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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

    540 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  2. OnlyFans suspends plan to ban "sexually explicit" content after outcry

    540 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  3. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

    538 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  4. Canistilluse.com

    537 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  5. Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government

    537 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  6. Elementary OS 6 Odin

    534 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  7. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

    533 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  8. The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

    531 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  9. EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

    522 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  10. The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”

    515 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  11. New UUID Formats – IETF Draft

    513 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  12. Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?

    510 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  13. Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome

    504 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  14. Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

    498 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  15. Gail.com

    494 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  16. Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

    493 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  17. Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

    491 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  18. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

    489 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  19. Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them

    488 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  20. Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX

    487 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  21. On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

    486 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  22. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    486 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  23. Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

    483 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  24. Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code

    477 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  25. Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

    477 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  26. A street snack that has baffled botanists

    474 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  27. WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan

    470 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  28. Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?

    470 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  29. New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

    469 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  30. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

    469 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  31. Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF

    466 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  32. My dead dad’s journal

    462 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  33. The Future of discord.py

    459 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  34. Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

    459 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  35. American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)

    458 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  36. Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

    457 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  37. Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter

    456 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  38. Weird Languages

    454 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  39. Australia is becoming a surveillance state

    453 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  40. The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)

    451 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  41. It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription

    450 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  42. Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system

    447 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  43. The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games

    446 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  44. Where are the robotic bricklayers?

    444 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  45. Mosh: The Mobile Shell

    442 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  46. Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view

    442 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  47. The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis

    439 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  48. Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants

    437 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  49. The rise of user-hostile software

    436 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  50. Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

    436 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  51. FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization

    435 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  52. The art of not taking things personally

    433 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  53. Deno on MDN

    430 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  54. Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship

    427 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. I hacked an office telephone to play Doom

    426 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  56. Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster

    425 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  57. Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors

    425 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  58. U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

    423 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  59. We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous

    423 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  60. A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

    423 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  61. Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

    423 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  62. German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system

    423 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  63. Git password authentication is shutting down

    422 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  64. The Problem with Ethereum

    421 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  65. T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

    421 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  66. Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free

    419 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  67. Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report

    419 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  68. Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

    415 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  69. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

    415 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  70. Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

    415 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  71. T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked

    415 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  72. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

    414 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  73. Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs

    414 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  74. Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

    414 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  75. Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic

    413 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  76. MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking

    413 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  77. The 5-Hour CDN

    413 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  78. Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat

    412 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  79. Work Hard (2007)

    412 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  80. Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)

    410 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  81. Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming

    407 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  82. An Introduction to JQ

    407 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  83. Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

    407 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  84. Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does

    406 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  85. FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook

    406 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  86. Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

    403 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  87. Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires

    403 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  88. Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal

    402 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  89. Life Improvements Since the 1990s

    402 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  90. Extreme Ironing

    402 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  91. Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server

    401 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  92. NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings

    400 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  93. Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

    399 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  94. Interactive introduction to game theory and trust

    397 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  95. Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

    396 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  96. Train Wheels Are Cones

    394 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  97. An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

    394 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  98. After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

    390 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  99. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

    389 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  100. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)

    389 points • comment • aug 17, 2021