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  1. Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

    364 points • 157 comments • aug 23, 2021

  2. It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

    364 points • 448 comments • aug 13, 2021

  3. OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]

    364 points • 99 comments • aug 15, 2021

  4. Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

    364 points • 300 comments • aug 31, 2021

  5. Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%

    363 points • 94 comments • aug 26, 2021

  6. How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]

    363 points • 205 comments • aug 22, 2021

  7. How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

    363 points • 119 comments • aug 15, 2021

  8. Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)

    362 points • 266 comments • aug 03, 2021

  9. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    361 points • 271 comments • aug 02, 2021

  10. LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences

    360 points • 115 comments • aug 06, 2021

  11. U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

    358 points • 444 comments • aug 16, 2021

  12. Sailfish 4

    357 points • 137 comments • aug 26, 2021

  13. A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

    354 points • 194 comments • aug 22, 2021

  14. The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)

    351 points • 144 comments • aug 16, 2021

  15. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)

    351 points • 105 comments • aug 17, 2021

  16. Very fast rocket

    351 points • 90 comments • aug 07, 2021

  17. Performance Improvements in .NET 6

    350 points • 216 comments • aug 18, 2021

  18. Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping

    349 points • 333 comments • aug 16, 2021

  19. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

    348 points • 460 comments • aug 11, 2021

  20. Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition

    347 points • 311 comments • aug 11, 2021

  21. API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

    346 points • 100 comments • aug 24, 2021

  22. Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy

    345 points • 397 comments • aug 13, 2021

  23. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

    345 points • 144 comments • aug 18, 2021

  24. Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI

    344 points • 136 comments • aug 13, 2021

  25. U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

    343 points • 246 comments • aug 01, 2021

  26. HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse

    343 points • 105 comments • aug 05, 2021

  27. Charlie Watts has died

    342 points • 91 comments • aug 24, 2021

  28. I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers

    340 points • 214 comments • aug 21, 2021

  29. Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors

    340 points • 146 comments • aug 27, 2021

  30. Stop Waiting for Godot

    339 points • 115 comments • aug 30, 2021

  31. LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

    339 points • 83 comments • aug 16, 2021

  32. Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn

    338 points • 167 comments • aug 10, 2021

  33. Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror

    337 points • 65 comments • aug 17, 2021

  34. Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal

    337 points • 257 comments • aug 27, 2021

  35. A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics

    337 points • 93 comments • aug 16, 2021

  36. OpenAI Codex

    336 points • 167 comments • aug 10, 2021

  37. A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

    335 points • 65 comments • aug 03, 2021

  38. Dating in Delhi when you're poor

    335 points • 242 comments • aug 06, 2021

  39. Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster

    335 points • 199 comments • aug 16, 2021

  40. Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

    332 points • 311 comments • aug 26, 2021

  41. Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking

    332 points • 274 comments • aug 22, 2021

  42. Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)

    331 points • 40 comments • aug 13, 2021

  43. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)

    331 points • 698 comments • aug 02, 2021

  44. mRNA vaccine trial for Lyme disease

    326 points • 208 comments • aug 26, 2021

  45. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

    326 points • 247 comments • aug 18, 2021

  46. A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical

    325 points • 279 comments • aug 25, 2021

  47. Why is it so hard to be rational?

    324 points • 279 comments • aug 16, 2021

  48. Google employees who work from home could lose money

    323 points • 620 comments • aug 10, 2021

  49. Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

    323 points • 157 comments • aug 24, 2021

  50. The complicated reality of doing what you love

    322 points • 145 comments • aug 29, 2021

  51. Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework

    322 points • 143 comments • aug 02, 2021

  52. Why are hyperlinks blue?

    321 points • 245 comments • aug 26, 2021

  53. U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults

    318 points • 205 comments • aug 25, 2021

  54. Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

    318 points • 153 comments • aug 09, 2021

  55. App store payments will have increased competition

    316 points • 269 comments • aug 27, 2021

  56. Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?

    316 points • 251 comments • aug 24, 2021

  57. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

    315 points • 71 comments • aug 17, 2021

  58. Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)

    314 points • 53 comments • aug 21, 2021

  59. Why Erlang?

    314 points • 147 comments • aug 31, 2021

  60. $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date

    313 points • 321 comments • aug 10, 2021

  61. The Clickbaitification of Netflix

    312 points • 266 comments • aug 24, 2021

  62. Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads

    312 points • 216 comments • aug 14, 2021

  63. Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

    312 points • 99 comments • aug 21, 2021

  64. They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)

    311 points • 242 comments • aug 24, 2021

  65. Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

    308 points • 101 comments • aug 21, 2021

  66. Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier

    308 points • 73 comments • aug 27, 2021

  67. For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

    308 points • 375 comments • aug 12, 2021

  68. The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free

    307 points • 50 comments • aug 11, 2021

  69. TikTok requests access to devices on local network

    307 points • 139 comments • aug 16, 2021

  70. Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    307 points • 40 comments • aug 23, 2021

  71. Helvetica Now Variable

    306 points • 174 comments • aug 17, 2021

  72. Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]

    305 points • 354 comments • aug 13, 2021

  73. Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem

    304 points • 219 comments • aug 14, 2021

  74. Nerds Don't Respond to Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead

    304 points • 220 comments • aug 14, 2021

  75. An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux

    304 points • 60 comments • aug 29, 2021

  76. “My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”

    303 points • 145 comments • aug 10, 2021

  77. How to Hack APIs in 2021

    303 points • 77 comments • aug 10, 2021

  78. MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine

    303 points • 100 comments • aug 15, 2021

  79. I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

    301 points • 232 comments • aug 08, 2021

  80. T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

    300 points • 247 comments • aug 18, 2021

  81. Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse

    299 points • 123 comments • aug 24, 2021

  82. Thunderbird 91.0

    298 points • 242 comments • aug 12, 2021

  83. Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

    297 points • 97 comments • aug 16, 2021

  84. The US should be held accountable: Gitmo survivor on the war on terror’s failure

    295 points • 274 comments • aug 16, 2021

  85. Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

    293 points • 251 comments • aug 26, 2021

  86. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

    293 points • 192 comments • aug 25, 2021

  87. Postgres.app

    293 points • 145 comments • aug 06, 2021

  88. A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos

    293 points • 51 comments • aug 31, 2021

  89. How to Remember What You Read

    293 points • 81 comments • aug 21, 2021

  90. Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware

    292 points • 85 comments • aug 30, 2021

  91. The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual

    291 points • 102 comments • aug 19, 2021

  92. My small revenge on Apple

    291 points • 361 comments • aug 04, 2021

  93. How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)

    289 points • 75 comments • aug 22, 2021

  94. Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers

    288 points • 193 comments • aug 20, 2021

  95. AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses

    288 points • 254 comments • aug 14, 2021

  96. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

    288 points • 311 comments • aug 05, 2021

  97. We Hire Old People

    287 points • 229 comments • aug 25, 2021

  98. Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)

    286 points • 199 comments • aug 01, 2021

  99. Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science

    286 points • 234 comments • aug 08, 2021

  100. Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight

    286 points • 164 comments • aug 23, 2021