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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. VisiData – open-source data multitool

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  2. The Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimism

    56 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  3. To become a good C programmer (2011)

    56 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  4. Analyzing a High Rate of Paging

    55 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  5. Async Overloading

    55 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  6. Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

    55 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  7. Descartes’s Evil Genius

    55 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  8. The Mighty Fallen: Argentina and the Great Depression

    55 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  9. QBE: Compiler Back End

    55 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  10. AIX Running on Apple's M1

    55 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  11. Using Emacs in an IDE World

    55 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  12. The rich get richer and rates get lower

    55 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  13. Today I made one of the most important discoveries of my PhD

    55 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  14. Supporting half-precision floats is annoying

    55 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  15. Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  16. Afghans are racing to erase their online lives

    55 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  17. Parametric Programming – an equational approach to OO and beyond

    55 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  18. Multicore OCaml: July 2021

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  19. When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]

    55 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  20. GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo

    55 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  21. DecisionOps: Effective Engineering Management

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  22. Work-life balance: A perspective from Jack Nicklaus

    55 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  23. The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python

    55 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  24. NYC Emergency Executive Order 225

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  25. There's currently a British guy called Lord Miles in Kabul having a great time

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  26. What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  27. Launch HN: Tavus (YC S21) – AI-generated personalized videos for sales outreach

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  28. My rant about React

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  29. Main sci-hub.do domain was banned

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  30. Show HN: BerylDB – a small key-value database

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  31. What Is Value?

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  32. Savvy Punditry Isn’t Smart

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  33. Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  34. Pandas Manual [pdf]

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  35. Unfolding the Hippocampus

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  36. Ticket Monkey

    54 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  37. Hue Color Comparisons (2019)

    54 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  38. Launch HN: Financial Choice (YC S21) – Checking accounts with market returns

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  39. Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional – Uber

    54 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  40. Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby

    54 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  41. HBO is about to lose 5M customers, and it isn’t concerned

    54 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  42. Freshly disclosed vulnerability CVE-2021-20090 exploited in the wild

    54 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  43. ChaosDB: Unauthorized Privileged Access to Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  44. Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  45. Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years

    53 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  46. A Tale of Two Copies

    53 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  47. A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80

    53 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  48. Why do the children pretend play? [pdf]

    53 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  49. Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library

    53 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  50. ISPs quietly selling netflow data, can be used to trace traffic through VPNs

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  51. Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)

    53 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  52. The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices

    53 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  53. Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  54. Liquid cooling next-gen servers getting hands-on

    53 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  55. Getting Started with QEMU (2018)

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  56. In praise of the lesser known siblings of mythology

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  57. For centuries, England’s go-to apple utensil was a sheep bone

    53 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  58. Questions about Trees (2020)

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  59. A tweet cost him his doctorate: the extent of China’s influence on Swiss Unis

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  60. Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo Then Deletes It: 80 Gbps and Pam-3

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  61. Ask HN: Best resources to support a partner with depression?

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  62. Attitude Determines Your Success

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  63. FairyTailor: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Storytelling

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  64. Writing Great Alt Text: Emotion Matters

    53 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  65. Merchants can keep charging your card even if it's cancelled/expired

    53 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  66. I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe

    53 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  67. Stacked/Accordian-style presentation of pages that are already visited

    53 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  68. Spherical Panoramas

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  69. Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized

    53 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  70. Australian Citizen is told that he wasn't a citizen when renewing his passport

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  71. Codesigning, untrusted CAs and why certain Mac apps aren’t launching

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  72. Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly

    52 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  73. Children of the night: the strange and epic tale of modern Romania

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  74. Yescrypt – Scalable KDF and password hashing scheme

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  75. Coinbase slammed for terrible customer service after hackers drain accounts

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  76. Our vacation rental had surveillance cameras. The landlord used them a lot

    52 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  77. When Amazon Customers Leave Negative Reviews, Some Sellers Hunt Them Down

    52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  78. Sea monsters and their inspiration: serpents, mermaids, the kraken and more

    52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  80. Launching Rust Cloud Native

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  81. Social media should be treated like the tobacco companies

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  82. Where did this interaction come from? – a brief history of interaction design

    52 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  83. Specifying Installation Requirements for Python Projects

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  84. Ask HN: I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  85. Notes on Living in Los Angeles

    52 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  86. DOS Haven: 21st century DOS games

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  87. Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  88. Frontpage – Terms of Service; Didn't Read

    52 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  89. Lee “Scratch” Perry inventor of Dub dies at 85

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  90. Ask HN: Whats your ideal PhD workflow

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  91. Germany arrests British diplomat suspected of spying for Russia

    52 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  92. Online Trolls Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  93. Apple’s $100M settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for devs

    52 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  94. It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  95. How mindfulness could make you selfish

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  96. How the airline industry got wise to seat belts

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  97. Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics

    52 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  98. Workers don’t want their old jobs on the old terms

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  99. Why does validating a user require 14000 files?

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  100. Our most dazzling self-taught students may find college admission difficult

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2021