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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Scanning “private” content

    259 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  2. Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

    259 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  3. Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content

    257 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  4. The Bullshit

    257 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  5. How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video]

    257 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  6. “Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

    257 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  7. Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen

    257 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  8. Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain

    257 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  9. YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days

    256 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  10. Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021

    256 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  11. Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing

    256 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  12. Generics enabled by default in Go tip

    256 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  13. Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date

    256 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  14. So you want to write a GUI framework

    256 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  15. San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)

    255 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  16. Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study

    255 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  17. The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

    255 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  18. Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    254 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  19. The Orbit of Planet Nine

    254 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  20. Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal

    253 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  21. Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)

    253 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  22. How Google bought Android

    252 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  23. Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox

    252 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  24. After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations

    252 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  25. Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data

    252 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  26. S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

    252 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  27. Give to Thunderbird

    251 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  28. Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022

    251 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  29. MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3

    251 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  30. Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing

    251 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  31. Receiving FLEXlm Error -88,309: System Clock Has Been Set Back (2020)

    251 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  32. In Praise of PostgreSQL

    249 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  33. Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes

    249 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  34. Rent control isn’t working in Sweden

    249 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  35. Your devices and your employer

    248 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  36. GitHub Issues-only project management

    248 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  37. Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug

    248 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  38. Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (2018)

    248 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  39. Bring back hydrogen lifting gas

    248 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  40. Ethereum just activated its ‘London’ hard fork

    247 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  41. This Can’t Go On

    247 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  42. How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

    247 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  43. Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'

    246 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  44. Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office

    246 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  45. How does Google Authenticator work?

    246 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  46. I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

    246 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  47. Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC

    246 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  48. Brooks, Wirth and Go

    245 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  49. Replay-based attack on Honda and Acura vehicles

    244 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  50. T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’

    243 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  51. GitHub Copilot is ‘unacceptable and unjust,’ says Free Software Foundation

    243 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  52. SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

    243 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  53. Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse

    243 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  54. We Switched to Mattermost

    242 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  55. Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address

    242 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication

    242 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  57. Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill

    241 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  58. Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

    241 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  59. How Watches Work

    240 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  60. Done with YC: Age Discrimination

    240 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  61. Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway

    239 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  62. Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

    239 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  63. Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

    239 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  64. New Leadership at Blizzard

    238 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  65. New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy

    238 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  66. You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones

    237 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  67. European Union recommends halting non-essential travel from the U.S.

    237 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  68. BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

    237 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  69. Speeding up atan2f

    236 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  70. Nelua Programming Language

    236 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  71. Looking into Zig

    236 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  72. My love-hate affair with technology

    236 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  73. IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

    236 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  74. The UK’s delta surge is collapsing

    235 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  75. India's living dead

    235 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  76. Reddit raises $410M in new funding

    234 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  77. Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?

    234 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  78. Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

    234 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  79. South Kensington station's escalator replacement project

    234 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  80. The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound

    233 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  81. Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection

    232 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  82. Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation

    232 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  83. Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online

    232 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  84. At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521

    232 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  85. Conditionally setting your gitconfig

    232 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  86. A simple way to build collaborative web apps

    232 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  87. Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)

    231 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  88. Emacs' org-mode gets citation support

    231 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  89. Welcome to Nestflix

    231 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  90. How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015)

    231 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  91. Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing

    230 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  92. Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption

    229 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  93. Janet Programming Language

    229 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  94. Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

    229 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  95. Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US

    228 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  96. Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today

    228 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  97. Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men

    227 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  98. Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero

    227 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  99. Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable

    227 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  100. Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series

    227 points • comment • aug 12, 2021