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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Former CDC Dir. Redfield: We Need to Know What Happened at the Wuhan Lab

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  2. Mission Afghanistan: Biometrics

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  3. Ask HN: What are some job sectors which are crying out for tech talent in 2021?

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  4. Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  5. In Norway, electric cars make gas-powered car sales vanish

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  6. PEP 668 – Graceful cooperation between external and Python package managers

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  7. Japan's 'godfather of Sudoku' dies at 69

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  8. As murders surge, Democrats find a new message: Fund the police

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  9. Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  10. Kubernetes Hardening Guidance from NSA

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  11. Interact with the Nintendo DS PictoChat Protocol

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  12. Stasi files: The biggest jigsaw puzzle(2012)

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  13. The truth behind the biggest (and dumbest) battery myths

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  14. Veteran dies of treatable illness as Covid fills hospital beds

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  15. WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  16. Taliban kill woman for not wearing burqa

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  17. Trump Sneaks Back on Twitter by Disguising Self as Taliban Spokesperson

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  18. Sirhan Sirhan, man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy, granted parole

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  19. Best Practices for Versioning REST and GraphQL APIs

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  20. Covid-19 death rates 10x higher in countries where most adults are overweight

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  21. Biohackers Aiming to Mass Produce Insulin

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  22. People Explain Why They Want to Buy Fake Vaccine Cards

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  23. The Sinclair C5

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  24. Writing a Save state manager for RetroPlayer for GSoC

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  25. AI has the worst superpower medical racism

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  26. Kevin Hoffman: WTF Is WebAssembly?

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  27. Electrification isn’t just for big school buses

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  28. Apple and Google: “Our vision is that we work as if we are one company”

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  29. OpenAI Demoing Codex Live

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  30. Norton and Avast are merging into an $8B antivirus empire

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  31. Show HN: Crypto data from multiple exchanges to multiple storage systems-Updated

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  32. 38M records leaked by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  33. Enzian is a research computer built by the Systems Group at ETH Zurich

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  34. Ask HN: New Platform for Software Tutorials

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  35. Uncleftish Beholding

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  36. Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  37. Single proton cooled by distant ions

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  38. Anti-Vaxxers Got Fooled by Fake ‘Snitch on Your Unvaccinated Friends’ Site

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  39. The Scramblepad Hardware and Protocol

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  40. Kotlin 1.5.30 Is Now Available

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  41. Optical Tempest Sound Recovery via a Device’s Power Indicator LED

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  42. Best Process for Decision Making?

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  43. Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  44. The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  45. Internet Archive Seeking 10 Years of Publisher Sales Data for Fair Use Defense

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  46. White House weighs response as Biden faces mounting criticism over Afghanistan

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  47. BC announces vaccine passport; no religious or medical exemptions

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  48. Biden orders 1k more troops to support airlift of U.S. embassy

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  49. Could More Progressive Taxes Increase Income Inequality?

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  50. Ain't No Sunshine in the Big Easy

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  51. Tracing the Ephemeral (2018)

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  52. A Brief Intro to Mtl

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  53. Improving your team's on-call experience

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  54. Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations (2020)

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

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

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  56. To Target Trump, Google Rewrote Its News Algorithms

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  57. The Central Park Karen

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  58. The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to Covid Debates

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  59. Advice to Entrepreneurs from a Millionaire

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  60. The Plan to Make Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post the Everything Newspaper

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  61. Porsche will provide cars with ‘fake chips’ to reduce delivery times

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  62. Blood clotting may be the root cause of Long Covid syndrome, research shows

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  63. Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks with Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  64. NP.com: Rare 2-letter .com domain for sale

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  65. Domino's iOS App Settings

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  66. Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic)

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  67. Rclip: An AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  68. Anonymous tipster calls police on Sydney church service. fines worshippers

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  69. The mosque built once a year (2019)

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  70. Baby on Nevermind cover sues Nirvana over child sexual exploitation

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  71. Academics bypass PINs for MasterCard and Maestro contactless payments

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  72. Mistakes to Avoid as a Software Development Manager

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  73. A Brutal Truth of Upper Management

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  74. Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain (2019)

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  75. Global Temperature over My Lifetime

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  76. Qualys partners with Red Hat to improve Linux and Kubernetes security

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  77. Office of Personnel Management data breach

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  78. Ray Tracing Gems II [2021] (free book)

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  79. Matt Taibbi: We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  80. Kids Can Recover from Missing Even Quite a Lot of School

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  81. AMD’s Threadripper Is the Beating, Heating Heart of 'Most Powerful' DIY Laptop

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  82. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Administration's Ban On Evictions

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  83. Show HN: Slack/Discord bot for running interactive REPLs and shells from a chat

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  84. Cargo bikes deliver faster and cleaner than vans, study finds

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  85. Russ Cox on Memory Models

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  86. Preorders for This Electromagnetic Rifle Are Being Taken for $3,775

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  87. Ask HN: Anyone prefer a terminal based coding setup?

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  88. Aaliyah's Music to Return After a Decade: The Inside Story

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  89. New China restrictions limit minors to three hours of gaming a week

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  90. Swedish Government Had to Reimburse a Drug Dealer $1.5M in BTC

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  91. Tesla’s Autobidder is scaring Germany’s utility providers

    6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  92. The Azolla Event

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  93. Mach Effects for In-Space Propulsion [pdf]

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  94. The Git staging area, the term literally everyone agrees with

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  95. Ask HN: Help on finding a deal for transitioning a tech team?

    6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  96. How the Poly Network hack worked

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  97. Girls on Afghanistan's robotics team rescued

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  98. Gift Logic: Labors of love flourish online under fandom’s social norms

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  99. Amazon Urges FCC to Deny SpaceX's Plan for Second-Generation Starlink

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  100. Spectrum.chat – Join us on our new journey

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021