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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. So You Want to Study Philosophy

    165 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  2. Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces

    165 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  3. With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment

    164 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  4. Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux

    164 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  5. Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA

    164 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  6. Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city

    164 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  7. The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%

    164 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  8. AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design

    164 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  9. Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees

    164 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  10. About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years

    164 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  11. Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

    164 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  12. A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data

    164 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  13. Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport

    163 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  14. Use Spreadsheets Everywhere

    163 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  15. Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour

    163 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  16. Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire

    163 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  17. Early Retirement (2006)

    162 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  18. Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

    162 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  19. Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months

    162 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  20. Trevor Moore has died

    162 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  21. The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

    161 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  22. The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

    161 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  23. First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  24. VCs are financing an economy of servants

    161 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  25. Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange

    161 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

    161 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  27. Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

    160 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  28. M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

    160 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  29. World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

    160 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  30. Next-gen chips will be powered from below

    160 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  31. This Is Water (2005)

    159 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  32. Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job

    159 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  33. Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off

    159 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  34. Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment

    159 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  35. GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code

    159 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  36. A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)

    158 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  37. When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software

    158 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  38. Soviet Moon Images (2004)

    158 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  39. Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley

    158 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  40. Show HN: Visualizer for High Level System Design

    158 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  41. What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?

    157 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  42. White House Launches US Digital Corps

    157 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  43. Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One

    157 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  44. Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe

    156 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  45. Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository

    156 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  46. Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)

    156 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  47. A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)

    156 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  48. Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

    156 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  49. How you play Spades is how you play life

    156 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  50. Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS

    156 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  51. Benefits of Not Using an IDE

    156 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  52. Role-based access control like it was meant to be

    156 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  53. China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

    156 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  54. OpenBSD Router Guide (2020)

    155 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  55. Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks

    155 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  56. Show HN: A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch

    155 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  57. Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe

    155 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  58. 286 vs. 386SX

    155 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  59. L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source

    155 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  60. Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland

    155 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  61. The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

    154 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  62. Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django

    154 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  63. Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading

    154 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  64. The Zettelkasten Method (2019)

    154 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  65. home.netscape.com in 1997

    154 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  66. Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense

    154 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  67. Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

    153 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  68. Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago

    153 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  69. The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality

    153 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  70. In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

    153 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  71. What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)

    153 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  72. Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us

    153 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  73. Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video

    153 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  74. Big company tale: six months for a list and a button

    153 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  75. Dumb Phone

    152 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  76. Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?

    152 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  77. Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed

    152 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  78. Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem

    152 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  79. Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi

    152 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  80. Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++

    152 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  81. Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

    152 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  82. Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department

    151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  83. After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind

    151 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  84. Guerrilla artist fakes downtown LA freeway sign

    151 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  85. Genius Checklist

    151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  86. Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work

    151 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  87. Xerox Alto Emulator

    151 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  88. Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit

    151 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  89. Working in One Bit

    151 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  90. Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams

    150 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  91. The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services

    150 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  92. Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation

    150 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?

    150 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  94. Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi

    150 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  95. Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse

    150 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  96. Incentives in Computer Science

    150 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  97. IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol

    149 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  98. Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures

    149 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  99. New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours

    149 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  100. How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes

    149 points • comment • aug 01, 2021