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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. What happens to your brain when you give up sugar

    75 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  2. The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  3. 8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  4. Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  5. Julian Assange: peering through the murk

    74 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  6. Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  7. Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postgres_fdw

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  8. MacKenzie Scott’s Money Bombs Are Single Handedly Reshaping America

    74 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  9. What makes an interview podcast good or great?

    74 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  10. 14M ton of carbon offset forest is burning in California

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  11. The Principles Underlying Radio Communication

    74 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  12. Adding Optimistic Locking to an API

    74 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  13. Supercritical CO2 Tech Team

    74 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  14. Companies address labor shortages by pursuing current or former prisoners

    74 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  15. Former college professor accused of serial arson is denied bail in California

    74 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  16. Aggregate streaming data in real-time with WebAssembly

    74 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  17. Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic

    74 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  18. IEEE 754 round-off errors

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  19. 100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  20. Show HN: Ots – share a secret via one-time URL

    74 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  21. Toyota halts all self-driving e-Palette vehicles after Olympic village accident

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  22. Growing open source from Torch to PyTorch

    74 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  23. Navajo Water Project

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  24. The logic behind three random words

    73 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. “I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)

    73 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  26. Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

    73 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  27. Ask HN: Has web development become insane or am I stuck in my ways?

    73 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  28. Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub

    73 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  29. Solopreneurship

    73 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  30. The Local Minima of Suckiness

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  31. Vega Strike

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  32. All you need is call/cc (2013)

    73 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  33. Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits (2001)

    73 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  34. The Unsolved Mystery of the D-Day Puzzles

    73 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  35. LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky decides to allow employees to work remotely for good

    73 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  36. Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges

    73 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  37. The Sunk Cost Fallacy

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  38. Spring is a free RTS game engine

    73 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  39. NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival

    73 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  40. Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen

    73 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  41. CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response

    73 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  42. The Rise of Meson

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  43. The Non-Radiating Antenna

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)

    72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  45. Micro-models: purposefully overfit models that are good at one specific thing

    72 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  46. I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks

    72 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  47. NPM silently suspends package adoption

    72 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  48. addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired

    72 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  49. What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS

    72 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  50. Show HN: Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool

    72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  51. Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029

    72 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  52. The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project

    72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  53. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?

    72 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  54. 94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows

    72 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  56. An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany

    72 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  57. Official recommends rerun in Amazon union fight

    72 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  58. Why Don’t Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?

    72 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  59. Game Timers: Issues and Solutions (2012)

    72 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  60. Reading Hayek in Holland

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  61. Fun with regular expressions: part I

    72 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  62. FCC proposes fining conspiracists $5.1M for voter suppression robocalls

    71 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  63. Data Wrangler

    71 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  64. Compiling C Programs Into “Mov” Instructions (And Only “Mov” Instructions)

    71 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  65. YAML and Configuration Files

    71 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. Testing quantum mechanics in space

    71 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  67. NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor

    71 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  68. Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)

    71 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  69. AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible

    71 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  70. A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018)

    71 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  71. 2020 U.S. Migration Map

    71 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  72. Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  73. Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test results out of trial

    71 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

    71 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  75. What can you learn from an IP address? (2019)

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  76. Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved

    71 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  77. Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)

    71 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  78. The Dresden Job

    71 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  79. Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary

    71 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  80. How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film

    71 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  81. Next.js 11.1

    71 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  82. Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue

    71 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  83. Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  84. Better Than Free (2008)

    70 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  85. Modern SQL

    70 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  86. Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  87. America’s response to 9/11 contributed to our national decline

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  88. The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  89. Alex Stamos on Apple's new child safety protections

    70 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  90. The radical power of the book index

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  91. First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population

    70 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  92. Guide to Software Project Estimation

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  93. Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard

    70 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  94. LinuxPhoneApps

    70 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  95. Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k

    70 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  96. BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)

    70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  97. Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  98. The Challenge of “Chronic Lyme” (2018)

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  99. ‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  100. Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2021