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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  2. Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning

    70 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  3. Blackjack Probabilities, Card Counting – Calculation and Simulation

    70 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

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

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

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

    70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  6. Root cause of failure, root cause of success

    70 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  7. Sicily Hits 48.8°C, the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in Europe

    69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  8. Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program

    69 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  9. Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents

    69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  10. How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says

    69 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  11. Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't'

    69 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  12. A Circumplanetary Disk Around PDS70 C [pdf]

    69 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  13. The Official Aztec C Online Museum (2009)

    69 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  14. 5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks

    69 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  15. Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (2011)

    69 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  16. Contract by Email

    69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  17. Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript

    69 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  18. Sony's Robot Dog, Aibo

    69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  19. Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant businesses

    69 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  20. An Animal’s Place (2002)

    69 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  21. Sign-in on Android 2.3.7 or lower will not be allowed starting September 27

    69 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  22. Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom (cont)

    69 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  23. Please pray for me: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story

    69 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  24. Being on-call is working. FULL STOP

    69 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  25. The Anglo-Saxon Classroom

    69 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  26. Alf 2: Collision Detection Is Hard, Blog Posts Are Harder

    69 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  27. Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019)

    69 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  28. Libraries can start processes too

    69 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  29. Solving the double (quintuple) declaration Problem in GraphQL Applications

    68 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  30. More and more humans are growing an extra artery, showing we're still evolving

    68 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  31. Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?

    68 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  32. Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development

    68 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  33. The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992)

    68 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  34. Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Garden Market

    68 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  35. Show HN: Agora: Sell Files on the Web

    68 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  36. Better Coordination, or Better Software?

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  37. Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

    67 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  38. The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  39. Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  40. Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication

    67 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  41. MapReduce is making a comeback

    67 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  42. Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps

    67 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  43. The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. Open source Pocket code

    67 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  45. The Rise of Mobile Wikipedia

    67 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  46. Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets

    67 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

    67 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  48. Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed

    67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  49. What if a deadly heatwave hit India?

    67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  50. Show HN: Learn to identify the birds at any location

    67 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  51. Posh: A Data-Aware Shell

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  52. Apple and Google seem spooked by bill requiring more app stores and sideloading

    67 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  53. Tesla battery burned for four days

    67 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  54. Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”

    67 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  55. Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  56. The Education of Melvyn Bragg

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  57. Nvidia Releases CUDA Python

    66 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  58. A thorough introduction to bpftrace

    66 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  59. Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  60. A man preserving endangered colours

    66 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  61. The Oasis of Palmyra

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  62. I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  63. Designing better batteries for electric vehicles

    66 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  64. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  65. Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  66. Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes

    66 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  67. EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots

    66 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  68. The Rooms Where It Happened

    66 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  69. Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

    66 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  70. As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide

    66 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  71. Linux Kernel Security Done Right

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  72. Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires

    66 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  73. Dancoland

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  74. Teenagers Are Rediscovering an Old Game About Authoritarianism

    66 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  75. Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  76. Music streaming payouts comparison

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  77. When correlation is better than causation

    66 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  78. Lumen – Self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript

    66 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  79. Culture and Conduct Risk: The Normalization of Deviance

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  80. Difference between dialogue, discussion, and debate

    65 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  81. How database indexing works internally

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  82. Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  83. An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (2017)

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  84. Console Desktop Guide (2018)

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  85. With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics

    65 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  86. ModelingToolkit, Modelica, and Modia: The Composable Modeling Future in Julia

    65 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  87. The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended off warming

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. South Park creators say they’ve reached agreement to buy Casa Bonita

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  89. Scientists urged Wisconsin to limit its wolf kill. It didn’t go well

    65 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  90. First THINK C Program (2020)

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  91. Under Construction

    65 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  92. The Shadowy Business of International Education

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  93. The Battle of Blair Mountain

    65 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  94. Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs

    65 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  95. Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  96. The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (2012)

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  97. Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity

    65 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  98. Planning for Servers in 2022 and Beyond

    65 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  99. Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  100. Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization

    65 points • comment • aug 31, 2021