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Hacker News (Sep 2024)
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  High School Dropout Turned Billionaire Completes First Civilian Spacewalk
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 14, 2024
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  List of Unsolved Problems in Physics
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  How could Israel have triggered Hezbollah pager explosions?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognitio
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
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  50 years on, the transatlantic flight speed record remains unbroken
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
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  The Illusion of a Pagan West
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  X Transparency Report
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  How to think clearly about correlations
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  I Built "The Monospace Web"
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  US takes aim at Shein and Temu with new import rule proposal
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  Weapons of Math Destruction
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  Man arrested for creating fake AI music and making $10M by listening with bots
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  Bitcoin and NFTs get legal protections as 'personal property' under UK law
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  Brazil's mega dams, among world's largest, struggle due to droughts
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  M4 Mac Mini Likely to Lose Support for USB-A
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  Where six Big Tech gatekeepers are likely to not be compliant with the DMA
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  DOJ Sues Owner and Operator of the Vessel That Destroyed the Key Bridge
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  The Best Advice I've Ever Received
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  Why Gen Z and Millennials Are Splurging Instead of Saving
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
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  Due to AI fakes, the "deep doubt" era is here
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  How to test CORS on the command line with curl
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Robots Are Almost Everywhere
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  AI now beats 100% of traffic-image CAPTCHAs
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  SoC 2 Compliance Checklist
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Hono – A Lightweight Back End Framework for Cloud-Native Applications
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Budget-friendly DIY video surveillance
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Why Fascists Hate Universities
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  IKEA Introduces Matter Support for the Dirigera Hub
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
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  Anduril Unveils Barracuda-M Family of Cruise Missiles
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  Through the Years with Gaiters (2013)
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
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  I Built a Paper Tape Reader from Scratch [video]
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  PwC Laying Off 1,800 Employees in First Formal Cuts Since 2009
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
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  What's in an (Alias) Name?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  What was the best life hack you discovered too late?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 15, 2024
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  Strongman's 'guy rope' muscles show greatest growth, study finds
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  Stelo Glucose Biosensor – No Prescription, Buy Now
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  Montreal Kicked Cars to the Curb and Thrived
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Show HN: AI Kissing– Free AI Kissing Video Generator
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  Microsoft Open Sources OpenHCL, a Linux-Based 'Paravisor'
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  Why don't more people use Linux?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  Cutting videos in the terminal with chafa and FFmpeg
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. It won't happen
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
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  Unsafe Impedance: Safe Languages and Safe by Design Software
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  Cite-seeing and reviewing: A study on citation bias in peer review
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  China's startup scene is dead as investors pull out
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  Positive effects of creatine supplementation on memory in healthy individuals
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
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  Charitable Contributions – Matt Mullenweg
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  DirecTV Says Will Fight "As Long as It Needs to" in Carriage Dispute with Disney
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  Virtual Angkor
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  US Surgeon General warns that parenting is a health hazard [pdf]
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Human Consciousness Comes from a Higher Dimension
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  20MW: China installs ' largest single-capacity' offshore wind turbine
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Intel RealSense D421 offers low-cost depth sensing for robots
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  Ukrainian Drones Just Blew Up 2k Tons of Ammo in Southern Russia
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
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  What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes [video]
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Stanford ECON295/CS323 I 2024 - AI and Democracy, Lawrence Lessig [video]
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  Founder Mode Is Design Mode
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  China could soon have more pets than toddlers. Why that's a headache for Beijing
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  Ask HN: Windows Backup Solution?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Justice Department Probes Server Maker Super Micro Computer
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  A dropped bag of Cheetos had 'world changing' impact on life in a cave
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Retrowin32: Redoing Syscalls
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
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  Nefarious actors attack from 3k shadow GitHub accounts, spreading malware
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  LLVM 19.1.0 Released
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Any idea what HW/MCU is inside Amazon Monitron?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  Roy Clay, a Silicon Valley pioneer who knocked down racial barriers, dies at 95
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  iPhones Are Allergic to Helium (2018)
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 14, 2024
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  Stratovision
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Israel declares start of 'new phase' of war - Lebanon
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  Compression algorithm handles data 3X times faster, shatters benchmark
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  Famed Pacific Rapa Nui island's population 'crash' debunked by ancient DNA
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  AI Exuberance Masks Broad Weakness in Tech Sector, Say Investors
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
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  In four decades, their home never flooded. Then in a flash, they were homeless
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  FEX 2409 – benchmarks are upwards of 10% faster
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Stablecoins Backed by Real Estate
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Windows 12.1 Pro
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  An Obligatory "Founder Mode" Post
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  MOA Meaning: Minute of Angle Explained – RifleShooter
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  LinkedIn admits to training AI on users' data without consent
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
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  GPU Acceleration with Polars
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  Koalas are up power poles, on roads, in schools. Outlook for koalas remains poor
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  Ask HN: Why doesn't YC comply with GDPR?
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  California sues ExxonMobil for alleged decades of deception around recycling
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  The San Francisco Freedom Club
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  AI prompt engineering: A deep dive [video]
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Kid Pix – The Early Years
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Those calling Intel a company in decline are missing the point
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Nvidia's AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  India-made ammunition enters Ukraine, irks defence partner Russia
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
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  Judge's ruling opens door to US election betting
  
  
5 points • comment • sep 09, 2024