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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sues NASA for a Moon Lander Contract

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  2. CNN Fires Three Employees for Coming into the Office Unvaccinated

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  3. PiKVM v3 Hat for Raspberry Pi

    20 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  4. Ask HN: What do you think of B-Corp (balance profit with people and planet)

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  5. Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behavior

    20 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  6. Apple’s Privacy Mythology Doesn’t Match Reality

    20 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  7. Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late–here’s why

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  8. Typing with Pleasure (2015)

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  9. Dark City: The Mistress of Suspense

    20 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  10. Work Is a False Idol

    20 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  11. GitNFT: Autograph and sell your GitHub commits as NFTs

    20 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  12. Hobby Tunneling

    20 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  13. V-Shaped Ride-in-the-Wings Jetliner Successfully Took Off (2020)

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  14. The Spiralist: the gyre of James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  15. Show HN: Micro – A public API platform (now free during beta)

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  16. Bitten by the 90 day exercise window

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  17. Fake Covid Vaccination Cards Are on the Rise in the U.S., Europe

    20 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  18. Microsoft Warns: Another Unpatched PrintNightmare Zero-Day

    20 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  19. Apple Executive Defends Tools to Fight Child Porn, Acknowledges Privacy Backlash

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  20. One in five deaths worldwide linked to unhealthy diet

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  21. Texas introduces site to report women who have had an abortion

    20 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  22. Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  23. Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network with propaganda

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  24. A Smart Guy's Frank Take on Working in Major Tech Companies (2018)

    20 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  25. Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot

    20 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  26. You're Not a Developer

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  27. Carbon budget will exhaust in 10 years at current emission levels: IPCC report

    20 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  28. Show HN: Dotplan Online

    20 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  29. Why All Printers Suck, Even the Best Ones (2016)

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  30. Elon Musk and His Companies Are Changing the Future of Mankind

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  31. Learnings Using Phoenix LiveView for Internal Web Applications

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  32. The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’

    20 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  33. Ask HN: What are some promising “healthy social media” projects?

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  34. What I wish someone had told me before I became a Manager

    20 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  35. One French City

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  36. Non-Exhaustive List of Amazon Trademarks

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  37. Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome and Improve Your Health

    20 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  38. LISP Comes of Age

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  39. Efficiently Donating Excess Covid Vaccine Supplies

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  40. Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental

    20 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  41. The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005)

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  42. An Elephant Crackup? (2006)

    20 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  43. China has secret jail for Uighurs – in Dubai

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  44. Roland Barthes: Studium and Punctum (2013)

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  45. Google may cut pay of staff who work from home

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  46. Linux turns 30: Linus Torvalds on his “just a hobby” operating system

    20 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  47. Unexpected Perseid Meteor Outburst on 14 August 2021

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  48. Unvaccinated People Belong on the No-Fly List

    20 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  49. Yimby housing bills are wildly unpopular in the state (CA), a new poll shows

    20 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  50. Boris Johnson’s gamble looks like it will pay off

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  51. On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  52. Coming soon: America’s own social credit system

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  53. Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt’s Big Treatise on AI Panned in Book Review

    19 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  54. Show HN: Fabform.io an Alternative to Google Forms

    19 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. Kill Sticky Headers

    19 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  56. Niall Ferguson on why the end of America’s empire won’t be peaceful

    19 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  57. A Literature on the Brink of Dawn

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  58. Crop Insurance and Unintended Consequences

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  59. In Assange Extradition Case, British High Court Expands US Appeal

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  60. Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  61. Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  62. Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  63. Green roofs make solar panels 3.6% more efficient

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  64. Scanning QR Codes in Restaurants: Why a Meal May Cost You Your Privacy

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  65. Charity in Texas Teaches Underprivileged Kids to Hunt Their Next Meal

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. To fight climate change, America must get better at electricity transmission

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  67. Reviewing the app behind “My small revenge on Apple” (security)

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  68. Strangely Accurate AI Predictions from Blurry Medical Scans Alarms Researchers

    19 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  69. Gossamer Network

    19 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  70. Astronomers Directly Image Planet Just 35 Light Years Away

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  71. Ten Years of Kotlin

    19 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  72. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

    19 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  73. Bitcoin Cryptography: Simply Explained

    19 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  74. The Kopimashin (2015)

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  75. Neuroscientists Find Beige Fat “Indispensable” in Protecting Brain from Dementia

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  76. Judge strikes down law classifying Uber, Lyft drivers as contractors

    19 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  77. Saigon moment: chaotic scenes at Kabul International Airport. No security

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  78. Ask HN: What happened to the “Node with some other JavaScript engine” projects?

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  79. On This Day in Twistory

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  80. SOAP and REST At Odds (2017)

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  81. Twitter adds warning label to tweet from Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  82. Simulating office reopening for sales teams

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  83. Nassau County Passes Bill That Makes Criticizing a Cop Punishable by $50k

    19 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  84. Delta variant poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines [pdf]

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  85. Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  86. Luca app: German Ministry of the Interior rejects security check

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  87. Why women in tech are so angry all the time

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  88. Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Plan for iPhones Isn’t So Safe

    19 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  89. Amazon Drops ‘Draconian’ Policy on Making Games After Work Hours

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  90. Target offering to cover college tuition for new employees

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  91. The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight over Reclining Airline Seats

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  92. Tesla is prepping for giant Supercharger expansion before opening for other EVs

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Is Linus Torvalds a Great Man of History?

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  94. How to undo Proton UI in Firefox 91 and onwards

    19 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  95. Ask HN: Software engineers who have been promoted with a large salary increase?

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  96. An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations

    19 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  97. Windows Terminal Preview 1.11 Release

    19 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  98. Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  99. Are “Buy Now, Pay Later” Retail Loans a Rip-Off?

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  100. “Pregnant Women”

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2021