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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

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

    545 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  2. Web-based editor

    544 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  3. The NSA and CIA use ad blockers

    540 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  4. Home Price to Income Ratio

    536 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  5. Deploy a website on imgur.com

    536 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  6. Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

    535 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  7. Epiousios

    533 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  8. PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams

    525 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  9. Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication

    520 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  10. Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades

    519 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  11. The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN

    516 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  12. Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

    514 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  13. Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)

    513 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  14. ClickHouse, Inc.

    507 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  15. Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)

    503 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  16. Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor

    499 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  17. Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind

    498 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  18. My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

    497 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  19. Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

    495 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  20. Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

    495 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  21. Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

    495 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  22. Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

    492 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  23. Why is everything so hard in a large organization?

    489 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  24. Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

    489 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  25. Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end

    488 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  26. How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

    487 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  27. Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines

    486 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  28. Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure

    477 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  29. The Perils of an .xyz Domain

    475 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  30. 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?

    471 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  31. Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

    469 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  32. The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight

    468 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  33. 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

    465 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  34. Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships

    464 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  35. Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off

    464 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  36. Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

    463 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  37. Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

    462 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  38. LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

    462 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  39. Imgur Acquired by Medialab

    461 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  40. A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

    461 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  41. Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist

    460 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  42. Reactive Clojure: A web language

    458 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  43. Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up

    453 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  44. The Mom Test – How to talk to customers

    452 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  45. Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules

    448 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  46. How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)

    447 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  47. A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model

    447 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  48. Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

    445 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  49. Windows 11: Just say no

    442 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  50. Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

    438 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  51. Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS

    438 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  52. Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening

    436 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  53. The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

    435 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  54. The code worked differently when the moon was full

    435 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  55. Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

    434 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  56. Building apps in minutes, not months

    433 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  57. Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?

    432 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  58. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)

    432 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  59. Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

    432 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  60. Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit

    430 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  61. Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

    428 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  62. TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do

    423 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  63. Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS

    421 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  64. Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

    421 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  65. Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods

    419 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  66. Maintain It with Zig

    419 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  67. The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why

    418 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  68. A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl

    417 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  69. Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids

    416 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  70. DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for commercial service in parts of Bay Area

    416 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  71. Reasons to Quit Social Media

    415 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  72. Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account

    413 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  73. GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware

    412 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  74. Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA

    412 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  75. Google Docs in a clean-room browser

    411 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  76. Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot

    409 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  77. More Casio Watch Mods (2017)

    409 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  78. A different kind of keyboard

    408 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  79. Anonymous Hacks Epik

    404 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  80. Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

    403 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  81. The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?

    402 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  82. That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job

    402 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  83. Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time

    401 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  84. Transmission torrent client ported to C++

    398 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  85. Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections

    397 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  86. Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53

    397 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  87. Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)

    395 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  88. Offline First

    394 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  89. Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

    394 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  90. I'm working on open source full time

    393 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  91. As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)

    393 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  92. How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players

    390 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  93. New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception

    390 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  94. Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect

    390 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  95. Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)

    388 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  96. Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes

    387 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  97. Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

    387 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  98. Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed

    387 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  99. A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room

    386 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  100. Designing Low Upkeep Software

    385 points • comment • sep 26, 2021