top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-02

The rise of never-ending job interviews

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210727-the-rise-of-never-ending-job-interviews

5 years ago

967 upvotes – 1169 comments

Life before smartphones (2020)

https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-most-unbelievable-things-about

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 482 comments

WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-August/006887.html

5 years ago

622 upvotes – 182 comments

Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036927

5 years ago

617 upvotes – 220 comments

Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

https://bou.ke/blog/formulas/

5 years ago

616 upvotes – 117 comments

The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”

https://www.axios.com/pbs-internet-online-information-nonprofit-e9a78344-ae58-4214-9cb6-974ab9576cb1.html

5 years ago

525 upvotes – 285 comments

It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription

https://calpaterson.com/printers.html

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 321 comments

FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023801277/your-facebook-account-was-hacked-getting-help-may-take-weeks-or-299

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 340 comments

Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210729-israel-tries-to-limit-fallout-from-the-pegasus-spyware-scandal

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 304 comments

Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/02/pegasus-spyware-found-on-journalists-phones-french-intelligence-confirms

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 97 comments

Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Linux-July-2021

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 354 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037366

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 897 comments

Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 199 comments

Why is China smashing its tech industry?

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-is-china-smashing-its-tech-industry

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 383 comments

How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion

https://blog.azuki.vip/csrf/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28034882

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 168 comments

Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible

https://newengland.com/today/food/red-delicious-apple/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 250 comments

SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/spacex-installed-29-raptor-engines-on-a-super-heavy-rocket-last-night/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 403 comments

We Switched to Mattermost

https://netfoundry.io/why-we-switched-to-mattermost/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 132 comments

The UK’s delta surge is collapsing

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-u-k-s-delta-surge-is-collapsing-will-ours.html

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 438 comments
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