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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. AMD Threadripper Zen 3 Chagall CPU Rocking 64 Cores Seen Orbiting MilkyWay Home

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  2. ‘It Happened So Fast’: Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Accident

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  3. Most of the power sector’s emissions come from a small minority of plants

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  4. Actors Working as Protestors

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  5. Incels: A new terror threat to the UK?

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  6. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  7. Zippy (2020)

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  8. Afghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team Tries to Escape Country

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  9. Tokyo Olympics: [Online] Chinese nationalists turn on their athletes

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  10. Ask HN: Stack Overflow Architecture in the year 2070

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  11. Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Matter Generated by Collisions of Light

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  12. HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  13. Apple Open to Expanding New Child Safety Features to Third-Party Apps

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  14. Vitalik Buterin: Things that matter outside of DeFi

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  15. I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  16. WA high schools face controversy for asking students wear Covid ankle monitors

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  17. Matrioshka Brain

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  18. Sandboxing Zoom

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  19. A French Novelist Turns the Tables on History

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  20. Work Is a False Idol

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  21. Jeffrey Epstein Got Away with It

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  22. Anti-aging foundation sacks CSO Aubrey de Grey for disrupting harassment probe

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  23. Why Does the Steam Deck Run Linux? Blame Windows

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  24. US healthcare org sends data breach warning to 1.4m patients following

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  25. ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an Independent Company

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  26. Facebook's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  27. Amiga 500 replica is coming in 2022 for $140

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  28. The Beauty of Bézier Curves

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  29. Apple will scan local storage photos on iPhones for child abuse images

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  30. AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  31. One Billion Years of Time Are Missing in the Grand Canyon

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  32. Richard Jewell

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  33. Should You Get a Booster Shot? Here’s What We Know

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  34. Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  35. Russian Cross

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  36. Delta variant renders herd immunity from Covid ‘mythical’

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  37. Women-Are-Wonderful Effect

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  38. China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  39. It Takes More Than Just Developers. The Must-Have Roles to Create an App

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  40. £700 vs. £7M: Astrophotography Shoot Out

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  41. Can you collect unemployment benefits if you're fired for not being vaccinated?

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  42. Show HN: Shirtbot irresponsibly easy t-shirts in slack

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  43. The Infrastructure Bill’s Targeting of Cryptocurrencies Makes Americans Poorer

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  44. A big study about honesty turns out to be based on fake data

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  45. Taliban now controls one of the world’s biggest lithium deposits

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  46. Epistemic Learned Helplessness

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  47. Tesla Announces Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Why use secrets managers?

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  49. A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof–and Nobody Notices

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  50. Google Channels Jony Ive in Ad Promoting Pixel 5a Headphone Jack

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  51. Netimpair – simulates bad network conditions on Linux machines

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  52. #ifdef Confirmed Harmful – Promoting Understandable Software Variation

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  53. Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  54. DuckDuckGo’s surprisingly simple plan to make the internet more private

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  55. Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  57. Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  58. Scientists Invented a Simple New Test for Creativity, and You Can Try It Out

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  59. Hacker is returning $600M in crypto, claiming theft was just “for fun”

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  60. Tenecent plummets as China calls online gaming as “opium of the mind”

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  61. Bitcoin mining operation is now being forced to shut down

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  62. Show HN: Canonic: Visual Development Platform

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  63. Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  64. Paris to Berlin in an hour: The future of high-speed rail travel in Europe

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  65. Firefighters Lead Protests Ahead of Vaccine Passports Being Required in France

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  66. Apocalypse Never Slide Deck

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  67. Electric car leader Tesla left out of White House event

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  68. Texas man who led anti-mask protests in name of ‘freedom’ dies of Covid-19

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  69. Caffeine appears to reduce the volume of gray matter, effect being reversible

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  70. How did the world's oldest hat shop survive pandemic lockdown?

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  71. Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption, sending data to Facebook and Google

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  72. The Python Launcher for Unix

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  73. Israel’s active Covid cases pass 50k, just 2 months after they hovered at 200

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  74. Beyond the Web

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  75. Is it bad to reuse plastic water bottles?

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  76. Doing History with Born Digital Files: The Rhoda Métraux and Ed Lorenz Papers

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  77. Show HN: LifeBits – share memories, not posts

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  78. Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  79. Brain and testis: more alike than previously thought?

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  80. Texas governor tests positive for Covid, in ‘good health’

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  81. Debian Bullseye Is Released

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  82. 100 years ago today, the battle of Blair Mountain

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  83. “Are you actually IO bound? Because I seriously doubt it.”

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  84. Where’s the Accelerator?

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  85. Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  86. Square Agrees to Acquire Afterpay for $29B in All-Stock Deal

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  87. Newline Guide to Creating React Libraries from Scratch

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  88. Hubble Captures a 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying the Depths of the Universe

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  89. Using JavaScript and GPT-3 to connect a contextual speech bot to Clubhouse

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  90. New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  91. Recognizing ancient Greek with machine learning and citizen science

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  92. Securing a Modern Web Application

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  93. Opium prices triple in Afghanistan after Taliban announces poppy ban

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  94. A “no math“ (but seven-part) guide to modern quantum mechanics

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  95. The latest on Elastic’s stance on open source

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  96. String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  97. Idea: Non-Recourse Founder Loans

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  98. Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  99. Zoom reaches $85 mln settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, 'Zoombombing'

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  100. The Turning Point Review – How Charles Dickens Built Bleak House

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2021