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1981.

France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books (nytimes.com)

65 points by mantesso on Aug 2, 2021 | 96 comments

1982.

Working around a case where the Postgres planner is “not very smart” (heap.io)

65 points by kmdupree on Aug 2, 2021 | 59 comments

1983.

High heat: Spain clocks prelim record of 47.2 C (116.96 F) (abcnews.go.com)

65 points by underscore_ku on Aug 14, 2021 | 58 comments

1984.

Merchants can keep charging your card even if it's cancelled/expired (developer.visa.com)

65 points by jongunter1 on Aug 20, 2021 | 54 comments

1985.

Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values (inc.com)

65 points by retskrad on Aug 29, 2021 | 49 comments

1986.

Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9

65 points by dang on Aug 26, 2021 | 48 comments

1987.

Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11 (arstechnica.com)

65 points by zenbob on Aug 18, 2021 | 31 comments

1988.

Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim (github.com)

65 points by app4soft on Aug 16, 2021 | 30 comments

1989.

Working with Postgres Types (blog.jonudell.net)

65 points by alainchabat on Aug 7, 2021 | 27 comments

1990.

Ask HN: Book Recommendations

65 points by Centauri on Aug 29, 2021 | 19 comments

1991.

The Future Is a Landscape (ecosophia.net)

65 points by spats1990 on Aug 9, 2021 | 18 comments

1992.

End-to-End Encryption through Kafka (github.com)

65 points by mattgreg on Aug 4, 2021 | 16 comments

1993.

Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the orbital fly-by (esa.int)

65 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 10, 2021 | 6 comments

1994.

There's currently a British guy called Lord Miles in Kabul having a great time (twitter.com)

65 points by hackathonguy on Aug 15, 2021 | 6 comments

1995.

1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web (webdevelopmenthistory.com)

65 points by codetrotter on Aug 16, 2021 | 5 comments

1996.

US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones (9to5mac.com)

65 points by dane-pgp on Aug 16, 2021 | 5 comments

1997.

Occlusion-Aware Video Object Inpainting (kelei.site)

65 points by lnyan on Aug 17, 2021 | 2 comments

1998.

Single-sequence protein structure prediction using language models (biorxiv.org)

65 points by Metacelsus on Aug 5, 2021 | 1 comments

1999.

Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning (quantamagazine.org)

64 points by daviddisco on Aug 29, 2021 | 141 comments

2000.

Google considers switching FLoC to a topic-based approach (digiday.com)

64 points by robin_reala on Aug 17, 2021 | 104 comments

2001.

What cats do when we’re not looking (theguardian.com)

64 points by dll on Aug 5, 2021 | 89 comments

2002.

SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’ (independent.co.uk)

64 points by hiddencache on Aug 20, 2021 | 78 comments

2003.

Fall of Saigon (en.wikipedia.org)

64 points by nanis on Aug 16, 2021 | 75 comments

2004.

The logic driving China’s big tech clampdown (asiatimes.com)

64 points by throwaway4good on Aug 1, 2021 | 63 comments

2005.

Tesla AI Day Live Stream [video] (youtube.com)

64 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2021 | 63 comments

2006.

Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invasion of your privacy?

64 points by livinginfear on Aug 9, 2021 | 59 comments

2007.

Pythonic monotonic (nedbatchelder.com)

64 points by ingve on Aug 13, 2021 | 57 comments

2008.

First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought (mercurynews.com)

64 points by nradov on Aug 23, 2021 | 54 comments

2009.

Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he doesn't own (github.com)

64 points by ddtaylor on Aug 30, 2021 | 50 comments

2010.

AWS recruiter doesn't want to show what's new out there (twitter.com)

64 points by serial_dev on Aug 12, 2021 | 48 comments