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Hacker News (Jul 2021)

  1. Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign

    158 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  2. First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta

    158 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  3. Rust for Linux redux

    158 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  4. The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago

    158 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  5. TCP Fast Open? Not so fast

    158 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  6. Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design

    158 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  7. Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf

    158 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  8. Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?

    158 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  9. Fortran adds conditional expressions

    157 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  10. Ask HN: Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)

    157 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  11. Update: SaveVideo is Back

    157 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  12. 0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)

    156 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  13. PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption

    156 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  14. In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

    156 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  15. Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack

    156 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  16. Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

    156 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  17. Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons

    156 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  18. As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”

    156 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  19. I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say

    155 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  20. Must-read psychology books

    155 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  21. Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)

    155 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  22. Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition

    155 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  23. The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases

    155 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  24. Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations

    155 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  25. The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser

    155 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  26. OpenAI disbands its robotics research team

    155 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  27. ASCII Play

    155 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  28. It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it

    155 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  29. Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors

    155 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  30. Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers

    154 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  31. Teaching other teachers how to teach CS better

    154 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  32. The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist

    154 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  33. Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors

    153 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  34. Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996)

    153 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  35. AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance

    153 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  36. Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

    153 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  37. The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships

    153 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  38. NIL

    152 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  39. Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)

    152 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  40. The House That Vanished

    152 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  41. Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco

    152 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  42. Piper: GTK application to configure gaming mice

    151 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  43. Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing

    151 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  44. Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

    151 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  45. Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This Is Your Mind on Plants

    151 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  46. Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger

    151 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  47. Preschool children rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict

    150 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  48. One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

    150 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  49. Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road

    150 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  50. Yarn 3.0

    150 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  51. State Department to pay up to $10M for information on foreign cyberattacks

    150 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  52. Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java

    149 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  53. Beating the L1 cache with value speculation

    149 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  54. An industry that unmasks people at scale

    149 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  55. Chime has been suddenly closing accounts, not returning customers’ money

    149 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  56. GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

    149 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  57. MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA

    149 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  58. Cybersecurity and the curse of binary thinking

    149 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  59. “Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s

    149 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  60. Downgrade User Agent Client Hints to 'harmful'

    148 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  61. NodeMCU ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE IoT boards show up for about $4

    148 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  62. A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead

    148 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  63. Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data

    148 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  64. I wrote a 231-byte Brainfuck compiler by abusing everything

    148 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  65. Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]

    148 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  66. Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (2019)

    148 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  67. Apple Maps vs. Google Maps

    148 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  68. Show HN: Lego Brick Scanner – open-source Boilerplate

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  69. Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217.524881?

    147 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  70. Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software [video]

    147 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  71. Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code

    147 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  72. Low level is easy (2008)

    147 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  73. Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat

    147 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  74. Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011)

    147 points • comment • jul 31, 2021

  75. What every coder should know about gamma (2016)

    146 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  76. NYC Mesh Community Internet

    146 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  77. Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store

    146 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  78. Ever Given: Egypt agrees deal to release ship that blocked Suez Canal

    146 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  79. Ian Knot (2003)

    146 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  80. The fig is an ecological marvel

    146 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  81. Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool

    146 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  82. Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art

    146 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  83. Mixed Reality with Passthrough

    146 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  84. strcpy: A niche function you don't need

    146 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  85. To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe

    146 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  86. The Blender Studio Pipeline

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  87. Towards richer colors on the Web

    145 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  88. SQL Join Types Explained in Visuals

    145 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  89. Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City's Byzantine Basements

    145 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  90. Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations

    145 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  91. Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash

    145 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  92. Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    145 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  93. What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)

    145 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  94. The History of the Dot Com Era

    145 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  95. HIV vaccine trial starts at Oxford

    145 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  96. Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser

    145 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  97. Steven Weinberg has died

    145 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  98. Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?

    144 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  99. Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (2014) [pdf]

    144 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  100. Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

    144 points • comment • jul 31, 2021