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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
228 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Shamir Secret Sharing
228 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Popcount CPU instruction (2019)
228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)
227 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Fairphone 5
226 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power
226 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
226 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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SUSE to Go Private
226 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work
226 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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How far can you jump from a swing?
226 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs
226 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure
225 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Is this a good book for me, now?
225 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure
225 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream
225 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs
225 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
224 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Can a worker-owned restaurant work?
224 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Linux on a Commodore 64
224 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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A Modern C Development Environment
224 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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CRISPR gene-editing treatment eliminates HIV-like virus from non-human primates
224 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Rust 1.72.0
223 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck
222 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?
222 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
222 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Visualization of Common Algorithms (2011)
222 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
221 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers
221 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
221 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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So Long, Twitter and Reddit
221 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out
220 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
220 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang
220 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
220 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64
219 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)
219 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Bye, Gemini
219 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Authentication on meet.jit.si
219 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Scrum is a cancer
219 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
219 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed (2020)
219 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?
219 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Do something, so we can change it
219 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
219 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly
219 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft
219 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI
218 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
218 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21
218 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver
218 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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QR codes appearing in Google street view?
218 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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GPT-4 can't reason
218 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
217 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Python: Just Write SQL
217 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
217 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (2015)
216 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Transform your Android device into a Linux desktop
216 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Sync for Lemmy
216 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)
216 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Zig 0.11
216 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes
216 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019)
216 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades
216 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?
215 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Weight-based motor vehicle tax
215 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
215 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine
215 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
214 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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All of the vehicle license plates available in America
214 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads
214 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs
214 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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When did Postgres become cool?
214 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
214 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Symmetry in Chaos
213 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes government online
213 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Wii Architecture – A Practical Analysis
213 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Uber posts first quarterly net profit
212 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation
212 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil
212 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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On keeping sketchbooks
212 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Why early modern books are so beautiful
212 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React
211 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Code Is Not Literature (2014)
211 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of a state machine
211 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years
210 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
210 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)
210 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents
209 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
209 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications
209 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models
209 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed
209 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
208 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability
208 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
208 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments
208 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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New York City bans TikTok for government employees
208 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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AI Crap
208 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing
208 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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GNU Units
208 points • comment • aug 03, 2023