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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Where has all the productivity gone?

    224 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  2. Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python

    224 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  3. Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons

    223 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  4. Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

    223 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  5. The Art of the Romanian Haystack

    223 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  6. China unveils 600 kph maglev train

    222 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  7. Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1

    222 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  8. Git-blame-someone-else

    222 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  9. Harvey’s Casino Bomb

    222 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  10. MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business

    222 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  11. A GPIO Driver in Rust

    221 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  12. What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)

    221 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  13. Apple's camera design choices from the iPhone 6S Plus to the 12 Pro Max [pdf]

    221 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  14. Amazon.com product pages are down

    220 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  15. DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants

    220 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  16. Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

    220 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  17. How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]

    220 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  18. Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES

    219 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  19. How to gain more from your reading

    219 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  20. Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud

    219 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  21. Autofill in password managers can allow login credentials to be stolen

    219 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  22. Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis

    219 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  23. Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

    218 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  24. BLAKE3 1.0

    218 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  25. Blue Origin first human flight

    217 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  26. SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

    216 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  27. First new VAX in 30 years?

    215 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  28. Tylr: Demo of tile-based editing, a new kind of structure editing

    215 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  29. Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

    215 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  30. Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)

    214 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  31. Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly

    214 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  32. A phone the FBI sold to criminals

    213 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  33. Thread Pools on the JVM

    213 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  34. Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time

    213 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  35. I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key

    213 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  36. Image unshredding using a TSP solver

    213 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  37. Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds

    213 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  38. Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator

    213 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  39. Greenland bans all oil exploration

    212 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  40. My app failed: lessons learned

    212 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  41. First detection of light from behind a black hole

    212 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  42. Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source

    212 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  43. Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege

    212 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  44. India bans MasterCard from adding new customers

    212 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  45. Node-RED 2.0

    211 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  46. Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology

    210 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  47. EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable

    210 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  48. Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor

    210 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  49. THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief

    210 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  50. Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow

    209 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  51. I might have gone a little bit overboard

    209 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  52. Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia

    209 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  53. Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)

    209 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  54. Fun with Unix domain sockets

    209 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  55. Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System

    208 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  56. Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds

    208 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  57. Tesseract OCR

    208 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  58. What really happened to Jack Ma?

    208 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  59. Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017)

    207 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  60. Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

    207 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  61. Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

    207 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  62. F# is the best coding language today

    207 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  63. Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot

    207 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  64. Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms

    206 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  65. My app just got removed with no prior warning

    206 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  66. If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)

    206 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  67. The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)

    206 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  68. Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018)

    206 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  69. FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval

    206 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  70. Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets

    205 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  71. How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind

    205 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  72. One Tenth of a Second

    205 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  73. Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups

    204 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  74. Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers

    204 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  75. Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change

    204 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  76. AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net

    204 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  77. Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

    204 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  78. SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the first time

    204 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  79. The Playdate store is now open

    203 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  80. PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people

    203 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  81. Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team

    203 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  82. New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

    203 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  83. Ask HN: Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?

    203 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  84. Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning

    203 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  85. Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing

    202 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  86. Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above

    202 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  87. Do nothing (2020)

    202 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  88. Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan

    201 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  89. SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners

    201 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  90. Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool

    201 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  91. Why Build Toys

    201 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  92. PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud

    200 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  93. Wayback Machine Downloader

    200 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  94. China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide

    200 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  95. Dabrowski’s theory and existential depression (2020)

    200 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  96. Launch HN: InstaKin (YC S21) - Help immigrants to manage tasks in home countries

    200 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  97. How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists

    199 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  98. A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

    199 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  99. TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

    199 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  100. Neorg: Neovim 0.5’s answer to modern life organization

    199 points • comment • jul 11, 2021