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The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2021

We track 1,386 stories from July 2021, averaging 247 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 88 stories. Together they drew 207,123 comments, 149 per story on average.

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Valve Steam Deck steamdeck.com · homarp · 15 Jul 2021
2.5k pts 1.6k comments
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday typesense.org · karterk · 14 Jul 2021
2.1k pts 579 comments
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The Framework Laptop is now shipping frame.work · ahaferburg · 23 Jul 2021
1.5k pts 762 comments
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Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” support.google.com · temp8964 · 16 Jul 2021
1.3k pts 1.5k comments
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NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup shkspr.mobi · pimterry · 9 Jul 2021
1.3k pts 447 comments
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Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments twitter.com · bencollier49 · 2 Jul 2021
1.3k pts 639 comments
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How Dwarf Fortress is built stackoverflow.blog · andreareina · 29 Jul 2021
1.1k pts 388 comments
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Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying medialens.org · k1m · 2 Jul 2021
1.1k pts 637 comments
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All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot twitter.com · fredley · 8 Jul 2021
1k pts 707 comments
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EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017) engadget.com · seesawtron · 11 Jul 2021
987 pts 351 comments
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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication patrick-breyer.de · pepperberg · 6 Jul 2021
938 pts 415 comments
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Who Owns My Name? amandamarieknox.medium.com · Tomte · 30 Jul 2021
908 pts 267 comments
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Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters thedrive.com · samizdis · 12 Jul 2021
907 pts 539 comments
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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway alexskra.com · oarth · 29 Jul 2021
903 pts 346 comments
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The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano? alexanderpiano.nz · kurthr · 16 Jul 2021
884 pts 186 comments
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Assange case: Key witness admits he lied thewire.in · graderjs · 19 Jul 2021
875 pts 281 comments
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Npm Audit: broken by design? overreacted.io · wongmjane · 7 Jul 2021
872 pts 259 comments
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This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator fxip.as203478.net · mritzmann · 12 Jul 2021
872 pts 253 comments
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Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? blogs.bmj.com · lnyan · 19 Jul 2021
857 pts 479 comments
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I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot thelig.ht · janvdberg · 3 Jul 2021
848 pts 516 comments
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An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up fanfan.rambo.codes · spideymans · 18 Jul 2021
843 pts 446 comments
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Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance looking-glass.io · tambourine_man · 18 Jul 2021
843 pts 303 comments
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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments caretaker.com · rdgthree · 8 Jul 2021
818 pts 577 comments
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Element raises $30M to boost Matrix matrix.org · Sami_Lehtinen · 27 Jul 2021
809 pts 339 comments
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Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance theguardian.com · ipster_io · 19 Jul 2021
800 pts 152 comments
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Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file static.wiki · segfall · 30 Jul 2021
796 pts 189 comments
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Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card wificard.io · bndw · 11 Jul 2021
769 pts 326 comments
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Poisson's Equation mattferraro.dev · mferraro89 · 6 Jul 2021
766 pts 159 comments
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The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) uxdesign.cc · yankcrime · 13 Jul 2021
763 pts 477 comments
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Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go obsidian.md · ericax · 12 Jul 2021
760 pts 318 comments
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Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission mwcampbell.github.io · mwcampbell · 30 Jul 2021
751 pts 388 comments
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The Insecurity Industry edwardsnowden.substack.com · stanislavb · 26 Jul 2021
743 pts 368 comments
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People Staring at Computers kylemcdonald.net · BayAreaEscapee · 11 Jul 2021
743 pts 337 comments
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AWS's Egregious Egress blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 23 Jul 2021
742 pts 229 comments
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A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013) minimizedistraction.com · cratermoon · 7 Jul 2021
740 pts 271 comments
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Windows 96 windows96.net · besnn00 · 27 Jul 2021
724 pts 316 comments
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Naval Architecture ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 27 Jul 2021
717 pts 138 comments
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BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound birdnet.cornell.edu · r_singh · 23 Jul 2021
706 pts 155 comments
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The most precious resource is agency simonsarris.substack.com · simonsarris · 1 Jul 2021
701 pts 325 comments
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TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant asia.nikkei.com · stereoradonc · 26 Jul 2021
699 pts 436 comments
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“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead” zeit.de · Tomte · 10 Jul 2021
694 pts 272 comments
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Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech theregister.com · walterbell · 19 Jul 2021
689 pts 204 comments
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Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk reuters.com · geox · 27 Jul 2021
687 pts 191 comments
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization josephg.com · xnx · 31 Jul 2021
686 pts 151 comments
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Our lawsuit against ChessBase stockfishchess.org · EvgeniyZh · 20 Jul 2021
677 pts 253 comments
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Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion cyclingnews.com · billfruit · 25 Jul 2021
674 pts 169 comments
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Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” i.postimg.cc · URfejk · 29 Jul 2021
669 pts 620 comments
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Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable consoledonottrack.com · thih9 · 6 Jul 2021
668 pts 341 comments
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Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time? chronicle.com · Cream-Corn-11 · 4 Jul 2021
665 pts 374 comments
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Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship eff.org · DiabloD3 · 18 Jul 2021
659 pts 544 comments
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Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts github.com · frankjr · 25 Jul 2021
654 pts 382 comments
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Instagram Has Become SkyMall clivethompson.medium.com · DLay · 10 Jul 2021
652 pts 328 comments
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1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee businessinsider.com · pseudolus · 30 Jul 2021
646 pts 532 comments
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Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists washingtonpost.com · tosh · 18 Jul 2021
643 pts 167 comments
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Linux Rust Support lore.kernel.org · doener · 6 Jul 2021
641 pts 433 comments
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GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model github.com · canada_dry · 4 Jul 2021
636 pts 146 comments
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Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch sciencemag.org · sohkamyung · 16 Jul 2021
629 pts 231 comments
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Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale promethean.news · dv_dt · 29 Jul 2021
627 pts 360 comments
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The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair wired.com · donohoe · 21 Jul 2021
626 pts 84 comments
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Crafting Interpreters is available in print craftinginterpreters.com · azhenley · 29 Jul 2021
623 pts 118 comments
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