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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?

    22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  2. Getting old is a crisis more and more Americans can’t afford

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  3. Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  4. Self-Hosting a Blog Mailing List

    22 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  5. Show HN: Practice Python Projects eBook for beginners

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  6. New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single Covid Case

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  7. Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  8. Microsoft Kin

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  9. Is Covid-19 making us irrational?

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  10. Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests

    22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  11. A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’

    22 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  12. How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  13. If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  14. Chinese breakfasts are almost beyond the imagination

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  15. Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  16. Graphreader: Extract Values from Graph Images

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  17. Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich?

    22 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  18. The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  19. 48 pct of Americans say government should restrict “false” information online

    22 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. NLRB recommends Amazon union election results be scrapped over improprieties

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  21. PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada

    22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  22. Taxing the Rich Is Failing to Ease the Global Housing Crunch

    22 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  23. The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  24. “Inescapable” Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known Covid Strains

    22 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  25. Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  26. Association of Myocarditis in Children with Messenger RNA Covid-19 Vaccine

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  27. I Failed My Startup and Tactical Advice So You Don’t Fail Yours (2 of 4)

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  28. Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  29. What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women

    22 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  30. Show HN: Certificate Maker Built with GSlide, Gsheets and Gmail

    22 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  31. Paragon NTFS driver might finally make it into Linux

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  32. MDcat – Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converter

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  33. WHO calls for moratorium on booster vaccines

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  34. Has the Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Failed?

    22 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  35. Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error Correction

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  36. U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  37. Project Horizon – Technical Considerations and Plans (1959) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  38. A Pacific Gold Rush

    22 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  39. Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  40. On Variance and Extensibility

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  41. New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  42. The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  43. Yahoo Pipes

    22 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  44. OnlyFans’ inexplicable ban on porn might be explained by this BBC investigation

    22 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  45. Anti-Sabotage Your Hiring

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Have you ever written code that you later regretted for ethical reasons?

    22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  47. A Case Against Dynamic Linking

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  48. Scales for building your own slide rule (1999)

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  49. Programmatic ads are no longer allowed on Reddit

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  50. Johnson and Johnson’s HIV vaccine fails first efficacy trial

    21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  51. Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. Science Saturday: How disease, diet, and genomics interact with gut virome

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  53. Kubegres: Kubernetes Operator for Postgress

    21 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  54. The State of Python in 2021

    21 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  55. The study of obesity is the study of mysteries

    21 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. As deadly weather disasters sweep globe, is a 1.5°C warming target impossible?

    21 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  57. Lawmaker says Facebook move to cut off researcher access is 'deeply concerning'

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  58. Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-Less OLED with 25% Less Power

    21 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  59. George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big Bang debate

    21 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  60. The Censored: Hitler

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  61. CookUnity fabricated an order with random items and charged my credit card

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  62. On Veganism – and why it shouldn't be easily mocked and written off

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  63. Hush-Hush Boom-Boom: Spymasters

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  64. Why Lying About Storage Products Is Bad: An IBM DeskStar Story

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  65. OSU Bipedal Robot First to Run 5K

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  66. The FDA Should Remove Its Restrictions on the ‘Abortion Pill’ Mifepristone

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  67. Why America keeps building corrupt client states

    21 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  68. Maze: Applied Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Problems

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  69. uBlock Origin – Free, open-source ad content blocker

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  70. 'We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub'

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  71. Achieving 2.5Gbps with the UDM Pro

    21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  72. Blue hydrogen is worse for the climate than coal

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  73. The Endgame for Cryptocurrency

    21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  74. The Queer Past Gets Deleted on eBay

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  75. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor of California?

    21 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  76. pg_timetable: Advanced Scheduling for PostgreSQL

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  77. “We are set on a path that looks disastrous”: Alabama hospitals near collapse

    21 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  78. Show HN: A Pure SQL Raytracer

    21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  79. Bagram’s new Taliban masters uncover horrors of US jail in Afghanistan

    21 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  80. Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking

    21 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  81. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report

    21 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  82. The Dixie Fire Is Now the Largest Single Wildfire in California History

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  83. Understand and Reduce Your Technical Debt

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  84. Zambia: Social media blocked amid 2021 general elections

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  85. Show HN: Facata – Connect to SQL Databases from Python

    21 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  86. A Diet Lacking in Tryptophan Alters Gut Microbiota, Increases Inflammation

    21 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  87. Pfizer to pay $2.3B, agrees to criminal plea (2009)

    21 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  88. Why we don't waterbomb at night?

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers?

    21 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  90. Inductive Reasoning Aptitude

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  91. Mexico Helped the Times Get Its Journalists Out of Afghanistan

    21 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  92. A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  93. Force Click for Layer Selection

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  94. Buried in the 2700 page infrastructure bill

    21 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  95. A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  96. Solar-Powered Refrigeration Trucks Will Cut Pollution from Idling Diesel Engines

    21 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  97. FTC rejects Facebook justification for cutting off NYU researchers as inaccurate

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  98. Common Problems with Bank Partners

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  99. Stop Using UI Frameworks

    21 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  100. Facebook's Atlantic Coucil

    20 points • comment • aug 20, 2021