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July 2021 discussion archive

Browse 147 retained Hacker News discussion records from July 2021, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend31 Jul 2021 · 272 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization31 Jul 2021 · 686 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages31 Jul 2021 · 567 points · 77 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file30 Jul 2021 · 796 points · 189 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission30 Jul 2021 · 751 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee30 Jul 2021 · 646 points · 532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?30 Jul 2021 · 274 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. B-tree Path Hints30 Jul 2021 · 282 points · 62 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Who Owns My Name?30 Jul 2021 · 908 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”29 Jul 2021 · 669 points · 620 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale29 Jul 2021 · 627 points · 360 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot29 Jul 2021 · 283 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Crafting Interpreters is available in print29 Jul 2021 · 623 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. How Dwarf Fortress is built29 Jul 2021 · 1,130 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]29 Jul 2021 · 290 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database29 Jul 2021 · 284 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway29 Jul 2021 · 903 points · 346 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices28 Jul 2021 · 283 points · 661 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves (2020)28 Jul 2021 · 270 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)28 Jul 2021 · 271 points · 134 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen28 Jul 2021 · 274 points · 309 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Windows 9627 Jul 2021 · 724 points · 316 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk27 Jul 2021 · 687 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database27 Jul 2021 · 601 points · 137 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Naval Architecture27 Jul 2021 · 717 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play27 Jul 2021 · 277 points · 51 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Element raises $30M to boost Matrix27 Jul 2021 · 809 points · 339 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims27 Jul 2021 · 271 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born26 Jul 2021 · 578 points · 183 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. The Insecurity Industry26 Jul 2021 · 743 points · 368 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles26 Jul 2021 · 614 points · 747 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants26 Jul 2021 · 289 points · 219 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?26 Jul 2021 · 277 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant26 Jul 2021 · 699 points · 436 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers26 Jul 2021 · 276 points · 456 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades25 Jul 2021 · 283 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts25 Jul 2021 · 654 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion25 Jul 2021 · 674 points · 169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)25 Jul 2021 · 288 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)25 Jul 2021 · 614 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop25 Jul 2021 · 273 points · 141 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks25 Jul 2021 · 609 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. K-9 Mail is back24 Jul 2021 · 270 points · 134 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods24 Jul 2021 · 291 points · 470 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Self hosting is important24 Jul 2021 · 566 points · 318 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria24 Jul 2021 · 278 points · 68 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?23 Jul 2021 · 290 points · 606 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. AWS's Egregious Egress23 Jul 2021 · 742 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound23 Jul 2021 · 706 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. The Framework Laptop is now shipping23 Jul 2021 · 1,502 points · 762 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Hacker News in the Style of Teletext22 Jul 2021 · 283 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Zip – How not to design a file format22 Jul 2021 · 274 points · 162 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS22 Jul 2021 · 292 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair21 Jul 2021 · 626 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)21 Jul 2021 · 271 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. BBEdit 1421 Jul 2021 · 287 points · 159 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Kubernetes is our generation's Multics21 Jul 2021 · 589 points · 538 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Twike21 Jul 2021 · 275 points · 195 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Support for team members who are mistreated in their country20 Jul 2021 · 272 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Our lawsuit against ChessBase20 Jul 2021 · 677 points · 253 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents20 Jul 2021 · 272 points · 63 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)20 Jul 2021 · 623 points · 95 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus20 Jul 2021 · 612 points · 509 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups19 Jul 2021 · 599 points · 316 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor19 Jul 2021 · 290 points · 79 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?19 Jul 2021 · 857 points · 479 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks19 Jul 2021 · 286 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Assange case: Key witness admits he lied19 Jul 2021 · 875 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance19 Jul 2021 · 800 points · 152 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech19 Jul 2021 · 689 points · 204 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. “Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis18 Jul 2021 · 278 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs18 Jul 2021 · 272 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids18 Jul 2021 · 286 points · 160 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up18 Jul 2021 · 843 points · 446 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust18 Jul 2021 · 275 points · 48 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship18 Jul 2021 · 659 points · 544 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones18 Jul 2021 · 282 points · 140 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists18 Jul 2021 · 643 points · 167 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon18 Jul 2021 · 591 points · 137 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute18 Jul 2021 · 573 points · 146 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD18 Jul 2021 · 282 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance18 Jul 2021 · 843 points · 303 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. A Solarpunk Manifesto17 Jul 2021 · 287 points · 199 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Why we're blind to the color blue16 Jul 2021 · 575 points · 211 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”16 Jul 2021 · 1,330 points · 1,520 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch16 Jul 2021 · 629 points · 231 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Open Insulin Foundation16 Jul 2021 · 567 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input16 Jul 2021 · 281 points · 39 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?16 Jul 2021 · 884 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B15 Jul 2021 · 604 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Generating JSON Directly from Postgres15 Jul 2021 · 269 points · 153 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Valve Steam Deck15 Jul 2021 · 2,517 points · 1,609 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)14 Jul 2021 · 291 points · 173 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday14 Jul 2021 · 2,075 points · 579 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Beating TimSort at Merging13 Jul 2021 · 282 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Give me /events, not webhooks13 Jul 2021 · 568 points · 313 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)13 Jul 2021 · 763 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo13 Jul 2021 · 584 points · 379 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters12 Jul 2021 · 907 points · 539 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator12 Jul 2021 · 872 points · 253 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails12 Jul 2021 · 281 points · 487 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go12 Jul 2021 · 760 points · 318 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card11 Jul 2021 · 769 points · 326 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web11 Jul 2021 · 273 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. People Staring at Computers11 Jul 2021 · 743 points · 337 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)11 Jul 2021 · 987 points · 351 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Instagram Has Become SkyMall10 Jul 2021 · 652 points · 328 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some10 Jul 2021 · 268 points · 180 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”10 Jul 2021 · 694 points · 272 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup09 Jul 2021 · 1,328 points · 447 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. A better business model for video folks08 Jul 2021 · 284 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup08 Jul 2021 · 607 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)08 Jul 2021 · 582 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments08 Jul 2021 · 818 points · 577 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot08 Jul 2021 · 1,017 points · 707 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)07 Jul 2021 · 740 points · 271 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing07 Jul 2021 · 276 points · 108 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Npm Audit: broken by design?07 Jul 2021 · 872 points · 259 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively07 Jul 2021 · 283 points · 80 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?07 Jul 2021 · 286 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication06 Jul 2021 · 938 points · 415 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware06 Jul 2021 · 278 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Open 3D Engine06 Jul 2021 · 285 points · 174 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over06 Jul 2021 · 276 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Poisson's Equation06 Jul 2021 · 766 points · 159 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable06 Jul 2021 · 668 points · 341 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Linux Rust Support06 Jul 2021 · 641 points · 433 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. No More Movies06 Jul 2021 · 605 points · 564 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Writing a firmware-only keylogger05 Jul 2021 · 291 points · 99 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Python Best Practices for a New Project in 202105 Jul 2021 · 276 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. The Programmer's Brain05 Jul 2021 · 268 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?04 Jul 2021 · 665 points · 374 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more04 Jul 2021 · 621 points · 275 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. The Growth Ponzi Scheme04 Jul 2021 · 281 points · 242 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model04 Jul 2021 · 636 points · 146 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot03 Jul 2021 · 848 points · 516 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you03 Jul 2021 · 277 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Things I wish Git had: Commit groups03 Jul 2021 · 289 points · 193 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack03 Jul 2021 · 611 points · 486 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan02 Jul 2021 · 274 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments02 Jul 2021 · 1,280 points · 640 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying02 Jul 2021 · 1,110 points · 637 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price02 Jul 2021 · 275 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)02 Jul 2021 · 591 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email02 Jul 2021 · 606 points · 307 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax01 Jul 2021 · 565 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. The most precious resource is agency01 Jul 2021 · 701 points · 325 commentsPartial reading withheld