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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  2. Some mental abilities seem to improve as we get older

    114 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  3. Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml

    114 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  4. Windows 11 available on October 5

    114 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  5. Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  6. Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)

    114 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  7. Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software

    114 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  8. Rustdoc résumé

    114 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  9. Modern LZ Compression (2019)

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  10. RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

    114 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  11. Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8

    114 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  12. Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet

    114 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  13. Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths

    114 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  14. A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important

    113 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  15. Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive'

    113 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  16. I could do that in a weekend (2016)

    113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  17. Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)

    113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  18. Observability: A New Theory Based on the Group of Invariance

    113 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  19. Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

    113 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  20. For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks

    113 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  21. Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment

    113 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  22. Building Container Images with Nix

    112 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  23. Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain

    112 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  24. July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe

    112 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  25. Carolyn Shoemaker has died

    112 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  26. VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston

    112 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  27. What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)

    112 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  28. U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate

    112 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  29. Mozilla: *Privacy Not Included

    112 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  30. Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages

    112 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  31. Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based

    111 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  32. Redwood World – Pictures and Locations of Redwoods in the British Isles

    111 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  33. Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores

    111 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  34. Why query planning for streaming systems is hard

    111 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  35. Satan should chair your meetings: A literature lover’s guide to office politics

    111 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  36. The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  37. Difficult math is about recognizing patterns

    111 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  38. Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

    111 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  39. A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data

    110 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  40. Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles

    110 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  41. Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle)

    110 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  42. C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)

    110 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  43. Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006)

    110 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  44. Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020

    110 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  45. Memory Bandwidth

    110 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  46. The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  47. Video Game Pricing [video]

    109 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  48. Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]

    109 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  49. Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

    109 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  50. Life Before Unicode

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  51. Google has killed Discord's best music bot

    109 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  52. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978)

    109 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  53. Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs

    109 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  54. The web browser as a tool of thought

    108 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  55. People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart

    108 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  56. Knuth on Dijkstra (2014)

    108 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  57. Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance

    108 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  58. Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00

    108 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  59. Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?

    108 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  60. MathML Progress

    108 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  61. Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare

    108 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  62. Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)

    108 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  63. Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine

    108 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  64. Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast

    107 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  65. Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS

    107 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  66. Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven?

    107 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  67. Show HN: Python Source Code Refactoring Toolkit via AST

    107 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  68. TSMC’s Speciality Technologies

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  69. Liquidsoap – A scripting language for multimedia streaming

    107 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  70. Apple workers collecting stories of abuse, injustice in workplace

    107 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  71. Strange domain names that developers bought

    107 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  72. Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)

    107 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  73. Interview with Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor

    107 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  74. Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?

    107 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  75. Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  76. California family dies under mysterious circumstances

    106 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  77. The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started

    106 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  78. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels

    106 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  79. A dubious writing style emerging in science

    106 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  80. A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage, exposing the city’s excesses

    106 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  81. FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says

    106 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  82. Show HN: Open by Design

    106 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  83. GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021

    106 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  84. When Police Lie, the Innocent Pay. Some Are Fighting Back

    106 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  85. Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  86. The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago

    106 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  87. Jewish Problems (2011)

    106 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  88. Tesla AI Day Live Stream [video]

    106 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  89. German parliament wants Tim Cook to reconsider CSAM plans

    105 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  90. Almost-Billionaires (2014)

    105 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  91. How to write slow Rust code

    105 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  92. DNS alias mode (2020)

    105 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  93. PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful

    105 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  94. EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking

    105 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  95. Show HN: A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store

    105 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  96. Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase

    105 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  97. QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  98. SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  99. The Story of Playdate

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  100. Afghan President Ghani relinquishes power, Taliban form interim gov't

    104 points • comment • aug 15, 2021