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August 2021 Archive
1051.
Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China (sifted.eu)
135 points by dukeyukey on Aug 24, 2021 | 75 comments
1052.
Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes (traveller.com.au)
135 points by Stratoscope on Aug 15, 2021 | 70 comments
1053.
On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words (lithub.com)
135 points by signor_bosco on Aug 1, 2021 | 42 comments
1054.
Unit testing a TCP stack (2015) (snellman.net)
135 points by PuercoPop on Aug 26, 2021 | 35 comments
1055.
Latency Sneaks Up on You (brooker.co.za)
135 points by luord on Aug 27, 2021 | 25 comments
1056.
Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions (docker.com)
135 points by forrestbrazeal on Aug 31, 2021 | 1 comments
1057.
Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores (latimes.com)
134 points by thunderbong on Aug 8, 2021 | 116 comments
1058.
JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0 (github.com)
134 points by codewiz on Aug 18, 2021 | 101 comments
1059.
Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL (per.quest)
134 points by soheil on Aug 13, 2021 | 82 comments
1060.
Deno 1.13 Release (deno.com)
134 points by 0xedb on Aug 10, 2021 | 74 comments
1061.
A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf] (ese.wustl.edu)
134 points by michaelsbradley on Aug 17, 2021 | 51 comments
1062.
A plain text note-taking system for problem solving (calculist.io)
134 points by thomascountz on Aug 7, 2021 | 46 comments
1063.
Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten (github.com)
134 points by coldblues on Aug 1, 2021 | 44 comments
1064.
BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video] (bbc.co.uk)
134 points by OJFord on Aug 9, 2021 | 42 comments
1065.
Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads (macrumors.com)
133 points by arkadiyt on Aug 4, 2021 | 96 comments
1066.
An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object (searchvoidstar.tumblr.com)
133 points by norescue on Aug 27, 2021 | 89 comments
1067.
NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars (theblaze.com)
133 points by RickJWagner on Aug 7, 2021 | 88 comments
1068.
Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii (smithsonianmag.com)
133 points by benbreen on Aug 31, 2021 | 44 comments
1069.
Essence – An Operating System (gitlab.com)
133 points by nonbirithm on Aug 9, 2021 | 42 comments
1070.
What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019) (quora.com)
132 points by ColinWright on Aug 17, 2021 | 223 comments
1071.
California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being (phys.org)
132 points by boshomi on Aug 15, 2021 | 184 comments
1072.
Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 (twitter.com)
132 points by superphil0 on Aug 23, 2021 | 131 comments
1073.
Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010) (theguardian.com)
132 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 100 comments
1074.
I use Attrs instead of Pydantic (threeofwands.com)
132 points by YohAsakura on Aug 25, 2021 | 74 comments
1075.
ANSI Escape Codes (gist.github.com)
132 points by grafelic on Aug 11, 2021 | 57 comments
1076.
Rain at the Summit of Greenland (nsidc.org)
132 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 19, 2021 | 45 comments
1077.
CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors (6502.org)
132 points by amrcnimgrnt on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments
1078.
Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public (theguardian.com)
132 points by diodorus on Aug 17, 2021 | 41 comments
1079.
Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons (quantamagazine.org)
132 points by theafh on Aug 12, 2021 | 38 comments
1080.
Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine (tesseract.projectnaptha.com)
132 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2021 | 37 comments