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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

    226 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  2. Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?

    226 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  3. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

    226 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  4. Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ‘90s

    226 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  5. Personal finance experts don’t get wealthy by following their own advice

    226 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  6. macOS 11’s hidden security improvements

    225 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  7. Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game

    225 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  8. A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out

    225 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  9. Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen

    225 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  10. Goose flying upside down is simply showing off, say experts

    224 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  11. Big Oil methane emissions: ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting

    224 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  12. GNU nano is my editor of choice

    224 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  13. Don't attach tooltips to document.body

    223 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  14. Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules

    223 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  15. The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]

    223 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  16. Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks

    223 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  17. Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

    222 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  18. Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

    222 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  19. Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus

    222 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  20. Houses in Japan are going for as little as $500

    222 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  21. Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property

    221 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  22. WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows

    221 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  23. Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions

    221 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  24. I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write

    221 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  25. Stages of Denial

    221 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  26. More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles

    221 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  27. What domain name to use for your home network

    221 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  28. 30 years on from introducing the Web to the World

    221 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  29. Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings

    221 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  30. What it was like developing for NES back in 1990

    220 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  31. Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation

    220 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  32. Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin

    220 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  33. NodeJS security cheat sheet

    220 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  34. A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

    220 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  35. Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

    220 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  36. Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch

    219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  37. Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

    219 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  38. Kind: A Modern Proof Language

    219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  39. How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe

    219 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  40. Mailable Live Animals

    218 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  41. Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux

    218 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  42. Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”

    218 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  43. How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works

    218 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  44. Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]

    218 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  45. Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games

    218 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  46. Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards

    217 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  47. Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’

    217 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  48. Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but

    216 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  49. SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI

    216 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  50. HyperPhysics (2016)

    216 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  51. Tapedeck.org

    216 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  52. Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds

    216 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  53. Something is killing gray whales

    214 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  54. Where does the plastic in oceans come from?

    214 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  55. Turing Pi V2 is here

    214 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  56. Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival

    214 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  57. An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

    214 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  58. Six Years of Professional Clojure

    213 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  59. Atlas robot does parkour

    213 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  60. Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?

    213 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  61. A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI

    213 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  62. Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars

    213 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  63. Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

    212 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  64. The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

    212 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  65. Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds

    212 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  66. CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions

    212 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  67. ‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament

    212 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  68. Mental health impacts of a big tech job

    212 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  69. Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine

    211 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  70. Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1

    211 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  71. A Dyson sphere around a black hole

    211 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  72. Affinity 1.10

    211 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  73. Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021

    211 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  74. Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis

    210 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  75. The Real Story of Pixar

    210 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  76. WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases

    210 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  77. There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse

    209 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  78. React Renderer for Three.js

    209 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  79. Bad News

    209 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  80. IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ

    209 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  81. NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)

    208 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  82. To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)

    208 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  83. Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal

    208 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  84. Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA

    208 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  85. ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study

    207 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  86. Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing

    207 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  87. Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

    207 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  88. Software Development Waste

    206 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  89. Fighting Like Taliban

    206 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  90. Pyret Programming Language

    206 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  91. The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality

    206 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  92. Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change

    206 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  93. Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)

    205 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  94. Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust

    205 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  95. Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code

    205 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  96. Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use

    204 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  97. A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself

    204 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  98. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)

    204 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  99. Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)

    204 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  100. Archegos was too busy for margin calls

    204 points • comment • aug 03, 2021