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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Valve Steam Deck

    2499 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  2. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

    2060 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  3. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

    1458 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  4. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

    1308 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  5. NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

    1259 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  6. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

    1222 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  7. How Dwarf Fortress is built

    1124 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  8. Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying

    1036 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  9. All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

    1012 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  10. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

    955 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  11. The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

    889 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  12. European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication

    886 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  13. Who Owns My Name?

    872 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  14. This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

    868 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  15. Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

    867 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  16. The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?

    863 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  17. Npm Audit: broken by design?

    858 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  18. Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

    852 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  19. An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

    841 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  20. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

    827 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  21. Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

    813 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  22. We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

    806 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  23. Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

    786 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  24. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

    785 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  25. I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot

    784 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  26. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

    762 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  27. Poisson's Equation

    750 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  28. Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

    749 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  29. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

    748 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  30. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission

    748 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  31. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

    738 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  32. People Staring at Computers

    729 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  33. A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

    726 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  34. The Insecurity Industry

    696 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  35. BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound

    695 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  36. AWS's Egregious Egress

    693 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  37. TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

    691 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  38. Naval Architecture

    686 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  39. “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”

    683 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  40. Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

    683 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  41. Windows 96

    682 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  42. Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

    666 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  43. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

    664 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  44. The most precious resource is agency

    663 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  45. Our lawsuit against ChessBase

    656 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  46. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion

    652 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  47. Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?

    647 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  48. Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

    643 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  49. Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts

    641 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  50. Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

    630 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  51. Linux Rust Support

    629 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  52. Instagram Has Become SkyMall

    624 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  53. Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

    623 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  54. Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists

    620 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  55. Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

    619 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  56. 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

    618 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  57. US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack

    603 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  58. Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)

    598 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  59. Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks

    597 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  60. Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B

    597 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  61. Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

    596 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  62. Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

    595 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  63. Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

    595 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  64. Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)

    591 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  65. Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

    590 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  66. Crafting Interpreters is available in print

    586 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  67. Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

    585 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  68. Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

    584 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  69. Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database

    580 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  70. Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

    578 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  71. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup

    577 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  72. GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model

    574 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  73. Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born

    574 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  74. No More Movies

    573 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  75. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

    571 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  76. The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

    571 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  77. Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

    566 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  78. Reddit is forcing SaveVideo to shut down

    561 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  79. Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute

    559 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  80. Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more

    558 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  81. Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages

    553 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  82. Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies

    551 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  83. Why we're blind to the color blue

    550 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  84. Open Insulin Foundation

    549 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  85. Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

    548 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  86. New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

    548 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  87. Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities

    545 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  88. Self hosting is important

    544 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  89. Give me /events, not webhooks

    543 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  90. Alphafold

    542 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  91. Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

    532 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  92. IPv4 pricing

    531 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  93. The Untold Story of SQLite

    531 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  94. British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers

    524 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  95. macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

    520 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  96. Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

    518 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  97. Google Internal Comics

    516 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  98. Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

    513 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  99. WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM

    513 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  100. Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

    513 points • comment • jul 22, 2021