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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. GNU Taler 0.8

    44 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  2. Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project Studying Misinformation

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  4. Learnfun and playfun: a general technique for automating NES games (2013)

    44 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  5. What’s it like living with a phenomenal memory and can it be learned?

    44 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  6. Nissan's Leaf S is now the cheapest EV in the US at $27,400

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  7. Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management

    44 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  8. Mean World Syndrome

    44 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  9. Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?

    44 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  11. My debloating experience with Poco F3

    44 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  12. US Forces Being “Rushed” to Kabul Airport as Embassy Evacuation Underway

    44 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  13. Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work (2020)

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  15. CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe, 11 Mar 2010

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  16. Co-Founder and Former CEO of Headspin Charged with Fraud

    44 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  17. The Texas Power Grid Is Hanging on by Its Fingernails

    44 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  19. 2 Hackers are suing the Iowa sheriff who imprisoned them for pentesting

    43 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  20. Google’s new ad goes full Jony Ive on the Pixel 5A headphone jack

    43 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  21. Why Teslas Keep Striking Parked Firetrucks and Police Cars

    43 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  22. Person from Porlock

    43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  23. Metal artifacts in Southeast Asia challenge long-held archaeological theory

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  24. The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media

    43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  25. NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon

    43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  26. Aaron Swartz

    43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  27. I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'

    43 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  28. China takes down Duolingo, Memrise, and other foreign language learning apps

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  29. Nuclear scientists as assassination targets (2012)

    43 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  30. Vaccination Should Be Compulsory

    43 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  31. OnionShare with Just Tor and Redbean

    43 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  32. Tests show all driver assist systems can be fooled

    43 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  33. University moves 70-ton rock off campus after student backlash

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  34. Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing with Tesla Bot

    43 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  35. The Overview Effect

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  36. Oatly loses trademark battle against British farm over oat milk

    43 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  37. California’s proposed new math curriculum defies logic

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  38. Danny DeVito was unverified on Twitter after supporting union strike

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  39. Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast as fiber or cable

    43 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  40. Pitfalls of Data Anonymization

    43 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  41. PNG File Chunk Inspector

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  42. Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild

    43 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  43. Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: flagship features at half the price

    43 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  44. Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  45. What science can tell us about C and C++'s security (2020)

    43 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  46. On Diego Rivera

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  47. Julian Assange: US extradition bid gets a legal boost

    43 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  48. Demand for air conditioning is set to surge by 2050

    43 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  49. Only action against corruption can solve the world’s biggest problems

    43 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  50. Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  51. Ask HN: How do I reliably prevent autoplay in Firefox 91?

    43 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?

    42 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  53. China Propaganda Network Targets BBC Media, UK in Large-Scale Influence Campaign

    42 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  54. SF school board recall hits critical milestone to qualify for the ballot

    42 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  55. Mkinitcpio v31 and UEFI Stubs

    42 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  56. A Long, Painful History of Time (1999)

    42 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  57. Multiple subreddits are acknowledging the misinformation being spread on Reddit

    42 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  58. Security researcher receives $1M bug bounty for saving company from $350M bug

    42 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  59. Show HN: KmCaster – display keyboard and mouse events on-screen

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  60. Show HN: Connecting Arduino and Android

    42 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  61. The Other Invisible Hand

    42 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  62. PG_DBMS_JOB – PostgreSQL extension for Oracle DBMS_JOB compatibility

    42 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  63. Feeding cows seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions from their burps

    42 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  64. Declined invitations go over more graciously when lack of money is cited

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  65. Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators

    42 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  66. Cancel Me: John Cleese to present Channel 4 show on ‘woke’ thought

    42 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  67. Turing Uncomputability

    42 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  68. Delta variant will acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  69. Ask HN: Those of you who left tech, where are you now?

    42 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  70. Bay Area residents fighting a mysterious startup taking over their quiet street

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  71. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2021)

    42 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  72. GM expands recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs including EUV, blames LG

    42 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  73. Google may cut pay of staff who work from home

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  74. South African Unemployment Rate Rises to 34.4%(Highest in the World)

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  75. Generate art from any text with deep learning

    42 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  76. The Perl Foundation faces more departures

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  77. Kroah's Game Reverse Engineering Page

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  78. ChaosDB: We hacked thousands of Azure customers’ databases

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  79. The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  80. Rivian Files for IPO, Seeking About $80B Valuation

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  81. Lignum Nephriticum

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  82. Index cards are pretty cool (2009)

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  83. Show HN: Hippobase – easily self-host open source databases

    41 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  84. Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  85. Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  86. Barbie launches six new dolls celebrating female scientists

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  87. OnlyFans shows Visa and MasterCard are 'choke-points' of online speech

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  88. Scientists discover how high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields

    41 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  89. Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  90. Nike's End of Men

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  91. I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  92. Gall’s Law and how I ignored it

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  93. Things I have learned from creating my own SaaS

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  94. Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go into the Office Again

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  95. More Is More: The End of Minimalism

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  96. Linux Evangelist Turned Dentist, handrolls all IT infra in his dentist practice

    41 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  97. Forgotten heroes of the Enigma Story (2018)

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  98. Ads Don't Work That Way (2014)

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  99. Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (2015)

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  100. Apple pushes back against child abuse scanning concerns in new FAQ

    41 points • comment • aug 09, 2021