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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

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

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  2. How the airline industry got wise to seat belts

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  3. Why does validating a user require 14000 files?

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  4. Launching Rust Cloud Native

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  5. I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with unit tests [video]

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  6. Sourcegraph: Why we're indexing the OSS universe

    52 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

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

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  8. Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  9. What Irony Is Not (2020)

    52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  10. California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History

    52 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  11. Reddit Is Down

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  12. New York City adds 629,000 people, defying predictions of its decline

    51 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  13. The Construction of Bit Mixers

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  14. How smallpox claimed its final victim

    51 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  15. A plant that cannot die

    51 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  16. Hands-On: MNT Reforms the Laptop

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  17. Neolithic Burials and Gallic Complex with Celtic Statuary Unearthed in France

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  18. How green is blue hydrogen?

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  19. Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet

    51 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  20. NASA solved a $100M vibration problem cheaply by strobing the display

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  21. Fermat's Library: software to help illuminate academic papers

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  22. Saving $30k a month by improving garbage collection

    51 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  23. Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents

    51 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  24. Space-Efficient Huffman Codes Revisited

    51 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  25. Technical blogging in the era of Stack Overflow

    51 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  26. Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invasion of your privacy?

    51 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  27. A New Look at the Hobo

    51 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  28. I think I built a Liberal Arts college on the internet

    51 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  29. Why Facebook Shelved an Earlier Report on Popular Posts

    51 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  30. The Use of Formal Representations in Interfaces (1999) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  31. CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  32. Making reverse engineering tools for DEF CON Quals

    50 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  33. Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  34. Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files

    50 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  35. Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  36. Is it time to ditch the design grid?

    50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  37. Drunk-driver detectors for cars mandated in infrastructure bill

    50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  38. eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF

    50 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  39. Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  40. The Slippery Slope Is Not a Fallacy

    50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  41. Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

    50 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  42. Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: ‘Our Staff Are Gutted’

    50 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  43. LiveCode drops its open source support

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  44. What comes after open source? (2019)

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  45. I sent over 10k personal thank you videos to my customers

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  46. High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives

    50 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  47. Zillow, Other Tech Firms Are in an ‘Arms Race’ to Buy Up American Homes

    50 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  48. Viral Knots

    50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?

    50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  50. Show HN: LemonadeJS – A micro JavaScript library for building web interfaces

    50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  51. Element adds voice messaging and new Matrix-native VoIP

    50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  52. What About the Afghanistan Flag Emoji?

    50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  53. Tesla: Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  54. Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location

    50 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (2019)

    50 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  56. Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook

    50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  57. Is water always the best choice on a hot day?

    50 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  58. Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  59. Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  60. Matt Damon quickly explains why they don’t make movies like they used to

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  61. Ask HN: Suspended by Google Domains

    50 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  62. Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

    50 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  63. Myths of Human Genetics (2011)

    49 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  64. Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Motivated Resistance to Expert Consensus

    49 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  65. Longer days on early Earth may have set stage for complex life

    49 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  66. Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (2014)

    49 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  67. Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium

    49 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  68. Anna Mazurek on Making It as a Travel Photographer and Digital Nomad

    49 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  69. A Science in the Shadows

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  70. Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (2011)

    49 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  71. Reddit CEO Rejects Call to Take Down Covid-19 Disinformation

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  72. US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies

    49 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  73. The World’s Largest Astronomy Museum Opens Its Doors

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  74. CA drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  75. Activist raided by police after downloading 'confidential' meeting from Google

    49 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  76. A Catalogue of Chords Example

    49 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  77. World’s Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  78. A look at a prototype of Apple’s cancelled AirPower mat

    49 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. Intel Brings Chiplets to Data Center CPUs

    49 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  80. Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017)

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  81. CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]

    49 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  82. Show HN: DocOne – A Search Engine for Healthcare

    49 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  83. Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (2017)

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  84. 40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast

    48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  85. Google Fires 80 Employees for Exploiting User Data

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  86. Ask HN: How many of you are quitting over return to office?

    48 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  87. Show HN: MergeFeed – Paste a bunch of links to create a multifeed

    48 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  88. UK court sets scene for $14B-plus class action against MasterCard

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  89. Humans could recolonize Earth after mass extinctions with ectogenesis

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  90. Ask HN: How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?

    48 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  91. Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM

    48 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  92. Amazon Installs Lockers on a Chicago Park’s Sidewalk

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  93. Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase

    48 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  94. Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt

    48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  95. Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education

    48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  96. A Simple Interpreter in Python

    48 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  97. Scientists retrace steps of Ice Age mammoth over its entire lifetime

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  98. Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered

    48 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  99. Pigiron, a MIDI Routing Utility with OSC

    48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  100. Responsibly recycle your used Dell and non-Dell equipment for free

    48 points • comment • aug 25, 2021