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"data troll") 12 112 4mo +3d troyhunt.com/that-16-billion-password-story-aka-data-troll 13Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning 21 160 4mo +47m dyna.org 14James Baldwin's Apotheosis 10 35 4mo +2d hudsonreview.com/2025/08/james-baldwins-apotheosis 15Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members 60 107 4mo +51m torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-operator-arrested-study-canceled-for-330k-members-250814 16The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) 45 170 4mo +3d raft.github.io 17Office on HP-UX and Unix 54 102 4mo +29m openpa.net/hp-ux_office.html 18One person was able to claim 20M IPs 58 197 4mo +1h lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS/#MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS 19Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch 13 18 4mo +23m bloomberg.comhttp://www./news/articles/2025-08-15/cohousing-in-europe-is-helping-ease-the-housing-crunch 20European Capitals Are Heating Up 8 29 4mo +6h public.tableau.com/app/profile/lomska/viz/EuropeanCapitalsAreHeatingUp/EuroHeating 21Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software 101 98 4mo +52m smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/03/10/rust-2025-intro 22Monday – A personality experiment 93 83 4mo +35m chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b78892481918c89067962526695-monday 23CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence 20 46 4mo +4m reason.com/2025/08/13/cbp-is-deporting-cruise-ship-crew-over-child-pornography-allegations-without-evidence 24Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech 23 97 4mo +20m github.com/superstarryeyes/lue 25Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites? 122 73 4mo +37m 26Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material 34 110 4mo +3h energy-reporters.com/environment/97-battery-recycling-breakthrough-princeton-nuenergy-opens-first-u-s-commercial-facility-cutting-costs-38-and-slashing-environmental-impact 27A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping 43 78 4mo +2d science.org/content/article/single-lock-hair-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-inca-record-keeping 28Tversky Neural Networks 12 130 4mo +1h gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks 29Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale 205 502 4mo +23m derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156 30Testosterone Didn't Rapidly Decline 5 19 4mo +1m twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1956769175646396714 31My boss fired me over WhatsApp while he was on vacation in Honolulu 19 38 4mo +31m ginoz.bearblog.dev/my-boss-fired-me-over-whatsapp-while-he-was-on-vacation-in-honolulu 32Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection 9 29 4mo +3d danglingpointers.substack.com/p/low-latency-high-throughput-garbage 33Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' 111 185 4mo +45m daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/15/woz-on-slashdot 34OpenAI Progress 329 387 4mo +25m progress.openai.com 35Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector 8 39 4mo +1d fiatjaf.com/6829ad8b.html 36Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version 86 74 4mo +18m macrumors.com/2025/08/16/apple-working-on-all-new-operating-system 37Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way 148 349 4mo +1h pudding.cool/2025/08/onions 38SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 22 37 4mo +35m nytimes.com/2025/08/15/technology/spacex-musk-government-contracts-taxes.html 39Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider 169 263 4mo +2m voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp 40[dead] ? 13 4mo +41m wisewolfmedia.substack.com 41The catfishing scam putting fans and female golfers in danger 4 11 4mo +1h nytimes.com/athletic/6554056/2025/08/15/womens-golf-catfishing-social-media-stalking-cases 42A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease 25 40 4mo +39m nytimes.com/2025/08/13/realestate/beech-leaf-disease.html 43Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study 200 428 4mo +2h kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste-made-from-hair-provides-natural-root-to-repair-teeth 44Pfeilstorch 87 319 4mo +5h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch 45Climate Action Tracker 2 8 4mo +21m climateactiontracker.org 46Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility 12 30 4mo +42m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02612-9 47Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 8 121 4mo +2d gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/writing-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from.html 48Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air 3 28 4mo +27m theregister.com/2025/08/15/boy_riding_bubble_realizes_what 49Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work 117 62 4mo +8m nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ai-which-jobs-are-skilled-trades-protected-what-to-know-rcna223249 50Should you take creatine? 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