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August 2021 Archive
841.
Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off (burstable.ai)
165 points by danbmil99 on Aug 15, 2021 | 51 comments
842.
When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software (reason.com)
165 points by Overton-Window on Aug 7, 2021 | 26 comments
843.
World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale (newatlas.com)
164 points by geox on Aug 23, 2021 | 195 comments
844.
Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video (notebookcheck.net)
164 points by sidcool on Aug 4, 2021 | 183 comments
845.
The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services (nytimes.com)
164 points by rafaelc on Aug 22, 2021 | 176 comments
846.
VCs are financing an economy of servants (sifted.eu)
164 points by sarathyweb on Aug 9, 2021 | 147 comments
847.
Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks (sciencedirect.com)
164 points by nabla9 on Aug 12, 2021 | 133 comments
848.
Next-gen chips will be powered from below (spectrum.ieee.org)
164 points by jonbaer on Aug 28, 2021 | 82 comments
849.
Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
164 points by mcone on Aug 5, 2021 | 30 comments
850.
Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures (gq.com)
163 points by camjohnson26 on Aug 3, 2021 | 249 comments
851.
How you play Spades is how you play life (pudding.cool)
163 points by feross on Aug 30, 2021 | 115 comments
852.
China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor (spectrum.ieee.org)
163 points by Hoasi on Aug 4, 2021 | 93 comments
853.
This Is Water (2005) (fs.blog)
163 points by mrpf1ster on Aug 28, 2021 | 75 comments
854.
Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley (corecursive.com)
163 points by signa11 on Aug 3, 2021 | 59 comments
855.
Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018) (github.com)
163 points by pabs3 on Aug 14, 2021 | 40 comments
856.
The Semiconductor Heist of the Century (semianalysis.com)
163 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 27, 2021 | 2 comments
857.
Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job (cnn.com)
162 points by belltaco on Aug 5, 2021 | 312 comments
858.
Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’ (washingtonpost.com)
162 points by bookofjoe on Aug 27, 2021 | 143 comments
859.
Genius Checklist (supermemo.guru)
162 points by Tomte on Aug 21, 2021 | 133 comments
860.
Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed (bbc.com)
162 points by NotSwift on Aug 11, 2021 | 127 comments
861.
Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe (pib.gov.in)
162 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 29, 2021 | 94 comments
862.
After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind (theverge.com)
162 points by gamblor956 on Aug 17, 2021 | 84 comments
863.
Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it (ar.al)
162 points by aral on Aug 9, 2021 | 79 comments
864.
Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange (ethanzuckerman.com)
162 points by anigbrowl on Aug 18, 2021 | 59 comments
865.
Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
161 points by MahyadGhassemi on Aug 16, 2021 | 325 comments
866.
The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality (nianticlabs.com)
161 points by riebschlager on Aug 11, 2021 | 114 comments
867.
Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ (notes.eatonphil.com)
161 points by eatonphil on Aug 26, 2021 | 113 comments
868.
M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti (earthquake.usgs.gov)
161 points by chmaynard on Aug 14, 2021 | 79 comments
869.
Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi (kevinboone.me)
161 points by snwy on Aug 31, 2021 | 60 comments
870.
Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty (datacolada.org)
161 points by DominikPeters on Aug 17, 2021 | 51 comments