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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

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

    38 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  2. Windows 10 blocks Potentially Unwanted Apps by default now

    38 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  3. AlphaFold2: Are attention and symmetries all you need? [pdf]

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  4. AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux

    38 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  5. Latin Literature’s Problem with Invisibility

    38 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  6. DevTools Leverage

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  7. Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  8. Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  9. New heat record in Italy 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit)

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  10. CEO of Saygus smartphone company that never released a phone charged with fraud

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  11. Show HN: Shiny Buildings – GitHub for Buildings

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  12. AWS Reporting AWS Internet Connectivity Issues in US-West-2

    37 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  13. Shares slide after China brands online games 'electronic drugs'

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  14. How to Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  15. Monkey Patching in Go (2015)

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  16. SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  17. AWS disables ISIS propaganda website it had hosted since April

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  18. Readers reply: when and why did men stop wearing hats?

    37 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  19. MinIO – the smartphone camera of object storage

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  20. Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  21. Casual Parsing in JavaScript

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  22. Show HN: Excel for Writers

    37 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  23. Is ‘free-range’ parenting the key to healthier, happier children?

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  24. Interesting – Starbucks Paper Cups Not Recyclable

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  25. The art of caddying: What makes a good golfing companion?

    37 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  27. Xsolla CEO says firing using an algorithm-based solution protect minorities

    37 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  28. NoSurf – A community of people against digital addiction

    37 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  29. Simple Tips for Overcoming Procrastination

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  30. Plandemic Revisited: A Planned Disinformation Campaign

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  31. Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine, 746 million euros

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  32. The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun

    37 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  33. Is there a way to stop news aggregs like HN to stop showing pay walled content

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  34. Six months in: How the SaaS that was built in 7 days is going

    37 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  35. Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases

    37 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  36. Patients died from neglect, not Covid-19, in Ontario LTC homes – military report

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  37. Optional Value Handling in Nim

    37 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  38. On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  39. Antidepressant fluvoxamine can save Covid-19 patients, McMaster research shows

    37 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  40. Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  41. Sony’s new PS5 model weighs less because it has a smaller heatsink

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  42. The Cult of Mary Beard (2018)

    37 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  43. New battery chemistry tweak could double EV range

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  44. Planet of Cops

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  45. U.S. Supreme Court ends CDC's pandemic residential eviction moratorium

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  46. Mac OS update failed for the first time in 19 years

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  47. Google is considering removing alert()

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  48. The Missing Missing Reasons

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  49. Hacker News [keybase] proof just broke

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  50. Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  51. Sunscreen Worries Grow as Another Potential Carcinogen Found

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  53. Show HN: GLAuth 2.0 out, only a year late

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  54. If Microsoft Made Cars

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  55. The streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Avenue, What happened today

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  56. The Begum's Fortune

    36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  57. Virtual gaming machine with PCI passthrough on Ubuntu 20.04

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  58. A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  59. Lessons Learned from 5 years using Pivotal Tracker

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  60. The CDC Needs to Stop Confusing the Public

    36 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  61. Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  62. Windows 365 exposes Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  63. As US Schools Prioritize Diversity over Merit, China Is Becoming the Stem Leader

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  64. I'm a Luddite. You should be one too

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  65. Novice Programming Mistakes (2016)

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  66. Aquaplus P/ECE (Vs Panic Playdate)

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Lodash's Chain vs. Native Methods

    36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  68. Labour market reallocation in the wake of Covid-19

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  69. G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  70. An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’

    36 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  71. ‘Building back badly’: Global power sector emissions soar

    36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  72. A riddle wrapped in a curve (2015)

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  73. End of the Line for Uber

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  74. Domino Robot Trajectory Generation

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  75. Democrats Seek $500B in Climate Damages from Big Polluting Companies

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  76. Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP

    35 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  77. Hackers detail vulnerabilities at agtech giants John Deere, Case New Holland

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  78. Metabolism peaks at age one and tanks after 60, study finds

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  79. Bitcoin About-Face: JPMorgan Opens Crypto Trading to All Clients

    35 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  80. If Portland can hit 116 degrees, so can San Francisco. We're not ready

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  81. Unhelpful thinking styles (cognitive distortions)

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  82. SpaceX ships 100k Starlink terminals to customers

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  83. Masking Emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  84. Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

    35 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  85. Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial

    35 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  86. Google researchers detail new method for upscaling low-resolution images

    35 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  87. Town is the first in America to ban new gas stations – is the tide turning?

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  88. Tesla on part-automated drive system slams into police car

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  89. Is the atmosphere an upside down ocean? [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  90. Top talent departs Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as NASA lander fight escalates

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  91. A vegan diet could affect your intelligence (2020)

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  92. Mailchimp Is Exploring a Sale at $10B-Plus Valuation

    35 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  93. Machine Translation Shifts Power

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  94. How the Index Card Catalogued the World (2017)

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  95. Show HN: SQLite-S3-query – Python function to query a SQLite database on S3

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  96. Shattered Pixel Dungeon 1.0

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  97. GDC 2019 Talk: Engineering Stable and Reliable AI [video]

    35 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  98. The Lesson to Unlearn (2019)

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  99. Ask HN: Recommend sunglasses made in the west and independent of Luxotica

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  100. Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2021