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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings

    113 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  2. A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers

    112 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  3. Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services

    112 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  4. Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx

    112 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  5. Measuring memory usage in Python: it’s tricky

    112 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  6. Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data

    112 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  7. Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising

    112 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  8. dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)

    112 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  9. 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll

    112 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  10. How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf]

    112 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  11. The Dig

    112 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  12. More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?

    112 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  13. Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness (2016)

    111 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  14. Racket v8.2

    111 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  15. Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome

    111 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  16. Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system

    111 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  17. Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System

    111 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  18. Learn Python by doing fun interactive exercises

    111 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  19. Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market

    111 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  20. (Risp (In (Rust) (Lisp)))

    111 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  21. Amid massive hospital sell-off, corporate giant continues suing patients

    111 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  22. FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction

    110 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  23. Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings

    110 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  24. Farmers always worked from home

    110 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  25. US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settle over country

    110 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  26. NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

    110 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  27. United States sells Wu-Tang album forfeited by Martin Shkreli

    110 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  28. BGP in a Nutshell

    110 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  29. Blockly: A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors

    110 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  30. USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?

    110 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  31. The Web from 1989 to 1994

    109 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  32. Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)

    109 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  33. Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)

    109 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  34. Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste

    109 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  35. Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)

    109 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  36. A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video]

    109 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  37. Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)

    109 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  38. Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

    109 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  39. Libgccjit AOT Codegen for Rustc

    109 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  40. Namedtuple in a Post-Dataclasses World

    109 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  41. Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer

    108 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  42. Descriptorless Files for Io_uring

    108 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  43. Steam Deck

    108 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  44. The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot

    108 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  45. Dean Preston is holding SF back

    108 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  46. Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM

    108 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  47. Stop mocking your system

    108 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  48. The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives

    108 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  49. Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook

    107 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  50. We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study

    107 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  51. EV startup Rivian announces $2.5B funding round led by Amazon, Ford

    107 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  52. A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT

    107 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  53. Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (2016)

    107 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  54. Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?

    107 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  55. Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning

    107 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  56. Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs

    107 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  57. Why does my installer get flagged by Windows?

    107 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  58. Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

    107 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  59. Inside Facebook's Data Wars

    107 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  60. Change.org workers form a union

    106 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  61. Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response

    106 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  62. Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? [pdf]

    106 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  63. Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [pdf]

    106 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  64. Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in Cdnjs

    106 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  65. GPT-J: GPT-3 Democratized

    106 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  66. Peter the Great’s Beard Tax

    106 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  67. Show HN: CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library

    106 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  68. Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999)

    106 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  69. IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI

    105 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  70. The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World (2020)

    105 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  71. Show HN: Tilemaker – DIY vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data

    105 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  72. The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov

    105 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  73. Blitsort is an in-place stable adaptive rotate merge sort

    105 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  74. The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (2015)

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  75. Defeating Cookie Banners

    105 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  76. Types versus sets in math and programming languages

    105 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  77. Accomplishments: Apple Macintosh Group (6/'83 – 8/'87)

    105 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  78. Publicly Available Standards

    105 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  79. European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone

    105 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  80. Intuit will no longer be a part of IRS Free File program

    105 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  81. Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient

    105 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  82. Launch HN: Evidently AI (YC S21) – Track and Debug ML Models in Production

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  83. A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim

    104 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  84. Why aren't there more programming-language startups?

    104 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  85. I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)

    104 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  86. Ways to ship software

    104 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  87. Yet another background music for developer, if you missed working at cafe

    104 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  88. The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

    104 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?

    104 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  90. Edward Snowden on privacy and threats to democracy (2019) [video]

    104 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  91. Algorithmic bias bounty challenge

    103 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  92. Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  93. Reconstructing Roman Industrial Engineering

    103 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  94. An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries

    103 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  95. It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home

    103 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  96. The global threat from plastic pollution

    103 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  97. Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

    103 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  98. SQLite: Vulnerabilities

    103 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  99. Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism

    103 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  100. Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions

    103 points • comment • jul 06, 2021