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August 2021 Archive
1081.
Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up (theguardian.com)
132 points by x14km2d on Aug 13, 2021 | 35 comments
1082.
Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use (fedoramagazine.org)
132 points by marbu on Aug 27, 2021 | 29 comments
1083.
Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018) (people.csail.mit.edu)
132 points by optimalsolver on Aug 7, 2021 | 20 comments
1084.
A Bit Overcomplicated (thedailywtf.com)
131 points by jjgreen on Aug 5, 2021 | 249 comments
1085.
Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors? (news.uchicago.edu)
131 points by mzs on Aug 31, 2021 | 221 comments
1086.
U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate (text.npr.org)
131 points by everybodyknows on Aug 13, 2021 | 208 comments
1087.
The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago (twitter.com)
131 points by edward on Aug 12, 2021 | 122 comments
1088.
Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form (axios.com)
131 points by montalbano on Aug 13, 2021 | 94 comments
1089.
“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks” (twitter.com)
131 points by dejawu on Aug 19, 2021 | 88 comments
1090.
I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic (airspacemag.com)
131 points by areoform on Aug 22, 2021 | 41 comments
1091.
Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search (yurichev.com)
131 points by kulikov009 on Aug 22, 2021 | 20 comments
1092.
A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself (therecord.media)
131 points by colinprince on Aug 30, 2021 | 17 comments
1093.
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
130 points by dang on Aug 5, 2021 | 161 comments
1094.
Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers (cbc.ca)
130 points by miles on Aug 14, 2021 | 157 comments
1095.
World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast (afr.com)
130 points by jay_kyburz on Aug 7, 2021 | 138 comments
1096.
Why are so many knowledge workers quitting? (newyorker.com)
130 points by irtefa on Aug 17, 2021 | 124 comments
1097.
Cproc C Compiler (github.com)
130 points by oenetan on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments
1098.
Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator (theverge.com)
130 points by elorant on Aug 15, 2021 | 38 comments
1099.
JAMMA Video Standard (mistys-internet.website)
130 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2021 | 23 comments
1100.
Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video] (youtube.com)
129 points by underscore_ku on Aug 22, 2021 | 105 comments
1101.
The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
129 points by prismatic on Aug 8, 2021 | 81 comments
1102.
Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading (msn.com)
129 points by jryle70 on Aug 7, 2021 | 66 comments
1103.
The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
129 points by animal_spirits on Aug 11, 2021 | 38 comments
1104.
A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations (about.sourcegraph.com)
129 points by janisz on Aug 19, 2021 | 37 comments
1105.
Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort (duckdb.org)
129 points by hfmuehleisen on Aug 27, 2021 | 27 comments
1106.
Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters (itch.io)
129 points by polm23 on Aug 16, 2021 | 20 comments
1107.
LLVM Internals: The Bitcode Format (blog.yossarian.net)
129 points by woodruffw on Aug 19, 2021 | 8 comments
1108.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
128 points by whoishiring on Aug 2, 2021 | 216 comments
1109.
Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast (forbes.com)
128 points by dmitrygr on Aug 16, 2021 | 193 comments
1110.
Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS (support.google.com)
128 points by yellow_lead on Aug 19, 2021 | 70 comments