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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

    3413 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  2. The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

    2650 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  3. Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities

    2029 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  4. Sir Clive Sinclair has died

    1735 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  5. O.mg Cable

    1672 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  6. Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

    1571 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  7. Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

    1411 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  8. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

    1391 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  9. YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

    1379 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  10. Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

    1334 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  11. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

    1284 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  12. Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today

    1243 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  13. Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address

    1233 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  14. Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

    1192 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  15. I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

    1145 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  16. Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

    1125 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  17. Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

    1066 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  18. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

    1043 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  19. Windy.com

    1038 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  20. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

    1028 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  21. What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

    1002 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  22. Moiré No More

    994 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  23. Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

    984 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  24. Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

    955 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  25. Htmlq: like jq, but for html

    953 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  26. Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

    946 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  27. Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it

    946 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  28. NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild

    937 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  29. Gitlab S-1

    925 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  30. PostgreSQL 14

    920 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  31. MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

    898 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  32. Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever

    892 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  33. Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin

    859 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  34. Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

    826 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  35. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

    820 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  36. You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

    813 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  37. How we got to LiveView

    789 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  38. Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit

    783 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  39. Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind

    782 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  40. My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

    764 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  41. September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

    763 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  42. Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns

    760 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  43. Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

    747 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  44. The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning

    747 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  45. Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE

    740 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  46. Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

    738 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  47. Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer

    735 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  48. Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt

    716 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  49. Making bracket pair colorization faster

    702 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  50. Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

    700 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  51. Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research

    697 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  52. Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates

    696 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  53. My Room in 3D

    688 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  54. US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing

    687 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  55. Something weird is happening on Facebook

    684 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  56. Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

    683 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  57. uBlock Origin review

    682 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  58. Norm Macdonald has died

    674 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  59. I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed

    674 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  60. No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)

    673 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  61. How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages

    671 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  62. Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe

    669 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  63. Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute

    662 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  64. Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

    652 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  65. Minus

    651 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  66. A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley

    641 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  67. The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history

    641 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  68. I just don’t want to be busy anymore

    639 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  69. ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested

    625 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  70. Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree

    624 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  71. OpenRA: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era

    612 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  72. Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

    611 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  73. Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

    607 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  74. Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

    604 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  75. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

    601 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  76. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

    600 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  77. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

    599 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  78. Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

    598 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  79. Understanding Awk

    596 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  80. Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

    592 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  81. Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege

    587 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  82. Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

    584 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  83. Nginx Playground

    578 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  84. When users never use the features they asked for

    571 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  85. Cloudflare's Disruption

    568 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  86. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

    566 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  87. Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

    564 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  88. DIY RGB Icosahedron

    562 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  89. Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B

    562 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  90. Linux on the Framework Laptop

    561 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  91. California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable

    560 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  92. Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox

    560 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  93. Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

    559 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  94. Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

    557 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  95. Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms

    557 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  96. MangaDex infrastructure overview

    552 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  97. How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum

    551 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  98. Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)

    546 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  99. Home Assistant – open-source home automation

    545 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  100. YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

    545 points • comment • sep 13, 2021