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Hacker News (2021)

  1. City roads – This website renders every single road within a city

    161 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  2. U.S. government owes over $100M for TSA's patent infringement

    161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  3. A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds

    161 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  4. China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

    161 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  5. Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints

    161 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  6. Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway

    161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  7. Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021

    161 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  8. Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

    161 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  9. The Amish as a source of tech-savvy guidance

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  10. Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)

    161 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  11. Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics

    161 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  12. AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps

    161 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  13. The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

    161 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  14. Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning

    161 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  15. First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  16. The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb

    161 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  17. Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts

    161 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  18. Why can’t you design noise in frequency space?

    161 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  19. GPU Architecture Types Explained

    161 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  20. Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019)

    161 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  21. The Rise of the $10M Disc Golf Celebrity

    161 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  22. Eurorack CPU

    161 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  23. Deno Deploy Beta 2

    161 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  24. Pro rata is a bad term for founders

    161 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  25. Making Your Own Tools

    161 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  26. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

    161 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  27. The problem with reinforced concrete (2016)

    161 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  28. Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents

    161 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  29. China urges its people to struggle. Some say no

    161 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  30. The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  31. Design Issues in LLVM IR

    161 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  32. The Colorado River is shrinking

    161 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  33. DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight

    161 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  34. There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data

    161 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  35. What a solid made of electrons looks like

    161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  36. Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

    161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  37. Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker

    161 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  38. Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute

    160 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  39. The anti-pattern of responsive design

    160 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  40. Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

    160 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  41. SDF Fractal Noise

    160 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  42. Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps

    160 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  43. Film simulations from scratch using Python

    160 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  44. Technology Behind the Lilium Jet

    160 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  45. TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production

    160 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  46. System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems

    160 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  47. A Random Walk Through Git

    160 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  48. Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts

    160 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  49. U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds

    160 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  50. Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

    160 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  51. Next-gen chips will be powered from below

    160 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  52. AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

    160 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  53. Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]

    160 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  54. Why I built my own static site generator

    160 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  55. Minio Changes License to AGPL

    160 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  56. Why are our brains shrinking?

    160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  57. Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses

    160 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  58. Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC

    160 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  59. Tailscale free for open source projects

    160 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  60. How does a game engine work? an overview (2016)

    160 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  61. Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado

    160 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  62. I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)

    160 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  63. Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke

    160 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  64. Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres

    160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  65. World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming, warns UN chief

    160 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  66. How to get back into a hacked Facebook account

    160 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  67. EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for various services

    160 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  68. Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

    160 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  69. Is Norway the New East India Company?

    160 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  70. Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution

    160 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  71. First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language

    160 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  72. I Rewrote WinUI to WPF

    160 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  73. I’m now in charge of Audacity [video]

    160 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  74. Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement

    160 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  75. I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To

    160 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  76. Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files Slapp Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

    160 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  77. Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent

    160 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  78. Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo

    160 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  79. World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

    160 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  80. Before you buy a Soviet Camera

    160 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  81. Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs

    160 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  82. Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day

    160 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  83. M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

    160 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  84. Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway

    160 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  85. Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups

    160 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  86. Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol

    160 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  87. Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations

    160 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  88. From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)

    160 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  89. International Mail Service Suspensions

    160 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  90. Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS

    160 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  91. I Invented Baileys (2017)

    160 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  92. Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)

    160 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  93. Alexa leaks private wishlists

    160 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  94. Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax

    160 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  95. Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

    160 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  96. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

    160 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  97. So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)

    160 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  98. EPA Takes Action to Protect Scientific Integrity

    160 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  99. New model could explain old cholesterol mystery

    160 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  100. The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution

    160 points • comment • jan 01, 2021