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Archives for 17 Aug 2021
  1. Modern LZ Compression (2019)
    (122 points | Comments)

  2. Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent
    (150 points | Comments)

  3. Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?
    (191 points | Comments)

  4. German parliament wants Tim Cook to reconsider CSAM plans
    (117 points | Comments)

  5. How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?
    (106 points | Comments)

  6. A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf]
    (134 points | Comments)

  7. Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
    (589 points | Comments)

  8. Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones
    (167 points | Comments)

  9. Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games
    (220 points | Comments)

  10. Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
    (547 points | Comments)

  11. After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind
    (162 points | Comments)

  12. Big Oil methane emissions: ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting
    (227 points | Comments)

  13. Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
    (564 points | Comments)

  14. The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency
    (201 points | Comments)

  15. People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart
    (112 points | Comments)

  16. Helvetica Now Variable
    (320 points | Comments)

  17. Atlas robot does parkour
    (221 points | Comments)

  18. Mailable Live Animals
    (224 points | Comments)

  19. Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
    (161 points | Comments)

  20. Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
    (153 points | Comments)

  21. What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019)
    (132 points | Comments)

  22. Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
    (568 points | Comments)

  23. A simple way to build collaborative web apps
    (239 points | Comments)

  24. Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s
    (171 points | Comments)

  25. Bad News
    (223 points | Comments)

  26. Speeding up atan2f
    (245 points | Comments)

  27. Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)
    (136 points | Comments)

  28. The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think
    (123 points | Comments)

  29. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
    (851 points | Comments)

  30. The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
    (151 points | Comments)

  31. Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
    (243 points | Comments)

  32. How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
    (126 points | Comments)

  33. Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases
    (203 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
    (1216 points | Comments)

  35. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
    (595 points | Comments)

  36. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
    (346 points | Comments)

  37. South Kensington station's escalator replacement project
    (242 points | Comments)

  38. The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
    (145 points | Comments)

  39. Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
    (362 points | Comments)

  40. Git 2.33
    (179 points | Comments)

  41. Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)
    (119 points | Comments)

  42. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)
    (415 points | Comments)

  43. SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI
    (296 points | Comments)

  44. Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?
    (130 points | Comments)

  45. Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta
    (102 points | Comments)

  46. How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
    (176 points | Comments)

  47. Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
    (132 points | Comments)