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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Only Kabul Left Standing as Jalalabad Falls

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  2. Great apes share salutations, like humans

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  3. Prep Act Q&As

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  4. Show HN: CreditHero – extend your AWS free credits

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  5. Lie of Credit – American Express Tells Its Workers Capitalism Is Racist

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  6. Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  7. Moderna’s HIV Vaccine to Start Human Trials Early as Wednesday

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  8. New York Times editorial in support of drunk driving (1984)

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  9. Petaluma, CA is the first town in America to ban new gas stations.

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  10. Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  11. Alder Lake Dumps AVX-512 in a Big Way

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  12. Starlink presentation on orbital safety [pdf]

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  13. Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator (2015)

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  14. Session: A Private Messenger That Doesn't Need Phone Number

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  15. The future of software, the end of apps (2013)

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  16. Spanish engineers extract drinking water from thin air

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  17. PolyNetwork Suffers Record-Breaking $600.3M Hack

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  18. Hunting Predators – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  19. Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  20. Afghans Tell of Executions, Forced ‘Marriages’ in Taliban-Held Areas

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  21. Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  22. Nearest Neighbor Indexes

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  23. Tim Cook: Tech industry needs to rebuild user trust after privacy losses

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  24. Remaking the Simpsons: Hit and Run with Unreal Engine

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

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

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. Microsoft is bringing support for the Open Document Format ODF 1.3 to Office

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  27. EU moves to reintroduce Covid travel curbs on U.S. -diplomats

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  28. Tracking a Woolly Mammoth

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  29. Show HN: Free to play old-school browser MMORPG

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  30. CenturyLink selling copper network in 20 states instead of installing fiber

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  31. Trump is not ruining democracy, we are

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  32. Credit Suisse’s Oopsie Bonds Go Down

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  33. AT&T denies data breach after hacker auctions 70M user database

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  34. Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  35. AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processor Security Features [pdf]

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  36. The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Who wants project feedback? (August 2021)

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  38. The Beauty of Bezier Curves [video]

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  39. Ask HN: Good React courses for a complete beginner?

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  40. All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  41. Sundown Towns Are Still a Problem for Black Drivers

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  42. A New Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Hypothesis

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  43. Western Digital in Advanced Talks to Merge with Kioxia in $20B-Plus Deal

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  44. Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  45. Global Temperature over My Lifetime (Xkcd)

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  46. The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live with It

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  47. Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse already sucks

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  48. An immense mystery 11,000 years old

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  49. InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  50. Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  51. Penny Universities

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  52. OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  53. New CDC studies point to waning immunity from vaccines

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  54. Supreme Court blocks Biden's Covid eviction ban

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  55. Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  56. Why Indigenous Wisdom Is an Antidote to the Climate Crisis

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  57. SEC Chairman Gensler Agrees with Predecessor: ‘Every ICO Is a Security’

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  58. Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  59. New Dynamics – Now These Are TSMC’s Top 3 Customers

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  60. CDC: Covid vaccine effectiveness fell from 91% to 66% with Delta variant

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  61. Toyota Lets Farmers Pay for New Trucks with Corn or Soybeans in Brazil

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  62. What is the most EVIL code you have ever seen in production?

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  63. Hammer Codex – Leonardo Da Vinci

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  64. Canonical Log Lines 2.0

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  65. “Ice Age”, climate change documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy (1978)

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  66. The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  67. Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  68. nsfw.rest – Keep your platform safe of NSFW content, all for free

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  69. Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  70. The FBI is selling a surveillance plane it used on Black Lives Matter protests

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  71. The America I grew up in is disappearing into a vortex of identity politics

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  72. Algocracy

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  73. Ash HN: Go or Rust for JavaScript developer in the next 20 years?

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  74. The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  75. Boston mayor compares NYC's vaccine mandate to slavery

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  76. I Hate Entrepreneur Fanfiction

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  77. Our AI art generator isn't being used to generate art

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

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

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  79. Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  80. What Slime Knows

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  81. T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Customer Data Breach

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  82. Report on Archegos Capital Management (How Credit Suisse Lost $6B)

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  83. He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  84. The lost tablet and the secret documents

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  85. Techies think we’re on cusp of virtual world called ‘metaverse’. I’m skeptical

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  86. Amish community in Lancaster County reaches herd immunity from Covid-19

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  87. Xiaomi clones the iPad Pro for half the price: $386

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  88. Black women who is a Software Engineer knocked out by Cops

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  89. Albania to accept Afghans who worked with Western forces

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  90. Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  91. The CEO Trying to Build a Christian Secessionist Tech Industry

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  92. Over-engineering (the root of all evil) (2016)

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  93. Zamani Project

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  94. Buddhas of Bamiyan

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  95. Climate change: UN to reveal landmark IPCC report findings

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  96. Wikipedia: Thagomizer

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  97. Google's payments to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS: $15B in FY21

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  98. Post-Vax Myocarditis Also Mild in Teens, Early Cases Suggest. Follow-Up Urged

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  99. Veritasium: Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective [video]

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  100. The Long Legacy of a Short Life

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2021