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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work

    587 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  2. Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

    587 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  3. Choose Boring Technology (2015)

    587 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  4. Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege

    587 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  5. Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

    586 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  6. We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis

    586 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  7. Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

    586 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  8. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

    586 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  9. Crafting Interpreters is available in print

    586 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  10. Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

    585 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  11. Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

    585 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  12. Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet

    585 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  13. Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

    585 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  14. Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

    585 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  15. Fluid Paint

    584 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  16. Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

    584 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  17. Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

    584 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  18. As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

    583 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  19. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

    583 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  20. Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

    583 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  21. Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

    582 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  22. We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001%

    582 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  23. List of apps people pay for but have low rating

    582 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  24. Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas

    582 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  25. I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern

    582 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  26. YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

    582 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  27. GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

    581 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  28. Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

    580 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  29. Books that changed my career as a software engineer

    580 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  30. Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database

    580 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  31. How credit cards make money

    580 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  32. New GitHub Issues Beta

    580 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  33. Use native context menus on Mac OS

    580 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  34. It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage

    579 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  35. Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

    579 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  36. Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

    579 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  37. Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

    578 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  38. Nginx Playground

    578 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  39. How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation

    578 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  40. We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling

    578 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  41. Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

    578 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  42. Aquafaba

    578 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  43. The gradual extinction of softness

    577 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  44. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup

    577 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  45. Algorithms by Jeff Erickson

    576 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  46. Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says

    576 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  47. The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years

    576 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  48. Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C

    576 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  49. Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat

    576 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  50. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

    575 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  51. Please log in with router's password

    575 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  52. Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

    575 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  53. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way

    575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  54. Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it

    575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  55. IBM creates 2nm chip

    574 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  56. GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model

    574 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  57. Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out

    574 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  58. Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

    574 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  59. AWS Private 5G

    574 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  60. Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born

    574 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  61. ProctorU is dystopian spyware

    573 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  62. No More Movies

    573 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  63. Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

    573 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  64. FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

    573 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  65. Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir

    573 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  66. Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'

    572 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  67. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II

    572 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  68. Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you

    572 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  69. Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

    572 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  70. The Financial Times’ 404 page

    572 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  71. Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript

    572 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  72. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

    571 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  73. Programming is hard

    571 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  74. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

    571 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  75. Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)

    571 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  76. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

    571 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  77. The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

    571 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  78. When users never use the features they asked for

    571 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  79. GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

    570 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  80. Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

    570 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  81. Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

    570 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  82. What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

    570 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  83. Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

    570 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  84. Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

    570 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  85. PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space

    569 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  86. YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative

    569 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  87. Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim

    569 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

    569 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  89. Cloudflare's Disruption

    568 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  90. Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

    568 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  91. Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

    568 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  92. Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network

    568 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  93. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

    567 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  94. Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

    567 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  95. 4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says

    567 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  96. Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

    567 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  97. The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly

    566 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  98. Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible

    566 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  99. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

    566 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  100. Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

    566 points • comment • jul 18, 2021