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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Coinbase: Board approval to purchase $500M of crypto

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  2. Google Geofence Warrants

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  3. Celebrities Disappear from Internet as China Moves Against Fan Culture

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  4. Debian: Day 3

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  5. Pelosi Statement on Afghanistan

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  6. Why Can’t Billionaires Advance the Common Good?

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  7. Facebook Cannot Justify Its Opposition To Accountability

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  8. Mercury Is No Longer the Closest Astronomical Body to the Sun

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  9. Masks to be required outdoors at Palo Alto's K-8 public schools

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  10. World Atlas of Languages – Features

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  11. What's New in DevTools (Chrome 94)

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  12. Art and Artificial Intelligence

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  13. RIP Charlie Watts

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  14. Infra-as-Code is cloud lock-in

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  15. Washington school forces unvaccinated student athletes to wear ankle monitors

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  16. Ask HN: Research on usage of text-only versions of websites?

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  17. 6.2M Burmese could go hungry by October

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  18. Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021 writeup

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Money vs. Passion – What would you do?

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  20. How can junior developers find jobs when hiring boards look like this?

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  21. Generate ASCII-art representations of mathematical equations

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  22. Chinese BTC miners sent 200K rigs to Canada but can’t find enough power

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  23. Tell me you’re ex-FAANG without telling me you’re ex-FAANG

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  24. A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  25. Taliban Declare Victory in Afghanistan

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  26. Mainline Linux Close to Realtime: Preempt_rt Locking Code Merged for Linux 5.15

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  27. Etymology of the use of “Drive” to refer to a digital storage medium

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  28. India's living dead: 'They stared at me like I was a ghost'

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  29. Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  30. As an Indian, I am enraged by America’s refusal to set vaccine mandates

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  31. “Glowworm attack” recovers audio from power LEDs

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Recommendations for Project Based Courses

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  33. Should we put a weight rack in the office?

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  34. Man Builds ‘Ultra Large Format’ Camera with a 600mm F/9 Lens

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  35. The Mypillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  36. The cruel history of rum – and why we drink to forget it

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  37. Watch this ‘surreal’ Jupiter eclipse that you probably missed

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  38. Make Room for a New Arduino Competitor – With Native Brainfuck

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  39. The Eternal Fire at Baba Gurgur (2013)

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  40. China Passes One of the World’s Strictest Data-Privacy Laws

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  41. China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  42. The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to Covid Debates – Greenwald

    6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  43. A Doomsday Covid Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  44. Anti-Semitic Merchandise Persists on Pinterest, Despite Restrictions

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  45. Musk: Bezos retired in order to pursue a job filing lawsuits against SpaceX

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  46. European Innovation and Technical Capabilities

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  47. Publishers Blast Internet Archive’s Demand for 10 Years of Sales Data

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  48. The Fall of Afghanistan Shows the Failure of Democracy

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  49. “B*tch to Boss” by Mozilla Firefox

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  50. The Ethereal Beauty of Moths Taking Off in Slow Motion

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  51. Unity to acquire Parsec in its biggest acquisition to date

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. Charlie's Diary: Why I Hate Star Trek (2009)

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  53. Show HN: The Simplest ML API

    6 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  54. Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  55. Funimation Closes $1.2B Crunchyroll Acquisition to Create Single Anime Service

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Recommended 120v LED Bulbs?

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  57. Why Innovation Heroes are a sign of organizational dysfunction

    6 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  58. Stingle is a privacy-focused open-source photo backup application

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  59. E.U. Set to Propose Travel Restrictions on U.S. Visitors

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  60. Biden Poised to Send Some Pot Prisoners Back to Prison

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  61. France, Italy Require Proof of Covid-19 Status for Restaurants, Bars

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  62. Toffoli Gate

    6 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  63. Ask HN: Can you get into security research self taught?

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  64. TIL: Press '.' In a GitHub Repo for Magic

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  65. Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. Amazon plans to open its own department stores

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  67. Astronomers Go Nuts for Closest Exoplanet Directly Imaged Ever: Coconuts-2b

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  68. Infrastructure bill could enable government to track drivers’ travel data

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  69. Ethical Hacking: Introduction to Exploits

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  70. Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (2019)

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  71. Heartbreaking stories of people who regret not getting a Covid-19 vaccine

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  72. The Dacha Is Russia's Summer Cure for Urban Life

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  73. Angry Conti ransomware affiliate leaks gang's attack playbook

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  74. US dealers see ammunition shortage as sales surge

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  75. Musk Says Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  76. Bernstein v. United States

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  77. Idiot Coin

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  78. Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  79. New Orleans Facing Weeks of Darkness on Hurricane Damage

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  80. Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  81. Cerebras: The largest computer AI chip

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  82. 'ShotSpotter' employee deposition raises questions in Pittsburgh police shooting

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  83. A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  84. Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  85. Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  86. Federal Software Running on AWS Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  87. Ask HN: How did you author and typeset your technical book?

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  88. Haiku Activity Report – Summer 2021

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  89. Collating widely available time/money trades

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  90. Hackers Return Funds from Likely Record DeFi Crypto Attack

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  91. Facebook says it’s hiding friends lists on accounts in Afghanistan

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  92. How to Create a Free SMTP Server (Plus Tips on Buying vs. DIY-Ing)

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  93. Moderna vaccinations halted in Okinawa after ‘black substances’ found in vial

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  94. 12-year-old is set to earn over $400K after about 2 months selling NFTs

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  95. Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  96. 1897: London's first electric taxis (with 3 minute battery swap time)

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  97. Show HN: Hypertrace: A modern distributed tracing and Observability platform

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  98. Twitter Finds Leader for ‘Decentralized’ Social Media Project Bluesky

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  99. Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 (2008)

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  100. RTX 3090 Owner Finds Old Glove Inside $1500 GPU

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021