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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  2. Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization

    65 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  3. A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

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

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  5. Working with Postgres Types

    64 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  6. Mitigating dataset harms requires stewardship: Lessons from 1000 papers

    64 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  7. Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  8. Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the orbital fly-by

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  9. What happens when all of your co-workers quit?

    64 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  10. Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  11. Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  12. Betrayal of Afghan Interpreters

    64 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  13. Secret IRS Files Reveal How Ultrawealthy Gained by Trump “Big Beautiful Tax Cut”

    64 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  14. Single-sequence protein structure prediction using language models

    64 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  15. Introduction to statistical learning, 2nd edition

    64 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  16. Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  17. Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  18. Clock Synchronization (2020)

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  19. Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras

    64 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  21. The Future Is a Landscape

    64 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  22. What to do if you think that you’ve found a meteorite

    64 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  23. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH): Practical and Illustrated Guide

    64 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  24. The Science of Underground Kingdoms

    64 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  25. What Bobby McIlvaine left behind

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  26. A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists

    64 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  27. Occlusion-Aware Video Object Inpainting

    64 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  28. Working around a case where the Postgres planner is “not very smart”

    64 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  29. Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux

    63 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  30. Slack's Secret STDERR Messages

    63 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  31. The Tail End (2015)

    63 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  32. New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August

    63 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  33. Open Source Is Throwing AI Policymakers for a Loop

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  34. Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals

    63 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  35. Google bookmarks won't be supported past September 31, 2021

    63 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  36. Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth

    63 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  37. End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx, 50 voices, 9 languages

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  38. Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga

    63 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  39. Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?

    63 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  40. 1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web

    63 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  41. How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine

    63 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  42. Apple’s biggest problem is only getting bigger

    63 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  43. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  44. Making Sense of Satellite Data, Open Source Workflow

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  45. AWS recruiter doesn't want to show what's new out there

    63 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  46. SWE interviews should be paid

    63 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  47. Why you should learn SQL

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  48. Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book

    63 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  49. Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

    63 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  50. What we can learn from Google Plus (2014)

    63 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  51. Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages

    62 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  52. Anthropic Bias (2020)

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  53. Partisan attachment: How politics is changing dating and relationships (2020)

    62 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  54. The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist

    62 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  55. Tesla AI Day Live Stream

    62 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values

    62 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  57. Allegations against Aubrey de Grey

    62 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  58. Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Grab says 1.7MB/user/day

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  59. A novel approach to entity resolution using serverless technology

    62 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  60. Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  61. FTC requests Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  62. Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man

    62 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  63. Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity

    62 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  64. Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic

    62 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  65. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9

    62 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  66. Impressive “Simpsons: Hit and Run” Remake Was Made by Fan Using Unreal Engine

    62 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River Dave

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  68. Put This In Your Pipe (2013)

    62 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  69. Implementing a class with void*

    62 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  70. United Airlines bans duct tape restraints

    62 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  71. Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration

    62 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  72. Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  73. Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse

    61 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  74. Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs

    61 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  75. Human stories behind emoji designs

    61 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  76. Three Clocks Are Better Than One

    61 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  77. Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning

    61 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  78. End-to-End Encryption through Kafka

    61 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  79. New evidence shows this uranium cube is likely relic of Nazi A-bomb program

    61 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  80. In the US, wind power is getting bigger and better, report says

    61 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  81. Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  82. The big-load anti-pattern

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  83. Creative Code Management

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  84. Miniretro: Testing Emulators at Scale

    61 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  85. Pfizer, Moderna seen reaping billions from Covid-19 vaccine booster market

    61 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  86. A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)

    60 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  87. Show HN: Chrome extension that summarizes text content using DistilBART model

    60 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  88. How good is Codex?

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  89. The ABS Programing Language

    60 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  90. Grokking Fenwick Trees

    60 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  91. Self-powered diaper sensors that monitor urine sugar levels

    60 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  92. Prop 22 found unconstitutional by California Superior Court

    60 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  93. Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  94. High heat: Spain clocks prelim record of 47.2 C (116.96 F)

    60 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  95. Empty NPM package '-' has over 700k downloads

    60 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  96. The Anatomy of Assholes (2020)

    60 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  97. How Drawpile works

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  98. Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker

    60 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  99. First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought

    60 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  100. Does the Tuskegee experiment explain black vaccination rates?

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2021