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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning

    179 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  2. Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack

    178 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  3. EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

    178 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  4. Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory

    178 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  5. Once an Addict, Always an Addict?

    178 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  6. Comma Three [video]

    178 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  7. Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water

    178 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  8. Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined

    178 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  9. Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

    177 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  10. FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes

    177 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  11. Corporations Are Crappy Archivists

    177 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  12. The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'

    177 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  13. Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

    176 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  14. Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM

    176 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  15. Git 2.33

    176 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  16. How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?

    175 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  17. Intro to Deep Learning

    175 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  18. Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]

    175 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  19. A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation

    175 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  20. For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades

    175 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  21. The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history

    174 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  22. Youtube-dl is possibly dead

    174 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  23. EU to make Bitcoin traceable, ban anonymous crypto wallets

    174 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  24. Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

    174 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  25. Going mouseless

    174 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  26. Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job

    174 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  27. Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab

    174 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry

    174 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  29. Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble

    173 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  30. CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price

    173 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  31. Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images

    173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  32. The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy

    173 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  33. CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust

    173 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  34. Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations

    173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  35. Docker container security cheat sheet

    173 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  36. Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble

    172 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  37. The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream

    172 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  38. When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?

    171 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  39. Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

    171 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  40. Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads

    171 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  41. The Principles of Newspeak (1949)

    171 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  42. Empty Epsilon: a fully open-source spaceship bridge simulator game

    171 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  43. Framework Patterns (2019)

    171 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  44. Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3

    170 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  45. Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech

    170 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  46. Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews

    170 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  47. Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected

    170 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  48. Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap

    170 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  49. As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all': study

    170 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  50. Powering the Lunar Base

    170 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  51. Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types

    170 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  52. Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

    169 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  53. NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE

    169 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  54. Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations

    169 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  55. Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health

    169 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  56. Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos

    169 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  57. Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home

    169 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  58. Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding

    169 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  59. Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup

    169 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  60. Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas

    169 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  61. Illustrated Redirection Tutorial

    169 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  62. Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go

    169 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  63. Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication

    169 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  64. DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering

    168 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  65. Porn Spam on Google Maps

    168 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  66. Swiping left on magnetic stripes

    168 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  67. TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court

    168 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  68. Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s

    168 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  69. One does not simply calculate the absolute value

    168 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  70. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]

    168 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  71. Journal of Controversial Ideas

    168 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  72. Indian inventor dies in homemade helicopter accident

    168 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  73. JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter

    167 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  74. Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more

    167 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  75. Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]

    167 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  76. Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia

    167 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  77. The macOS Sandbox File Limit

    167 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  78. Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep

    167 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  79. The Drunken Bishop Algorithm

    167 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  80. Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’

    167 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  81. The Winners of Remote Work

    167 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  82. Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

    167 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  83. Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it

    167 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  84. Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?

    167 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  85. GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs

    167 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  86. Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime

    167 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  87. Fundamentals of Incident Management

    166 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  88. When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost

    166 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  89. OCaml at Bloomberg

    166 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  90. LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

    166 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  91. Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business

    166 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  92. You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls

    166 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  93. Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse

    166 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  94. Black Hat USA 2021 Review

    166 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  95. Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby

    166 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  96. Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat

    166 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  97. The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire

    165 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  98. LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser

    165 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  99. California Megafires Are Solvable

    165 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  100. So You Want to Study Philosophy

    165 points • comment • aug 31, 2021