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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in Postgres (2017)

    61 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  2. Driving may reveal early signs of Alzheimer's

    61 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  3. Most People Don't Understand How Bad Climate Change Already Is

    61 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  4. Was the Industrial Revolution the Industrial Revolution?

    61 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  5. Ttfautohint – a 99% automated font hinting process

    61 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  6. Echo Dots store a wealth of data, even after you reset them

    61 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  7. I unwrapped Buzz Aldrin’s visor to a 360 sphere to see what he saw

    60 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  8. Windows 11 laptops will REQUIRE front facing camera in 2023

    60 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  9. RTL: WTF: Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

    60 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  10. The Private Life of a Cat (2020)

    60 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  11. Developing the first ICs to orbit Earth

    60 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  12. Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer

    60 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  13. Disinformation: It’s History

    60 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  14. Amiga at NASA (1999)

    60 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  15. Austrian OGH asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR since 2018

    60 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  16. Fibonacci Coding

    60 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  17. TypeScript 4.4 Beta

    60 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  18. A Mindful Mobile OS

    60 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  19. Wild birds learn to avoid distasteful prey by watching others

    60 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  20. Physically Based Rendering in Filament

    60 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  21. Pinterest bans weight loss ads in first for major social networks

    60 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  22. German gymnastics team, tired of sexualisation, wears unitards at Tokyo Olympics

    60 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  23. Copilot knows a lot about other things not just code

    59 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  24. The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today

    59 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  25. Show HN: Homer – A tool to build interactive textbooks

    59 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  26. No more DSLs: Implement and deploy a distributed system with a single program

    59 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  27. FireCracker internals: a deep dive inside the technology powering AWS Lambda

    59 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  28. Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework

    59 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  29. European Citizen's Initiative for UBI

    59 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  30. IKEA’s House of Terrors: Greenwashing Siberian forests

    59 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  31. Vatican’s list of films

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  32. CDNs and Centrality

    59 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  33. The Law of Net Design Costs

    59 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  34. On Leaving California and the Silicon Valley

    58 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  35. Emulator dev who was bullied online dies by suicide. 'This stuff really hurts.'

    58 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  36. Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

    58 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  37. Parents of children called Alexa challenge Amazon

    58 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  38. From Macy’s to Ace Hardware, facial recognition is already everywhere

    58 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  39. Public API Lists

    58 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  40. Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor

    58 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  41. A new road to an inaccessible land

    58 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  42. Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media

    58 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  43. The Medici as Artists Saw Them

    58 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  44. Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020)

    58 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  45. The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency

    58 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  46. The Array Cast: A podcast about the array programming languages

    58 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  47. Launch HN: HomeBreeze (YC W21) – Easy booking of home repairs

    58 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  48. How we built EGo

    58 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  49. The Utility of Mathematics

    58 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  50. Oil and chemical giants lobbying against rules on microplastic chemicals

    58 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  51. The Rule of Three

    58 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  52. Explaining Blockchains to Developers

    58 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  53. Drug-dealers are finding the always-on culture a chore

    57 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  54. The argument for switching off lights at night

    57 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  55. Wielding lamps and torches shed new light on Stone Age cave art

    57 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  56. How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012)

    57 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  57. How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack (2018)

    57 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  58. Teaching Lego Boost: A Beginner's Guide (2020)

    57 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  59. Old pattern powering modern tech

    57 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  60. The Tokyo Olympic Robots

    57 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  61. DNS Privacy Considerations

    57 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  62. I critiqued my past papers on social media

    57 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  63. High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models

    57 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  64. Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (2016)

    57 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  65. Framework Laptop gets 10/10, fully replaceable

    57 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  66. Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (2016)

    57 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  67. Designing Synced Blocks

    57 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  68. Bank of America using intelligence firms to attack WikiLeaks (2011)

    57 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  69. 81% of Robinhood revenue comes from payment for order flow

    57 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  70. Two Japanese Jabberwocky Poems (2017)

    57 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  71. The Future of Ocean Farming

    57 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  72. Information Sovereignty

    57 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  73. Sequoia: A deep root in Linux's filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)

    57 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  74. Libertarian Party of Colorado First to Officially Support Ending IP

    57 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  75. Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing

    57 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  76. Pico-8 API Cheatsheet

    57 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  77. Ask HN: How do you deal with information addiction?

    56 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  78. Metaprogramming custom control structures in C (2012)

    56 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  79. Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

    56 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  80. When the shoeshine boys talked stocks it was a great sell signal in 1929 (1996)

    56 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  81. Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’

    56 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  82. Abhimanyu Mishra, 12, becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history

    56 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  83. Feedgnuplot – plotting standard input in the shell

    56 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  84. The Benchmark Lottery

    56 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  85. Why writing software is not like engineering (2008)

    56 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  86. Is Rust Used Safely by Software Developers?

    56 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  87. The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’

    56 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  88. Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America

    56 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  89. Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning

    56 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  90. TypeScript at Google (2018)

    56 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  91. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years

    56 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  92. Apple testing new external display with A13 chip

    56 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Webdev with poor/deteriorating vision. What can I pivot into?

    56 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  94. Qodana: Code Quality Monitoring Platform

    56 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  95. Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising

    56 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  96. Hack NFL data using Postgres (and maybe win your fantasy draft)

    56 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  97. Fisk: A Pure Ruby x86-64 Assembler

    56 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  98. Some Kobo e-readers can now run Linux, becoming inexpensive e-ink tablets

    56 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  99. Text2Code: Converts English queries into Python code

    56 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  100. GM reveals more technical details of its Ultium battery packs

    56 points • comment • jul 14, 2021