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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

    389 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  2. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

    388 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  3. Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses

    388 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  4. Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name

    388 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  5. How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

    387 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  6. Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

    385 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  7. Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)

    384 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  8. U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

    384 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  9. How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

    384 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  10. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    383 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  11. Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms

    381 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  12. Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

    380 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  13. Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal

    380 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  14. API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

    380 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  15. Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%

    378 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  16. HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections

    378 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  17. Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

    378 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  18. It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

    377 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  19. LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences

    377 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  20. Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

    373 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  21. Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)

    372 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  22. A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

    370 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  23. How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]

    368 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  24. OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]

    368 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  25. Very fast rocket

    365 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  26. Sailfish 4

    365 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  27. Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping

    363 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  28. Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy

    362 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  29. Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking

    362 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  30. The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)

    362 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  31. Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition

    361 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  32. A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

    361 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  33. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

    360 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  34. A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics

    359 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  35. Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI

    356 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  36. OpenAI Codex

    356 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  37. Performance Improvements in .NET 6

    355 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  38. U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

    353 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  39. Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror

    352 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  40. Stop Waiting for Godot

    352 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  41. LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

    352 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  42. “My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”

    350 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  43. Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)

    349 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  44. U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults

    347 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  45. Google employees who work from home could lose money

    346 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  46. Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’

    345 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  47. Dating in Delhi when you're poor

    344 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  48. Charlie Watts has died

    343 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  49. Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn

    343 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  50. Why is it so hard to be rational?

    342 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  51. I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers

    342 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)

    341 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  53. The complicated reality of doing what you love

    341 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  54. Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

    341 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  55. The Clickbaitification of Netflix

    341 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  56. Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

    340 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  57. Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors

    340 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  58. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

    337 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  59. Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads

    337 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  60. Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier

    337 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  61. Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

    336 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  62. Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

    336 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  63. Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023

    335 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  64. Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead

    333 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  65. Why Erlang?

    331 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  66. Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    331 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

    328 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  68. A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical

    327 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  69. Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

    327 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  70. Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework

    327 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  71. Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?

    326 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  72. They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)

    326 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  73. App store payments will have increased competition

    326 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  74. Thunderbird 91.0

    323 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  75. Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

    323 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  76. Why are hyperlinks blue?

    322 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  77. How to Hack APIs in 2021

    322 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

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

    322 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  79. Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse

    321 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  80. $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date

    320 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  81. For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

    320 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  82. Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)

    318 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  83. The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free

    318 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  84. T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

    317 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  85. An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux

    317 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  86. Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]

    317 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  87. We Hire Old People

    316 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  88. The rise of the one-person unicorn

    315 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  89. Helvetica Now Variable

    315 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  90. I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

    314 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  91. Postgres.app

    313 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  92. Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem

    313 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  93. TikTok requests access to devices on local network

    313 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  94. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

    312 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  95. Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

    312 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  96. How to Remember What You Read

    311 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  97. The Ancient Persian way to keep cool

    308 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  98. MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine

    307 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  99. My small revenge on Apple

    306 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  100. Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

    305 points • comment • aug 16, 2021