top stories
Hacker News (Aug 2021)
-
It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’
52 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
-
How the airline industry got wise to seat belts
52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
-
Why does validating a user require 14000 files?
52 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
-
Launching Rust Cloud Native
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
-
I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with unit tests [video]
52 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
-
Sourcegraph: Why we're indexing the OSS universe
52 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
-
Codesigning, untrusted CAs and why certain Mac apps aren’t launching
52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
-
Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware
52 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
-
What Irony Is Not (2020)
52 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
52 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
-
Reddit Is Down
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
-
New York City adds 629,000 people, defying predictions of its decline
51 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
-
The Construction of Bit Mixers
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
-
How smallpox claimed its final victim
51 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
-
A plant that cannot die
51 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
-
Hands-On: MNT Reforms the Laptop
51 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
-
Neolithic Burials and Gallic Complex with Celtic Statuary Unearthed in France
51 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
-
How green is blue hydrogen?
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
-
Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
51 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
-
NASA solved a $100M vibration problem cheaply by strobing the display
51 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Fermat's Library: software to help illuminate academic papers
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
-
Saving $30k a month by improving garbage collection
51 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
-
Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
51 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
Space-Efficient Huffman Codes Revisited
51 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
-
Technical blogging in the era of Stack Overflow
51 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
-
Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invasion of your privacy?
51 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
-
A New Look at the Hobo
51 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
-
I think I built a Liberal Arts college on the internet
51 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
-
Why Facebook Shelved an Earlier Report on Popular Posts
51 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
-
The Use of Formal Representations in Interfaces (1999) [pdf]
51 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
-
CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists
50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
-
Making reverse engineering tools for DEF CON Quals
50 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
-
Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files
50 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
-
Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
Is it time to ditch the design grid?
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Drunk-driver detectors for cars mandated in infrastructure bill
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF
50 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
-
Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
-
The Slippery Slope Is Not a Fallacy
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial
50 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
-
Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: ‘Our Staff Are Gutted’
50 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
-
LiveCode drops its open source support
50 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
-
What comes after open source? (2019)
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
I sent over 10k personal thank you videos to my customers
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
-
High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives
50 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
-
Zillow, Other Tech Firms Are in an ‘Arms Race’ to Buy Up American Homes
50 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
-
Viral Knots
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
-
Show HN: LemonadeJS – A micro JavaScript library for building web interfaces
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
-
Element adds voice messaging and new Matrix-native VoIP
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
-
What About the Afghanistan Flag Emoji?
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
-
Tesla: Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot
50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
-
Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
-
The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (2019)
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
-
Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
-
Is water always the best choice on a hot day?
50 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
-
Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
-
Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record
50 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
-
Matt Damon quickly explains why they don’t make movies like they used to
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
Ask HN: Suspended by Google Domains
50 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
-
Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids
50 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
-
Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
49 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
-
Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Motivated Resistance to Expert Consensus
49 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
-
Longer days on early Earth may have set stage for complex life
49 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
-
Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (2014)
49 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
-
Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium
49 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
-
Anna Mazurek on Making It as a Travel Photographer and Digital Nomad
49 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
-
A Science in the Shadows
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (2011)
49 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
-
Reddit CEO Rejects Call to Take Down Covid-19 Disinformation
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
49 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
-
The World’s Largest Astronomy Museum Opens Its Doors
49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
CA drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
-
Activist raided by police after downloading 'confidential' meeting from Google
49 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
-
A Catalogue of Chords Example
49 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
-
World’s Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry
49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
A look at a prototype of Apple’s cancelled AirPower mat
49 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Intel Brings Chiplets to Data Center CPUs
49 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
-
Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017)
49 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
-
CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]
49 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
-
Show HN: DocOne – A Search Engine for Healthcare
49 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
-
Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (2017)
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
Google Fires 80 Employees for Exploiting User Data
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
-
Ask HN: How many of you are quitting over return to office?
48 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
-
Show HN: MergeFeed – Paste a bunch of links to create a multifeed
48 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
-
UK court sets scene for $14B-plus class action against MasterCard
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
-
Humans could recolonize Earth after mass extinctions with ectogenesis
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
-
Ask HN: How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?
48 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
-
Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM
48 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
-
Amazon Installs Lockers on a Chicago Park’s Sidewalk
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
-
Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase
48 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
-
Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
-
A Simple Interpreter in Python
48 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
-
Scientists retrace steps of Ice Age mammoth over its entire lifetime
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
-
Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
-
Pigiron, a MIDI Routing Utility with OSC
48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
-
Responsibly recycle your used Dell and non-Dell equipment for free
48 points • comment • aug 25, 2021