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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  2. The Era of Easier Voting for Disabled People Is Over

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  3. Impact of Pocket Listings on Housing

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  4. Which processed foods are better than natural?

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  5. SPA hexagon: Robust app architecture for mobile and web

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  6. DockerHub Pushing Issues

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  7. Inside The Reddit Forum That Wants to See Bitcoin Die

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  8. Unclassified Summary of Assessment on Covid-19 Origins

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  9. WHO seeks 'best minds' to probe new pathogens that jump from animals to humans

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  10. Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  11. Infrastructure bill program will test the feasibility of road usage fees

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  12. Elizabeth Holmes gives birth as Theranos fraud trial nears

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  13. SEC approves Nasdaq's plan to require board diversity

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  14. Hedge Funds Want to Stay Popular

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  15. Ode to a Streaming ByteString

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  16. Adumbrations of Aducanumab

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  17. Rethinking Climate Change: The path to 90% emissions reductions by 2035

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  18. If you’re vaccinated, your main risk from the Delta variant is long-haul

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  19. As office returns get postponed, workers say they’d take pay cut to wfh

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  20. Ask HN: What is it like working in tech internationally?

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  21. Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  22. Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer Breaks All Established Industry Standards

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  23. Confessions of a Sid Meier’s Civilization Addict

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  24. Ask HN: Does your job make the world a better place?

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  25. NIH scientists develop faster Covid test

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  26. A collection of lessons for early stages of building a marketplace

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  27. Senators press FB for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  28. Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  29. What to Know About the Spying Scandal Linked to Israeli Tech Firm NSO

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  30. Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  31. Simone de Beauvoir’s Lost Novel of Early Love

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  32. Chinese officials pressured WHO investigation to drop lab-leak hypothesis

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  33. Deniser – Amiga Denise chip replacement

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  34. Paseto Is an Even More Secure Alternative to the JOSE Standards (JWT, etc.)

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  35. US proof-of-vaccination cards are the wrong size to fit in wallets

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  36. Red Cross Nurse Injects 8,600 with Saline Instead of Covid Vaccine

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  37. DDR5-4800 Clashes with DDR4-3200 in Alder Lake Benchmarks

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  38. 179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  39. Melatonin may decrease risk for and aid treatment of Covid-19

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  40. Ask HN: What's the best way to find ideas for niche paying side projects?

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  41. QR codes have replaced restaurant menus. Industry experts say it isn’t a fad

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  42. A Three-Pronged Attack by Chinese Military Actors Against Major Telcos

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  43. It Is Immoral to Be a Billionaire

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  44. The secret trauma that inspired German literary giant WG Sebald

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  45. Ask HN: What to do post FI(hypothetically)?

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  46. JScript

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  47. It’s time to ban autonomous killer robots before they become a threat (ft.com)

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  48. A guide to spot-readiness in Kubernetes

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  49. Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer System

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  50. Show HN: Paper – Bookmarking and note-taking extension for VSCode

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  51. Tesla pure vision FSD Beta completes LA to SF border trip with no disengagements

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  52. Ask HN: How to Stay Organized?

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  53. Windows 365 Pricing Revealed

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged?

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  55. How to Prepare for Gmail’s Rollout of BIMI

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  56. I have trained StyleGAN2 from scratch with a dataset of female portraits

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  57. Google docs on Firefox unusable for everyone, or just me?

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  58. Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect service

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  59. Futurists have their heads in the clouds

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  60. Pining For Feudalism As An Antidote For Modernity (2011)

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  61. Psychology is in a crisis. But not the one you’re thinking of

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  62. American Shoppers Are a Nightmare

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  63. Surging Delta Cases Reverses the March Back to the Office

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  64. Ending Social Media Censorship and the Meteoric Rise of Substack

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  65. An Analysis of Apple Engraving Censorship Across Six Regions

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  66. Covid origin: US spy agencies publish 'inconclusive' report

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  67. Cory Doctorow on the technological debt in machine learning

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  68. Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  69. 3-6-3 Rule

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  70. RG3D – Rust 3D Game Engine

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  71. The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  72. Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  73. Ask HN: Why do contractors exist if they charge the same as a FAANG FTE?

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  74. PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  75. Amazon’s New World is shaping up to be Big Tech’s first video game hit

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Is Twitter Dead for Interesting Discussion?

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  77. The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  78. Detours: Software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  79. What makes agile software development agile?

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  80. A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram [video]

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  81. The lesson from the past year: Poverty is a policy choice

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  82. Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf]

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  83. Using Open Source Tools at Your Company

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  84. Apple exec: ‘we are the greatest platform for distributing child porn’

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  85. China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  86. The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  87. Australian Covid vaccine certificates can be forged within 10 minutes

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  88. US Senate puts $40k cap on price of electric cars that qualify for EV tax credit

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  89. Media glosses over upsides and caveats in IPCC report

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  90. Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at PG after collision with athlete

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  91. Blockchains are the new app stores

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  92. Economic Effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown in the US: Cure Worse Than the Disease?

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  93. The Pixel 6, Google’s Take on an ‘Ultra High End’ Phone

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  94. Bernard Arnault Becomes World’s Richest Person

    13 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  95. Clean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  96. Illinois Bought Invasive Phone Location Data from Banned Broker Safegraph

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  97. We have to accept some risk of Covid-19

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  98. tHis is a Big troLl

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  99. Covid vaccine safety system has gaps that may miss unexpected side effects

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  100. Germany ‘set for biggest rise in greenhouse gases for 30 years’

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021