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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

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

    48 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  2. The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities

    48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  3. Who Owns In-Chip Monitoring Data?

    48 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  4. Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't

    48 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  5. A Simple Interpreter in Python

    48 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  6. U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines

    47 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  7. Cutting off jobless benefits is found to get few back to work

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  8. CryptoHack – A fun free platform for learning cryptography

    47 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  9. 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

    47 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  10. Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  11. How to Replicate This Business That Is Selling for $400K on Flippa

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  12. The Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  13. A straightforward way to extend CSV with metadata

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  14. The Myths of the Digital Native (2015)

    47 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  15. The Highbrow Neanderthal

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  16. Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  17. Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon folk dance (2011) [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  18. Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  19. Pentagon will require all troops to get Covid vaccine by Sept. 15

    47 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  20. America’s losing battle against diabetes

    47 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  21. Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?

    47 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  22. Apple's New Child Safety Technology Might Harm More Kids Than It Helps

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  23. Nftables 1.0.0 Released

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  24. Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  25. How the Taliban Overran the Afghan Army, Built by the U.S. over 20 Years

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  26. Long-haul symptoms affect majority of Covid-19 patients, UA study finds

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  27. The Programming Language B (1973)

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  28. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

    47 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  29. Cleaning Up Git History

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  30. How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  31. Police Misuse of Facial Recognition – Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting

    47 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Book Recommendations

    47 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  33. New York Times Tech Staff to Walk Out, Escalating Union Fight

    46 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  34. Apple Ships Mysterious macOS 11.5.2 Update

    46 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  35. Balaji: The collapse in state capacity has not been priced in

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  36. OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct

    46 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  37. Naming Origami Models

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  38. London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm

    46 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  39. Mobile phones on aircraft

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  40. GR-1 Anvil – world’s first handheld Gauss Rifle

    46 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  41. Who Is Your Audience?

    46 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  42. Intel locks down all remaining TSMC 3nm production capacity

    46 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  43. SaaS Blocks 2.0 – tools for building a SaaS app

    46 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  44. Climate change is here, it’s a crisis, and it’s caused by fossil fuels

    46 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  45. CIA’s turn to admit to its fiasco

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  46. We’re All Investors Now (2013)

    46 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  47. UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

    46 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  48. Super Mario 64 on the Web

    46 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  49. How private is my VPN?

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  50. Amazon GDPR fine is a game changer for privacy tech startups

    46 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  51. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database

    46 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  52. In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  53. Nailgun: A Rust DNS performance testing client

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  54. Show HN: Script to compare Postgres data between two points in time

    45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  55. Big Tech Is Coming to Small-Town America, but at What Cost?

    45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  56. It’s not that hard to be in the top 10% of your field

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  57. Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  58. Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  59. Major Outage on Reddit

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  60. Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  61. Show HN: Hypergraph, a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  62. Influential books on Computer Science and programming

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  63. A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents

    45 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  64. Writing Consistent Tools (2019)

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  65. Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  66. Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games

    45 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  67. System CPU Usage and Glibc

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  68. Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  69. New Zealand Covid-19 Delta outbreak spreading rapidly as cases jump

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  70. Quaternion Quantum Mechanics [video]

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  71. Multi-Chip Intel Core I9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling

    45 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  72. Robot police dog that scans homeless people sparks debate

    45 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  73. Wigner Crystals (2017)

    45 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  74. Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  75. Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health

    45 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  76. World’s Largest Solar-Powered Battery Is Now 75% Complete

    45 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  77. Craig Federighi Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features

    45 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  78. Instagram launches hate-speech 'limits' to hide abuse

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Should it be legal to switch privacy policies after purchase?

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  80. RetroBar: Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP taskbar for modern Windows

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  81. Postman raises $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  82. Show HN: Tomatotree.tv – Find your next series to watch using Rotten Tomatoes

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  83. Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect

    45 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  84. Firefox Lost Almost 50M Users: Here’s Why It Is Concerning

    45 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  85. Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)

    45 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  86. A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  87. Focus: Assign multiple engineers to the same task

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  88. Technological Prudence: What the Amish Can Teach Us (2011) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  89. Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  90. On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe Covid-19 look like

    44 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  91. Perhaps WSL2 Should Be a Wake-Up Call

    44 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  92. A growing area of high-hazard clearcuts and plantations are fueling forest fires

    44 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  93. Peer recognition works better than bonuses

    44 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  94. A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing

    44 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  95. A Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data (2014)

    44 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  96. Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  97. The math that says egalitarianism is possible

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  98. Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 17.2M rps DDoS attack

    44 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  99. GNU Taler 0.8

    44 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  100. Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021