top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-27

Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix

4 years ago

809 upvotes – 339 comments

Windows 96

https://windows96.net

4 years ago

724 upvotes – 316 comments

Naval Architecture

https://ciechanow.ski/naval-architecture/

4 years ago

717 upvotes – 138 comments

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/father-builds-exoskeleton-help-wheelchair-bound-son-walk-2021-07-26/

4 years ago

687 upvotes – 191 comments

Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database

4 years ago

601 upvotes – 137 comments

For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/

4 years ago

500 upvotes – 598 comments

Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-walkout-harassment-lawsuit-fefa807b-107e-41e2-a6e2-78a086119e04.html

4 years ago

495 upvotes – 528 comments

Discord Launches Threads

https://blog.discord.com/connect-the-conversation-with-threads-on-discord-3f5fa8b0f6b

4 years ago

441 upvotes – 225 comments

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 150 comments

Curated list of personal blogs

https://refined.blog/

4 years ago

362 upvotes – 126 comments

Netcat – All you need to know

https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/netcat/

4 years ago

351 upvotes – 45 comments

Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 133 comments

Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595227/star-wars-lucasfilm-mandalorian-rogue-one-hire-deepfake-shamook

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 213 comments

Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 114 comments

Google launches new vulnerability reward platform

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/07/a-new-chapter-for-googles-vulnerability.html

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 104 comments

Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-emerge-from-open-ended-play

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 51 comments

Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/07/26/surfside-condo-collapse-how-israeli-team-found-majority-victims/8021350002/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 131 comments

Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971757

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 182 comments

TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA17674

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 188 comments

FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia

https://forums.fast.ai/t/ann-announcing-fastai-jl-fastai-for-julia/90228

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 23 comments
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