The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2021

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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