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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby

    256 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  2. We should build for wildlife as well as people

    256 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  3. Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

    256 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  4. Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025

    256 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  5. Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)

    256 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  6. Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack

    256 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  7. Zip – How not to design a file format

    255 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  8. Last Mile Redis

    255 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  9. Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

    255 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  10. My Steam Game Revenue Stats

    255 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  11. Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers

    254 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  12. Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

    254 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  13. Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint

    254 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  14. Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink

    253 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  15. Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts

    252 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  16. Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

    252 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  17. Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal

    252 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  18. Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm

    252 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  19. Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed

    251 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  20. Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages

    251 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  21. Programmatic Video Editing with Python

    250 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  22. How to build a small town in Texas

    249 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  23. California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds

    248 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  24. RabbitMQ Streams Overview

    248 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  25. 'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds

    248 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  26. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

    248 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  27. Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning

    247 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  28. NSO Group Hacked

    246 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  29. You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)

    246 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  30. Mitmproxy 7.0

    246 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  31. I was sick, tired and had lost myself until I began lifting weights at 71

    245 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  32. The database ruins all good ideas

    245 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  33. The vital art of talking to strangers

    245 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  34. Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021

    245 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  35. Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup”

    245 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  36. How I store my files

    244 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  37. Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

    243 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  38. Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

    243 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  39. Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams

    242 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  40. Josh: Get the advantages of a monorepo with multirepo setups

    242 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  41. Updating the Go Memory Model

    241 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  42. The Amazon 'Personal Games' Policy

    241 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  43. Lachlan Morton completes 5,510km Alt Tour, beating peloton to Paris by five days

    240 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  44. Crystal 1.1.0

    240 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  45. Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions

    239 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  46. Why do we use R rather than Excel?

    239 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  47. Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data

    238 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  48. RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops

    238 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  49. How to spot a good fake ID

    237 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  50. Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

    237 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  51. Servo Engine contributions this year

    236 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  52. AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle

    236 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  53. Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers

    236 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  54. Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

    235 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  55. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

    235 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  56. Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

    235 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  57. PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

    235 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  58. MIT OpenCourseWare

    235 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  59. Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming

    235 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  60. We will win the war for general-purpose computing

    234 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  61. Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

    234 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  62. Debian for Mobile

    234 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  63. Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

    233 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  64. External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in General Availability

    233 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  65. Everything useful I know about kubectl

    233 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  66. Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

    233 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  67. Back to the Future with RSS

    232 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  68. Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds

    232 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  69. Bouba/Kiki Effect

    232 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  70. Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"

    232 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  71. Spanish police seize large drone used to carry drugs from Morocco

    232 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  72. Corona Game: A simulation of how Covid-19 spreads

    232 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  73. I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?

    231 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  74. iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones

    231 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  75. UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application

    230 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  76. My trust in software, an all time low

    230 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  77. Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

    229 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  78. Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece

    229 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  79. FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment

    229 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  80. This beach does not exist

    229 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  81. How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real

    229 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  82. Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client

    229 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  83. Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy

    229 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  84. AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones

    228 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  85. Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?

    228 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  86. Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir

    228 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  87. Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash

    228 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  88. Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production

    227 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  89. Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development

    227 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  90. Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

    227 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  91. Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest

    227 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  92. Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year

    226 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  93. Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop

    226 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  94. Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox

    226 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  95. Thomas Aquinas' works with English and original Latin presented in parallel

    225 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  96. China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul

    225 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  97. Windows 365 Cloud PC

    225 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  98. Implement unprivileged chroot

    225 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  99. Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]

    225 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  100. Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?

    225 points • comment • jul 04, 2021