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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

    385 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  2. Back Orifice (1998)

    385 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  3. Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer

    384 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  4. There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives

    383 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  5. Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

    383 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  6. A generation of American men give up on college

    378 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  7. Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn

    377 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  8. The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader

    377 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  9. Workers are often told not to talk about pay. That's not legal

    376 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  10. Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment

    376 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  11. Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange

    375 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  12. Manyverse – A social network off the grid

    375 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  13. Spaces launch in Element

    373 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  14. Software Piracy and IP Management: Strategic Responses to Imitation

    373 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  15. FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof?

    372 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  16. The Crime of Curiosity

    371 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  17. Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware

    370 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  18. Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action

    369 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  19. New math book rescues landmark topology proof

    368 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  20. The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen

    367 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  21. Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password

    366 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  22. Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

    364 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  23. Effect size is significantly more important than statistical significance

    364 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  24. France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers

    364 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  25. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

    364 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  26. Firefox Browser: best for a free web

    363 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  27. mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours

    362 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  28. No, we won’t have a video call for that

    361 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  29. AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules

    361 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  30. JSFuck (2012)

    360 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  31. While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

    360 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  32. 200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

    359 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  33. U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches

    358 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  34. Sysz – An fzf terminal UI for systemctl

    357 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  35. Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)

    356 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  36. Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

    356 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  37. iOS on QEMU

    354 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  38. It's tough being an Azure fan

    353 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  39. Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server

    352 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  40. Turing Oversold?

    351 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  41. Spotify Box

    351 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  42. Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations

    349 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  43. OWASP Top 10 2021

    348 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  44. Dude, where’s my stuff

    347 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  45. The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf]

    347 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  46. Mistakes I've Made in AWS

    346 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  47. Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust

    345 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  48. OpenMoji: Open-source emojis

    345 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  49. IMGZ – Paid image sharing

    345 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  50. 200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring

    345 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  51. Problems with Oracle SQL

    345 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  52. After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high

    343 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  53. Operations is not Developer IT

    343 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  54. Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services

    343 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  55. UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm

    341 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  56. Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability

    338 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  57. When McDonalds Came to Denmark

    338 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

    337 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  59. Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

    337 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  60. Using two keyboards at once for pain relief

    336 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  61. Unity patents ECS

    336 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  62. A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

    334 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  63. How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security

    333 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  64. Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)

    333 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  65. U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks

    332 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  66. Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human testing after FDA clearance

    332 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  67. Rouille

    332 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  68. Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

    331 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  69. Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients

    331 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  70. ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

    330 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  71. Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux

    330 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  72. Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898

    329 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  73. How much faster is Java 17?

    329 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  74. The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade

    329 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  75. My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit

    328 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  76. I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

    327 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  77. iOS 15

    326 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  78. Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples

    325 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  79. A World Without Sci-Hub

    323 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  80. YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

    323 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  81. Spy tech that followed kids home for remote learning

    322 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  82. Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack

    322 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  83. Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript

    321 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  84. ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU

    321 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  85. Migrating from Docker to Podman

    320 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  86. Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life savings

    320 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  87. Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

    319 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  88. BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

    319 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  89. 14kb WASM game written in D

    319 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  90. AMD’s Lisa Su

    318 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  91. Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

    317 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  92. Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily

    317 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  93. Experts Have Resigned from an FDA Committee over Alzheimer's Drug Approval

    316 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  94. Show HN: Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API

    316 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  95. How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac

    315 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  96. Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?

    315 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  97. Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches

    314 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  98. New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’

    312 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  99. Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps

    312 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  100. Why Monero

    311 points • comment • sep 13, 2021