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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says

    305 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  2. EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax

    305 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  3. Pelosi and a lifetime of trading

    304 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  4. HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched)

    304 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  5. Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

    304 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  6. Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit

    303 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  7. Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam

    302 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  8. TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board

    302 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  9. Google launches new vulnerability reward platform

    301 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  10. MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill

    301 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  11. Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets

    299 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  12. Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph

    298 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  13. Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

    296 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  14. Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

    294 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  15. Robinhood S-1 IPO

    294 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  16. A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)

    291 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  17. I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week

    291 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  18. Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)

    290 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  19. Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene

    289 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  20. TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0

    289 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  21. Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool

    289 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  22. Senet

    289 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  23. My First CSS

    288 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  24. If you want to transform IT, start with finance

    288 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  25. Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents

    286 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  26. Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS

    286 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  27. Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor

    286 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  28. Music for Programming

    286 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  29. Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication

    285 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  30. Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)

    283 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  31. Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use

    282 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  32. BBEdit 14

    282 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  33. Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)

    281 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  34. Mise-en-place for knowledge workers

    281 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  35. Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids

    281 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  36. A Solarpunk Manifesto

    280 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  37. Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database

    280 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  38. Writing a firmware-only keylogger

    280 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  39. Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it

    279 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  40. Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

    279 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  41. Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods

    278 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  42. Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

    278 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  43. Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]

    278 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  44. B-tree Path Hints

    278 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  45. Delta Variant

    278 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  46. Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants

    278 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  47. “Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis

    277 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  48. How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

    276 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  49. Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria

    276 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  50. WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input

    276 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  51. Beating TimSort at Merging

    275 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  52. U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks

    273 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  53. Six corporations control 90% of America media

    273 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  54. Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones

    272 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  55. Hacker News in the Style of Teletext

    272 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  56. Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing

    271 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  57. Things I wish Git had: Commit groups

    271 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  58. Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

    271 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  59. Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails

    271 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  60. Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively

    270 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  61. FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot

    270 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  62. WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

    270 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  63. Open 3D Engine

    270 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  64. A better business model for video folks

    269 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  65. Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

    269 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  66. Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers

    269 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  67. ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust

    269 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  68. Support for team members who are mistreated in their country

    269 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  69. Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price

    269 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  70. Twike

    268 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  71. Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware

    268 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  72. Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

    268 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  73. Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)

    265 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  74. The Growth Ponzi Scheme

    265 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  75. Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over

    264 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  76. Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some

    264 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  77. The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan

    264 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  78. An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep

    264 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  79. Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver

    263 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  80. Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice

    262 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  81. Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves (2020)

    262 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  82. Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD

    262 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  83. Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs

    262 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  84. Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

    261 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  85. Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen

    261 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  86. My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop

    261 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  87. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

    260 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  88. Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

    260 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  89. Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021

    260 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  90. Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims

    259 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  91. Folk wisdom on visual programming

    259 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  92. Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

    259 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  93. Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked

    259 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  94. The Programmer's Brain

    259 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  95. Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped

    258 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  96. K-9 Mail is back

    258 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  97. Generating JSON Directly from Postgres

    258 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  98. GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you

    257 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  99. Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details

    257 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  100. YouTube algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies: study

    257 points • comment • jul 07, 2021