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811.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’ (bbc.com)

169 points by imacerealkiller on Aug 23, 2021 | 131 comments

812.

Use Spreadsheets Everywhere (simplethread.com)

169 points by jetheredge on Aug 3, 2021 | 120 comments

813.

The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire (scoopempire.com)

169 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 10, 2021 | 103 comments

814.

Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup (nauman.medium.com)

169 points by nauman on Aug 15, 2021 | 97 comments

815.

GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs (unite.ai)

169 points by Hard_Space on Aug 4, 2021 | 76 comments

816.

Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator (colab.research.google.com)

169 points by hwayne on Aug 9, 2021 | 31 comments

817.

Black Hat USA 2021 Review (l3ouu4n9.github.io)

169 points by walterbell on Aug 14, 2021 | 28 comments

818.

Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

169 points by agluszak on Aug 3, 2021 | 26 comments

819.

The Apple Psi System [pdf] (apple.com)

168 points by lavp on Aug 7, 2021 | 98 comments

820.

The Drunken Bishop Algorithm (jfurness.uk)

168 points by palsecam on Aug 5, 2021 | 41 comments

821.

Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video] (bbc.com)

168 points by tagawa on Aug 15, 2021 | 40 comments

822.

Role-based access control like it was meant to be (tailscale.com)

168 points by jsnell on Aug 28, 2021 | 37 comments

823.

Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces (utcc.utoronto.ca)

167 points by deafcalculus on Aug 1, 2021 | 147 comments

824.

Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business (nytimes.com)

167 points by SirLJ on Aug 16, 2021 | 134 comments

825.

With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment (statnews.com)

167 points by hassanahmad on Aug 7, 2021 | 133 comments

826.

Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport (toronto.ctvnews.ca)

167 points by zdw on Aug 23, 2021 | 126 comments

827.

Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more (githubstatus.com)

167 points by NiekvdMaas on Aug 10, 2021 | 88 comments

828.

Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (arxiv.org)

167 points by sevest on Aug 12, 2021 | 60 comments

829.

Guerrilla artist faked downtown LA freeway sign in 2001 (motorbiscuit.com)

167 points by jdorfman on Aug 18, 2021 | 55 comments

830.

Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones (act.eff.org)

167 points by sunrise54 on Aug 17, 2021 | 30 comments

831.

Show HN: Visualizer for High Level System Design (honzaap.github.io)

167 points by honzaaap on Aug 6, 2021 | 11 comments

832.

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013) (spectrum.ieee.org)

166 points by hncurious on Aug 4, 2021 | 259 comments

833.

First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq (bbc.co.uk)

166 points by etewiah on Aug 13, 2021 | 175 comments

834.

When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost (blog.polybdenum.com)

166 points by harporoeder on Aug 9, 2021 | 97 comments

835.

GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code (github.com)

166 points by SnowflakeOnIce on Aug 18, 2021 | 83 comments

836.

Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour (strayrobots.io)

166 points by kekeblom on Aug 7, 2021 | 34 comments

837.

Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA (destevez.net)

166 points by parsecs on Aug 8, 2021 | 31 comments

838.

The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive (wired.com)

165 points by Stratoscope on Aug 31, 2021 | 101 comments

839.

Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS (lona-web.org)

165 points by kiesel3rde on Aug 10, 2021 | 80 comments

840.

We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys] (mcsweeneys.net)

165 points by randycupertino on Aug 20, 2021 | 72 comments