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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Computational algebraic geometry for high school students

    149 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  2. New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours

    149 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  3. We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys]

    148 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  4. Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’

    148 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  5. Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000)

    148 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  6. SnakeOS: Bootable x86 snake game in Rust

    148 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  7. The smart home is flailing as a concept

    148 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  8. Reasonable Person Principle (2009)

    148 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  9. Competitive programming is useless

    148 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  10. When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)

    147 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  11. Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market

    147 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  12. First Beta for Krita 5.0 released

    147 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  13. Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach

    147 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  14. More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source

    147 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  15. Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA

    147 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  16. Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert

    147 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  17. The Quest for Very Wide Outlines

    146 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  18. Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record

    146 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  19. Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

    146 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  20. Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)

    145 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  21. Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]

    145 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  22. Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault

    145 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  23. Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

    145 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  24. Commonly used idioms in the tech industry

    145 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  25. HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS

    145 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. Science hobbyist website since 1994

    145 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  27. How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?

    144 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  28. The Semiconductor Heist of the Century

    144 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  29. Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)

    144 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  30. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    144 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  31. “Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions

    144 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  32. Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S.

    144 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  33. Perceptual Illusions (2018)

    144 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  34. The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings [pdf]

    144 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  35. Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes

    143 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  36. Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

    143 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  37. To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning

    143 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  38. How the pandemic has affected people’s perspective on travelling to work

    143 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  39. Startup Bootstrapping Plan

    143 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  40. In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice

    143 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  41. Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow

    143 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  42. Use Phoenix Channels

    143 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  43. Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True

    143 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  44. Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator

    142 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  45. Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events

    142 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  46. Modern XMPP

    142 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  47. Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it

    142 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  48. Mario Paint Masterpiece

    142 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  49. Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards

    142 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  50. The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?

    142 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  51. U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry

    141 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  52. Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years

    141 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  53. Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life

    141 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  54. How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets

    141 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  55. Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent

    141 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  56. Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees

    141 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  57. NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

    141 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  58. Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks

    140 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  59. Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)

    140 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  60. Cap'n Proto 0.9

    140 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  61. Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD

    140 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  62. Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip

    140 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  63. EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library

    140 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  64. Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year

    140 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  65. Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)

    139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda

    139 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  67. An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer

    139 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  68. Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history

    139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  69. I closed a lot of browser tabs

    139 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  70. What Is the Most Free TLD?

    139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  71. The uncanny absence of nihilism

    139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  72. The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)

    139 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  73. Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

    139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  74. China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies

    139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  75. Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time

    138 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  76. Startups now spend more on Airbnb than on office rent

    138 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  77. AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)

    138 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  78. How green is blue hydrogen?

    138 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  79. Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones

    138 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  80. Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

    138 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  81. Cheap material converts heat to electricity

    138 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  82. Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company

    138 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  83. DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation

    138 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  84. Golang.org will be merged into go.dev

    138 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  85. Fibonacci Sphere

    138 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  86. Google is dismantling its health division

    138 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  87. Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn

    138 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  88. Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns

    137 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  89. Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers

    137 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  90. Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m

    137 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  91. MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows

    137 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  92. The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters

    137 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  93. Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python

    137 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  94. After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M

    136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  95. Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)

    136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  96. Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser

    136 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  97. I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family

    136 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  98. C++20 Modules with GCC11

    136 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  99. Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]

    135 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  100. The history of Google messaging apps

    135 points • comment • aug 25, 2021