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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Show HN: Get paid to have engaging conversations with old people

    46 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  2. Case of a Man 3 Doctors Declared Dead Who Woke Up Just Before His Autopsy

    46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  3. Dear Mom and Dad, please stick with me

    46 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  4. GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license

    46 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  5. Impact of Undefined Behavior on Performance

    46 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  6. Windows Command-Line Obfuscation

    46 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  7. The Geography of Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub

    46 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  8. Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed

    46 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  9. What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?

    46 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  10. What does the "mean" really mean?

    46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  11. C++ Is the New Python

    46 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  12. Technology Traps (1978) [video]

    46 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  13. The long history of 'Bombay time' and resistance to colonial rule

    46 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  14. Apple can't handle the truth, so they delete and bury it

    46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  15. On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous Author

    46 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  16. Solving the Three Stooges Problem

    45 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  17. Workspace Trust in VS Code

    45 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  18. Photonic Computing for Transformative AI

    45 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  19. The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (2009)

    45 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  20. Sweden is being shot up

    45 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  21. Target finally explains why nearly all its SF stores have reduced hours

    45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  22. Don’t Buy a Desktop PC with One of Intel’s Newest Processors

    45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  23. Time lapse doodle: Mark Weiser’s 1991 “Computer for the 21st Century” [video]

    45 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  24. Wasp – A programming language that understands what a web app is

    45 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  25. Measuring GNSS accuracy on Android devices (2019)

    45 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  26. Pegasus Project found numbers of Ten PMs, three presidents and a king

    45 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  27. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

    45 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  28. Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever

    45 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  29. Representations of Uncomputable and Uncountable Sets (2008)

    45 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  30. TypeScript's Type System Is Turing Complete (2017)

    45 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  31. Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with his face’

    45 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  32. Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up

    45 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  33. Launch HN: Coinrule (YC S21) – Automated Trading Made Easy

    45 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  34. Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (2017)

    45 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  35. Tweezers of sound can pick objects up without physical contact

    45 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  36. Entropy coding in Oodle Data: the big picture

    45 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?

    45 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  38. A century of science fiction that changed how we think about the environment

    45 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  39. Measuring memory usage: virtual versus real memory

    45 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  40. Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world

    44 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  41. Brave New LA: Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles (2013)

    44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  42. Bullshit ability as an honest signal of intelligence

    44 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  43. Daniel Hale, a ‘Second Snowden’, Leaked Drone Wars Documents

    44 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  44. The Internet Classics Archive (1994)

    44 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  45. Ask HN: What is your favourite stocks/options trading platform?

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  46. Maine passes nations first law to make companies pay cost of recycling packaging

    44 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  47. Random Variable Algebra

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  48. How to Properly Archive a Project

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  49. Whittier, Alaska, a community under one roof (2015)

    44 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  50. Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history

    44 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  51. Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development

    44 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  52. A journey through the troubled former Yugoslavia

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  53. Faster sorted array unions by reducing branches

    44 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  54. I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  55. Cop investigated for blasting copyrighted music while being videoed by protester

    44 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  56. Show HN: Flash your ESP32 from the browser using JavaScript

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  57. An Introduction to Medieval Geomancy (1999)

    44 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  58. Debian bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14

    44 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  59. The Quiet Mysticism of Almanacs

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  60. CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)

    44 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  61. Israeli government raids NSO Group offices

    44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  62. Freenode is pointing irc.libera.net to chat.freenode.net

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  63. Against Persuasion

    44 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  64. Reid Hoffman interviews Michael Seibel [pdf]

    44 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  65. Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  66. How to plant a forest: Context is key

    43 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  67. Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation

    43 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  68. Identifying Valuable Pointers in Heap Data [pdf]

    43 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  69. EXIF-based intrinsic image sizing explainer

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  70. How to model application flows in React with finite state machines and XState

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  71. Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die

    43 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  72. Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video]

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  73. Cakebrew: GUI for Homebrew

    43 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  74. The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

    43 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  75. Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  76. 1997: Achaea

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  77. Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  78. Blizzard Recruiters Asked Hacker If She ‘Liked Being Penetrated’ at Job Fair

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  79. Netflix will start publishing video games, has hired former EA exec

    43 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  80. Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles

    43 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  81. Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Jobs in Software/Technology Activism?

    43 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  83. Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup (2018)

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  84. Spanish Sketches

    43 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  85. Least Religious Countries 2021

    43 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  86. Can a soundbar rival a surround-sound system in a blind listening test? (2020)

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  87. Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  88. Ask HN: How can I/we make the most of a hot job market?

    43 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  89. Fishing under ice (2012) [video]

    42 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  90. If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?

    42 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  91. Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook

    42 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  92. USB-C Cable Colour Codes

    42 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  93. The History of Karate

    42 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  94. Instacart CEO will be replaced by Facebook executive

    42 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  95. Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU's Sepa network

    42 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  96. Are there flaws in some ARM64 instructions?

    42 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  97. Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  98. In praise of the novelization, pop fiction’s least reputable genre

    42 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  99. How to make a leather piston seal (2007)

    42 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  100. Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus

    42 points • comment • jul 21, 2021