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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. YIsrael, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  2. How Dutch Gouda Cheese Is Made

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  3. Ask HN: Excessive Number of Ebay Re:Captchas?

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  4. Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  5. China cracks down on celebrity fan culture

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  6. Guide to asking a simple technical question on Reddit when shadow banned?

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  7. Tokyo Olympics cost $15.4B. What else could that buy?

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  8. Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  9. How to Resist Jumping to Solutions

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  10. A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  11. GM to spend $1B to expand Chevy Bolt EV recall due to fires

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  12. Ask HN: Where can I find a shareholder agreement template for a startup?

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  13. Ask HN: Does a landing page MVP work?

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  14. What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  15. Have You Fired Anyone?

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  16. There's (A Lot) More to George Orwell Than Nineteen Eighty-Four

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  17. China: The Regime's Managed Economy Is Stagnating

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  18. LED streetlights decimating moth numbers in England

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  19. Perfectly preserved cave lion cub found frozen in Siberia is 28,000 years old

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  20. YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  21. July was the hottest month ever recorded, NOAA says

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  22. Never trust a scientist: psychology scandal is a reminder of an old principle

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  23. Ransomware gangs are working with Russian intelligence services, report says

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  24. Randomness Requirements for Security (2005)

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  25. IPCC climate report is 'code red for humanity'

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  26. Sense of smell may be the key to a balanced diet

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  27. US adds record 26 GW of renewables in 2020, says clean power org ACP

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  28. I Judge the Quality of Documentation in 30 Seconds (2014)

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  29. Nuclear scientists hail US fusion breakthrough

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  30. Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of deadly Marburg virus

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  31. Is The Suicide Squad the beginning of the end for the superhero movie?

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  32. Home Alone: Here’s how they filmed its bonkers finale. (2015)

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  33. Ask HN: Is the Wayback Machine Down?

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  34. Discord music bot Groovy is going offline after YouTube crackdown:(

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  35. How the Taliban Turned Smartphones into Weapons

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  36. US investigates Autopilot after 11 Teslas crashed into emergency vehicles

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  37. Access modern GPU features with WebGPU

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  38. Computer Space and beyond: 50 years of gaming

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  39. Running Windows 11 with TPM on LXD

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  40. Debate, Dissent, and Protest on Reddit

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  41. It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  42. Arc of the Valley: The Inside Story of Mint, Silicon Valley, and Selling Out

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  43. Why Migraine Sufferers May Want to Eat More Fish

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  44. Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann Experiments

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  45. Grocery prices continue to rise–and there’s no end in sight

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  46. Delta raising health premiums for unvaccinated by $200/month to cover Covid cost

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  47. Oregon declares state of emergency as another ‘extreme heatwave’ looms

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  48. Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known SARS-CoV-2 Strains

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  49. Posh: A Data-Aware Shell

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  50. List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  51. Affirm shares soar on news of Amazon partnership for buy now, pay later

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  52. How far away from burnout are you?

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  53. Charles Eisenstein, Antisemite

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  54. The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  55. C64 OS

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  56. China's “Semiconductor Theranos”

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  57. Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  58. Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  59. Reddit is now valued at more than $10B

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  60. Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  61. Ivermectin Poisionings Spiking in Mississppi

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  62. Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Understand AI Ethics

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  63. Ming of Harlem

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  64. Behavioral Sink

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  65. A new coalition for “Open Cap Table” presents equity transparency opportunity

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  66. Happiness Engineer

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  67. A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  68. Will fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  69. Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  70. Remarks Before the Aspen Security Forum, SEC Chair Gary Gensler

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  71. We call upon Reddit to take action against rampant Coronavirus misinformation

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  72. Myst remake impressions: Turning a new page on a classic–with issues at launch

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  73. Wingspan board game is changing how we play

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  74. A Guide to Finding Faith

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  75. Dale Carnegie’s Golden Rules

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  76. Gaslighting, a Covid Love Story

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  77. IDF commander's creative solution to lower Covid numbers: Don't get tested

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  78. A NASA Scientist Explains Why the Weather Is Becoming More Extreme

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  79. No-Code Is Code

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  80. How to do basic shell completion

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  81. How a once-obscure government database turned into a weapon for anti-vaxxers

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  82. The Points Guy Started

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  83. Show HN: Rasterizer.io – Make Dynamic Images

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  84. Killing superbugs with star-shaped polymers, not antibiotics

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  85. The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  86. Ask HN: What feature phone do you use and recommend?

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  87. Networks of Twin Peaks: The Dale Cooper Effect[pdf]

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  88. Video shows Taliban executing unarmed Afghan special forces soldiers

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  89. Scientists find ‘gatekeeper’ of conscious awareness

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  90. Machine Learning Sucks at Covid

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  91. Ravi, a Lua Dialect

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  92. Patterns of Legacy Displacement

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  93. New England preps for first hurricane in 30 years

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  94. Zimbabwe under complete Chinese control: Is anyone noticing?

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  95. Mask-free Sweden nears zero daily Covid deaths

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  96. ‘Devastating career event’: scientists caught out by change to ARC fine print

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  97. Orlando residents asked to limit water usage to help Covid-19 patients

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  98. Tesla Features That Prove We're Living in the Future

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  99. Pico DSP: An open-source, Arduino-compatible, ESP32-based audio dev board

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  100. Vaccines are less protect. agst Delta infect. but still reduce risk by 2/3

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021