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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Phones containing magnets inhibit implantable cardioverter defibrillators

    94 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  2. Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

    94 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  3. My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit

    94 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  4. Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack

    94 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  5. Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

    94 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  6. AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second

    94 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  7. Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  8. The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  9. Where did the web archive go?

    94 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  10. James Gosling Interview

    94 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  11. 61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020

    93 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  12. Back to Linux

    93 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  13. Darktable: An open source photography workflow application

    93 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  14. The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX

    93 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  15. How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions

    93 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  16. Leap Smear

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  17. What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  18. Apple censors engraving service, report claims

    93 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  19. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2021

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  20. A newfound biomolecule, consisting of RNA modified by sugars

    93 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  21. The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”

    93 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  22. What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition

    93 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  23. Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago

    93 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  24. Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way

    93 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  25. The lost tablet and secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army

    93 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  26. Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing

    93 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  27. Best RealSense replacements?

    93 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates

    93 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  29. U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods

    93 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  30. Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms

    92 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  31. Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  32. Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content

    92 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  33. Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  34. Toledo’s Last Swordmakers

    92 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  35. RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia

    92 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  36. I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit

    92 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  37. Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

    92 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  38. Is Zoom Illegal in the EU? Unpacking the Hamburg DPA’s Decision

    92 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  39. On Time, Money and Health

    92 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  40. Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health

    92 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  41. The Middle East is running out of water, and parts are becoming uninhabitable

    92 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  42. NetBox: Infrastructure resource modeling application for network automation

    92 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  43. Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

    92 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  44. How to compare two PDF documents

    92 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  45. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

    92 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  46. Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse

    92 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  47. History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  48. Stanford researchers make rechargeable batteries that store 6x more charge

    92 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  49. The Dual-Drive IDE Hell

    91 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  50. Tech Companies with Four-Day Work Weeks

    91 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  51. Adult Obesity Facts

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  52. Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  53. DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)

    91 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  54. TLA+ is hard to learn (2018)

    91 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  55. Launch HN: Iona Mind (YC S21) – App-based cognitive behavioural therapy

    91 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  56. Getting the maximum of your C compiler, for security

    91 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  57. Rick and Morty’s Thanksploitation Deciduous Decision Tree

    91 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  58. Traintrackr – Live LED transit maps

    91 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  59. Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta

    91 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  60. Zorin OS 16 is Released

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  61. Schema on write is better to live by

    90 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  62. Almost 600 Louisiana sites with toxic chemicals lie in Hurricane Ida's path

    90 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  63. 2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece

    90 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  64. The problem of effects in Rust (2020)

    90 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  65. Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?

    90 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  66. Go 1.17 Is Released

    90 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  67. Amazon Genomics CLI

    90 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  68. Scylla – Real-Time Big Data Database

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  69. AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective

    90 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  70. The Case for a Shorter Workweek

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  71. Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

    90 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  72. Away from Exceptions: Errors as Values

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  73. Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor

    90 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?

    90 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  75. Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago

    90 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  76. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  77. Vieb – Vim Inspired Electron Browser

    90 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  78. Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do

    90 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. Developers Complain as App Store Feature Promotes Rip-Off Apps

    90 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  80. A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA

    89 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  81. Amplitude (YC W12) IPO S1

    89 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  82. Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line

    89 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  83. Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards

    89 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  84. New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?

    89 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  85. ‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  86. Archaeologists Discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor'

    89 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  87. Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  88. Progress Quest

    89 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  89. Collaborative Editing Options for Emacs

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  90. Show HN: ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation

    89 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  91. Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  92. The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)

    88 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  93. Supine Computing (2019)

    88 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  94. Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?

    88 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  95. Leaving Well

    88 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  96. Apple's Past Sideloading Plans

    88 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  97. First image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979

    88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  98. Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game by Harry McCracken

    88 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  99. Notes from the Architect (2016)

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  100. Why observability requires a distributed column store

    88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021