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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Covid Mania Returns Australia to Its Roots as a Nation of Prisoners

    6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  2. Harry Stine Takes Off the Gloves Regarding Dicamba

    6 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  3. Python Is a Bad Programming Language

    6 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  4. Want to reduce cockroach sex? Block an enzyme

    6 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  5. Blue Origin has a project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX

    6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  6. Amazon to investigate allegations of discrimination following petition

    6 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  7. Feral no longer porting Total War Saga to Linux, citing less demand since Proton

    6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  8. When do vaccine incentives become coercive?

    6 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  9. Digital Vegan

    6 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  10. Twitter testing up and downvote options

    6 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  11. Ask HN: How can I get basic astrophysics knowledge?

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  12. Statement on Blue Origin-Dynetics decision

    6 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  13. How deceit was built into China's first aircraft carrier

    6 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  14. Show HN: I built an unofficial roadmap for Wise

    6 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  15. First detection of light from behind a black hole

    6 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  16. Saudi Aramco data breach sees 1 TB stolen data for sale

    6 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  17. PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon

    6 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  18. Making sensitive player piano pouched

    6 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  19. Capital's profitability now depends on 'lockdowns' and acute social enclosure

    6 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  20. A Short Guide to Hard Problems (2018)

    6 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  21. NASA’s InSight Reveals the Deep Interior of Mars

    6 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  22. Dumped human waste from Chinese ships creating 'dead zone' in Spratlys

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  23. Siegfried Marcus Car (1875)

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  24. Optimizing Flipkart’s Serviceability Data from 300 GB to 150 MB In-Memory

    6 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  25. Google Cloud VP of Developer Relations Leaving Amid Israel Controversy

    6 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  26. Canonicalization Attacks Against Macs and Signatures

    6 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  27. Digital Film Cartridge for Analog Cameras

    6 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  28. The FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation

    6 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  29. Tesla sells Maxwell Technologies as it doesn't plan to use ultracapacitor tech

    6 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  30. AI Tutor for Python

    6 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  31. “The Wound Talks to You”: The Nightmares of John Berryman

    6 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  32. Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who deepfaked 'The Mandalorian'

    6 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  33. Cryptocurrency Jokes Get Serious

    6 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  34. Washington state county is first in US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure

    6 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  35. H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here–what have we learned since?

    6 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  36. TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job

    6 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  37. Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  38. DoorDash Built the Most Incredible Go-to-Market Playbook

    6 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  39. Microsoft engineer stole $10M by selling Xbox gift cards for Bitcoin

    6 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  40. Ask HN: Is React too big to fail?

    6 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  41. Investors Trusted Teenagers to Manage Crypto Investments. Now They Want Answers

    6 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  42. Don't Make Me Think

    6 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  43. R/WallStreetBets Incident Anthology: More Data, More Problems

    6 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  44. If you’re poor, you're even hotter during the heat wave

    6 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  45. The One Critical Element Missing from 92% of Diversity and Inclusion Strategies

    6 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  46. NASA's Mars helicopter soars past 1-mile mark in 10th flight over Red Planet

    6 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  47. Feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster

    6 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  48. Fox News channel reigns as top-rated network in total day and primetime viewers

    6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  49. Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals

    6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  50. Brinkley Act: Bans US broadcasters from being connected to a Mexico transmitter

    6 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  51. Trump announces a lawsuit against tech firms for censoring him

    6 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  52. As cloud costs climb, is repatriation the answer?

    6 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  53. Ask HN: How do you spend your time when waiting for build?

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  54. Lab analysis finds near-meat and meat are not nutritionally equivalent

    6 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  55. Remote Authentication Landscape and Authentication Methods [pdf]

    6 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  56. A year ago, Black physicists at Fermilab demanded change. What’s happened?

    6 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  57. GPU Maker, 3dfx Interactive Teases a Comeback After 20 Years

    6 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  58. Use plug and socket – industry group recommends obvious change in terminology

    6 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  59. Google bans 'sugar daddy' apps from Play Store

    6 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  60. Broadcom in Talks to Buy Software Firm SAS

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  61. Ask HN: You're 27 again. What would you do differently?

    6 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  62. Why US troops wear ceramic plates instead of just kevlar

    6 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  63. America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for Revolt

    6 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  64. System Administrator Appreciation Day

    6 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  65. Delayed Russian Nauka module joins space station

    5 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  66. Why I Had to Migrate from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

    5 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  67. Mercury’s new unicorn status offers a case for crowdfunding

    5 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  68. Restaurant Requires ’Proof of Being Unvaccinated’

    5 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  69. Don't let political contrarianism turn you into a lunatic

    5 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  70. Intrusive Thought

    5 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  71. Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong over Proposed Data Laws

    5 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  72. 19-year-old earns $54k a year mining Bitcoin as a full-time job

    5 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  73. Making Things with Maths

    5 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  74. Muffler man

    5 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  75. Dr Cornel West's Harvard resignation letter

    5 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  76. The amount of Greenland ice that melted on Tuesday could cover FL in 2” of water

    5 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  77. Inside TikTok’s Highly Secretive Algorithm

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  78. Ask HN: How do you know when to sell your business?

    5 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  79. Floydhub Is Shutting Down

    5 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  80. Show HN: A browser-based Gameboy emulator written in TypeScript

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  81. The CDC will recommend that some vaccinated people wear masks indoors again

    5 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  82. Bezos offers billions in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract

    5 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  83. What If Regulating Facebook Fails?

    5 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  84. China bans Didi, its biggest ride-hailing service, from app stores

    5 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  85. Diffusion Models as a Kind of Hierarchical VAE

    5 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  86. The Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation

    5 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  87. BuzzFeed Is Going Public. What Now for Vice and Vox?

    5 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  88. Delta variant is 'Covid-19 on steroids,' expert says

    5 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  89. A Group of Scientists Presses a Case Against the Lab Leak Theory of Covid

    5 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  90. Windows Zero Day - PrintNightmare – CVE-2021-34527

    5 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  91. The Adapted Words of Memmie Le Blanc

    5 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  92. Accurate Throughput Prediction of Basic Blocks on Intel Microarchitectures

    5 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  93. Delta covid19 more lethal for vaccinated people and less for unvaccinated [pdf]

    5 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  94. 100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  95. New microchip sensor measures stress hormones from drop of blood

    5 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  96. Ask HN: Easiest CMS System to Setup?

    5 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  97. America’s Great Vaccine Decline

    5 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  98. European Commission will fully apply AML/CFT rules to the crypto sector

    5 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  99. Remote work could shift 835,000 jobs out of London

    5 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  100. Optical Computing

    5 points • comment • jul 28, 2021