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Hacker News (Oct 2023)
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Everyone Daydreams About Collapse. Few Understand It
21 points • comment • oct 07, 2023
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India uses widespread internet blackouts to mask domestic turmoil
21 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away from a Rails Monolith
21 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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How to rewrite classes using closures in JavaScript
21 points • comment • oct 21, 2023
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Use String instead of char or code points in Java
21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Results have jumped the shark
21 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
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CRT Shaders
21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods
21 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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What the _% Is a Passkey?
21 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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The FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, and Why You Can't Use It (2015)
21 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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The Urgent-Important Matrix (2013)
21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Hamas' social media following has skyrocketed
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2023
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Researchers find 23,000-year-old footprints in the United States
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2023
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Why do patients leave against medical advice?
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000WX at 96 Cores and Threadripper 7000 HEDT
20 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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Large deposit of "white" hydrogen found underground in France
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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McKinsey Developer Productivity Review
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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X plans to use payment, phone and ID verification to stop bots, $1/yr fee
20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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Apple Is Approaching Social on Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along
20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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"FreeBSD saved me from different problems"
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset and Apache
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Apple's Scary Fast event could spell the end of its Lightning port
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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12ft is down, vercel banned me
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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H-1B Visa Program Changes Aimed at Stopping Applicants from Gaming Lottery
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
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Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country
20 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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Okta shares fall after company says client files were accessed by hackers
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has arrived for Firefox users
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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Nearly half of non-Tesla EV owners want to go back to ICE
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026
20 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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San Francisco is becoming a tech hub again, Y Combinator CEO says
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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240Hz is the new 120Hz: It's time to buy a high refresh rate monitor
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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NY officials announce legislation aimed at protecting kids on social media
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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Ask HN: What are your 'mental hacks' to remember small tasks?
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2023
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Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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Incus 0.2 adds NVMe, NixOS images and more
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Higher UV exposure associated with lower mortality: UK Biobank Cohort Study [pdf]
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2023
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A Former Amazon Worker Was Put a Performance Plan; Lost a Deposit on a House
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Unpacking Elixir: Observability
20 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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'A.I. Obama' and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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JVector: The most advanced embedded vector search engine
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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People with CarPlay are mostly just listening to AM/FM radio
20 points • comment • oct 21, 2023
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Detroit: magic wand makes dirty air look clean and lets polluters off the hook
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Man arrested after confusing Portuguese words for 'pomegranate' and 'grenade'
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Vision Transformers Need Registers
20 points • comment • oct 06, 2023
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Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know
20 points • comment • oct 07, 2023
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The Case of the Poison Pen Letters
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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AMD acquires Nod.ai to bolsters its AI software ecosystem
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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Big layoffs coming at Convoy, a logistics startup backed by Bezos and Gates
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Copy webpage text, convert to Markdown
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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Mastodon has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method
20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Show HN: Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube by helping users bypass ad-blocker-blocker
20 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
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Louis Rossmann – The best way to watch online video; my yearlong project is done
20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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Elon Musk could block Twitter for users in Europe to avoid Digital Services Act
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Let's Celebrate Relicensing from an Open Source to a Proprietary License
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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US Tests Explosive at Nuclear Site as Russia Revokes Ban on Atomic Weapons Tests
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
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Jon Stewart's show on Apple is over because of disagreements about China
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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The Million Dollar Homepage
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2023
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Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
20 points • comment • oct 08, 2023
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Mentally Ill Man with AI Girlfriend Tried to Kill Queen
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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Open Questions for AI Engineering
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Why a bale of straw is hanging from the Millennium Bridge
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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WebUSB Support for RP2040
20 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Ubuntu 23.10 release image withdrawn due to malicious translation incident
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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Foldable iPad in 'Intensive Development,' Announced as Soon as Next Year
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Programmers Fallacies about Postcodes
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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53% of U.S. dog owners hesitant about the rabies vaccine
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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Argentina's Economic Catastrophe: How Bad Policies Destroyed a Once Rich Country [video]
20 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender (2020)
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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'This will be our last post' – LBRY throws in towel against the SEC
19 points • comment • oct 21, 2023
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Real-Time Research: Top Reference Systems (Design Systems and UI Libs) 2023
19 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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Mailchimp alternatives in 2023: 15 options, 5 with unlimited contacts
19 points • comment • oct 03, 2023
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Audacity runs surprisingly well in the browser
19 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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CT scanned: What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable?
19 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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Perilous Joy: George Eliot and the marriage question
19 points • comment • oct 21, 2023
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Airbnb listings down to 3,227 from 22,434 since August
19 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Raspberry Pi releases RP1 peripheral controller datasheet and block diagram
19 points • comment • oct 07, 2023
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The WebP vulnerability: a tale of a CVE with much bigger impl
19 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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The deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes
19 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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Cataloguing the Cotton Charters
19 points • comment • oct 16, 2023
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Intro to Semantic Kernel – Part Two
19 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Toyota's reliance on single supplier drags out long shutdown
19 points • comment • oct 28, 2023
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Oligopoly competition between satellite constellations reduce economic welfare
19 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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A Pedestrian Was Hit; Cruise Car Subsequently Runs Her Over and Stops on Her
19 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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MSFT Earnings Release FY24 Q1
19 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House
19 points • comment • oct 03, 2023
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Show HN: Aft, minimalistic file transferring program
19 points • comment • oct 15, 2023
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Facebook's AI Tom Brady is a weird creep who's obsessed with Travis Kelce
19 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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Ask HN: What's Been Going on with Archive.today?
19 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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Mozilla Connect Ideas – Vote on Firefox Features
19 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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Honda debuts its first-ever electric autonomous zero-turn riding lawn mower
19 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation
19 points • comment • oct 02, 2023