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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis

    224 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  2. UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy

    223 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  3. Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)

    223 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  4. Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips

    222 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  5. Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024

    222 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  6. The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers

    222 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  7. Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses

    221 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  8. Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening multiple bank accounts

    221 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  9. C# for Systems Programming

    220 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  10. OBS Studio 27.1.1

    220 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  11. High Performance Organizations Reading List

    220 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  12. Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)

    220 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  13. California bill passes, giving Amazon workers power to fight speed quotas

    220 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  14. Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app

    219 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  15. Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing

    219 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  16. How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?

    219 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  17. Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying

    219 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  18. The Linux Distributions of 1992

    218 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  19. Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler

    218 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  20. New credit card rules in India: recurring card payments to be affected

    217 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  21. Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse

    217 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  22. Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history

    216 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  23. I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system

    216 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  24. Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates

    214 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  25. An ultimate guide to memory palaces

    214 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  26. Facebook is other people

    213 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  27. The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading

    213 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  28. When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years

    212 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  29. FFmpeg to WebRTC

    212 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  30. Todo-or-die – Provides procedural macros that act as checked reminders

    212 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  31. AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access

    211 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  32. Firefox 92

    210 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  33. Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship

    210 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  34. Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable

    210 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  35. Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane

    210 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  36. How to fit any dataset with a single parameter

    210 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  37. GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas

    210 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  38. Jupyter Book

    209 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  39. Project 4K77

    209 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  40. How to Raise Investment

    208 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  41. OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released

    208 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  42. AngelList Stack

    208 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  43. Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)

    208 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  44. RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice

    208 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  45. Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"

    207 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  46. Org Mode 9.5

    207 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  47. Something big just hit Jupiter

    207 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  48. Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)

    206 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  49. Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach for Android features

    205 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  50. EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones

    205 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  51. Show HN: Extract Table from Image

    205 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  52. Libreboot: Freedom-Respecting Boot Firmware

    205 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  53. El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so

    205 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  54. We still believe in private offices (2015)

    204 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  55. Useful Spy Books

    204 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  56. Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work

    204 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  57. Engineers grow pancreatic organoids that mimic the real thing

    204 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  58. Follow boring advice

    203 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  59. Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health

    203 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  60. Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan

    203 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  61. Revolt of the Delivery Workers

    203 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  62. Flowers Make a Nice Gift

    203 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  63. Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013)

    203 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  64. Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

    201 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  65. I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix

    201 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  66. Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector

    201 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  67. OpenTTD 12.0-RC1

    201 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  68. Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ethereum transaction

    201 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  69. A Summary of Electronics

    201 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  70. Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

    200 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  71. Show HN: SQLite Playground

    200 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  72. Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)

    200 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  73. Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server

    200 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  74. Live: SpaceX to launch four civilians to orbit in mission known as Inspiration4

    200 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  75. Where do type systems come from? (2017)

    200 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  76. Ministry of Freedom – GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled

    199 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  77. A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

    199 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  78. ROT8000

    199 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  79. The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)

    199 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  80. Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years

    199 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  81. Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

    199 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  82. Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim

    198 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  83. 2021 Ig Nobels

    196 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  84. Show HN: Relativity: A Modern Primer

    196 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  85. John Stossel sues Facebook for allegedly defaming him with fact-check

    196 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  86. An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)

    196 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  87. Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

    195 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  88. No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again (2019)

    194 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  89. Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier place, but it got angrier

    194 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  90. Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight

    194 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  91. Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the consumer

    194 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  92. On Solitude

    194 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  93. How PCI-Express works (2020)

    193 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  94. Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses

    193 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  95. Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life

    193 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  96. James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf]

    193 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  97. New Evidence Against the Standard Model of Cosmology

    193 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  98. Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program

    193 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  99. Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)

    192 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  100. I like e-readers now

    192 points • comment • sep 19, 2021