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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. As China-Taiwan Tensions Rise, Japan Begins Preparing for Possible Conflict

    17 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  2. Show HN: This Idea Does Not Exist

    17 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  3. What *exactly* does ASML sell? (Contains bonus flow in 17th tweet)

    17 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  4. We need a free software license for distributed systems

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  5. Henri becomes a hurricane as it moves toward the Northeast

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  6. A Hell of Our Own Making

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  7. I built a fully automated YouTube channel, 10 months later, I've made $0.17

    17 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  8. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  9. Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It (Chomsky)

    17 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  10. The truth about lab-grown meat

    17 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  11. Rebase Considered Harmful

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  12. Medallion Fund: The Ultimate Counterexample?

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  13. Why is it a “red flag” if someone’s favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye?

    17 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  14. Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  15. For Every $1 We Spend on Food, We Rack Up $2 in Health and Environmental Damage

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  16. Cox-Zucker_machine

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  17. The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity (2020)

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  18. dns_deep_state – Find all secrets about DNS governing a domain

    17 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  19. Artist and Computer (1976)

    17 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  20. Deckhouse: NoOps Kubernetes platform

    17 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  21. New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ App to Cost at Least $27M

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  22. Is Digital Ocean Down?

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  23. History of Dean Kamen's Segway

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  24. Get That Job at Grab

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  25. Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  26. Orlando urges reduced water usage due to Covid-19 related liquid oxygen shortage

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  27. Fairphone: Ethical, fairtrade and modular mobile phone

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. MIT study: revenue from 100k digital nomads would equal that of 2.5M tourists

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  29. UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  30. Editorial Response to BBC Click Article on IoT Device Security

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  31. Of Course “changeme” Is Valid Base64 (2020)

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  32. A new way of blogging about Golang

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  33. Cornell University – Important updates for faculty and instructional staff

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  34. Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  35. College Was Supposed to Close the Wealth Gap for Black Americans

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  36. The world is not near the end of the pandemic – epidemiologist Larry Brilliant

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  37. Samsung Steps Back from Ads in Its Mobile Apps

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  38. With Covid-19, World Health Organisation's Fall from Grace Is Complete

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  39. 100 Things You Should Know as a Software Engineer

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  40. The Creativity Code

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  41. Show HN: Dopaminite – I wasn't productive, so I built this tool for myself

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  42. Zig Wrinkles

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

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

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  44. Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  45. Let's write a compiler, part 7: Arrays

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  46. WHO chief inspector says 'likely' patient zero was Wuhan lab researcher

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  47. Keyboard Walk Processor (2018)

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  48. Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  49. Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  50. Delta to add $200 monthly health insurance charge for unvaccinated staff

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  51. Faraday Invented the Electric Motor, his mentor accused him of plagiarism

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  52. Playdate Teardown

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  53. ‘What do you think you’re doing?’: Sydneysiders stung for eating outside

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  54. Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new Covid cases

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  55. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  56. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Why the Host of Jeopardy Matters

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  57. Remove Video Background

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  58. Auth0 Is Down

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  59. Marxism for Newbies: Dialectical Materialism

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  60. Pangrammatic Autograms (2019)

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  61. LightGBM vs. XGBoost: Which distributed version is faster?

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  62. Amazon Fired Me for Reporting Gender Bias

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  63. Pentagon Poised to Unveil, Demonstrate Classified Space Weapon

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  64. Observe a Service; Not a Server

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  65. $100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to generate solar-power from space

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  66. Just over 100 days of Libera Chat

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  67. Z3 Made Unreasonably Easy

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  68. Paint by Numbers: How Roger de Piles tabulated artistic merit

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  69. LED Light Spectrum Enhancement with Transparent Pigmented Glazes (2016)

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  70. When Monks Went Undercover to Steal Relics

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  71. Google approved 85% of employee requests to work remotely or relocate

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  72. How to Remember What You Read

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  73. Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, the Brains Sort-Of Developed Eyes

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  74. End of the Line for Uber

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  75. Microsoft hires former Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  76. To Catch a Priest (with location data)

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  77. UMG Seems to Think It Copyrighted the Moon

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  78. Facebook’s WhatsApp Takes Aim at Apple over Child Safety Software Plan

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  79. Waymo has no viable business model

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  80. Atlas – Partners in Parkour

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  81. Dreadful Sanctuary

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  82. Berlin court bans anti-lockdown protests

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  83. Metabolism in adulthood does not slow as commonly believed, study finds

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  84. The Respected Scientists Who Pushed for Alcohol Prohibition in 1920

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  85. Pinball is reviving a small Illinois town

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  86. Kanye West’s Quest for Perfection

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  87. Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  88. Mini human brains in petri dish end up growing eyes

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  89. Why Year of the Linux Desktop Is Bullshit (2020)

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  90. Flaws in John Deere Systems Show Agriculture's Cyber Risk

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  91. Show HN: UI Guideline – No more friction between designers and developers

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  92. Highest recorded temperature of 48.8C in Europe apparently logged in Sicily

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  93. Our Journey Building Porter

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  94. Watching America’s Crack-Up

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  95. Elasticsearch official Python client changed to not work with forks

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  96. YouTube is forcing the popular Groovy Discord music bot offline

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  97. FBI to tech industry: China, Russia are blackmailing your employees into spying

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  98. Russia, Iran and China to hold joint drills in Gulf

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  99. Social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  100. Show HN: Minymon – cute and helpful pets for your website

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2021