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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

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

    56 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  2. Ruby Ractor Experiments: Safe async communication (2021)

    56 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  3. Is Rust Used Safely by Software Developers?

    56 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  4. The beauty of cheap products

    55 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  5. Opinion: What I Saw in Yosemite Was Devastating

    55 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  6. Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence

    55 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  7. Fluvio: A programmable data platform

    55 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  8. Thousands of unauthenticated databases exposed on the internet – study

    55 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  9. Facebook now warning users about exposure to “harmful extremist content”

    55 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  10. Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

    55 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  11. Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency (1955)

    55 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  12. 14,000 scientists warn of “untold suffering” if we fail to act on climate change

    55 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  13. BrainFlow

    55 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  14. California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature

    55 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  15. Paris Sportif: The Contagious Attraction of Parkour

    55 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  16. In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984)

    55 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  17. Highways speed limit in Germany would reduce CO2 emissions by 2M tonnes

    55 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  18. You can disable any iOS device's WiFi by hosting a WiFi named %secretclub%power

    55 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  19. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results

    55 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  20. I Fired Myself

    55 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  21. Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

    55 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  22. Rust 1.54.0

    55 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  23. Without its rainforest, the Amazon will turn to desert (2015)

    55 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  24. What’s the matter with airports? (2011)

    55 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  25. The crypto movement is destroying itself

    55 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  26. Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

    55 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  27. Differences in Semiconductor Soft Errors Caused by Cosmic-Ray Muons and Neutrons

    54 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  28. Toyota to Launch All-New Aqua (Prius C) with new bipolar nickel-hydrogen battery

    54 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  29. Edgedressing

    54 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  30. A New Planet in the System

    54 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  31. Video of German sysadmins learning they've been pwned by the NSA (2014)

    54 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  32. Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin

    54 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  33. At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave

    54 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  34. Young, Dumb, and Broke: Why Outdoorsy Types Suck at Money

    54 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  35. Ask HN: Programming Audio Book Recommendations

    54 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  36. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)

    54 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  37. NeoApple2: A Port of the Apple2fpga Apple II Emulator to Xilinx FPGAs

    54 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  38. What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?

    54 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  39. OpenBSD Virtualization: Host and Guests on the Same Network

    54 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  40. Measuring security risks in open source software

    54 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  41. Crypto Scammers Rip Off Billions as Pump-and-Dump Schemes Go Digital

    54 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  42. Solving Machine Learning Performance Anti-Patterns: A Systematic Approach

    54 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  43. How not to break a search engine

    54 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  44. Edward Bernays

    54 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  45. Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season

    54 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  46. NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia Power Systems

    54 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  47. Google bans yet another small business

    54 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  48. Pfizer backs down over ‘unreasonable’ terms in South Africa vaccine deal

    54 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  49. Could, should, might, shouldn’t – A taxonomy of futurists

    54 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  50. Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes

    54 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  51. Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws

    54 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  52. Simulating the Apollo 11 LM Ascent Stage Orbit [pdf]

    53 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  53. A personal story of treating social anxiety with 5-MeO-DMT (2016)

    53 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  54. Why the Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late (2015)

    53 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  55. Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated

    53 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  56. Diophantine Fruit

    53 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  57. John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff literacy lessons

    53 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  58. Variable Length Arrays are problematic

    53 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  59. Goodbye to Hong Kong

    53 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  60. Large Ivermectin Study Retracted

    53 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  61. Asymmetric Effects of Tire Pressure Optimization

    53 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  62. The Future of Computers: The Neighborhood and the Nursing Home

    53 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  63. Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light

    53 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  64. Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans

    53 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  65. Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down

    53 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  66. Tech workers swore off the Bay Area, now they’re coming back

    53 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  67. Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Inference Hosting

    53 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  68. Sixty years of climate change warnings

    52 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  69. DigitalOcean Down?

    52 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  70. Feynman vs. the Abacus (1985)

    52 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  71. Java Agents

    52 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  72. The Amazon Rainforest Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return in Brazil

    52 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  73. All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild

    52 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  74. Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire while driver was at the wheel, says fire chief

    52 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  75. Long Covid: How It Keeps Us Sick

    52 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  76. Crushing heat wave in Pacific Northwest cooked shellfish alive by the millions

    52 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  77. 60% (of candidates) looking for new roles bc current company switching to onsite

    52 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  78. Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall

    52 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  79. To compute a constant of calculus (2019)

    52 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  80. Overflowing timeout

    52 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  81. Reverse engineering the Motorola Sensorhub: Part 1

    52 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  82. Iron Finance’s DeFi bank run – and how Mark Cuban got ‘rekted’

    52 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  83. Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds

    52 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  84. Denied space travel for being female, Wally Funk, 82, is getting her chance

    52 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  85. The perils of PR

    52 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  86. Will we ever fly supersonically over land?

    52 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  87. Fat Dactyls

    52 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  88. Orange County Prosecutors Operate “Vast, Secretive” Genetic Surveillance Program

    52 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  89. Show HN: Pay It Forward – P2P Crowdfunding for African Entrepreneurs

    51 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  90. 25-Year-Old Lived for More Than a Year Without a Heart

    51 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  91. Cauliflower and Chaos, Fractals in Every Floret

    51 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  92. U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

    51 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  93. How UMAP Works

    51 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  94. KeyCastr – Open-source keystroke visualizer

    51 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  95. Google tries out error correction on its quantum processor

    51 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  96. Two Wishes for Dev Tooling

    51 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  97. Nikola founder Trevor Milton indicted in US for misleading investors

    51 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  98. Reversals in Psychology (2020)

    51 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  99. How to Make Cyanotypes (2020)

    51 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  100. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Is Pure Mathematics

    51 points • comment • jul 20, 2021