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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors (2019)

    88 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  2. Why observability requires a distributed column store

    88 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  3. Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

    88 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  4. Apple's Past Sideloading Plans

    88 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  5. Notes from the Architect (2016)

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  6. Google: 'Reverse Warrants' Becoming Law Enforcement's Go-To Investigative Tool

    88 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

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

    88 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  8. Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)

    88 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  9. Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia

    88 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  10. Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator

    88 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  11. New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks

    87 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  12. The Elasticsearch Saga Continues

    87 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  13. Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide

    87 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  14. Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias

    87 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  15. Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage

    87 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  16. Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp

    87 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  17. Show HN: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support

    87 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  18. Thinking about “traceability”

    87 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  19. Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials

    87 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  20. BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

    87 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  21. One Week of Bugs (2014)

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  22. Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk

    87 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  23. Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003)

    87 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  24. The wild pizzas of southern Italy

    87 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  25. U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed

    87 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  26. State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021

    86 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  27. Annual reminder of Uber missing this goal

    86 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  28. Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves

    86 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  29. Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days

    86 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  30. U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores

    86 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  31. View your browser's TLS fingerprint

    86 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  32. Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  33. Judge freezes UC Berkeley's student enrollment at 2020-21 levels

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  34. Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016)

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  35. In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (2016)

    86 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  36. In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo, but few use it

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  37. Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model

    86 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  38. Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping

    85 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  39. Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS

    85 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  40. Loom: Project Loom Early-Access Builds

    85 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  41. Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional

    85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  42. Animals changed by proximity to humans

    85 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  43. Sentenced by Algorithm

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  44. In praise of habits

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  45. The Windows 96 Story

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  46. Airliner Number 4

    85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  47. Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers

    85 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  48. 3D printable cat feeder (2020)

    85 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  49. Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?

    85 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  50. How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

    85 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  51. Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf]

    85 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  52. New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

    85 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  53. How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?

    84 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  54. Edward de Bono Obituary

    84 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  55. Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope

    84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  56. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam

    84 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  57. Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys

    84 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  58. Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate files

    84 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  59. Freeing Your Goats

    84 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  60. Adda as a Way of Life

    84 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  61. Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)

    84 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  62. BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

    84 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  63. Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents

    84 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  64. Show HN: SlashApi – a web platform to build REST APIs without code

    84 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  65. Show HN: Bhagavad Gita Android App for searching verses by topics like anxiety

    84 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  66. Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

    84 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  67. The unknown features of Python's `operator` module

    84 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  68. PureBasic switches to a C backend

    84 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  69. YouTube suspends Rand Paul over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks

    84 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  70. Alternative Milks

    84 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  71. The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015) [pdf]

    84 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  72. NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization

    84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  73. Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources

    84 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  74. Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning (2020)

    83 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  75. Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app

    83 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  76. Ray Tracing Gems II

    83 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  77. The Psychology of Online Political Hostility

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  78. Connection Strings Reference

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  79. Yale study finds social media ‘likes’ train users to act outraged

    83 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  80. Ask HN: Inconsistent expression calculation between programming languages

    83 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  81. An attempt at demystifying graph deep learning

    83 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  82. Snaprecovery: Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat

    83 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  83. New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived

    83 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  84. High blood pressure cases double in 30 years

    83 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  85. Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  86. Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

    82 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  87. Modern IRC Client Protocol

    82 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  88. An Introduction to AI Story Generation

    82 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  89. Snap: A microkernel approach to host networking (2019)

    82 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  90. Image synthesis and editing with stochastic differential equations

    82 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  91. Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf]

    82 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  92. Launch HN: Ancana (YC S21) – Fractional ownership of vacation homes

    82 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  93. Intel's Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued

    82 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  94. MusicXML and Percussion Notation

    82 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  95. 890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found

    82 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  96. China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown

    82 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  97. You and Your Research (1986)

    81 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  98. New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s

    81 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  99. The leak that brought the H-bomb debate out of the cold

    81 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  100. Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?

    81 points • comment • aug 09, 2021