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841.

Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off (burstable.ai)

165 points by danbmil99 on Aug 15, 2021 | 51 comments

842.

When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software (reason.com)

165 points by Overton-Window on Aug 7, 2021 | 26 comments

843.

World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale (newatlas.com)

164 points by geox on Aug 23, 2021 | 195 comments

844.

Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video (notebookcheck.net)

164 points by sidcool on Aug 4, 2021 | 183 comments

845.

The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services (nytimes.com)

164 points by rafaelc on Aug 22, 2021 | 176 comments

846.

VCs are financing an economy of servants (sifted.eu)

164 points by sarathyweb on Aug 9, 2021 | 147 comments

847.

Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks (sciencedirect.com)

164 points by nabla9 on Aug 12, 2021 | 133 comments

848.

Next-gen chips will be powered from below (spectrum.ieee.org)

164 points by jonbaer on Aug 28, 2021 | 82 comments

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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One (edwardsnowden.substack.com)

164 points by mcone on Aug 5, 2021 | 30 comments

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Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures (gq.com)

163 points by camjohnson26 on Aug 3, 2021 | 249 comments

851.

How you play Spades is how you play life (pudding.cool)

163 points by feross on Aug 30, 2021 | 115 comments

852.

China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor (spectrum.ieee.org)

163 points by Hoasi on Aug 4, 2021 | 93 comments

853.

This Is Water (2005) (fs.blog)

163 points by mrpf1ster on Aug 28, 2021 | 75 comments

854.

Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley (corecursive.com)

163 points by signa11 on Aug 3, 2021 | 59 comments

855.

Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018) (github.com)

163 points by pabs3 on Aug 14, 2021 | 40 comments

856.

The Semiconductor Heist of the Century (semianalysis.com)

163 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 27, 2021 | 2 comments

857.

Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job (cnn.com)

162 points by belltaco on Aug 5, 2021 | 312 comments

858.

Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’ (washingtonpost.com)

162 points by bookofjoe on Aug 27, 2021 | 143 comments

859.

Genius Checklist (supermemo.guru)

162 points by Tomte on Aug 21, 2021 | 133 comments

860.

Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed (bbc.com)

162 points by NotSwift on Aug 11, 2021 | 127 comments

861.

Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe (pib.gov.in)

162 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 29, 2021 | 94 comments

862.

After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind (theverge.com)

162 points by gamblor956 on Aug 17, 2021 | 84 comments

863.

Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it (ar.al)

162 points by aral on Aug 9, 2021 | 79 comments

864.

Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange (ethanzuckerman.com)

162 points by anigbrowl on Aug 18, 2021 | 59 comments

865.

Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work

161 points by MahyadGhassemi on Aug 16, 2021 | 325 comments

866.

The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality (nianticlabs.com)

161 points by riebschlager on Aug 11, 2021 | 114 comments

867.

Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ (notes.eatonphil.com)

161 points by eatonphil on Aug 26, 2021 | 113 comments

868.

M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti (earthquake.usgs.gov)

161 points by chmaynard on Aug 14, 2021 | 79 comments

869.

Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi (kevinboone.me)

161 points by snwy on Aug 31, 2021 | 60 comments

870.

Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty (datacolada.org)

161 points by DominikPeters on Aug 17, 2021 | 51 comments