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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

    199 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  2. A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

    199 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  3. Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

    198 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  4. The Itanic Has Sunk

    198 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  5. ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: open-source self-hosted web archiving

    198 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  6. No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

    198 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  7. Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

    197 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  8. A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)

    197 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  9. Ideas in statistics that have powered AI

    196 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  10. Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia

    196 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  11. Concise algorithms written in Julia

    196 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  12. CudaText: Cross-platform code editor

    196 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  13. When static makes your C code 10 times faster

    195 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  14. Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum

    195 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  15. Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis

    195 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  16. Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust

    195 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  17. Evidence found on a second Indian activist’s computer was planted, report says

    195 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  18. Choose whether Search can show you personal results based on your Google Account

    194 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  19. The Highest Forms of Wealth

    194 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  20. Classified Challenger tank specs leaked online for videogame

    194 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  21. Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains

    193 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  22. A critique of Safari's influence on the web

    193 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  23. When Orcs Were Real

    193 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  24. Steven Weinberg has died

    193 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  25. Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science

    193 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  26. Headless React

    192 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  27. Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating

    192 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  28. Coding with Character

    192 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  29. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

    192 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  30. The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect

    192 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  31. How to add eBPF observability to your product

    192 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  32. Sub-zero water splitting marks a new dawn for solar hydrogen production

    192 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  33. Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts

    191 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  34. World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’

    191 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  35. Is This Prime?

    191 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  36. FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia

    191 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  37. Walmart releases more affordable analog insulin

    191 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  38. Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?

    191 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  39. Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator

    190 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  40. I Stopped Using Emojis

    190 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  41. Cancer risks increase with alcohol use, leading to over 740k cases last year

    190 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  42. “Cat Person” and Me

    190 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  43. Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser

    190 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  44. Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery

    190 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  45. Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable”

    190 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  46. A Victoria man has gone two decades without money

    189 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  47. It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you

    189 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  48. SVG favicons have some cool benefits

    189 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  49. A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language

    189 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  50. MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule

    189 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  51. Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

    188 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  52. GitHub Copilot generates valid secrets

    188 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  53. What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?

    188 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  54. So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming

    187 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  55. The LaTeX Font Catalogue

    187 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  56. MS Windows Defender and DeCSS

    187 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  57. Temozolomide Is Explosive

    187 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  58. Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

    186 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  59. Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus

    186 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  60. Mastering the Basics of Icon Design

    186 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  61. What did ancient languages sound like?

    186 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  62. GraalVM at Facebook

    186 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  63. Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

    186 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  64. WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance

    185 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  65. Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund

    185 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  66. RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%

    185 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  67. Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver

    185 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  68. New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry

    184 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  69. UK wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism doesn't exist

    184 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  70. Video tutorials now on PeerTube

    184 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  71. FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood

    184 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  72. Show HN: WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games

    184 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  73. Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

    183 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  74. Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture

    183 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  75. Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment

    183 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  76. Launch HN: Bedrock AI (YC S21) – Using ML to identify red flags in SEC filings

    182 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  77. Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon

    182 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  78. Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

    182 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  79. The Human Side of Elixir

    182 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  80. Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication

    182 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  81. Unleaded Avgas Approved

    182 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  82. Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust

    182 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  83. A 3°C world has no safe place

    182 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  84. Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President

    182 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  85. Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product

    181 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  86. Some career advice (2019)

    181 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  87. Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions

    181 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  88. Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

    181 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  89. Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others

    181 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  90. Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (2011)

    181 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  91. Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go

    180 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  92. FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters

    180 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  93. The Yoghurt Mafia

    180 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  94. YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

    180 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  95. Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation

    180 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  96. The value of doing a little

    180 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  97. The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)

    179 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  98. A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change

    179 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  99. A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny

    179 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  100. The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit

    178 points • comment • jul 18, 2021