Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2021-08-02 login
Stories from August 2, 2021
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. The rise of never-ending job interviews (bbc.com)
967 points by hhs on Aug 2, 2021 | 1169 comments
2. The Push for a “PBS for the Internet” (axios.com)
525 points by starkd on Aug 2, 2021 | 285 comments
3. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel (zx2c4.com)
622 points by zx2c4 on Aug 2, 2021 | 182 comments
4. Life before smartphones (2020) (mattruby.substack.com)
669 points by evo_9 on Aug 2, 2021 | 482 comments
5. Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
617 points by marcuslima on Aug 2, 2021 | 220 comments
6. FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization (npr.org)
445 points by coloneltcb on Aug 2, 2021 | 340 comments
7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
357 points by whoishiring on Aug 2, 2021 | 898 comments
8. Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible (newengland.com)
275 points by kareemm on Aug 2, 2021 | 250 comments
9. Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms (theguardian.com)
404 points by shivbhatt on Aug 2, 2021 | 97 comments
10. How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion (azuki.vip)
295 points by flipnotic on Aug 2, 2021 | 129 comments
11. Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien (quantamagazine.org)
195 points by NotSwift on Aug 2, 2021 | 301 comments
12. Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework (wikimedia.org)
353 points by Volker-E on Aug 2, 2021 | 199 comments
13. Culture and Conduct Risk: The Normalization of Deviance (regulationasia.com)
66 points by kiyanwang on Aug 2, 2021 | 21 comments
14. Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
419 points by graderjs on Aug 2, 2021 | 304 comments
15. Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images (rmg.co.uk)
174 points by Tomte on Aug 2, 2021 | 42 comments
16. Six Years of Professional Clojure (nanit.com)
223 points by erez-rabih on Aug 2, 2021 | 243 comments
17. Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020) (arxiv.org)
207 points by tempodox on Aug 1, 2021 | 23 comments
18. Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000) (norvig.com)
150 points by susam on Aug 2, 2021 | 108 comments
19. Sentenced by Algorithm (nybooks.com)
90 points by lxm on Aug 2, 2021 | 55 comments
20. Winnebiko (microship.com)
196 points by tosh on Aug 2, 2021 | 36 comments
21. Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23 (gitlab.com/gpsd)
137 points by oger on Aug 2, 2021 | 98 comments
22. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (github.com/sysprog21)
154 points by eating555 on Aug 2, 2021 | 30 comments
23. Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure (github.com/satsuoni)
189 points by throwawaybutwhy on Aug 1, 2021 | 128 comments
24. The UK’s delta surge is collapsing (nymag.com)
243 points by donohoe on Aug 2, 2021 | 438 comments
25. On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words (lithub.com)
135 points by signor_bosco on Aug 1, 2021 | 42 comments
26. Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3 (psycopg.org)
171 points by Spiritus on Aug 2, 2021 | 24 comments
27. SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night (arstechnica.com)
253 points by _Microft on Aug 2, 2021 | 403 comments
28. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
128 points by whoishiring on Aug 2, 2021 | 216 comments
29. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% (phoronix.com)
401 points by bemmu on Aug 2, 2021 | 354 comments
30. Shiichan Anonymous BBS (2004) (c3.cx)
66 points by throwaway81523 on July 31, 2021 | 30 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: