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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source

    369 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  2. Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube

    369 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  3. Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes

    369 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  4. Software engineering research is a train wreck

    366 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  5. Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night

    365 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  6. Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out

    365 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  7. Goodbye, Fleets

    363 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  8. I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it

    363 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  9. Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots

    363 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  10. New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

    361 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  11. Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

    361 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  12. A digital museum of video game levels

    360 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  13. A privacy war is raging inside the W3C

    360 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  14. Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking

    359 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  15. Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

    358 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  16. Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended

    355 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  17. Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25

    355 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  18. The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

    354 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  19. Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA

    353 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  20. Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

    352 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  21. XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76

    351 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  22. MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT

    350 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  23. Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years

    350 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  24. Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)

    349 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  25. PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires

    349 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  26. Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

    348 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  27. An Intern’s Guide to Trading

    347 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  28. Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)

    342 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  29. Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp

    342 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  30. Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)

    342 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  31. To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook

    341 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  32. Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research

    341 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  33. Soviet Venus Images (2004)

    340 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  34. Curated list of personal blogs

    340 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  35. The Perils of M1 Ownership

    339 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  36. Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations

    338 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  37. 'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending

    337 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  38. CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$

    337 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  39. Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

    337 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  40. Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan

    337 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  41. Netcat – All you need to know

    337 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  42. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)

    337 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  43. GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright

    336 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  44. Under the skin of OnlyFans

    335 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  45. Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9

    334 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  46. I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

    334 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  47. A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale

    332 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  48. Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

    332 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  49. Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine

    332 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  50. The art of asking nicely

    331 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  51. The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure

    331 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  52. Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

    331 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  53. Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program

    329 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  54. The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field

    329 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  55. Blender and the Rabbids

    329 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  56. Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks

    328 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  57. Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?

    328 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  58. GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea

    328 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  59. Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

    328 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  60. A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint

    327 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  61. Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

    326 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  62. Write a time-series database engine from scratch

    325 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  63. We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship

    325 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  64. The Inter typeface family

    325 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  65. Planning and estimating large-scale software projects

    324 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  66. Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

    324 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?

    324 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  68. Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion

    323 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  69. Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare

    323 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  70. Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

    322 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  71. Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement

    322 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  72. Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

    321 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  73. List of Special Elevator Modes

    320 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  74. What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)

    320 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  75. Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

    319 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  76. Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash

    319 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  77. Craig Murray will surrender himself for prison

    319 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  78. Pharo 9

    318 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  79. Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager

    318 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  80. Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout

    318 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  81. Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

    317 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  82. Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

    316 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  83. Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down

    316 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  84. We don’t use Kubernetes

    316 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  85. What's bad about Julia?

    316 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  86. “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”

    313 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  87. Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel

    313 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  88. Square Banking

    312 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  89. The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies

    312 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  90. iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones

    312 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  91. Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

    312 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  92. Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely

    312 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  93. Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after factory reset

    312 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  94. SpriteStack Voxel Editor

    310 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  95. My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

    310 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  96. Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful

    309 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  97. AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

    309 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  98. OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science

    309 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  99. SQLBolt – Interactive lessons and exercises to learn SQL

    307 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  100. Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)

    306 points • comment • jul 05, 2021