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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

    30 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  2. San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is still sinking

    30 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  3. The 'snake' who saved the monarchy

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  4. Off-grid shower heated by compost

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  5. Overweight/obesity of 5-11 yr olds increased from 36% to 45% during the pandemic

    30 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  6. Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead of Hurricane Ida

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  7. Investigation Finds 37% of Japan Businesses Are Guilty of Illegal Overtime Work

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  8. Steve Jobs on Privacy (2010) [video]

    29 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  9. Ask HN: What does database (internals) development look like?

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  10. Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  11. Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules

    29 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  12. Distributed consensus (blockchain) simulation and visualization

    29 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  13. If you’re vaccinated, risk from the Delta variant is probably long-haul Covid

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  14. The Wendelstein 7-X Nuclear Fusion Device Concept Proves Its Efficiency

    29 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  15. A new algorithm to compute minimal surfaces [pdf]

    29 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  16. Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  17. MIT graduates cannot power a light bulb with a battery

    29 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  18. Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it

    29 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  20. John Rawls: Visions of Justice

    29 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  21. My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  22. Reversing the Pokémon Snap Station Without a Snap Station

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  23. Gaming can officially improve mental health: 5 essential relaxing titles to play

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  24. APK Editor Studio v1.5.0

    29 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  25. Ruthless Prioritization

    29 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  26. Steven Seagal on Hook for SEC Crypto Fine Despite Move to Moscow

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  27. Life Without Google: Australia Is Now Facing the Unthinkable

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  28. Newtonian physics IS deterministic (sorry Norton) (2017)

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  29. An Ode to Marmara

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  30. Show HN: Made an internal communication app with just SWIFTUI

    29 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  31. AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  32. SPWN – A programming language that compiles to Geometry Dash levels

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  33. Pumpers, Dumpers, and Shills: The Skycoin Saga

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  34. Best of .bashrc

    29 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  35. To catch a paedophile, you only need to look at their hands (2017)

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  36. Can we have two golds?

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  37. Kids Can’t Use Computers

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  38. 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  39. Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  40. Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams (2020)

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  41. Block io recycling can improve io_uring almost 10% in high IOPS scenarios

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  42. Twitter locked the dnalounge account; won't tell which tweet was abusive

    29 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  43. “Belarusian Cyber-Partisans” Hacked the Belarusian Police and Interior Ministry

    29 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  44. In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  45. Automatic daily updates for over 8000 Debian packages

    29 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  46. Debian celebrates our 28th Anniversary

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  47. Horton Hears a Whostyle

    28 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  48. Can ‘smart thinking’ books give you the edge?

    28 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  49. A few useful Xcode debugging tricks

    28 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  50. ONE MILLION! (2011)

    28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  51. Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship

    28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  52. Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, Israel Study Suggests

    28 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  53. Ian Fleming and American intelligence (Part 1) (2011)

    28 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  54. Apple Discusses “Screeching Voices of the Minority” in Internal Memos

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  55. Windows 11 won’t give up on making it super annoying to swap browsers

    28 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  56. A Framework for the Metaverse

    28 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  57. Inverted Totalitarianism

    28 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  58. Rob Pike Essentials

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  59. Britney Spears: 'I got my first iPad today'

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  60. Afghanistan: We Never Learn

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  61. The Cold War Fashion Showdown

    28 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  62. China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic

    28 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  63. T. rex’s jaw had sensors to make it an even more fearsome predator

    28 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  64. The age of the à la carte internet

    28 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  65. Caltech's Most Famous Pranks

    28 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  66. New NTSB chief warns against false claims on automated driving

    28 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  67. South Atlantic Anomaly

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  68. Video game addiction: China imposes gaming curfew for minors

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  69. The US Government Lied for Two Decades on Afghanistan

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  70. You don't need external assets in an HTML file

    28 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  71. Lex Fridman at the Joe Rogan Experience [audio]

    28 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  72. Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software

    28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  73. If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?

    28 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  74. Blue Origin Sues NASA over Lunar Lander Contract Given to Rival SpaceX

    28 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  75. Ask HN: Any HN users with ties to Afghanistan or adjacent regions?

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  76. Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York

    28 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  77. Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  78. The Photos app gets worse with every single update

    28 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. The GAFAM poster campaign toolkit

    28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  80. Why so many workers have lost interest in their jobs

    28 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  81. What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  82. MIT's “Small ITS” Logo timesharing system

    28 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  83. The Top of My Todo List (2012)

    27 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  84. T-Mobile is definitely not trying to charge you $10 more

    27 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  85. Disgraced Theranos founder will blame ‘abusive’ ex-boyfriend in fraud trial

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  86. An emulator for the Elliott 803

    27 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  87. SEC Chairman Says Banning Payment for Order Flow Is ‘On the Table’

    27 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  88. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech Debt

    27 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  89. Is Britain becoming more meritocratic than America?

    27 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  90. Intel 486: 30 years old and still fascinating

    27 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  91. So Long, Traditional Lawn. Conventional grass is costly, high-maintenance

    27 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  92. Hackers steal $600m in major cryptocurrency heist

    27 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  93. Silicon Valley's Fake Diversity Problem

    27 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  94. Mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations (2020)

    27 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  95. A Brief Introduction to Termios

    27 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  96. Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  97. Unstable Rust Features

    27 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  98. “This Is Going to Change the World” (The Failure of the Segway)

    27 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  99. Patera – Dynamic Documents

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  100. Nftables 1.0.0 Release

    27 points • comment • aug 20, 2021