hackerNews

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It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet (www.su.se)

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Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical? (item?id=32448825)

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I Watched an 857-Hour Movie to Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes (readpassage.com)

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Quirky Computing Books (github.com)

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2

Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text (zmarshall.nl)

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Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero (www.aljazeera.com)

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6

Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown (semaphoreci.com)

283 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081600 310 comments

7

Cast Iron Leet (erock.prose.sh)

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4

What Is TTY? (www.sobyte.net)

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6

Show HN: A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw (lambdaway.free.fr)

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27

A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave (www.wired.com)

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27

2022 Oder Environmental Disaster (en.wikipedia.org)

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23

Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads (www.ghacks.net)

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19

Electric Vehicles Are Way More Energy-Efficient Than Internal Combustion (www.motortrend.com)

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16

On Being Tired (jukkaniiranen.com)

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Germany Sees Tidal Shift in Sentiment Toward Atomic Energy (www.spiegel.de)

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15

List of Japanese Vegetable Cutting Techniques (thechefdojo.com)

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Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, self-healing filesystem layer (sdadams.org)

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How to Stay Focused While Working on Your Startup and Having a 9 to 5 (fernandopessagno.medium.com)

164 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081415 120 comments

14

A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg (github.com)

160 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081509 170 comments

23

Modern Malaise (ava.substack.com)

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13

Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why? (item?id=32453735)

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19

Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case (twitter.com)

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13

Efficient simulation through linear algebra (mht.wtf)

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6

Off the Grid Cali “Slab City” Reaches Its Boiling Point (bluedotliving.com)

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6

A software engineer's circuitous journey to calculate eigenvalues (www.stylewarning.com)

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7

The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi (hakaimagazine.com)

102 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081718 45 comments

10

Split Brain Psychology (superbowl.substack.com)

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12

What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete? (www.quantamagazine.org)

99 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081515 87 comments

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Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? (item?id=32453544)

98 points first seen 2022081409 last seen 2022081503 141 comments

4

Observations on tragedy in a digital age (tedgioia.substack.com)

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3

The Remote Pop-In Meeting (twos.dev)

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26

Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web (https://rocket-drone.lol)

92 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081503 77 comments

20

First Eco-Friendly Filter Removing 'Microplastics in Water,' (www.asiaresearchnews.com)

87 points first seen 2022081409 last seen 2022081503 22 comments

13

Mozart Effect (en.wikipedia.org)

82 points first seen 2022081418 last seen 2022081509 64 comments

20

Heap Overflows on iOS ARM64 (www.inversecos.com)

81 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081418 9 comments

19

IPv4 Address Auctions (auctions.ipv4.global)

80 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081503 90 comments

11

Ideas for DataScript 2 (tonsky.me)

77 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081515 19 comments

12

samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C (github.com)

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7

UTC vs. UT1 time and other nuances (2020) (mperdikeas.github.io)

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17

Katskhi pillar in Georgia: One of the world's most isolated churches (www.cnn.com)

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33

School demands search of text messaging, outside of school (twitter.com)

69 points first seen 2022081409 last seen 2022081500 85 comments

38

Who Judges the Judges? (popehat.substack.com)

64 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081412 20 comments

24

Dillo web browser homepage is for sale (dillo.org)

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28

Uber Rewards Update (help.uber.com)

62 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081415 38 comments

9

WinterCG: Web-Interoperable Runtimes Community Group (wintercg.org)

62 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081500 8 comments

47

Mysterious mass fish kill in Oder River: Climate change or poison? (www.dw.com)

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41

EU endorses right to repair as a circular economy essential (www.ifixit.com)

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7

Curious C++ Lambda Examples: Recursion, constexpr, Containers C++23 included (www.cppstories.com)

60 points first seen 2022081415 last seen 2022081503 48 comments

20

Does the Dog Die? (www.thewildest.com)

58 points first seen 2022081415 last seen 2022081518 60 comments

21

Faster Protocol Buffers (blog.najaryan.net)

58 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081515 16 comments

47

Everyone should be ‘quiet quitting’ (www.spectator.co.uk)

57 points first seen 2022081412 last seen 2022081500 51 comments

21

Do regex dream of Turing Completeness? (2021) [video] (www.youtube.com)

51 points first seen 2022081409 last seen 2022081500 14 comments

32

AWS Just Walk Out Technology (aws.amazon.com)

49 points first seen 2022081415 last seen 2022081421 67 comments

0

Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero (www.unilad.com)

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More than 10k Canadians received a medically-assisted death in 2021 (www.ctvnews.ca)

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73

Severance Is the Workplace Thriller We’ve Needed (readpassage.com)

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0

Moonray – open-source production renderer from DreamWorks (openmoonray.org)

45 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081403 6 comments

69

Ask HN: How to price a service that saves hundreds of engineering hours? (item?id=32452905)

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50

My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole (twitter.com)

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Tell HN: Apple products come without 3 pin plug in India (item?id=32451831)

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Ask HN: Any way to ban GPT-4 and others from harvesting my content and data? (item?id=32454585)

42 points first seen 2022081412 last seen 2022081421 49 comments

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The dangers of non-empirical confirmation (2016) (arxiv.org)

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Native-GUI distributed system in a tweet (blog.metaobject.com)

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19

A Pig and a Locust Get into Trouble with the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe (lithub.com)

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Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics (phys.org)

39 points first seen 2022081412 last seen 2022081500 43 comments

21

AI Guidance for Mental Resilience (https://futurself.ai)

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Show HN: `pdf2searchablepdf` command-line tool to make PDF have searchable text (github.com)

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X-in-Y Lines of Code (github.com)

36 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081503 0 comments

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Forecasting of energy consumption by G20 countries (www.nature.com)

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Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now? (item?id=32452242)

35 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081418 44 comments

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Ask HN: Aging and learning. Does it become more difficult? (item?id=32452177)

35 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081421 35 comments

19

Human Capital, Innovation, and Growth (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

30 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081509 7 comments

0

Meatless meat is nothing new (www.economist.com)

30 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081421 63 comments

38

Show HN: Create WireGuard Mesh Networks Using Vault (github.com)

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Show HN: I've made a GPU-based wavelet spectrogram tool for birdsongs (github.com)

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0

“Mars Is Irrelevant to Us If Earth Is Doomed”, Author of Legendary Mars Trilogy (www.vice.com)

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Mailchimp Slams Door for Crypto Content Without Warning (beincrypto.com)

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31

Using strangers to explore the city (2018) (www.theguardian.com)

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44

Getting Started with Vitest (www.vuemastery.com)

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“It’s Potentially Illegal”: As Crypto Crashed, Coinbase Stopped Notifications (www.motherjones.com)

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59

Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers (pluralistic.net)

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61

US data transfer unlawful according to German procurement authority (www.simpleanalytics.com)

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52

A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness (www.frontiersin.org)

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67

Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science (www.wired.com)

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We are entering a new world of collective action (wyclif.substack.com)

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Chasing gigacorns: Five things we learnt about investing in climate tech (sifted.eu)

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We ignored Salman Rushdie’s warning (www.commonsense.news)

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41

The Contingency of Listening: The MoFi Kerfuffle (dadadrummer.substack.com)

14 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081412 11 comments

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A Cyclic Theory of Subcultures (astralcodexten.substack.com)

14 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081409 0 comments

67

Tech's Offshore Hiring Has Gone into Overdrive (www.wired.com)

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How Cisco got Hacked – Tracking the attacker steps and the logs it generates (trunc.org)

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51

Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive (arxiv.org)

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82

When We Eat Can Affect Our Mental Health (www.wsj.com)

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80

The White House and Twitter Censorship (www.wsj.com)

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Microsoft Pluton: Security Chip Doesn't Let Linux on the Lenovo Z13 and Z16 (allinfo.space)

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0

Affirm CEO Says Next Recession Will Silence Fintech Lender’s Doubters (www.wsj.com)

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Twitch Flags Let’s Play of ‘Project Zomboid’ over Copyright of Police Siren (www.techdirt.com)

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Understanding User Awareness and Behaviors Concerning Encrypted DNS Settings (arxiv.org)

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Phasing out coal would save the world $78T (www.imperial.ac.uk)

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Embedded Systems #113 (embedsysweekly.com)

8 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081406 0 comments

0

How Instagram Suggests New Content (engineering.fb.com)

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Sam Bankman-Fried's lobbying seeks to make CFTC, not SEC, oversee crypto markets (www.latimes.com)

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International partnership aims to improve sorghum breeding (news.cornell.edu)

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44

Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical (arxiv.org)

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81

Historic Drought Threatens to Cripple European Trade (www.bloomberg.com)

8 points first seen 2022081421 last seen 2022081500 0 comments

0

Zoom Alternatives for Longer Meetings? (item?id=32449827)

7 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081403 11 comments

0

Delve into ELF Binary Magic (www.linux-magazine.com)

7 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081406 0 comments

0

Who Makes Ridgid Tools? (housegrail.com)

7 points first seen 2022081409 last seen 2022081409 0 comments

0

California governor proposes extending nuclear plant’s life (apnews.com)

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0

Robinhood Can't yet Ditch 'Meme Stock' Manipulation Case (www.law360.com)

6 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081400 2 comments

0

Use Postfix Dereferencing (www.effectiveperlprogramming.com)

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Billion-Year-Old Algae and Newer Genes Hint at Land Plants’ Origin (worldsensorium.com)

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0

SSDs Are Worse for the Planet Than HDDs (www.tomshardware.com)

6 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081403 0 comments

0

The Real-World Architects Who Built the Sci-Fi Dystopias of ‘Westworld’ (www.bloomberg.com)

6 points first seen 2022081418 last seen 2022081418 0 comments

0

Show HN: Write Words on Your GitHub Contributions Heatmap (blog.randombits.host)

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UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing [pdf] (dl.acm.org)

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0

Interview with Ivan Sokolov, Coach of Chennai Chess Olympiad Gold-Winning Uzbeks (www.chess.com)

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0

Can open-source technologies support open societies? (www.brookings.edu)

4 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

0

The Chip Shortage Leads to the Strangest Things (hackaday.com)

4 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

0

APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets (www.theregister.com)

4 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081403 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What was the last purchase you made at Fry's before they went under? (item?id=32453002)

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0

PrivacyToolsIO failing to their principles: hidden contract with NordVPN (raccoon.ebin.city)

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0

Online visit to museum dedicated to Tsiolkovsky in Google Maps (www.google.com)

3 points first seen 2022081400 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

0

Spaghetti-Tree Hoax (en.wikipedia.org)

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0

AI and the Flawed Logic of Mind Uploading (venturebeat.com)

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0

Gnome app beginners tutorial for C/Python/Vala (developer.gnome.org)

3 points first seen 2022081403 last seen 2022081403 2 comments

0

What's New in PHP 8.2 (kinsta.com)

3 points first seen 2022081406 last seen 2022081406 0 comments

0

Voltly App Feedback - Discover ideas that matter with articles and podcasts. (https://www.getvoltly.com)

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0

What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? (stackoverflow.com)

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Firezone (YC W22) hiring engineers to build a modern corporate VPN (remote, US) (www.ycombinator.com)

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