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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement

    615 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  2. New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance

    615 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  3. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

    615 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  4. Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust

    614 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  5. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

    613 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  6. BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

    613 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  7. Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat

    612 points • comment • may 14, 2021

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

    612 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  9. Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

    611 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  10. Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting

    610 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  11. Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

    610 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  12. What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

    610 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  13. Open source projects should run office hours

    610 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  14. Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

    609 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  15. Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

    609 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  16. A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

    608 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  17. Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity

    607 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

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

    607 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  19. Writing tools I learned from The Economist

    607 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  20. WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

    607 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  21. Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

    607 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  22. Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel

    607 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  23. Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies

    606 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  24. Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

    606 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  25. Speed of Rust vs. C

    605 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  26. Internet in a Box

    605 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  27. Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

    605 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  28. Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

    605 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  29. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

    604 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

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

    604 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  31. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

    604 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  32. Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

    604 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  33. Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

    604 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  34. Leaving MySQL

    603 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  35. Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

    603 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  36. 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

    603 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  37. Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone

    603 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  38. Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

    603 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  39. US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack

    603 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  40. Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked

    602 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  41. Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers

    602 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  42. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

    601 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  43. Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'

    601 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  44. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

    600 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  45. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

    600 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

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

    600 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  47. WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”

    600 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  48. Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid

    599 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  49. Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

    599 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  50. Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

    599 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  51. Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

    599 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

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

    599 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

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

    598 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  54. Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)

    598 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  55. Show HN: Video Game in a Font

    598 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  56. A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop

    597 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  57. Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B

    597 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  58. Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks

    597 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  59. Entire website in a single HTML file

    597 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  60. WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

    597 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  61. Nvidia Canvas

    597 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  62. Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

    596 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  63. Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

    596 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  64. US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

    596 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  65. Understanding Awk

    596 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  66. CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases

    596 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  67. It takes a PhD to develop that

    596 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  68. Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

    595 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  69. Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

    595 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  70. A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

    595 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  71. Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)

    595 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  72. Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

    595 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  73. Business Essentials

    594 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  74. FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices

    594 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  75. Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

    594 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  76. Internet of Snitches

    594 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  77. Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping

    593 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  78. Start Your Own ISP

    593 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  79. Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure

    593 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  80. Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

    593 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  81. Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

    592 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  82. The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

    592 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  83. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

    592 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  84. Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

    592 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  85. Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

    591 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  86. Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)

    591 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  87. Practical SQL for Data Analysis

    591 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  88. Leaving Freenode for a new network

    591 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  89. Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

    590 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  90. Lena

    590 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  91. 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent

    590 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  92. Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

    590 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  93. Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

    590 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  94. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

    590 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  95. OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

    589 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  96. Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

    588 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  97. Messaging and chat control

    588 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  98. Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

    588 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  99. Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

    588 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  100. American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent

    588 points • comment • nov 11, 2021