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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

    305 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  2. Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science

    304 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  3. Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs

    301 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  4. Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

    301 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  5. Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware

    301 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  6. The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

    300 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  7. Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream

    300 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  8. The US should be held accountable: Gitmo survivor on the war on terror’s failure

    299 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  9. Why is China smashing its tech industry?

    298 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  10. A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos

    298 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  11. The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System

    298 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  12. The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual

    298 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  13. Typography in Alien (2014)

    297 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  14. Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional

    297 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  15. How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)

    297 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  16. Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)

    297 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  17. SAML Is Insecure by Design

    295 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  18. macOS in Svelte

    293 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  19. AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses

    293 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  20. Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight

    293 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  21. Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France

    292 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  22. Facebook Is the AOL of 2021

    292 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  23. FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

    292 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  24. Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

    291 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  25. Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names

    290 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  26. Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom

    290 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  27. Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers

    290 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  28. “People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”

    289 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  29. Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years

    289 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  30. French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid

    288 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  31. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)

    288 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  32. Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008)

    288 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  33. Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

    287 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  34. I hate almost all software (2011)

    287 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  35. 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)

    287 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  36. Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)

    287 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  37. Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

    286 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  38. SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

    286 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  39. Screw You, Microsoft Edge

    286 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  40. Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity

    286 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  41. Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits

    284 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  42. There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”

    284 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  43. Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse

    284 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

    283 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  45. How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion

    283 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  46. Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks

    283 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  47. America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot

    283 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  48. Hell Is Other REPLs

    283 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  49. SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI

    283 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  50. Programming Idioms

    282 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  51. 1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults

    282 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  52. Firefox: Performance in Progress

    281 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  53. Tools for Thinking

    281 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  54. The World of CSS Transforms

    281 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  55. Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong

    280 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  56. A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions

    280 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  57. Vue 3.2

    278 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  58. Summary After Four Months with Ada

    278 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  59. Tech Interview Handbook

    278 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  60. A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

    278 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  61. What is ‘elite overproduction’?

    277 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  62. If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?

    277 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  63. My Tungsten Cube (2019)

    277 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  64. Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants

    277 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  65. How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)

    276 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  66. Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect messages, scan for abuse images

    276 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  67. Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B

    276 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  68. I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time

    276 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  69. Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time

    275 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  70. Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

    274 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  71. Elm at Rakuten

    274 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  72. Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases

    274 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  73. Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government

    273 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  74. End of the line for Uber?

    273 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  75. Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

    272 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  76. Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

    272 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  77. Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible

    272 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  78. India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption

    271 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  79. Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional

    271 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  80. Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad

    271 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  81. South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems

    270 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  82. Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase

    270 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  83. Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season

    270 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  84. Writing Programs with Ncurses

    268 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  85. The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

    268 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  86. Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

    267 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  87. Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

    266 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  88. My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs

    266 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  89. Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs

    265 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  90. Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON

    264 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  91. Todo apps are meant for robots

    264 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  92. Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

    264 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  93. Localhost

    263 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  94. Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells

    263 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  95. Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

    263 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  96. Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]

    262 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  97. FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly

    261 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  98. Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

    261 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  99. Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows

    261 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  100. Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

    261 points • comment • aug 25, 2021