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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Wall Text Warning: It's so fucking expensive being poor
11 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Harbour – A Cross-Platform xBase
11 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The History of Windows 2.0
11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes
11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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The Maximum Tension Principle in General Relativity(2002)
11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Hackers Gain Control of Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control over Games
11 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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The Professor of Parody (1999)
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Wikifunctions Is Starting Up
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Heat camera captures scorching nature of record Phoenix heat wave
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Broken by bison, aspen saplings having a tough time in northern Yellowstone
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Google leaked Google’s flagship Pixel 8 Pro, again
11 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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A Gen Z Google software engineer
11 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Asianometry: ASML's High-NA and Hyper-NA EUV: An Update [video]
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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D&D and keepsake games are set to collide in 2024, and I’m here for it
11 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Ask HN: Why so many data centers in Northern Virginia?
11 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Show HN: OSS tool to finetune and serve LLMs on different clouds
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Epoch and the Cassette Vision – 1997 Developer Interview
11 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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History and Development of the 567 Series GM Locomotive Engine (1951) [pdf]
11 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Randall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Cloud TPU v5e and Nvidia H100 A3 GA
11 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Computers Are Broken
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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We are witnessing the first stages of civilization’s collapse
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Goldman Sachs bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds
10 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Bears Are Climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Climate researcher: 'We are witnessing the sixth great extinction'
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Casio Watch Rings
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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The Kagi extension now require my browser history, why?
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Vancouver Hospital Defends Suggesting MAID to Suicidal Patient
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Prompting, realized, and unrealized bias in generative AI
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Baldur's Gate 3
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Best Time to Water – Morning, Noon or Evening?
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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‘Here Begins the Dark Sea’ Review: A Map from the Future
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did (2012)
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Ask HN: Why can't you unsubscribe from Apple promotional emails?
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Curved Coordinate Systems and Fictitious Forces
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Ask HN: Gmail alternative for the lazy activist?
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Microsoft Lost the API War
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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QEMU 8.1 Released with New PipeWire Audio Back End, Many CPU Improvements
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Paychecks, Not Portfolios: Why Income Is the Key to Financial Success
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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UUID Collision
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Fighting API bots with Cloudflare's invisible turnstile
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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This Whale May Be Largest Animal Ever-We Have No Idea How It Got So Big
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Hackers Exploit ‘Prompt Injection’ Technique to Manipulate AI Systems
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Paramount Agrees to Sell Simon and Schuster to KKR, a Private Equity Firm
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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The $900k AI Job Is Here
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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WxWidgets – open-source C++ cross platform GUI
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer (AMOC) Shutting Down? [video]
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Regex Licensing
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Hawaii governor says state is looking to 'acquire land' destroyed in fires
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Tinder wants to sell a $500-a-month subscription
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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US study shows electric cars have more tech glitches than petrol cars
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Economist Joseph Stiglitz
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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The Big Myth About “Free” Markets That Justified History’s Greatest Heist
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Support Academic Freedom of Speech
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Ask HN: What projects are trying to reinvent core software infrastructure?
10 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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The Space Force Is Launching Its Own Swarm of Tiny Satellites
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Ask HN: Are you don’t like AI and why?
10 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Disney’s ‘metaverse chief’ departs shortly after division shutdown
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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The sex coach is killing intimacy: Therapists aren't relationship substitutes
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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CobWeb: COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler
10 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Show HN: Turning Websites into Animated Videos
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Ask HN: We had mass layoff but companies are still complaining about shortage
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Super Mario Bros 3 game manual [pdf]
10 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Lionsgate Brings Back Mask Mandates in Office
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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AWS to Start Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Data Visualization with D3.js and PicoLisp (2022)
10 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Nintendo Game Processor – The lost Nintendo game creation PC
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The Twilight of Neoliberalism
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Iran forces women defying hijab laws into psychiatric treatment
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Programmers flex on each other [video]
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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FreeCAD 0.21 Released
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Google Gemini Eats the World
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Walmart pulls children's toy that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Ask HN: What browser extensions are you currently using?
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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The Sun produces higher energy light than was thought possible
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder? (2009)
10 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Want to cope with heatwaves? Look to Japan's creative cooling solutions
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Sound Transmission Through Vacuum
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Meta just released its answer to GitHub Copilot, and it’s free
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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‘Bored Apes’ investors sue Sotheby’s, Paris Hilton,others as NFT prices collapse
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: Deal with feeling of not knowing anything well enough?
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ask HN: Key Man Insurance for Startups?
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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SM Study Reveals 52 Doctors Spread Covid-19 Misinformation to Millions in US
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Texas Rep Horrified by Circular Saw Barriers: 'Designed for War'
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023