossil fuels and won. What’s next?
15 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Colleen Hoover’s tales of love and trauma
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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China thwarts Intel’s $5.4B Israeli chipmaker purchase
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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BlueJeans Folds
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory [video]
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Anger found to be the primary driver of climate activism
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Cmd-stream-go – a high-performance remote command execution library for Golang
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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2024 Defense Bill Threatens Future of 3D-Printed Firearms and Basic Gun Rights
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Co-owner of Kansas newspaper dies after police raid
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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How to find out if programming is for you
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slave to Leader/Follower
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Thread on LK-99 and atomically precise manufacturing
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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The Local-News Crisis Is Weirdly Easy to Solve
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Another User Locked Out of Apple Account
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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UFC president meets Italy’s culture minister to discuss fight at Colosseum
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Ask HN: Is there public tracking for the success of YC “request for startups”?
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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YouTuber Kai Cenat in custody after game console giveaway sparks chaos in NYC
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Klaviyo S-1 Filing
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023?
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Yarn: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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August Headline: Julia enters the Tiobe index top for the first time
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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YouTube Thinks I’m a Child
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Golay Code (2015)
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Seafood banned after Japan starts releasing Fukushima nuclear wastewater
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Set up Linux on your Chromebook
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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On Modularity of Lexical Analysis
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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A Repugnance to Autobiography
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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US military to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next 2 years
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Do Latter-Day Saints Have an Assimilation Problem?
15 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Georgia Grand Jury Delivers Indictment
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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The Legitimacy of Takeover Defense in the '90s
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Amazon warns workers to come back into the office
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Owner gives up 2 big S.F. hotels expects city’s recovery to take up to 7 years
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an A.I. Presentation Gone Awry
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Google Street View driver crashes after 100 MPH chase, police say
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Germany, Switzerland, Austria join call for return to budgetary discipline
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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The Story of Carrene (1935)
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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China's Talismanic Tigers
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Heat camera captures scorching nature of record Phoenix heat wave
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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In the Sheriff We Trust
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Evolution of the Gitea Downloads Site
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Phoenix’s Rapid Growth Magnified Its Vulnerability to Heat
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Mortgage rates soar to their highest level in 21 years
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023