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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Discourse on Winning and Losing (1989) [pdf]
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Interview with unjustly overlooked SF author Misha Burnett
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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If you donate to Wikipedia, they will suppress donation appeals for 1 week
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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WarGames (1983) – Behind the Scenes (2007) [video]
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Windows 11 update gives some the blue-screen blues
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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The Russian effort to build 6k attack drones with Iran’s help
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Is Britain as Poor as Mississippi?
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down (2011)
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Our Current FOSS Dystopia
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Scraping Hacker News like a leet 10x haxor
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Budgie 10.8 Released
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Thoughts on [Turning] 29
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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For womb the bell tolls
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Tell HN: Oracle Cloud has Suspended our paid account
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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How long until a robot is doing your chores?
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Metro 2033 author sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's war
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Ask HN: Is it still worth doing Red Hat certs?
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Carbon capture and storage is a fiction
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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At least 3 Russian journalists and activists poisoned abroad since fall 2022
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Ask HN: How do you use Obsidian.md for note taking?
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Wikipedia donations used for politics, not for running Wikipedia
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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CA lawmakers want to make social media safer for the people. Can they succeed?
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes [video]
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Hundreds of Cargo Ships Have Been Stalled at Panama Canal for Weeks and Counting
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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The Human Ecology of Overshoot: A Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches for Further System Hardening
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Chloropicrin
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Apple Still Sucks at Right to Repair
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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W. Jason Morgan, scientist at forefront of plate tectonics theory, has died
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Private equity firm Veritas makes a takeover offer for BlackBerry
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Meta’s Threads App to Launch Web Version as Rivalry with X Enters New Stage
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smalltalk [video]
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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BSD Now – Episode 520 “4 months BSD”
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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UK police say 88 people who bought sodium nitrite from Canadian websites died
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Dying blogger: First-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor? Get in touch
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Yevgeny Prigozhin on Manifest of Plane That Crashed in Russia
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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What Happens If You Destroy a Black Hole? [video]
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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F-16s already touched down in Ukraine – Head of Ukraine's Air Force
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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The Anti-California: How Montana performed a housing miracle
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first
7 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Trolls Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Monetizing Developer Tools
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Show HN: AI to help you online date better
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Mountains Are Collapsing from Permafrost Melt
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Show HN: Customizable terminal UI for monitoring weather, app uptime, and more
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Musk was working on his AI company while publicly calling for a pause on AI dev
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Nokolisp – Lisp interpreter and compiler from 1977-1988 for MSDOS
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Utah law for porn site age verification stays in effect after lawsuit dismissed
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Doors: Fast light-weight RPC for secure control transfer between processes
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles
7 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Show HN: Minimal note-taking app
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Ask HN: Who would you coldmail for freelance gigs? CTOs? recruiters? CEOs?
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Northern Ireland police officers’ details exposed in ‘monumental’ breach
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Samsung Teases 256 TB SSD: 3D QLC NAND at Its Best
7 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $1.55B, the 3rd largest in lottery history
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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SF tech companies that limit remote work may be in for a bad time
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Burning Man attendees who rent trucks may face fines, GPS tracking
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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First United States Army Group
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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A Jupiter-size exoplanet formed around a tiny star
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Vue 3 is currently performing better than Svelte and React
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Saudi Arabia Passes Law Requiring USB-C Charging on New Phones and Laptops
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Supabase became this generation’s database
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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MaginotDNS attacks exploit weak checks for DNS cache poisoning
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Soldier Who Called Out Torture in Iraq Is Laid to Rest at Arlington
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Room temperature superconductivity private replication - San Fran [video]
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13M a minute, says IMF
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Decline in Insect Populations
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Show HN: A simple wireless power demonstration circuit
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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My Solution to the Dev Skills Crisis: Much Smaller Teams
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Chugwater's Igloo House Is Earthquake, Fire, and Tornado Proof
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Russian officials say Prigozhin was on passenger list of jet that crashed
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Blaise Pascal: The Infinite Spaces, Alienation, and the Wager
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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0.3% of American taxes supported Ukraine last year
7 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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One China real-estate empire just weeks from $199B collapse dwarfing Evergrande
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Russian central bank to meet on Tuesday as ruble tanks
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Home sales drop again in July, as supply drops to near quarter-century low
7 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Manga Piracy Apps Stay Up on Google and Apple, Publisher Moves to Unmask Devs
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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How the Offspring’s Lead Singer Went from Punk to PhD (2022)
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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As water reuse expands, proponents battle the 'yuck' factor
7 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Yes, AI Models Can Get Worse over Time
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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What should you know about Svalbard? (2020)
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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British Library's Public Domain Images
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Tampa-area schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Fla. rules
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Men tend to regulate their emotions through actions rather than words
7 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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JavaScript In-Browser Implementation of Tor
7 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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The Next Generation of Web Layouts
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023