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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring

    508 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  2. Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]

    506 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  3. My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]

    506 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  4. Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)

    504 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  5. Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication

    503 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  6. Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI

    499 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  7. How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

    499 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  8. About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1

    499 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  9. Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

    495 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  10. The case for banning non-competes

    493 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  11. How the Python import system works

    488 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  12. Data Structure Visualizations

    487 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  13. Deurbanising the Web [pdf]

    486 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  14. For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

    483 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  15. Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal

    482 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  16. Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public

    482 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  17. Starlink review, four months in

    481 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  18. Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising

    480 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  19. I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”

    478 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  20. My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

    477 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  21. The Well-Tempered Traveler

    472 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  22. 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build

    471 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  23. Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

    471 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  24. Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest

    471 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  25. Check If Email Exists

    469 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  26. Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

    467 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  27. DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

    467 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  28. Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

    466 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  29. Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

    462 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  30. Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

    462 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  31. A case against security nihilism

    461 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  32. Against SQL

    459 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  33. Haiti’s President Is Assassinated

    456 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  34. Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep

    456 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  35. Akamai Edge DNS was down

    455 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  36. Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS

    444 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  37. Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study

    442 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  38. Firefox 90

    441 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  39. Leaving Google

    440 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  40. Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

    434 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  41. Discord Launches Threads

    434 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  42. Stockfish 14

    431 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  43. Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder

    427 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  44. A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

    427 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  45. $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal

    427 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  46. Restaurant workers quit at record rate

    423 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  47. Neovim v0.5

    420 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  48. 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

    418 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  49. The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty of justice

    418 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  50. Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

    417 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  51. Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards

    415 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  52. Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill

    414 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  53. Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations

    414 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  54. Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)

    414 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  55. Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

    414 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  56. Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log

    412 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  57. Syncthing: Syncing All the Things

    409 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  58. How to get better at painting without painting anything (2015)

    409 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  59. The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review

    408 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  60. Compiling Rust is NP-hard

    408 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  61. Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)

    408 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  62. Calculus Made Easy (1910)

    406 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  63. Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)

    406 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  64. “I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”

    405 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  65. Dead Startup Toys

    404 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  66. We Still Don’t Get Things Done

    402 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  67. California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

    402 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  68. Command line tools for productive programmers

    402 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  69. Building a vision of life without work (2015)

    402 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  70. Steve Jobs in Kyoto

    400 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  71. Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)

    399 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  72. A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement

    397 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  73. What Went Wrong?

    395 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  74. Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

    394 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  75. Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

    392 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  76. How to Learn Stuff Quickly

    391 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  77. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

    390 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  78. Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study

    390 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  79. iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

    389 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  80. 112 Gripes About the French

    389 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  81. How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub

    389 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  82. Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

    389 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  83. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

    386 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  84. Runway – Create impossible video

    385 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  85. Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

    385 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  86. The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

    385 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  87. Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds

    382 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  88. Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

    381 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  89. The SaaS Org Chart

    380 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  90. Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company

    380 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  91. It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

    379 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  92. size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer

    378 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  93. Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code

    377 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  94. France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

    377 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  95. From stolen laptop to inside the company network

    376 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  96. Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking

    375 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  97. Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol

    374 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  98. 38% of remote workers work from bed

    370 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  99. What Does My Site Cost?

    370 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  100. Julia Computing raises $24M Series A

    370 points • comment • jul 19, 2021