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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan

    85 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  2. Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop

    85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  3. A Fun List of Browsers

    85 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  4. Luxury Surveillance

    85 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  5. How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video]

    85 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  6. Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can record iPhone screens (2017)

    85 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  7. Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

    85 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  8. Tough Turban: an open-source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists

    85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  9. A Twitter addict realizes she needs rehab

    85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  10. Plane Food Simulator 2021

    85 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  11. Concepts for JavaScript developers to know

    85 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  12. Macros on Steroids: How pure C can benefit from metaprogramming

    85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  13. We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI

    85 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  14. Counterfactuals are not causality

    85 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  15. Worse Is Better (2001)

    85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  16. Royal Mail Rubber Band

    85 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  17. Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation

    85 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  18. The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works

    85 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  19. Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams

    85 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  20. Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone

    84 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  21. A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot

    84 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  22. Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with Flask

    84 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  23. Jelly: a recreational programming language inspired by J

    84 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  24. BlenderBot 2.0: A chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet

    84 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  25. Analysis of large binaries and games in Ghidra-SRE

    84 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  26. A primer on carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments

    84 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  27. Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media

    84 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  28. Casio SK-1

    84 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  29. Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study

    84 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  30. Component Graph System (2017)

    84 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  31. Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing

    84 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  32. JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps

    84 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  33. Aspirin could cut risk of death in cancer patients by 20%

    84 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  34. Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+

    84 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  35. Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator

    84 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  36. On Geofoam

    84 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  37. Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (2019)

    83 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  38. Design Engineering Handbook [pdf]

    83 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  39. Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar

    83 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  40. Tony Hoare answers questions [video]

    83 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  41. Forem Self-Host

    83 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  42. Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story drew the ire of the internet

    83 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  43. Flying Only with the Heat of the Sun

    83 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  44. Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020

    83 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  45. Galaxy Upcycling: How Samsung Ruined Their Best Idea in Years

    83 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  46. JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (2017)

    83 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  47. Show HN: Face Maker AI. Sketch to create photorealistic faces

    83 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  48. Launch HN: Payflow (YC S21) – Allow workers to access their wages instantly

    83 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  49. The Gospel of Consumption

    82 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  50. Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016)

    82 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  51. The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic

    82 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  52. When Wiener met Einstein

    82 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  53. How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (2019)

    82 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  54. Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans' data

    82 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  55. NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment

    82 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?

    82 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  57. Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously

    82 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  58. Jailer: A truly relational database client

    81 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  59. Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval

    81 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  60. Show HN: A graveyard for my side projects

    81 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  61. Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire

    81 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  62. Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with a New Physics Simulation Engine

    81 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  63. The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

    81 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  64. Time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling

    81 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  65. EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models [pdf]

    81 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  66. Stripe for location – easily build geospatial data into your apps and models

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  67. Prince Charles’ experimental city

    81 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  68. How safe is Colin Furze's tunnel?

    80 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  69. API Improvement Proposals

    80 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  70. Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets

    80 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  71. Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds

    80 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  72. How to calculate the alignment between BERT and spaCy tokens

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  73. Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employees debate remote work

    80 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  74. Show HN: Ready UI – Bootstrap UI blocks

    80 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  75. There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (2017)

    80 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  76. Comparison of Haskell and Julia List Comprehensions

    80 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  77. Subscription Changes for Computer Backup

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  78. Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'

    80 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  79. The future of programming with certified program synthesis

    80 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  80. Vaccines and our return to office plans

    80 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  81. A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub

    80 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  82. Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  83. Another misstep for Audacity

    80 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  84. Don’t submit to conformity

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  85. Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards

    80 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  86. GNU Binutlis 2.37 has been released

    80 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  87. Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  88. Tour of the Sacred Library

    80 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  89. Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues

    80 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  90. A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System [video]

    80 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  91. Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

    80 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  92. The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated

    79 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  93. PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center

    79 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  94. MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones

    79 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  95. Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study

    79 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  96. Farm – an experiment in distributed peer-to-peer computing

    79 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  97. Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them

    79 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  98. Typos, tricks and misprints

    79 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  99. The Galileo Project: Daring to Look Through New Telescopes

    79 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  100. Spotting a cherry-picked paper

    79 points • comment • jul 11, 2021