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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

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

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  2. Net Positive

    41 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  3. Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  4. LineageOS for MicroG

    41 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  5. The Perl Foundation faces more departures

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  6. Dasher: Information-efficient text entry (2007) [video]

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  7. Nike's End of Men

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  8. Redis Labs is now simply, Redis

    41 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  9. Are our immune systems out of practice?

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  10. A new path: vm86-based venix emulator

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  11. Good Software Takes 10 Years to Make (2008)

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

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

    41 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  13. Gall’s Law and how I ignored it

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  14. William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

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

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  16. More Is More: The End of Minimalism

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  17. SEC Charges Decentralized Finance Lender for Raising $30M

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  18. Texas Instruments new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  19. The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  20. Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague

    40 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  21. Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this

    40 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  22. Programmers Don’t Understand Hash Functions

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  23. Google Play Had a Profit of $8.5 USD Billion in 2019 with Margins of 62 Percent

    40 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  24. Ask HN: What has improved You as a Developer?

    40 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. Bonkers Cyclocopter Flies in a Unusual Way

    40 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  26. Capturing the Disappearing Sounds of the Workplace

    40 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  27. The Day the Space Station Lurched

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  28. Fuck Going Back to the Office

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  29. Plasma Kinetics May Revolutionize Hydrogen Storage for EVs

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  30. American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  31. When does living your “best single life” backfire?

    40 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  32. Convincing Xcode to map Vim keys

    40 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  33. Full vaccination suppresses SARS-CoV-2 delta variant mutation frequency

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  34. Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  35. Afghan civilians cling to landing gear of USAF planes and fall to their death

    40 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  36. GM recalls every Chevy Bolt ever made, blames LG for faulty batteries

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  37. The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets [pdf]

    40 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  38. Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?

    40 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  39. SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  40. Expanded Protections for Children – FAQ [pdf]

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  41. Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  42. US subsidizes oil and gas so investors never lose

    40 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  43. No Surprise, Uber and Lyft Lied About Helping Workers

    40 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  44. Think Sustainability Is Simple? This Sheep Farmer Would Like a Word

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  45. You Don't Need a Good Idea to Start a Great Company

    40 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  46. What’s ugliest about M1 Macs and needs improvement

    40 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  47. Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  48. Second Hottest July in Europe on Record, Third Warmest July on Record Globally

    40 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  49. Some Ways that PyPy uses Graphviz

    39 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  50. A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)

    39 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  51. Lulu is the free and open source macOS firewall (like Little Snitch)

    39 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  52. Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts

    39 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  53. “Apple has removed iDOS 2 from AppStore, citing the same old 2.5.2.”

    39 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  54. Show HN: C++ virtual_vec vector implementation

    39 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  55. Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  56. Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell

    39 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  57. K/V Benchmark: PostgreSQL vs. Redis vs. Memcached

    39 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  58. Indie developer turned down a pretty big game publishing contract

    39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  59. Afghanistan: Taliban to reap $1T mineral wealth

    39 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  60. Japan finds more contaminated Moderna vaccines

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  61. Unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $2M

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  62. 3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion

    39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  63. U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  64. Philosophers Should Care about Computational Complexity [pdf]

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  65. The Stealthy Politics of Urban Advertising

    39 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  66. A person without abnormalities learned to change his pupil size

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Tell HN: Stripe shut down my 4-year business with no explanation

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  68. Who Are the Taliban?

    39 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  69. Supernova shoots a dying star made of metal out of Milky Way at 2M MPH

    39 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  70. Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry About It

    39 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  71. MIT Researchers Make Hydrogen Fuel from Aluminum and Water

    39 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  72. A Subway Named Mobius (1952)

    39 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  73. We Ship Every Week

    39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  74. Environmental awareness: Tackling waste management at CERN

    39 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  75. Waymo Post: How We’ve Built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver

    39 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  76. Aesthetics Wiki

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  77. The WWW is 30 years old today

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  78. Design a Camera with Python and PyRayT: Part One – Fotonix and Gizmos

    39 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  79. The Rich Don't Penny Pinch

    39 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  80. The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle

    38 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  81. Microsoft deleted all comments on its Windows 11 outreach video

    38 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  82. 1982 Exxon Memo to Management About CO2 Greenhouse Effect

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  83. Musk says Starship orbital stack to be ready for flight in few weeks

    38 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  84. Show HN: Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding –-- to the URL

    38 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  85. Poseidon’s Wrath

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  86. Conversations on Quantum Gravity

    38 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  87. The Death of Behavioral Economics

    38 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  88. PonderNet: Annotated PyTorch Implementation

    38 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  89. Internet and TV providers get away with jacking up your bill

    38 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  90. Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  91. Water management innovation is central to the future of ICs

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  92. Hit '.' On Any GitHub Repo

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  93. Regulators Are Investigating Boeing's Safety Culture Amid Engineers Complaints

    38 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  94. Windows 10 blocks Potentially Unwanted Apps by default now

    38 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  95. Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”

    38 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  96. The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  97. My Dad’s Argus C3 (2019)

    38 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  98. Jabs mostly fend off the Delta strain but breakthroughs are infectious

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  99. White House More Than Doubles Its Inflation Forecast in New Update

    38 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  100. Asteroid Bennu now has a greater chance of hitting Earth through 2300

    38 points • comment • aug 15, 2021