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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. How this summer is a ‘preview’ of Earth’s coming climate crisis

    6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  2. Jensen's Kitchen was a lie: Nvidia reveals GTC 2021 keynote nearly 100% fake

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  3. Is 5% a reasonable cut for a middle-man when selling shares privately?

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  4. Show HN: Where I get the last word

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  5. Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor (2009)

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  6. 50 Years After Going Off Gold, the Dollar Must Go for Crypto

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  7. Why Electron apps are fine

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  8. Death Trash early access is on Steam

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  9. Following Torvalds' nudge Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel

    6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  10. QR Codes Aren't Magic

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  11. Starlight Could Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  12. Dyode: A low-cost, DIY data diode for ICS

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  13. Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  14. Show HN: Play online chess with real chess board

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  15. China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  16. Braking and Turning Your Bicycle

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  17. China's Sputnik Moment?

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  18. The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  19. FYPM wants to give power to creators

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  20. Facebook Does Kill People

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  21. Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  22. “Russian Flu” pandemic from 1889 to 1891 might have been a coronavirus pandemic

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  23. Radio Log from Police Copter's Chase of Bizarre Craft over Tucson Add to Mystery

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  24. Better Coordination, or Better Software?

    6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  25. YouTube Is Underwhelming

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  26. Crowd in Kabul attempts to climb into USA army air transport

    6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  27. First-Ever Bitcoin Post On Reddit (2009)

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  28. US psychologist justifies quote “whites should commit suicide as an ethical act”

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  29. City of Chicago Sues DoorDash, Grubhub for Allegedly Deceiving Customers

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  30. Bodies stacked to the ceiling as Covid creates backlog at Florida crematories

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  31. A lead engineer at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has left to join Elon Musk's SpaceX

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  32. Developing on a M1 Mac with Visual Studio for Mac – Visual Studio Blog

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  33. Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  34. Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15B?

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  35. Why it’s time to move on from Covid – spiked

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  36. Have you deleted your data from your device when you dispose of it?

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  37. China's Busiest Ports Closes Container Shipments Due to Covid

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  38. Severe Drought Could Threaten Power Supply in West for Years to Come

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  39. Git's new guidelines for gender-neutral documentation

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  40. Long Covid Might Be the Manifestation of a Different Virus Reawakened in Body

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  41. What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  42. China overtakes US in AI research

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  43. Gmail locked me out of my own account

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  44. If its not great, why the hell is it being tested on public roads?

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  45. AMP Runtime Self-Hosting

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  46. A Tour of Twist

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  47. Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  48. No medical/religious vaccine passport exemption will be made in British Colombia

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  49. Last-ditch effort to salvage cryptocurrency tax deal underway in Senate

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  50. The Taliban may have seized biometric data that can ID US allies in Afghanistan

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  51. Rootkits Come to Containers and Bring Trouble with Them

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  52. Why America keeps building corrupt client states

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  53. Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  54. Microsoft commits to spend $20B to cybersecurity over five years

    6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  55. Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1.2KLOC

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  56. Costs of the Afghanistan War, in Lives and Dollars

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  57. Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  58. The Wealth of Endpapers

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  59. Branch-Stack Workflow for Git

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  60. President's situation room photo has wrong times sparking conspiracy theories

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  61. Glowing Profile of Enron's Award-Winning CFO in CFO Magazine (1999)

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  62. A Century in Stanislaw Lem’s Cosmos

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  63. Google+ class action starts paying out $2.15 for G+ privacy violations

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  64. Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  65. Spies for Hire: China’s New Hackers Mix Espionage and Entrepreneurship

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  66. China Reportedly Working on “Ultra-Large“ Spacecraft That's Miles Across

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  67. The Challenge of Finding Security Advice for Smart Home Devices

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  68. The Walrus Operator: Python 3.8 Assignment Expressions

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  69. Scientists repurpose CRISPR to identify antibodies in patient blood samples

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  70. Covid-19 Could Disrupt the Fight-or-Flight Response for Months, Study Suggests

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  71. Hackers start to return some of the $600M they stole from Poly Network

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  72. For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam's coronavirus response widened the gulf

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  73. New HHS Documents Reveal Millions in Federal Funding for Human Organ Harvesting

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  74. China plans control of tech algorithms that US can only dream of

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  75. Starbase Launchpad Tour

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  76. Ask HN: How can I programmatically manage my streaming subscriptions?

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  77. Processing (Language) Turns 20

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  78. A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  79. China proposes strict control of algorithms

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  80. The Zen of Python

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  81. Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  82. Algorithms Look at X-Rays–and Somehow Detect Your Race

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  83. Xi Jinping’s assault on tech will change China’s trajectory

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  84. Individual Choices, Not Lockdowns

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  85. Vulcan, West Virginia

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  86. Google considered teaming up with Tencent to take down Epic

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  87. Gateway Teams – First experiences of your organization matter

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  88. Pantograph

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  89. Copilot Copies Text Verbatim

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  90. Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  91. 10k women die in car crashes each year because of bad design

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  92. Show HN: Free Backlink Checker

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  93. Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  94. Boston Dynamics: Atlas – Partners in Parkour [video]

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  95. Nearly million people in England became addicted to alcohol during the pandemic

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

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

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  97. How to Defend Yourself Against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  98. Sustainable scotch: Hebridean distillery aims for net zero whisky

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  99. Using Yfinance to Download Financial Data (Python)

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  100. Ask HN: How do you manage one-off internal scripts?

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021