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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  2. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

    104 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  3. Life After White Collar Crime

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  4. Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011

    104 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  5. The Story of Playdate

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

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

    104 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  7. Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses

    104 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  8. A Cartrivision Player TV

    103 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  9. Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant

    103 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  10. A Message to Our Customers (2016)

    103 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  11. Linux Kernel Defence Map

    103 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  12. Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border

    103 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  13. High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point

    103 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  14. ‘Horizon Workrooms’: remote collaboration reimagined

    103 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  15. Homemade computer chips / integrated circuits

    103 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  16. Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities

    102 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  17. Jackson structured programming

    102 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  18. To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)

    102 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  19. Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released

    102 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  20. Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images

    102 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  21. I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  22. The World’s Largest Computer Chip

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  23. FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot

    102 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  24. The QSBS Tax Exemption: A Valuable Benefit for Startup Founders and Builders

    102 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  25. Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer

    102 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  26. Progress Beats Perfect

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  27. Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States

    101 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux

    101 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  29. Golang Security Checker

    101 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  30. Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window

    101 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  31. The growing market of not cutting down trees

    101 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  32. Chicago sues Grubhub and DoorDash for allegedly deceptive practices

    101 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  33. Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies

    101 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  34. The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank

    101 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  35. Racer Trash

    101 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  36. James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79

    101 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  37. BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent

    101 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  38. The 20x24 Polaroid instant camera

    101 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  39. Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions

    100 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  40. Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  41. Event Sourcing (2005)

    100 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  42. Jsc: My New Best Friend

    99 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  43. Allbirds S-1 IPO

    99 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  44. Beyond coupling and cohesion: strategies for un-fucking yourself

    99 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  45. Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets

    99 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  46. George Mason professor wins Covid antibody lawsuit as vaccine exemption

    99 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  47. Jaipur’s Last Stand

    99 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  48. How we paid for the War on Terror

    99 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  49. Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)

    99 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  50. Constexpr is a Platform (2020)

    99 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  51. Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps

    99 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  52. UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed

    99 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  53. Sputnik V: fraudulent clinical trial data

    99 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  54. Show HN: Judo - Build Native App Experiences with No Code

    99 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  55. Image2Lego: Customized Lego Set Generation from Images

    98 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  56. Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  57. Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

    98 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  58. The best books on assassinations

    98 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  59. Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers

    98 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  60. WeWork Book: The $10T Mirage

    98 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  61. Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017)

    98 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  62. The Kawa Scheme Language

    98 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  63. Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

    98 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  64. Ford Mustang Mach-E Was Norway’s Best-Seller in May – Report

    98 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  65. Unix and Microservice Platforms

    97 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  66. Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror

    97 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser

    97 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  68. Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora

    97 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  69. How does one get close to mastering software engineering?

    97 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  70. Facebook announces privacy-enhancing technologies

    97 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  71. Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    97 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  72. How to Paint 50k Miles of Lines

    97 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  73. A Classic RPG Made of Handcrafted Dioramas

    97 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  74. Wealth Shown to Scale

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  75. Building a Desktop Application for Datasette

    96 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  76. The Duke Mansion Mystery

    96 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  77. Live electricity production/consumption CO2 map

    96 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  78. ; Echo “Shell Injection”

    96 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. Tesla valve

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  80. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #8

    96 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  81. D2X-XL – an OpenGL modification of the classic video game Descent 2

    96 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  82. Reversing ocean acidification with aggressive CO2 removal will take 700+ years (2015)

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  83. I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  84. Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  85. Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system

    96 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  86. The ATS Programming Language

    96 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  87. UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  88. The Btrfs inode-number epic (part 1: the problem)

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  89. Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs Towards Sustainable Development

    95 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  90. Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD

    95 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  91. Reasons Not to Use Apple

    95 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  92. GitHub Discussions is out of beta

    95 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  93. A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard

    95 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  94. Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age

    95 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  95. Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple

    95 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  96. New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)

    95 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  97. Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees

    95 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  98. Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86

    95 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  99. A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD

    95 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  100. Surveillance Under Surveillance

    95 points • comment • aug 09, 2021