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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Facebook Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation and Calling Them Experts

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  2. Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  3. Creating a Space Game with OpenAI Codex

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  4. Ask HN: What are the best jobs and roles for someone with ADHD?

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  5. HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  6. Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  7. Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US Covid Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  8. Unisys Icon

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  9. Minxin Pei on why China will not surpass the United States

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  10. Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize original strain and Delta

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  11. Ask HN: Is wordpress still the go to fool-proof CMS?

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  12. Natural and Vaccine Immunity Against the SARS-CoV-2 Endemic Virus

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  13. Political Mutilation In Byzantine Culture

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  14. The AudioKit Synth One is a pro-level iPad synth that’s completely free (2018)

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  15. Buridan's Ass

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  16. The strange neglect of natural immunity

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  17. Facebook pushes its office reopening to 2022

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  18. One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  19. Elon Musk says Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson writing about him

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  20. Sharks were spared during extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs, study finds

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  21. YouTube’s Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  22. Launched my first course, earned over US $500k - AMA

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  23. Unauthorized Publications (New Jersey Department of Corrections) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  24. Williamson Tunnels

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  25. The controversial plan to rewild death

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. Phytomining: The plant-based solution growing on the mining industry

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  27. Emojipedia acquired by Zedge

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  28. High cholesterol fuels cancer by fostering resistance to a form of cell death

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  29. Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, Awk, and grep

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  30. Show HN: A static site generator built for longevity

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  31. Qubes Canary 028, change in canary signers

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  32. The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  33. Ask HN: Is Brex a scam? Should I report our case to the CFPB?

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  34. Ask HN: What are some thought-provoking comics I can read with my kids?

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  35. Show HN: CLI for authentication into AWS right from your terminal (supports MFA)

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  36. Deadly Lambda variant could be neutralizing vaccines, new study says

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  37. Blinded by Scientism

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  38. World's 1.5C climate goal on brink of slipping beyond reach, warns IPCC report

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  39. Knife-wielding man chases couple in San Francisco

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  40. Why We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  41. Days since last Facebook scandal

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  42. Divorce Lawyer: Facebook Is a Cheating Machine

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  43. Twitter reinstates accounts of India's Rahul Gandhi, other opposition leaders

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  44. As Covid-19 Boosters Loom, Manufacturers Expected to See Billions More in Sales

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  45. Ask HN: Why are 1/3 to 1/2 of HN submissions labeled [dead]?

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  46. Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  47. The Story of Mel

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  48. Amazon urges FCC to reject SpaceX proposals for next-generation Starlink

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  49. Fun non-profit side project ideas

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  50. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child sexual abuse images – Apple

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  51. Staff of socialist magazine Current Affairs fired for attempting to organize

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  52. Show HN: PinePage– A monetization platform rooted in the value of Free Speech

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  53. Hostile Takeover of L.A.’s Public Schools

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  54. The Deployment Fidelity Problem

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  55. The reason most super apps are not super great

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  56. Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ Should Have Ended U.S. Debate on Beijing’s Ambitions

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  57. The Intolerance Network

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  58. What Are Stores Even Thinking with All These Emails?

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  59. 6 Scientific Reasons Why Your Productivity Hacks Never Work

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  60. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  61. What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  62. Over $90M in cryptocurrency stolen after top Japanese exchange is hacked

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  63. Top Hacks from Black Hat and DEF Con 2021

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  64. Live demo of new OpenAI code writing technology tomorrow

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  65. Lockdown was based on faith, not evidence

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. How to build an AI unicorn in 6 years

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  67. macOS Flaw in Telegram Retrieves Deleted Messages

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  68. Show HN: A snappy and resilient Hacker News clone in ~1k lines of rust

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  69. Mexico to sue U.S.-based gunmakers over flow of arms across border

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  70. Katalin Karikó’s mRNA pioneering research helped pave way for mRNA Vaccines

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  71. The growth of compute power per dollar looks exponential even on a log scale

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  72. Alaska Airlines evacuated a plane after a phone burst into flame

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  73. ‘My bosses were happy to destroy me’ – the women forced out of work by menopause

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  74. The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  75. It’s No “Mistake” That Bill Gates Was Palling Around with Jeffrey Epstein

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  76. How Democratic Is the World’s Largest Democracy? Narendra Modi’s New India

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  77. Afghanistan’s Falling Man: The 17y/o Soccer Star Who Fell from a US Military Jet

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  78. Previously Unpublished Emails Of Satoshi Nakamoto Present A New Puzzle (2020)

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  79. Ex Afgan communications minister works as bicycle curier in Germany

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  80. How the right’s ivermectin conspiracy theories led people to buy horse dewormer

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  81. Show HN: Hook, supplying the missing links to macOS

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  82. Windows privilege escalation with Razer Installer

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  83. Proposed Law Would Fine Australians Who Share Protest Information $11,000

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  84. Microbenchmarking is hard: how an innocent printf caused a drastic slowdown

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  85. Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  86. Managing Oneself

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  87. 'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  88. The worst 5% of power plants produce 75% of CO2

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  89. Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be based on Arch Linux–not Debian

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  90. As Bitcoin looks to go ‘green,’ some miners look to nuclear power as a solution

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  91. A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  92. Richard Feynman, the Physicist Who Didn’t Understand His Own Theories

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  93. IPCC Press Conference (climate change related)

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  94. Clubhouse (the project management app launched in 2016) is changing its name

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  95. Meat-rich diet of 14th-century monks caused digestive issues, research finds

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  96. Blush, illustrations for your product page

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  97. Tim Cook’s Run as Apple CEO Could End as Early as 2025. Who Will Replace Him?

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  98. Exercise Vigorously for 4 Seconds. Repeat. Your Muscles May Thank You

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  99. Chrome 94 Beta: WebCodecs, WebGPU, Scheduling, and More

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  100. Textpattern CMS

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021