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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. The history of Google messaging apps

    135 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

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

    135 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  3. Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)

    135 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  4. Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story

    134 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  5. Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design

    134 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  6. System on SO-DIMM

    134 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  7. Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse

    134 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  8. Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants

    134 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  9. Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  10. Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23

    133 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  11. Build your own SPARC workstation

    133 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  12. Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE

    133 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  13. NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  14. Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  15. Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I

    133 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  16. There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now

    133 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  17. Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty

    133 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  18. Tensions rise as Iranian dams cut off Iraqi water supplies

    133 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  19. Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores

    133 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  20. Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii

    132 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  21. The case against crisis-mongering

    132 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  22. Turning satellite imagery into wall art

    132 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  23. Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++

    132 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  24. Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’

    132 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  25. Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022

    132 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  26. I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem

    132 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  27. Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech

    132 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones

    132 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  29. JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0

    132 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  30. Thought-Terminating Cliché

    132 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  31. Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes

    131 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  32. Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo

    131 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  33. Am I stuck in a local maximum?

    131 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  34. Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons

    131 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  35. Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance

    131 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  36. An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object

    131 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  37. SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)

    131 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  38. NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars

    131 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  39. Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten

    130 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  40. Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally

    130 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  41. Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days

    130 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  42. Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL

    130 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  43. Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China

    130 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  44. I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic

    130 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  45. 0 A.D. A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

    130 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  46. 1Password for Mac Moving to Electron

    130 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  47. On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words

    130 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  48. Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads

    130 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  49. Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public

    129 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  50. Book Exploring Async Basics

    129 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  51. The 3x+1 Problem [video]

    129 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  52. I use Attrs instead of Pydantic

    129 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  53. Rain at the Summit of Greenland

    129 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  54. Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode

    129 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  55. Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)

    129 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t

    129 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  57. Essence – An Operating System

    128 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  58. Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)

    128 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  59. ANSI Escape Codes

    128 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  60. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

    128 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  61. JAMMA Video Standard

    128 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  62. An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions

    128 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  63. Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018)

    128 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  64. Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading

    128 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  65. Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters

    128 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  66. The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago

    128 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  67. Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)

    128 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  68. Researcher experiences of funder suppression of health trial findings

    127 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  69. California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being

    127 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  70. Cproc C Compiler

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  71. BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]

    127 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  72. The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]

    127 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  73. Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine

    127 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  74. Rust in Production: Qovery

    127 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  75. Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search

    127 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  76. Inflation wiped out America's pay raises

    127 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  77. Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?

    127 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  78. Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator

    126 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  79. A plain text note-taking system for problem solving

    126 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  80. CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors

    126 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  81. A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself

    126 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  82. The secretive, semi-illicit world of WhatsApp mango importing

    126 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  83. Launch HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Teaching kids to read with the help of live actors

    126 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  84. Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video]

    126 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  85. What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019)

    125 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  86. Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up

    125 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  87. Latency Sneaks Up on You

    125 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  88. A Bit Overcomplicated

    125 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  89. The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

    125 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  90. Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use

    124 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  91. A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf]

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  92. GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages

    124 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  93. A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)

    124 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  94. Missile Base for Sale

    124 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  95. Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast

    124 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  96. Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire

    124 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  97. PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained

    124 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  98. I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS

    124 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  99. AWS doesn’t know who I am

    124 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  100. Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hold

    124 points • comment • aug 28, 2021