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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

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

    124 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  2. A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations

    123 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  3. Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful

    123 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  4. Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily

    123 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  5. Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form

    123 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  6. Deno 1.13 Release

    123 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  7. Why Is SQLite Coded in C (2017)

    123 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  8. Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

    123 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  9. Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana

    122 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  10. Uber requires nondisclosure agreement before compensating carjacked driver

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  11. Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC

    122 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  12. Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python

    122 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  13. Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort

    122 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  14. Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review

    122 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  15. Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

    122 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  16. Tesla Project Dojo Overview

    122 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  17. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)

    122 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  18. Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography

    122 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  19. RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust

    122 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  20. An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior

    121 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  21. Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South

    121 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  22. Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)

    121 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  23. How elephants avoid cancer (2015)

    121 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  24. Launch HN: SafeBeat Rx (YC S21)- At-home ECG software to replace hospitalization

    121 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  25. Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions

    121 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  26. Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals

    121 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  27. PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience

    121 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  28. Quality and Effort (2018)

    121 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  29. Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas

    121 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  30. Show HN: Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact

    120 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  31. Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers

    120 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  32. Record rise in U.S. rents

    120 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  33. How Actors Work Internally in Swift

    120 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  34. Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610

    120 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  35. Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search

    120 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  36. A Screeching Voice of the Minority

    120 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  37. LimeSDR

    120 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  38. The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance

    120 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  39. On Digital Minimalsim (2016)

    120 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  40. Facebook Shuts Down Researchers Looking into Misinformation

    120 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  41. Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks

    120 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  42. Pacaso is turning houses into corporations

    120 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  43. Linux Kernel 5.14

    120 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  44. ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots

    119 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  45. Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept

    119 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  46. Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance

    119 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  47. Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences (2020)

    119 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  48. Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)

    119 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  49. 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

    119 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  50. A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system

    119 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  51. The Ruin of War

    119 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  52. Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

    119 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  53. Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books (2018)

    118 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  54. Cat Automatic Sprayer

    118 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  55. PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac

    118 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  56. Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

    118 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  57. Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013)

    118 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  58. Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993)

    118 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  59. Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout

    118 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  60. Remind HN: .com prices increase Sep 1, 2021

    117 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  61. The Top Shelf Principle (2019)

    117 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  62. Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs

    117 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  63. Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

    117 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  64. “Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”

    117 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  65. 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0

    117 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. 4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia

    117 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  67. Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started

    117 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  68. The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think

    117 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  69. Unifying iPadOS and macOS

    117 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  70. From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo

    117 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  71. The Case for Optimism

    117 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  72. The quiet battle raging around open banking

    116 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  73. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5

    116 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  74. Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust

    116 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  75. Interview with a ransomware group

    116 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  76. Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

    116 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  77. Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows

    116 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  78. Antigravity.py (2020)

    116 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  79. Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers

    116 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  80. Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall

    116 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  81. Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

    116 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  82. Friendship ended with the garbage collector

    116 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  83. Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS”

    116 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  84. Lambdas as values in Excel

    116 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  85. Memfd_secret() in 5.14

    116 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  86. A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers

    116 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  87. Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers

    116 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  88. A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)

    115 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  89. Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)

    115 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  90. It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search

    115 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  91. The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone

    115 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  92. Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  93. Wild claims about K performance

    115 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  94. 8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet

    115 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  95. Starship has been fully stacked

    115 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  96. RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights

    115 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  97. The End of Social Media

    115 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  98. Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves

    115 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  99. Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration

    115 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  100. World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast

    115 points • comment • aug 07, 2021