top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-21

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 15 comments

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 159 comments

EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/eff-joins-global-coalition-asking-apple-ceo-tim-cook-stop-phone-scanning

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 209 comments

An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/xargs.html

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 130 comments

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

https://www.thecut.com/article/i-dont-want-to-be-like-a-family-with-my-co-workers.html

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 234 comments

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

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 139 comments

Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacker%20news

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 183 comments

Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

https://www.sqlite.org/draft/stricttables.html

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 107 comments

How to Remember What You Read

https://fs.blog/2021/08/remember-books/

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 91 comments

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

http://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253647838.html

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 304 comments

Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22634841/facebook-most-viewed-content-report-look-bad

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 30 comments

Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42021/radio-transmissions-from-police-helicopters-chase-of-bizarre-craft-over-tucson-add-to-mystery

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 257 comments

Generics enabled by default in Go tip

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/343732/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 365 comments

Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/08/thoughts-work-invaded-my-life-until-i-learned-how-unplug

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 113 comments

GitHub Issues-only project management

https://blog.placemark.io/2021/07/19/issues-only-management.html

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 123 comments

The Janet Programming Language

https://janet-lang.org/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 114 comments

Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX

https://tikz.net/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 43 comments

I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261147

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 7 comments

Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021

https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 145 comments

Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257352

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 309 comments

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/dan-ariely-honesty-study-retraction

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job

https://fortune.com/2021/08/20/us-workers-looking-for-jobs/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 152 comments

Genius Checklist

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Genius_checklist

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 133 comments

Benefits of Not Using an IDE

https://alexander-hansen.dev/blog/benefits-of-not-using-an-ide

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 373 comments

Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department

https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1429173367643516936

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 133 comments

Working in One Bit

https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/285964/working-in-one-bit

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol

https://github.com/gitsrc/IceFireDB

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 70 comments

Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes

https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2021/08/expert-help-needed-to-decode-rare-piece.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

Golang.org will be merged into go.dev

https://go.dev/blog/tidy-web

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 93 comments

The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 83 comments

RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights

https://rg3d.rs/general/2021/08/21/0.22-feature-highlights.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started

https://data.berkeley.edu/news/project-jupyter-celebrates-20-years-fernando-perez-reflects-how-it-started-open-sciences

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8350060/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

DNS alias mode (2020)

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-alias-mode

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/047_x131e_repair/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

The World’s Largest Computer Chip

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX

https://www.fastcompany.com/90667790/the-real-reason-youre-not-more-productive-at-work-its-not-boredom-its-bad-ux

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon Genomics CLI

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/announcing-amazon-genomics-cli-preview/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

TLA+ is hard to learn (2018)

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2018/12/24/tla-is-hard-to-learn/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)

https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4041510&blobtype=pdf

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

Schema on write is better to live by

https://hrishioa.github.io/schema-on-write-is-better-to-live-by/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Prop-22-the-gig-worker-exemption-for-Uber-and-16401915.php

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 2 comments

New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

https://www.wsj.com/articles/minimalist-phones-try-to-give-users-what-they-neednot-always-what-they-want-11629370801

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 135 comments

An Introduction to AI Story Generation

https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-ai-story-generation/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Airliner Number 4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airliner_Number_4

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Snap: A microkernel approach to host networking (2019)

https://research.google/pubs/pub48630/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Going back to work? No, thank you

https://dsebastien.medium.com/going-back-to-work-no-thank-you-5429d60acd12

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments

The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/08/19/secret-life-worlds-most-hated-insect/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 69 comments

Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-08-19-enhanced-support-citations-github/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

The Apollo Affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Data Wrangler

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/data-wrangler

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

The Shadowy Business of International Education

https://thewalrus.ca/the-shadowy-business-of-international-education/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Prop 22 found unconstitutional by California Superior Court

https://twitter.com/veenadubal/status/1428873686212173826

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 1 comments

A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/21/meet-the-man-behind-tveeder-the-no-frills-live-tv-transcript-that-became-an-australian-media-hero

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 126 comments

The big-load anti-pattern

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/08/21/the-big-load-anti-pattern/

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments
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