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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Herd immunity 'not a possibility' with Delta variant

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  2. Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation for Robot Learning

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  3. Breakthrough: Quantum computers will soon fit in your phone – Sifted

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  4. Major US river that supplies water to 40M people is drying up

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  5. Fortune Global 500 2021 Edition

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  6. Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  7. Apple strong-arms state legislatures with investment promises and threats

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  8. 30 years ago today, the first email from space was sent from a Mac Portable

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  9. Early Wuhan Covid Samples Had Genetically Modified Henipah Virus

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  10. Covid reinfection rates reduced by 2.3x if also vaccinated

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  11. Tetlock and the Taliban

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  12. TCP is a wrong choice for datacenters in every way

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  13. Death, Taxes, and Database Migrations

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  14. A lost tablet and secret documents – Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  15. Chaitin's Constant

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  16. Strategy vs execution

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  17. A Fed-issued digital dollar could print money – for the people

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  18. Extinct 'Hobbit' creature the size of a house cat discovered in Wyoming dig site

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  19. NASA host a conference at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss an OSIRIS-REx important finding

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  20. Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  21. Behold, Carbon-Free Steel Now Exists

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  22. The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  23. US Treasury Secretary accused of corruption – $7.2Mil in 'speaking fees'

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  24. PHP: A fractal of bad design (2012)

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  26. The Silent Partner Cleaning Up Facebook for $500M a Year

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  27. Morgan Stanley Just Reduced TSMC’s Value by $25B

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  28. Milk Crates in the Hood Mania

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  29. Cox–Zucker Machine

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  30. Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

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

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  32. Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in July

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  33. Video Fingerprinting

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  34. BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in QNX operating system

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  35. SRE Case Study: Mysterious Traffic Imbalance (2018)

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  36. Crime-tracking app Citizen now includes a premium-priced safety help line

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  37. The world’s first electric autonomous container ship

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  38. Apple Announces Free Repair Program for iPhone 12 Models with Receiver Issues

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  39. Blank Box or Buttons? Which Format Increased Online Donations?

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  40. International scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  41. What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  42. Every euro invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  43. Why Snow in the Alps Is Turning Red

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. Coworker ported a C++ rendering engine to WebAssembly

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  45. Encrypted devices unravel knots of worldwide organised crime

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  46. Show HN: Open-source low-code BI tool

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  47. Climate Scientists Reach ‘Unequivocal’ Consensus on Human-Made Warming

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  48. I appreciate when men interrupt even if I'm trying to tell them there's a fire

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

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

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  50. OpenAPI as code. What do you think?

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  51. CO2 Users Face Supply Issues, Higher Prices as Carbon Sequestration Grows

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. What it’s like to be an older worker in tech

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  53. NASA stands by its astronaut after incendiary Russian claims

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  54. The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  55. Install NetBSD 9.2 on a Dec Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  56. Non-Disclosure Agreements

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  57. Ultra-lifelike robot nurse unveiled

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  58. Lisa Shaw: Presenter's death due to complications of Covid vaccine

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  59. Win10 Admin Rights Tossed Off by yet Another Plug-In

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  60. Designing Virtual Worlds book is free for limited time [pdf]

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  61. Twitter's AI image algorithm biased towards younger skinnier and whiter people

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  62. U.S. officials' decision on Covid-19 boosters baffles and upsets some scientists

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  63. Amsterdam ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate gay victims of Nazis

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  64. Sexual racism on New Zealand's dating scene – and how apps are making it worse

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  65. Ask HN: How to manage multiple interviews alongside a full-time job

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  66. Helm by Matt Tytel

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  67. Tesla Sells ‘Full Self-Driving,’ but What Is It Really?

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  68. Netflix and Video Games

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  69. The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All? PhDs

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  70. Airbnb listing: Company is 'deeply compromised' by Israeli settlement properties

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  71. Dirac Lecture on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1962)

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  72. Waymo scaling up autonomous trucking operations in Texas, Arizona and California

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  73. Let’s Not Pretend That the Way We Withdrew from Afghanistan Was the Problem

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  74. Show HN: Pulse – An open-source Baremetrics / ProfitWell alternative

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  75. Three-month-olds born during the pandemic now score around 80 on IQ tests

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  76. Scientists Reveal World’s First 3D-Printed, Marbled Wagyu Beef

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  77. Scientists discover common North American plant to be part-time insect eater

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  78. NASA Announces Date for SpaceX’s 23rd Cargo Resupply Mission

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  79. Eating out for big occasions is correlated with a lower quality of food

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  80. Robinhood’s revenue more than doubles to $565M last quarter

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  81. Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, potential risk for mass vaccination?

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  82. Artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  83. Neanderthals, the World’s First Misunderstood Artists (2018)

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  84. Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  85. Chase bank cancel General Flynn account because of Reputational Risk

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  86. US military conducts unmanned airstrike against ISIS-K planner

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  87. Apple’s Double Agent

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. Unruly air passengers hit with $500k in new fines

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

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

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  90. The FDA Is Begging You Not to Take Horse Dewormer for Covid-19

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  91. Pfizer’s Shares Record All-Time High with Covid-19 Vaccine Showing Great Success

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  92. Why do bats have such bizarrely long lifespans? (2019)

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  93. The lost tablet and the secret documents pointing to a shadowy Russian army

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  94. China allows couples to have third child to avert a demographic crisis

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  95. Some Bat Pups Babble Just Like Human Babies

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  96. Paris to Berlin in an hour: Welcome to the future of high-speed rail travel

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  97. A Quine Made with Love

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  98. Why Do Bitcoins Have Value?

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  99. It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  100. ElectronNET: Cross platform GUI for .NET 5

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2021