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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

    103 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  2. Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)

    102 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  3. The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal

    102 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  4. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  5. Miami orders evacuation of 156-unit as structurally and electrically unsafe

    102 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  6. Microsoft/IoT-for-Beginners: 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All

    102 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  7. PowerTOP – diagnose issues with power consumption and power management on Linux

    102 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  8. I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart

    101 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  9. A monorepo misconception – atomic cross-project commits

    101 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  10. Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

    101 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  11. The future of deep learning is photonic

    101 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  12. The B-52’s’ “Rock Lobster” brought John Lennon back to music (2020)

    101 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  13. ZSA Planck EZ: A Powerful, Backlit, Open-Source, 40% Mechanical Keyboard

    101 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  14. Recursion in SQL Explained Visually (2020)

    101 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  15. Good and Bad Monitoring

    100 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  16. How Dangerous Are Solar Storms?

    100 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

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

    100 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  18. US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends

    100 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  19. Show HN: VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs

    100 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  20. South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor

    100 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  21. Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits

    100 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  22. Entropy and Algebra and Topology = ?

    100 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  23. Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office

    100 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  24. Posix hardlink heartache

    100 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  25. Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  26. Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser

    99 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  27. Return of the Mac (2005)

    99 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  28. In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins

    99 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  29. JVM Anatomy Quark #26: Identity Hash Code

    99 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  30. Distill Hiatus

    99 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  31. Photographic Reference Scale (2019)

    99 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  32. Compilers as Teachers

    99 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  33. I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  34. Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)

    99 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  35. Inside TikTok’s Algorithm [video]

    99 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  36. Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech

    99 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  37. Tiny FORTH from scratch in 1 week (bootloader-based Arduino UNO, 2K of RAM)

    99 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  38. pfSense CE 2.5.2

    99 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  39. Out of Africa's midlife crisis

    99 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  40. The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones

    99 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  41. Department of Justice Statement on SolarWinds Update

    99 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  42. Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research

    99 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  43. Is Apollo 11’s lunar module still in orbit around the moon? [video]

    98 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  44. CIA director says he is escalating efforts to solve 'Havana Syndrome'

    98 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  45. Any Encoding, Ever – ztd.text and Unicode for C++

    98 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  46. How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

    98 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  47. NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

    98 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  48. Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

    98 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  49. Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies

    98 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  50. Rendering game worlds in text [video]

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  51. Gmail is blocking emails with links to Tutanota

    97 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  52. Student designs device that stops blood loss from stab wounds

    97 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  53. Tool for Creating WebGL Animations

    97 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  54. Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland

    97 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  55. The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)

    97 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  56. Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

    97 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  57. Prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing

    97 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  58. A History of Clojure [video]

    97 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  59. Ask HN: 30 years old with no career

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  60. Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

    97 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  61. The U.S. set off a nuclear bomb in space in 1962

    97 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  62. Show HN: AI Background Remover

    97 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  63. LeVar Burton: 'Jeopardy ' host gig began 'scary,' ended fun

    96 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  64. Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry

    96 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  65. EU unveils sweeping climate change plan

    96 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  66. CMake Part 1 – The Dark Arts

    96 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  67. Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)

    96 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  68. Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

    96 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  69. Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner

    96 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  70. React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript

    96 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  71. The most successful global tech bets are efficient and practical startups

    96 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  72. Update to our privacy policy and apology

    96 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  73. Mouse lungs after long-term exposure to atmosphere predicted by climate change

    95 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  74. Protecting reserved roles with PostgreSQL Hooks

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  75. Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same

    95 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  76. Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  77. Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  78. Electrochromic nanostructures with high chromaticity and superior brightness

    95 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  79. Rust Audio Development Forum

    95 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  80. Tesla 2Q 2021 Quarterly Result

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  81. Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (1989)

    95 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  82. 4.6B-year-old meteorite found

    95 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  83. Koka: A Functional Language with Effects

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  84. Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

    95 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  85. Roger Waters to Mark Zuckerberg: Fuck You

    95 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  86. The Grayness of the Origin of Life

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  87. Evolution of tree data structures for indexing

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  88. Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers

    95 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  89. Show HN: Primer – A conversational learning medium designed for self-learners

    95 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  90. I left my tech job to build a meditation app

    94 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  91. Announcing Vitess 11

    94 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  92. ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

    94 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  93. Google parts with Cloud VP over his manifesto renouncing his antisemitism

    94 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  94. After Slashing 33% of Workers in 6 Years, Railroads Complain of Labor Shortages

    93 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  95. Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

    93 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  96. Consciousness and the Laws of Physics

    93 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  97. Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

    93 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  98. “Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft

    93 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  99. How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter

    93 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  100. How does USB device discovery work? [video]

    93 points • comment • jul 11, 2021