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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience

    60 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  2. The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers

    60 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  3. Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci's bridge design to the test (2019)

    60 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  4. What cats do when we’re not looking

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

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

    60 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  6. Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  7. Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker

    60 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  8. Pitfalls of rolling your own E2EE protocol

    60 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

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

    60 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  10. Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim

    60 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  11. Ramp raises $300M

    60 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  12. LibreOffice 7.2 Community is strong on interoperability

    59 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  13. EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives

    59 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  14. Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011)

    59 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  15. India approves first DNA Covid vaccine

    59 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  16. What is server-side conversion tracking?

    59 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  17. The logic driving China’s big tech clampdown

    59 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  18. Ulam Spiral

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  19. At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. On the proliferation of try, and soon, await (2020)

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  21. Google considers switching FLoC to a topic-based approach

    59 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  22. Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  23. These People Who Work from Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  24. Show HN: Physically-Based GPU Pathtracer with Mitsuba XML Support

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems

    59 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  26. Drug-resistant bacteria found in the guts of lemurs who live around humans

    59 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  27. Cracking into the Sun Ray General Dynamics-Tadpole M1400

    59 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  28. Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020)

    59 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  29. Write Your Next Ethereum Contract in Pyramid Scheme

    59 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  30. Sustainable web design

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  31. Program Synthesis with Large Language Models

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  32. We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge

    58 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  33. Show HN: BokehCamera – Blur webcam background photorealistically using RealSense

    58 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  34. Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union

    58 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  35. What to expect after the eviction moratorium

    58 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  36. SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’

    58 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  37. Stonewall Nation

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  38. Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  39. Show HN: Textual – An async-powered terminal application framework for Python

    58 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  40. Apple employees organizing for 'systemic change' in workplace

    58 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  41. The Semiconductor Heist of the Century

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  42. Portal Windows for Electron

    58 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  43. The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  44. Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  45. Data protection ‘shake-up’ takes aim at cookie pop-ups

    58 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  46. pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)

    58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  47. Burning Buried Sunshine (2003)

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  48. A serious critique of Genshin Impact [video]

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  49. We don't 'do' learning. It does us

    58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  50. Why do bats have such long lifespans?

    58 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  51. Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  52. What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  53. Japan’s Sixth-Gen F-X Fighter Jet

    58 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  54. Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal

    57 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  56. Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”

    57 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  57. The Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial Success (2018)

    57 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  58. Apple employees are organizing, now under the banner AppleToo

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  59. Interstellar nuclear-powered transport (FJ Dyson) (1968) [pdf]

    57 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  60. China cuts children's online gaming to one hour

    57 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  61. Fall of Saigon

    57 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  62. Defunctionalization: Everybody does it, nobody talks about it (2019)

    57 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  63. Job opening at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

    57 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  64. Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows

    57 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  65. Ultra Wide Monitors – A pain in the neck? (2020)

    57 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  66. Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox

    57 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  67. The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago

    57 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  68. US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones

    57 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  69. The First Delta Force Trainee Class

    57 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  70. France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books

    57 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  71. In praise of defensive football

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  72. Georgia Minute by Minute

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  73. The American diversity meat grinder

    57 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  74. Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required

    57 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  75. Emu68: M68K Emulation for ARM

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  76. Air Independent Propulsion Could Create Silent Killer Submarines

    56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  77. Optical adversarial attack can change the meaning of road signs

    56 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  78. How to Boost Innovation

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  79. Testing in production: using JSON Schema for 3rd party API response validation

    56 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  80. Pythonic monotonic

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  81. Write a System Call (2016)

    56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  82. 17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world

    56 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  83. U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome

    56 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  84. Opus – an open source parallel corpus

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  85. 2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  86. No copyrights on any content (NSFW)

    56 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  87. Distributed Systems in Haskell

    56 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. Ask HN: It's 2021 and QuickTime still doesn't export MP4. What is going on?

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  89. Diggin’ and Fetchin’ with TruffleRuby

    56 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  90. VisiData – open-source data multitool

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  91. echo 'I wrote a Bash book' >> /dev/world

    56 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  92. Human Rights Are Not a Bug

    56 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  93. Launch HN: Level (YC S21) – Flexible financing for early-stage lending startups

    56 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  94. I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  95. Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  96. Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  97. To become a good C programmer (2011)

    56 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  98. RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH

    56 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  99. Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  100. Lisping at JPL (2020)

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2021