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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Cuttlefish can form crystal-clear memories even in their final weeks

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  2. Read the Senate's roughly $1T infrastructure bill

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  3. We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  4. Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  5. Pegasus, at the Crossroads of Technology and Politics

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  6. Rapyd raises $300M on $8.75B valuation as fintech-as-a-service continues to boom

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  7. Calls for a Covid Probe Plunged Australia into a Hacking Nightmare

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  8. Insurtech Trends for Now and the Future

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  9. The Kanna Finish: Glass-Smooth Surfaces in Wood Without Sandpaper or Varnish

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  10. Michelson–Morley Experiment

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  11. It’s easy to judge the unvaccinated.

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  12. Coins, the Overlooked Keys to History

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  13. Marijuana Can Induce Feelings of “Oceanic Boundlessness” Similar to Psych (Cont)

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  14. The List of Sans Cheat Sheets – Sans Institute

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  15. Families of 9/11 victims tell Biden not to attend memorial events

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  16. Google researchers may have created time crystals

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  17. The IPCC AR6 Hockeystick

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  18. Hiding floppy disks to find a cofounder

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  19. Meaningful Availability

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  20. Don't scan your face to buy glasses

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  21. Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  22. Engineers grow 3D bioprinted blood vessel

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  23. Ground-effect vehicle

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  24. Florida Is America's Future: Old, Southern and Retired

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  25. Markdown vs. ReStructuredText for Teaching Materials

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  26. Show HN: WishAlbum, an online wish list

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  27. Buy a luxury building, then lower the rent: A housing fix for CA’s middle class?

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  28. One weird trick to shrink convolutional networks for TinyML

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  29. No. Phone. WTF

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  30. Rings Around a Black Hole

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  31. Instagram apologizes for Almodóvar film’s poster censorship

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  32. Open-Source Insulin

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  33. Non-Profit Ideas

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  34. Facebook,TikTok won’t lift ban on posts promote Taliban after fall Afghanistan

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  35. Letter from Christian Leaders to Prime Minister on Vaccine Passport Proposals

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  36. Tackling Misinformation on YouTube

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Is there a threadreader app for slack like Twitter

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  38. Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  39. Designing a Scalable Design Organization

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  40. Show HN: Procedural log cabins using code CAD

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  41. To Stop a Pandemic in Its Tracks, Coordinate Across Borders

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  42. Bearing Witness to Racism in America Today

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  43. As US exits Afghanistan, China eyes $1T in minerals

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  44. Talks at Google: Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  45. You Shouldn’t Get a Booster Shot If You’re Immunocompetent – It’s Risky

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  46. The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  47. The cracked version of Resident Evil Village runs better, testing confirms

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  48. DirectStorage Developer Preview now available

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

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

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  50. Show HN: Papiro is a script for an offline, privacy and security focused, backup

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  51. Too Much Covid Caution Will Be Bad for Schoolchildren

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  52. We Killed Elixir

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  53. Show HN: A terrible way to calculate absolute value in Python

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  54. ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an ‘Independent’ Company

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  55. Microsoft MakeCode

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  56. Shared micromobility company Bird launches a consumer electric bike for $2,299

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  57. Yelp to allow users to filter businesses based on staff vaccination requirements

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  58. A Seattle mecca for running goes dark; city falls short on homelessness

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  59. How Could Burning Man Get Weirder? When It’s in Your Living Room

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  60. Aspirin may help treat aggressive breast cancer

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  61. Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  62. New Zealanders begin life in lockdown as Delta Covid-19 cases edge up

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  63. More than one million dead in Latin America as Lambda variant spreads [video]

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  64. Prehistoric ‘hobbit’ among fossils showing evolution of mammals after dinosaurs

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  65. Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  66. UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner grills Hikvision China human rights abuses

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  67. George Rhoads, Designer of “ball machines” dies

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  68. Salicylanilides Reduce Covid Replication and Suppress Inflammatory Cytokines

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  69. Sydney, New Zealand Extend Lockdowns as Covid Spread Worsens

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  70. Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  71. Causes and consequences of purifying selection on SARS-CoV-2

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  72. Reverse Passthrough VR

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  73. Einstein’s Fridge

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  74. Keeping Freedom Alive

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  75. When did we all become women?

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  76. US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  77. Carbon Costs Quantified

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  78. ‘If you talk, you live well’: the remote Sardinian village with 8 centenarians

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  79. Sophistry at Duke in Defense of School Mask Mandates

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  80. New tool allows NPR to track source diversity in real time

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  81. Goodreads: Extortion Scams and Review Bombing

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  82. Intel Winds Down RealSense Camera Biz

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  83. NASA's 'Quiet' Supersonic X-59 Jet Approaches First Flight

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  84. The FCC Says It’s Finally Fixing Its Crappy Broadband Maps

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  85. Playdate Teardown

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  86. The Secret Language of Cults

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  87. How to support displaced people in Afghanistan

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  88. Pianists fitted with robotic thumb can learn to play with 11 digits

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  89. SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  90. China marks Tibet anniversary with call to accept Communist Party rule

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  91. Yuka: A JavaScript Library for Developing Game AI

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  92. Canadair CL-415 Aerial Firefighter

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  93. Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines?

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  94. Twitter's new font: What's wrong with Chirp, and why users hate it

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  95. A theoretical approach for designing a self-organizing human-swarm system

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  96. US settles with whistleblower who exposed botched Covid response

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  97. Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  98. Data Stolen in Microsoft Exchange Hack May Have Helped Feed China's AI Project

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  99. Clubhouse in Afghanistan is removing users photo and bio for users safety

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  100. CI on Power9 (PPC64LE) LPAR using snapper

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2021