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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Self-Control and Grit: Related but Separable Determinants of Success

    24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  2. Check if your bank is funding the fossil fuel industry

    24 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  3. Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  4. How politics became a contest dominated by two kinds of elite

    24 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  5. Industry Towns – Where You Start a Company Matters (2019)

    24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  6. New poo, new you? Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice

    24 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  7. R/NoNewNormal has been quarantined

    24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  8. Elizabeth Holmes Might Claim Abusive Relationship in Criminal Fraud Defense

    24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  9. Stories of how my research papers were published

    24 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  10. Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts

    24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  11. The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (1995) [pdf]

    24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  12. Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  13. Tim Sweeney praises public domain and GPL software; hints at GPL Epic

    24 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  14. If the Hardiest Species Are Boiled Alive, What Happens to Humans?

    24 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  15. Paris speed limit falls to 30km/h (19mph)

    24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  16. NSA Awards Secret $10B Contract to Amazon

    24 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  17. Show HN: LiaScript - Markdown for interactive and open online courses

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  18. My Kids Are Straight-A Students and They Know Nothing (2017)

    24 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  19. Show HN: ETSD – Transmit sensitive data encrypted across your organization

    24 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. Tesla will recycle 100% of its batteries in-house, says the 2020 Impact Report

    24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  21. What better to incorporate a Deleware C-Corp. Clerky or Stripe Atlas and why?

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  22. Show HN: Pylectronics – Reproduce digital electronics in Python

    24 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  23. VRBO refusing to offer direct refunds to people in Tahoe Basin

    24 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  24. Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits an athlete

    24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  25. Astra Test Launch 6 suffers anomalies [video]

    24 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  26. Hora 0.1, maybe the fastest AI search algorithm library

    24 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  27. I used to love Bootstrap. God, now I just hate it

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  28. Excel 4, Yes Excel 4, Can Haunt Your Cloud Security

    24 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  29. You Can (Probably) Still Drink the World's Oldest Bottle of Wine

    24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  30. Increased error rates for DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 Region

    24 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  31. Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  32. Google Pay team reportedly in major upheaval after botched app revamp

    24 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  33. Climate Change Kills the Future

    24 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  34. T-Mobile apparently lied to government to get Sprint merger approval,ruling says

    24 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  35. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

    24 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  36. Florida Sheriff's Office Now Notifying People Of Inflicting Pre-Crime Program

    24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  37. Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics

    24 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  38. The Google Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  39. The labor shortage is the catalyst for sustained inflation

    24 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  40. Difference between DevOps, SecOps and DevSecOps

    24 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  41. Ask HN: What the HN of Cryptocurrency?

    24 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  42. Intel’s Gracemont Small Core Eclipses Last-Gen Big Core Performance

    24 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  43. Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity (2012) [pdf]

    24 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  44. Throwing 99 bottles (of OOP) in the trash

    24 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  45. Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident overseas from leaving

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Any recourse for a f***ed contract?

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  47. Accenture hit with ransomware attack; file publication expected today

    23 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  48. Twitch Finally Gets Around to Letting Banned Streamers Know Why They Were Banned

    23 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  49. A Limitlessly Scalable Transaction System

    23 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  50. 1960’s Afghanistan Was Different Before the Taliban (2016)

    23 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  51. Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent

    23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  52. The sea was never blue (2017)

    23 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  53. OpenAI Codex

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  54. Scratching the surface: perf stat and Hyper-Threading

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  55. Operation Dissimulation: WW2'S Biggest Deception Campaigns

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  56. GM Recalls All Chevy Bolt Electric Vehicles

    23 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  57. How CUE wins

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  58. AWS US-WEST-2 region (Oregon) is having issues

    23 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  59. The xterm terminal emulator can do a lot more than just display text

    23 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  60. US unleashes B-52s in bid to stem Taliban advance

    23 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  61. FDA set to grant approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data

    23 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  62. S.F. restaurant's $72 fried rice was a runaway hit and also the chef's nightmare

    23 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  63. Scottish Government wants to make emergency Covid powers permanent

    23 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  64. The Carbon Footprint Sham – A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign

    23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  65. The product manual for NSO's Pegasus spyware [pdf]

    23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  66. Show HN: A C# library to help you enforce a Given-When-Then structured Unit test

    23 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  67. Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  68. Google shuts down unified health division as chief leaves company

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  69. Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are discontinued, says Google

    23 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  70. Understanding Monads. A Guide for the Perplexed (2017)

    23 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  71. YouTube suspends filmmaker Oliver Ressler’s account without warning

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  72. Woman ordered to pay $30K for defamation by BC Supreme Court for online review

    23 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  73. A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

    23 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  74. Steam Is Down

    23 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  75. Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco

    23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  76. Remote work should be a permanent employee benefit

    23 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  77. US Birth-to-Death Ratio Nearing One

    23 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  78. Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

    23 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  79. Staying Visual in a CLIP World

    23 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  80. FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  81. A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes

    23 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  82. The Many (Manga) Portrayals of Cesare Borgia (2011)

    23 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  83. Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  84. Grafana Labs Raises $220M Round at $3B Valuation

    23 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  85. Frisco kids are making $32,000 a month mining Ethereum

    23 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  86. Original source code of various Commodore computers and peripherals

    23 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  87. Public Statement from Bob Ross Inc

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  88. New US Antitrust Bill Would Require Apple, Google to Allow 3rd-Party App Stores

    23 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  89. Ask HN: What is it like to work at Facebook in your 40s (or older)?

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  90. 4G LTE Coverage as of May 15, 2021 (AT&T, T-Mobile, UScellular, Verizon)

    22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  91. Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java application

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  92. Beginning Woodworking

    22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  93. It looks like a product but is a subscription

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  94. Stripe charges twice when payment form is translated. They want me to chargeback

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  95. A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'

    22 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  96. Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea – Computerphile [video]

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  97. Live Murder Hornet Spotted in Washington State

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  98. My Homebuilt 200W Laser (2016) [video]

    22 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  99. Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  100. Electric Cars and Batteries: How Will the World Produce Enough?

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021