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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. 38M Records Were Exposed Online–Including Contact-Tracing Info

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  2. Karl Menger’s Vienna Colloquium

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  3. What Happened to the Democrats Who Never Accepted Bush's Reelection (2020)

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  4. Is the Fed creating a housing bubble by keeping rates low?

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  5. Ask HN: Should I even bother competing for React jobs?

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  6. Hit by Ida, New Orleans faces weeks without power

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  7. NumWorks Calculator Changes Licensing (June 2021)

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  8. The Source of America’s Rising Rage

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  9. The Secret Bank Behind the Fintech Boom

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  10. Show HN: Ain is a terminal API client

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  11. King Tut’s Mysterious Black Dagger Was Truly Out of This World

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  12. Duke profs almost made $2M off public domain images

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  13. The Two-Front War on Academic Standards

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  14. The Philosophy of Posthumous Art

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  15. The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  16. 6.2M Burmese could go hungry by October

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  17. The U.S. ignored corruption within the Afghan government. Did that lead to fall?

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  18. If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t (2018)

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Free or cheap UI design course?

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. 3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  21. The Sunk Cost “Fallacy” Is Not a Fallacy

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  22. Awingu: Simpler Citrix alternative

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  23. 'Black Myth: Wukong' trailer shows off Unreal Engine 5 gameplay with DLSS on

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

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

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  25. I covered Hong Kong for decades. Now I am forced to flee China’s ‘white terror’

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  26. NYPD spent $159M on surveillance tech

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  27. High Voltage SID Collection – Commodore 64 music for the masses

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  28. China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week

    15 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  29. Does London need a gigantic glowing orb the height of Big Ben?

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  30. Ask HN: Do you use a Linux-first laptop? (System76, Librem, Dell XPS Dev Ed)

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  31. The inflation-adjusted SP500 has never recovered from the 2000 peak

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  32. I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  33. When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  34. Fixing under-engineered code vs. fixing over-engineered code

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  35. Glowworm Attack – Optical Tempest Sound Recovery via a Power Indicator LED

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  36. Will [US-collected] fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  37. Show HN: List of the top 100 open startups (with revenue displayed)

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  38. All Biomass in one graphic. Humans only 0.01%

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  39. Installation of M-13 (“Katyusha”)

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  40. What Are You Willing to Sacrifice to Stop Climate Change?

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  41. The California tourist town that’s running out of water: ‘It’s a shock’

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  42. Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  43. La Puente man steals 620k iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  44. Nuclear reactor making fusion viable by 2030

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  45. GitHub Codespaces is generally available

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  46. Senators have a deal on the crypto amendment, and Treasury won’t oppose it

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  47. FBI funded neo-Nazi book publisher, court docs reveal

    15 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  48. Hacker News Summary Service (HNSS)

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  49. Ethereum inventor says blockchain with 'run the metaverse' in ten years

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  50. OnlyFans Reverses Its Decision

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  51. The Platform Engineer

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Anyone had a positive mentor/mentee experience as a software engineer?

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  53. SpaceX Preps 'Ruggedized' Starlink Dish for Cars, Boats, and Planes – PCMag

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  54. Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  55. The Portrait Gallery

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. Emergency SOS on Your iPhone

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  57. Ask HN: What we as community can do to adopt IPv6 faster?

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  58. Covid-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents (PDF; Aug 22)

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  59. #TSLAQ

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  60. Show HN: KSON Is JSON with SQL and Networking

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  61. Don't Rush to Adopt QUIC

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  62. mRNA Vaccine Badge

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  63. This is Why I Stick with Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops for Linux

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  64. List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  65. Bringing more reliable context to conversations on Twitter

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  66. Germany’s hidden hunger: On the breadline in Europe’s richest country (2017)

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  67. The Story of Neo Geo (2020) [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  68. Mask mandate and use efficacy for Covid-19 containment in US States

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  69. Julia Computing funded by DARPA to Build AI-Based Digital Phased Arrays w/ GPUs

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  70. US Army fields first combat-capable laser weapon prototype

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  71. Travels the World: The Story of the Indian SCL6502

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  72. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  73. Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  74. The Firefox browser UI is a web page (link only works on Firefox)

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  75. Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  76. Human shielding and how things impact a person

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  77. Spanish village tells tourists to suck up roosters and braying donkeys

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  78. Google gave phone makers extra money to ditch third-party app stores

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  79. Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction?

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  80. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  81. Goodreads' Problem with Extortion Scams and Review Bombing

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  82. Household debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15T in second quarter

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  83. Aircraft ADS data can be used to map winds

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  84. Starlink's network faces significant limitations, analysts find

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  85. Perceptrons: The building blocks of Deep Learning

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  86. Ask HN: Do people hire for A+ certification

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  87. Is your name ruining your life?

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  88. How to Deal with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  89. A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  90. Product frameworks for the challenges every founder faces

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  91. Why You Suddenly Need to Delete Google Chrome

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  92. Facebook Is Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  93. Google co-founder Larry Page is now a New Zealand resident

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  94. Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  95. The gems in Java 16 and Java 17

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  96. It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  97. U.S. officials provided Taliban with names of Americans, Afghan allies

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  98. TCP BBR – Exploring TCP congestion control

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  99. Droning On

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  100. Louis Rossmann: More NYC businesses refuse to become vaccine police

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2021