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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. M4 as a templating language (2020)

    133 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  2. Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition

    133 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  3. Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

    133 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  4. How to exfiltrate code from Bitbucket

    132 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  5. Getting sweet patron money on the modern internet (2020)

    132 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  6. Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

    132 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  7. Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation

    132 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  8. The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies

    132 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  9. It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

    131 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  10. How to Review Code as a Junior Developer

    131 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  11. Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioNTech for delta variant

    131 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  12. Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly

    131 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  13. Quantum computing hype is bad for science

    131 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  14. A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid

    131 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  15. Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”

    131 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  16. Perlin vs. Simplex

    130 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  17. What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?

    130 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  18. New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots

    130 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  19. A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it

    130 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  20. M8.2 earthquake near Perryville, Alaska

    130 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  21. The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 and VAX

    130 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  22. The future of deep learning is photonic

    130 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  23. Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities

    130 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  24. Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop applications to the browser

    130 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  25. Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights

    130 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  26. An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)

    130 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  27. The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained

    130 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  28. Facebook users said no to tracking, now advertisers are panicking

    130 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  29. A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years

    129 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  30. Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption

    129 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  31. Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent

    129 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  32. A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living

    129 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  33. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

    129 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  34. Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

    129 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  35. Audacity: Clarification of Privacy Policy

    129 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  36. macOS Monterey Beta 3: Apple Redesigns Safari Tab Interface Following Complaints

    129 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  37. Alcohol-free beer is fizzing

    129 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  38. The Day the Good Internet Died

    129 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  39. Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

    129 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  40. A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

    129 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  41. Dynamic Linking Best Practices

    129 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  42. Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

    129 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  43. Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams

    128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  44. Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago

    128 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  45. Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.

    128 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  46. APSE – A Personal Search Engine

    128 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  47. Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin

    128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  48. Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods

    128 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  49. Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows

    128 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  50. Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports

    128 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  51. I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)

    128 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  52. U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops

    128 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  53. Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

    128 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  54. Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?

    128 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  55. A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017)

    128 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  56. Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)

    128 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  57. Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32

    127 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  58. A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network

    127 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  59. 'Most homes' in Lytton destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says

    127 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  60. Rust GCC back end was officially accepted into the compiler

    127 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  61. Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little

    127 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  62. Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function

    127 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  63. Paternity leave: The hidden barriers keeping men at work

    127 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  64. Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead in heat wave

    127 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  65. Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

    127 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  66. Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you

    127 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  67. Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown

    126 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  68. US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming

    126 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  69. Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)

    126 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  70. Show HN: Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding

    126 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  71. France fines Google €500M over copyright row

    126 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  72. Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap

    126 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  73. Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]

    126 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  74. A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track down woman

    126 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  75. Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)

    126 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  76. Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C

    126 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  77. Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)

    126 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  78. HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser

    125 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  79. You can be shy and still be a CEO

    125 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  80. The Retrocomputing Archive

    125 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  81. TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture

    125 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  82. How to unlearn a disease

    125 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  83. End of an Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark in America

    125 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  84. What the Heck is a Data Mesh?

    124 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  85. California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers

    124 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  86. Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life

    124 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  87. RVVM – RISC-V Virtual Machine

    124 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  88. Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly

    124 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  89. Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?

    124 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  90. Elm Compiler Written in Elm

    124 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  91. Orbit – open-source design system

    124 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  92. No sane compiler would optimize atomics (2015)

    123 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  93. Vulkan Memory Allocator

    123 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  94. Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

    123 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  95. CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

    123 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  96. EU legislation allows emails, messages and other communications to be scanned

    123 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  97. Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison

    123 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  98. Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone

    123 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  99. Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

    123 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  100. Ampache: An open source web based audio/video streaming app and file manager

    123 points • comment • jul 25, 2021