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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Who Tells Them Things They Don't Want to Hear?

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  2. The Insane Biology Of: The Dragonfly [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  3. Pro-Trump social network becomes safe haven for ISIS

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  4. OnlyFans CEO on why it banned adult content: ‘the short answer is banks’

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  5. Things the Establishment Got Wrong About Covid-19

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  6. Orientation of USB-C matter

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  7. Apple Store vs. Repair Shop: What the Right to Repair Is All About

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  8. 8/12/09: White House Press Briefing

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  9. Facebook to require all U.S. on-campus employees to wear masks

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  10. Have problems with PostgreSQL? Try using Hive (2015)

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  11. A five-day course of ivermectin may reduce the duration of Covid-19

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  12. All the best emails from the Apple vs. Epic trial

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  13. App stores will likely be legislated to relinquish their control on developers

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  14. How do transistors work? Like a flush toilet

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  15. Ransomware happens and how to stop it

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  16. China doubles down on baseless 'US origins' Covid conspiracy amid Delta outbreak

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  17. Chinese government acquires stake in domestic unit of TikTok owner ByteDance

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  18. Thousands of Patients Were Implanted with Defective Heart Pumps

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  19. DigitalOcean Is Down

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  20. Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  21. StackOverflow Developer Survey 2021 Insights

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  22. Computing the Riemann zeta function at 3

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  23. Unix and Linux Books Humble Bundle

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  24. Live: Starship Prototype Ship 20 Being Stacked on Super Heavy [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. Xiaomi gifts all 184K Mi 1 first-time buyers a ¥1999 (~$308) voucher

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  26. Mathematics for Gamblers

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  27. All Work and No Play

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  28. Why every software engineering interview should include ops questions

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  29. Why is Afghanistan falling to the Taliban so fast?

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  30. One Rogue User Took Down Our API

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  31. Can You Hear Me Now?: A new history of teletherapy

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  32. Show HN: A toy compiler of a Scala subset

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  33. Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (August 2021)

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  34. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Flags Concerns at Georgia's Plant Vogtle Expansion

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  35. Test launch of Boeing's Starliner delayed due to stuck valves

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  36. Ask HN: Best use of WebAssembly so far?

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  37. Cuba to authorise and regulate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  38. The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  39. Solid state batteries, ready to ship

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  40. Srcset and Sizes (2014)

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  41. Book Review: Your Computer Is on Fire

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  42. The Meaning of Dbg Function Names

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  43. Dopamine plays a key role in consciousness

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  44. Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  45. Show HN: Hurricane Ida's pressure falling in Louisiana, data from Android phones

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  46. School mask battles rage on as more children fall ill, fill hospitals

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  47. Open sourcing Winterfell: A STARK prover and verifier

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  48. Oregon governor Kate Brown announces outdoor mask mandate

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  49. Going Deep with Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  50. Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? (2020)

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  51. 50% would give up Amazon, Netflix for a year to be able to work remotely

    8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  52. Australia’s capital city to enforce snap lockdown after one new Covid-19 case

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  53. Reddit turns down moderators who want action on Covid misinformation

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  54. Ask HN: How to prepare for climate change events

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  55. Hospital produced a video showing Covid from a patient's perspective

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  56. Animation of “Mechazilla” catching Booster is “pretty close”

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  57. Network Security in the Medium Term, 2061-2561 AD

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  58. Volt: A tiny native desktop client for Slack, Discord, and more

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  59. 22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015)

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  60. What's makes one a troll – a new study found the defining traits: narciss (cont)

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  61. Raspberry Pi Display Driver Patches Updated for 4K 60Hz Support

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  62. French scientist who pushed unproven Covid drug may be forced from post

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  63. 3 U.S. senators test positive for coronavirus

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  64. Iranian Prison Hacked – Real-time footage from control room leaked

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  65. Safer Illinois, Isn’t

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  66. California judge rules classifying drivers as contractors as unconstitutional

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  67. The Manhole Covers Site

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  68. “The software comes for free, but my time is not”

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  69. Moving a project to C++ named Modules

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  70. Officer who responded to US Capitol attack is third to die by suicide

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  71. The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology [pdf]

    8 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  72. Senators Call for Investigation of Tesla’s Marketing Claims, 'Full Self-Driving'

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  73. Picture on the cover of the book “Introduction to Analytic Number Theory”

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  74. Clubhouse removed personal info from users’ accounts in Afghanistan

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  75. A British 4channer went to Kabul for lulz. Now he’s stuck there

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Do you have plans for staying fully remote?

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  77. LudoTune

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  78. Show HN: My Covid Project: An LED Dreamcoat

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Functional programming in Kotlin vs. Scala advantages/disadvantages?

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  80. I Regret Being a Hipster in Tech

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  81. S.Korea set to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  82. PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  83. Ask HN: Is it just me or is Twitter pretty good these days?

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  84. Bezos’ Blue Origin takes NASA to court over lunar lander contract to SpaceX

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  85. Ask HN: What is a good Python project for a mid lv engineer to contribute to?

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  86. Women’s Sensitivity to Men’s Past Relationships

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  87. Gresham’s Law of Time Management

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  88. Census: Rural America shrinks as people flock to big cities

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  89. The teens who'd prefer to catch Covid rather than take the vaccine

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  90. Launching Steve.Ai – Fastest way to create Videos in seconds

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  91. Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  92. The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds, at Any Cost

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  93. DeepMind Cofounder's Google Promotion Followed HR Complaints, Settlements

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  94. How Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  95. Yo (App)

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  96. The Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  97. Cnnfyi.com (2000)

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  98. Parasitic Computing

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  99. Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation (1987) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  100. McFarlan Moore Lighting and the Central London Railway (2019)

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2021