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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. When new seat belt laws drew fire as a violation of personal freedom (2020)

    50 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  2. Review of “The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch (2001) [pdf]

    50 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  3. Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs

    50 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  4. Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Sticker

    50 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  5. The Top 30 Problems with the Big Bang Theory (2002)

    50 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  6. Apple Bans the Quran in China

    50 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  7. We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume

    50 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  8. Grep.app: search across a half million Git repos

    50 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  9. Democracy Is Losing Its Race with Disruption

    50 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  10. Consistency, convergence, and confluence are not the same

    50 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  11. The Apple vs. Epic Decision

    50 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  12. The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

    50 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  13. Fauci-Email

    50 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  14. Goscript: Go specs implemented as a scripting language in Rust

    49 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  15. Billions of Code Name Permutations in 32 bits

    49 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  16. Bricks and the Industrial Revolution

    49 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  17. Morse Code Palindromes

    49 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  18. AMD ready to flex its ARMs

    49 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  19. Startup cities and the housing crisis: the only way out is up

    49 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  20. Ask HN: Why is the touchpad on MacBooks still ahead of other manufacturers?

    49 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  21. A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage

    49 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  22. mRNA cancer therapy enters human trials after success in mice

    49 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  23. The challenge of finding new tools to fight prostate cancer

    49 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  24. YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos

    49 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  25. The Programming Interview from Hell

    49 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  26. Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone

    49 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  27. Not so great experience interviewing at Twitter

    49 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  28. The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet, Band N53 and Globalstar

    49 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  29. The Deceiving Virtues of Technology (2001)

    49 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  30. Barcelona gives free annual public transport tickets to former car owners

    49 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  31. COVID-19 vaccine wastage data from the CDC

    49 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  32. Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Remove Teacher Who Criticized Israel

    49 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  33. An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008)

    49 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  34. Improving GDB register model compatibility in LLDB

    49 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  35. The Air Force Has Been Trying to Kill the A-10 Warthog for 14 Years

    49 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  36. TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors

    49 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  37. A universal system for decoding any type of data sent across a network

    48 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  38. Healthcare in America Is Simply Extortion (2019)

    48 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  39. Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other people seem to care about?

    48 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  40. Mark Rober and the manipulation of children for profit

    48 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  41. Developer's Porn Stash Gets Banned from Steam

    48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  42. Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

    48 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  43. The Story of XEmacs (2019)

    48 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  44. Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No Isis Bomb

    48 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  45. Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth

    48 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  46. Soar Cognitive Architecture

    48 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  47. Three Former U.S. Intelligence Operatives Admit Hacking for United Arab Emirates

    48 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  48. After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware

    48 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  49. Completing Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony

    48 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  50. Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality

    48 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  51. Who should your computer take its orders from? (2002)

    48 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  52. Why Space Cadet pinball was removed [video]

    48 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  53. Understanding onset of hot streaks in artistic, cultural and scientific careers

    48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  54. Dan Price Says Raising Min Wage to $70K Led to Baby Boom, Revenue Rise

    48 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  55. Unravelling `Async for` Loops

    48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  56. GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod: Choosing the Best Online Code Editor

    48 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  57. Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill

    48 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  58. Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)

    48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  59. Raspberry Pi 4 model Bs arriving with newer 'C0' stepping

    48 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  60. Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America

    48 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  61. Miniaturization and Integration of 3D Printed Microfluidics

    48 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  62. The seven programming ur-languages

    48 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  63. Computing Discrete Logarithms [pdf]

    48 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  64. The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum

    48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  65. Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans

    48 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  66. Rs of Note Taking

    48 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  67. Agile Is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It

    48 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  68. A visual C4 model tool for your team

    48 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  69. Refined Hacker News

    47 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  70. How to Turn Your Car into a Tiny Camper

    47 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  71. Show HN: Generate shared 2FA codes for your entire team

    47 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  72. How Ida dodged NYC’s flood defenses

    47 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  73. Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses in cave bats in 2018

    47 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  74. On the web today, we don't use servers, we use services

    47 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  75. China’s dodgy-debt double act

    47 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  76. File Not Found

    47 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  77. Writing software that's reliable enough for production

    47 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  78. FAA Releases Data Showing Trends in Dangerous Laser Strikes

    47 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  79. Exploring 120 Years of Timezones

    47 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  80. TC39 Pipeline Operator – Hack vs. F#

    47 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  81. 90% of Atheists Have Been Vaccinated

    47 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  82. LSAT: Lightning Service Authentication Token

    47 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  83. Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition

    47 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  84. LSD, Psilocybin, and DMT in Depression Treatment: A Systematic Review

    47 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  85. Migrating to Next.js from Create React App

    47 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  86. The World’s Greatest Freediver

    47 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  87. Show HN: NFC Passport/ID for remote user registration

    47 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  88. The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

    47 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  89. People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP

    47 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  90. Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?

    47 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  91. In which a laptop defies the trends

    47 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  92. UK Online Safety Bill proposes age verification for all user-interactive sites

    47 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  93. Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack (2012)

    47 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  94. Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge

    47 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  95. FD 100

    47 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  96. Germany wants smartphones to get seven years of support

    47 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  97. Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

    47 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  98. Q&A with the Co-Creator of the 6502

    46 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  99. New York passes law that will ban all gas-powered car sales by 2035

    46 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  100. A Pure Types-Driven real-world apps development approach

    46 points • comment • sep 11, 2021