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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. How the coronavirus infects cells – and why Delta is so dangerous

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  2. Time Travel: Running Python 3.7 on XP (2018)

    17 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  3. A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long Covid’

    17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  4. FSF call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot

    17 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  5. Why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online

    17 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  6. Twitter employee and grandfater died after getting “swatted”

    17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  7. Sourcegraph raises $125M at $2.6B valuation for universal code search

    17 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  8. This Week in KDE: Better HiDPI on X11

    17 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  9. Money Talks: A Short History of Roman Currency

    17 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  10. On Leaving UNC

    17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  11. New Mercedes C-Class 2022 production plant in Germany

    17 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  12. M1 Mac SSD Wear Issue Tested and Explored [video]

    17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  13. Plandemic: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 Infodemic

    17 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  14. Largest Australian ISP using private Twitter account information for identity

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  15. $HOOD stock down on the first day of trading

    17 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  16. Old.reddit.com Isn't Working

    17 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  17. Show HN: Stop tracking TODOs. Start getting things DONE

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  18. WhatsApp to let users message without their phones

    17 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  19. Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional

    17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  20. Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon

    17 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  21. The Day the Good Internet Died

    17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  22. Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2

    17 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  23. Oracle cloud unit employees told to prepare for 24/7 work

    17 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  24. Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration

    17 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  25. Can Bitcoin Grow Faster Than the Internet?

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  26. Simple RNA tweak boosts potato and rice yields by 50 percent

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  27. Northwest heat wave was statistically “impossible”

    17 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  28. Earth heads for tipping point as it could reach 1.5°C over next 5 years

    17 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  29. Why do people hate inflation?

    16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  30. BBC removes Bitesize page on climate change ‘benefits’ after backlash

    16 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  31. How we made Befriendus accessible

    16 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  32. VA: What Is Moral Injury?

    16 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  33. Officials: Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from an uncontrolled blackout

    16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  34. Apps with 5.8M Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

    16 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  35. SF family held at gunpoint, robbed after father is ambushed while washing car

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  36. Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees at U.S. Offices

    16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  37. The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius

    16 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  38. 'Unbearable': Restaurant customers are being nightmares lately

    16 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  39. ‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe

    16 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  40. Linus Torvalds was paid $1.6M in 2018

    16 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  41. Chinese astronauts complete first space walk outside new Tiangong space station

    16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  42. A Polynomial Time Algorithm for 3SAT (P=NP?!)

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  43. Square is going to make a hardware wallet for Bitcoin

    16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  44. Understanding Early Arc Lamps

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  45. Europe Plans Aggressive New Laws to Phase Out Fossil Fuels

    16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  46. UK councils to display EU flags after UK dips into Covid recovery cash

    16 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  47. Brickit scans your pile of legos and shows you what you can make

    16 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  48. Mystery of Intel Cpuid 21H Leaf

    16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  49. Loops in Lisp Part 3: Iterate (2016)

    16 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  50. Some iOS versions refuse to show ‘69’ as the temperature in iPhone Weather app

    16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  51. Truman Capote and 1950s personality research (2018)

    16 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  52. Pinched ink: is it wrong to steal a tattoo?

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  53. It’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work

    16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  54. One Laptop per Child

    16 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  55. U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  56. Google to block logins on old Android devices starting September

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  57. A 10x Developer Story

    16 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  58. How cops get away with murder: qualified immunity [video]

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  59. The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive

    16 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  60. Colorado web designer who refused to make same-sex wedding websites loses appeal

    16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  61. Kodak Deletes Post by Photographer Who Called Xinjiang an ‘Orwellian Dystopia’

    16 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  62. Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme

    16 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  63. Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  64. Delta variant viral load 1k times higher than original coronavirus strain

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  65. Los Angeles Covid Surge Being Driven by White, Affluent Neighborhoods

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  66. Early-Morning Light Exposure Makes Mice Less Depressed

    16 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  67. Open Letter: Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  68. This is how democracy dies

    16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  69. Microsoft Edge Used More Than Firefox

    16 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  70. William Shatner: Humanity won’t survive to reach a Star Trek future

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  71. Sargable Queries and MUL Indexes; or Why My Query Is Slow

    16 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  72. Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

    16 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  73. Dell Xps 13 Developer Edition availability?

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  74. Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who did it

    16 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  75. EU to tighten rules on cryptoasset transfers

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  76. Stop just using “Front end” or “Back end” to describe the Engineering you like

    16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  77. Covid-19 and lasting erectile dysfunction: Here’s what we know

    16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  78. Hong Kong Was Promised 50 Years of Autonomy – It Got 23

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  79. Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin Is ‘Mathematical Miracle’

    16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  80. German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT

    16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  81. Games Workshop is trying to shut down fan animations

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  82. The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?

    16 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  83. XDA member unknowingly bought a Pixel phone with an FBI backdoor

    16 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  84. Covid-19's Effects on Kids Are Even Stranger Than We Thought

    16 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  85. Electrify America Will Begin to phase out CHAdeMO In 2022

    16 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  86. MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone

    16 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  87. Ask HN: What benefit is there to the enter username then enter password pattern?

    16 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  88. Trump announces lawsuits aimed at social media companies alleging censorship

    16 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  89. Pingdemic: Bar staff being told to delete NHS Covid-19 app

    16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  90. Model sued for posting photo of herself on Instagram

    16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  91. Woo! Yeah!

    15 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  92. News Sites Including Huffington Post, Vox, Newsweek, Riddled with Pornography

    15 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  93. How Great Is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship [pdf]

    15 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  94. Apple Launches $99 MagSafe Battery Pack

    15 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  95. The sociopaths are cocksure while those with empathy are full of doubt

    15 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  96. Nobelists decry Chinese government’s censorship attempts at the Nobel Summit

    15 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  97. Cryptocurrencies could lead to ‘limitless’ losses for UK government

    15 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  98. DigitalOcean Outage

    15 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  99. Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First

    15 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  100. 52-Hertz Whale

    15 points • comment • jul 18, 2021