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Top of Month - Jul 2021

1. Valve Steam Deck
   (15 Jul 2021 | 2517 points | Comments)

2. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
   (14 Jul 2021 | 2075 points | Comments)

3. The Framework Laptop is now shipping
   (23 Jul 2021 | 1502 points | Comments)

4. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
   (16 Jul 2021 | 1330 points | Comments)

5. NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
   (9 Jul 2021 | 1328 points | Comments)

6. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
   (2 Jul 2021 | 1280 points | Comments)

7. How Dwarf Fortress is built
   (29 Jul 2021 | 1130 points | Comments)

8. Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
   (2 Jul 2021 | 1110 points | Comments)

9. All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
   (8 Jul 2021 | 1017 points | Comments)

10. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
    (11 Jul 2021 | 987 points | Comments)

11. European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
    (6 Jul 2021 | 938 points | Comments)

12. Who Owns My Name?
    (30 Jul 2021 | 908 points | Comments)

13. Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
    (12 Jul 2021 | 907 points | Comments)

14. The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
    (29 Jul 2021 | 903 points | Comments)

15. The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
    (16 Jul 2021 | 884 points | Comments)

16. Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
    (19 Jul 2021 | 875 points | Comments)

17. Npm Audit: broken by design?
    (7 Jul 2021 | 872 points | Comments)

18. This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
    (12 Jul 2021 | 872 points | Comments)

19. Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
    (19 Jul 2021 | 857 points | Comments)

20. I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
    (3 Jul 2021 | 848 points | Comments)

21. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
    (18 Jul 2021 | 843 points | Comments)

22. An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
    (18 Jul 2021 | 843 points | Comments)

23. We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
    (8 Jul 2021 | 818 points | Comments)

24. Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
    (27 Jul 2021 | 809 points | Comments)

25. Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
    (19 Jul 2021 | 800 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
    (30 Jul 2021 | 796 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
    (11 Jul 2021 | 769 points | Comments)

28. Poisson's Equation
    (6 Jul 2021 | 766 points | Comments)

29. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
    (13 Jul 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
    (12 Jul 2021 | 760 points | Comments)

31. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
    (30 Jul 2021 | 751 points | Comments)

32. People Staring at Computers
    (11 Jul 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

33. The Insecurity Industry
    (26 Jul 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

34. AWS's Egregious Egress
    (23 Jul 2021 | 742 points | Comments)

35. A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
    (7 Jul 2021 | 740 points | Comments)

36. Windows 96
    (27 Jul 2021 | 724 points | Comments)

37. Naval Architecture
    (27 Jul 2021 | 717 points | Comments)

38. BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
    (23 Jul 2021 | 706 points | Comments)

39. The most precious resource is agency
    (1 Jul 2021 | 701 points | Comments)

40. TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
    (26 Jul 2021 | 699 points | Comments)

41. “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
    (10 Jul 2021 | 694 points | Comments)

42. Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
    (19 Jul 2021 | 689 points | Comments)

43. Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
    (27 Jul 2021 | 687 points | Comments)

44. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
    (31 Jul 2021 | 686 points | Comments)

45. Our lawsuit against ChessBase
    (20 Jul 2021 | 677 points | Comments)

46. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
    (25 Jul 2021 | 674 points | Comments)

47. Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
    (29 Jul 2021 | 669 points | Comments)

48. Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
    (6 Jul 2021 | 668 points | Comments)

49. Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
    (4 Jul 2021 | 665 points | Comments)

50. Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
    (18 Jul 2021 | 659 points | Comments)

51. Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
    (25 Jul 2021 | 654 points | Comments)

52. Instagram Has Become SkyMall
    (10 Jul 2021 | 652 points | Comments)

53. 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
    (30 Jul 2021 | 646 points | Comments)

54. Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
    (18 Jul 2021 | 643 points | Comments)

55. Linux Rust Support
    (6 Jul 2021 | 641 points | Comments)

56. GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
    (4 Jul 2021 | 636 points | Comments)

57. Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
    (16 Jul 2021 | 629 points | Comments)

58. Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
    (29 Jul 2021 | 627 points | Comments)

59. The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
    (21 Jul 2021 | 626 points | Comments)

60. Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
    (20 Jul 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

61. Crafting Interpreters is available in print
    (29 Jul 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

62. Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
    (4 Jul 2021 | 621 points | Comments)

63. Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
    (25 Jul 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

64. Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
    (26 Jul 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

65. Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus
    (20 Jul 2021 | 612 points | Comments)

66. US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
    (3 Jul 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

67. Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks
    (25 Jul 2021 | 609 points | Comments)

68. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
    (8 Jul 2021 | 607 points | Comments)

69. Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
    (2 Jul 2021 | 606 points | Comments)

70. No More Movies
    (6 Jul 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

71. Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B
    (15 Jul 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

72. Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
    (27 Jul 2021 | 601 points | Comments)

73. Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
    (19 Jul 2021 | 599 points | Comments)

74. Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
    (2 Jul 2021 | 591 points | Comments)

75. Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
    (18 Jul 2021 | 591 points | Comments)

76. Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
    (21 Jul 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

77. An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
    (13 Jul 2021 | 584 points | Comments)

78. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
    (8 Jul 2021 | 582 points | Comments)

79. Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
    (26 Jul 2021 | 578 points | Comments)

80. Why we're blind to the color blue
    (16 Jul 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

81. Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
    (18 Jul 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

82. Give me /events, not webhooks
    (13 Jul 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

83. Open Insulin Foundation
    (16 Jul 2021 | 567 points | Comments)

84. Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
    (31 Jul 2021 | 567 points | Comments)

85. Self hosting is important
    (24 Jul 2021 | 566 points | Comments)

86. Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
    (1 Jul 2021 | 565 points | Comments)

87. Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
    (25 Jul 2021 | 556 points | Comments)

88. New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
    (30 Jul 2021 | 555 points | Comments)

89. Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
    (12 Jul 2021 | 554 points | Comments)

90. British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
    (1 Jul 2021 | 552 points | Comments)

91. Alphafold
    (15 Jul 2021 | 550 points | Comments)

92. Google Internal Comics
    (8 Jul 2021 | 549 points | Comments)

93. The Untold Story of SQLite
    (3 Jul 2021 | 548 points | Comments)

94. Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
    (29 Jul 2021 | 544 points | Comments)

95. Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
    (21 Jul 2021 | 536 points | Comments)

96. IPv4 pricing
    (28 Jul 2021 | 533 points | Comments)

97. Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
    (9 Jul 2021 | 529 points | Comments)

98. macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
    (13 Jul 2021 | 528 points | Comments)

99. WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
    (14 Jul 2021 | 527 points | Comments)

100. Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
     (9 Jul 2021 | 524 points | Comments)