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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Ask HN: Did you quit smoking cannabis? If so, why?

    36 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  2. The little tech firm gunning for an airspeed record

    36 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  3. Debian Bullseye Fully Frozen

    36 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  4. Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  5. The original source for the 1981 masterpiece “Defender” is now on GitHub

    36 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  6. No, a supercomputer won’t make your code run faster (2017)

    35 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  7. Why have there been so many own goals at the Euros?

    35 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  8. Measuring Algorithmically Infused Societies

    35 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  9. An Elastic Model of the Holding Power of Rock Climbing Anchors

    35 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  10. Tesla launches its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month

    35 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  11. Killing Robots and Just War Theory

    35 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  12. YouTube Censors Nobel Prize Winner Professor Satoshi Omura

    35 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  13. Interview with Noam Chomsky: Capitalism and Free Speech

    35 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  14. Yuzu Switch Emulator – Shader Decompiler Rewrite

    35 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  15. Kaseya Hack: Incident Overview and Technical Details

    35 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  16. Judges Say Web Design Is ‘Pure Speech’ and That the State Can Compel It Anyway

    35 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  17. Uber Has Reduced Drunk Driving Deaths by 6 Percent, Study Finds

    35 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  18. Will Sylvia Plath always be defined by her death?

    35 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  19. Police Arrest Two More for Uploading 10 Minute Movie Edits to YouTube

    35 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  20. What annoys me about YouTube videos

    35 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  21. Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs

    35 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  22. Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List

    35 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  23. Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?

    35 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  24. Parliaments of the Earth

    35 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  25. Joe Rogan Is Too Big to Cancel

    35 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  26. “Like a Hot Tub” Bitcoin Mining Effect on Seneca Lake

    35 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  27. (Classes of) Algorithms Every Programmer Must Know About

    35 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  28. How Does a Carburetor Work? – Transparent Carburetor at 28,546 FPS

    35 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  29. Cyber Insurance Incident Response: Market tends towards commoditization

    35 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  30. Random Number Generators for C++ Performance Tested (2019)

    35 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  31. Feds Seized Robinhood CEO's Phone in GameStop Trading Halt Investigation

    35 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  32. ‘Highly Irregular’ Review: An Eloquent Confusion

    35 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  33. @ggreenwald on Tucker Carlson NSA spying claims

    35 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  34. How to set up Tegola vector tile server on Ubuntu 20.04 for OpenStreetMap

    35 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  35. Steam on Linux Still Tap Dancing Around 0.9% Marketshare

    35 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  36. The Air Force weather team that keeps canceling your rocket launches (2020)

    35 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Do you regret having children?

    35 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  38. Covid(4) – NetBSD Manual Pages

    35 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  39. ‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland; a faithful audience appreciated it

    35 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  40. Cargo cult programming (2020)

    35 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  41. The Brontë archive needs to be secured for public use and made accessible

    35 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  42. I think it's time we broke for lunch (2011)

    35 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  43. Watch and share “Fight to Repair” about the dangers of proprietary software

    35 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  44. Apple boots app that called BS on fake Amazon reviews from App Store

    34 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  45. Some Britons crave permanent pandemic lockdown

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  46. New [July 2, 2021] Audacity Data Collection Policy

    34 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  47. Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment

    34 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  48. Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees

    34 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  49. An Alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid thruster

    34 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  50. Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week

    34 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  51. NASA’s helicopter on Mars just keeps flying and flying

    34 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  52. Billionaires Claiming Climate Leadership Should Not Promote Space Tourism

    34 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  53. OnePlus admits to throttling phones after launch to improve battery life

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  54. California approves $35M plan for nation's first state-funded UBI

    34 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  55. First complementary vertical organic transistors reach GHz speeds

    34 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  56. In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018)

    34 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  57. Alternative 3

    34 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  58. Things to know before getting into cyber security (2018)

    34 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  59. “Freedom Phone” is an overpriced smartphone that doesn’t free you from anything

    34 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  60. South African investment firm vanishes with $3.6B in Bitcoin

    34 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  61. Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem (2014)

    34 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  62. The Kiss of Death

    34 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  63. GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship of Republicans instead

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  64. Robinhood will fail again: stock trading is broken

    34 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  65. ‘I’m sorry but it’s too late’ a doctor on treating unvaxxed dying Covid patients

    34 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  66. Bird of the Day: Using Azure Computer Vision to count birds in my yard

    34 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  67. Build on Kubernetes from Day One

    34 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  68. Mutating and non-mutating Swift contexts

    34 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  69. Indian state proposes two-child policy, stringent measures for violators

    34 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  70. Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right in database

    34 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  71. No, open source Audacity audio editor is not “spyware”

    34 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  72. Oilsands among the most carbon intensive crudes in North America (2017)

    34 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  73. One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study

    34 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  74. Target, Walgreens make drastic changes due to increase in San Francisco thefts

    34 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  75. The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant

    34 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  76. Sun Glint, Bane of Scientists, Has a Silver Lining

    33 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  77. Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation

    33 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  78. How to install Linux instead of Windows 11

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  79. Information Geometry

    33 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  80. Floating Point Expression Inspector

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  81. FYI: iOS is not deleting private data even if you uninstall the app

    33 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  82. The largest wildfire in the US is only 7% contained

    33 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  83. How vlogging is empowering a new generation of stutterers

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  84. PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its

    33 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  85. Bursting the bubble: how gum lost its cool

    33 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  86. Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs

    33 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  87. Last of the Titans

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  88. Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised software on blockchain?

    33 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  89. Want Better Policing? Make It Easier to Fire Bad Cops

    33 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  90. Illegal Crypto Farm Was Also Mining FIFA 21 Characters

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  91. Ask HN: How to deal with ADHD without meds?

    33 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  92. Big Tech trying to disarm the FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan

    33 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  93. Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

    33 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  94. US democracy: The threat in 2024 is 'completely uncharted territory'

    33 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  95. Private Security Force That Works with Citizen Wants the Power to Arrest People

    33 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  96. Kids Using Soft Drinks to Fake Positive Results on Covid-19 Tests

    33 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  97. The Long Road to Linux-Only

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  98. Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

    33 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  99. Show HN: Fosscord – open-source and selfhostable alternative to discord

    33 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  100. China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used by Beijing

    33 points • comment • jul 13, 2021