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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones

    139 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  2. Firefox 95 Released

    139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  3. The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)

    139 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  4. Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)

    139 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  5. Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

    139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  6. The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets

    139 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  7. Engineering Statistics Handbook (2012)

    139 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  8. Helium: South Africa strikes new 'gold'

    139 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  9. Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos

    139 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  10. HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination

    139 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  11. Show HN: Freeciv-Web

    139 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  12. Legacy Train Control System Stabilisation (2012) [pdf]

    139 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  13. What Is the Most Free TLD?

    139 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  14. Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk

    139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  15. The uncanny absence of nihilism

    139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  16. How JavaScript engines achieve great performance

    139 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  17. You may not need Moment.js

    139 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  18. No YAML

    139 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  19. New horizons for SPJ

    139 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  20. This Year in Embedded Rust

    139 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  21. Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)

    139 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  22. Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data

    139 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  23. Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts

    139 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  24. What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them

    139 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  25. Currying in JavaScript

    139 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  26. Thread Safety in C++ and Rust

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  27. There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11

    139 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  28. Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  29. I closed a lot of browser tabs

    139 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  30. Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS

    139 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  31. FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline

    139 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  32. Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium

    139 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  33. Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

    139 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  34. Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files

    139 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  35. Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location

    139 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  36. Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history

    139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  37. The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing Systems

    139 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  38. France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass

    139 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  39. Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  40. Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020)

    139 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  41. China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies

    139 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  42. Spork: Peer-to-peer socket magic in the air

    139 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  43. Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual files

    138 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  44. Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps

    138 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  45. Why do antibiotics exist?

    138 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  46. Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions

    138 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  47. Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

    138 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  48. Worg (Emacs Org documentation) maintainer needed

    138 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  49. Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  50. What's New in React 18?

    138 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  51. Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics

    138 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  52. Know Labs unveils glucose monitor that swaps fingersticks for RF sensors

    138 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  53. Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  54. Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)

    138 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  55. Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e

    138 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  56. Mental Poker [pdf]

    138 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  57. Cache Poisoning at Scale

    138 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  58. A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video]

    138 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  59. Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  60. Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'

    138 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  61. I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)

    138 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  62. Arduino Pro hardware is not open-source hardware

    138 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  63. Why Co–Star Uses Haskell

    138 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  64. DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation

    138 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  65. Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes

    138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  66. When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  67. We check our node_modules folder into source control

    138 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  68. Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company

    138 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  69. Ancient bees found in Blenheim palace estate

    138 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  70. Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust

    138 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  71. How I learned to stop worrying and push to master

    138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  72. Plans for a new city in the American desert

    138 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  73. Justice Department sues Uber for overcharging people with disabilities

    138 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  74. America’s Obsession with Self-Help

    138 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  75. Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application

    138 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  76. Where is the scrutiny over FDA’s role in the overdose epidemic?

    138 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  77. FOSDEM 2022 will be online

    138 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  78. AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)

    138 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  79. YARP – Microsoft toolkit to build fast reverse proxy servers

    138 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  80. Learn Datalog Today

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  81. Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network

    138 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  82. How green is blue hydrogen?

    138 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  83. Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account

    138 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  84. Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars

    138 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  85. Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer

    138 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  86. SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale

    138 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  87. Peter M. Neumann has died

    138 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  88. Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

    138 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  89. Geico data breach exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers

    138 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  90. Leo Editor

    138 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  91. Wat (2012) [video]

    138 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  92. Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers

    138 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  93. Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

    138 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  94. Free resources to promote your next startup

    138 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  95. Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps

    138 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  96. Google is dismantling its health division

    138 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  97. The Web’s Missing Interoperability

    138 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  98. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory

    138 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  99. A few HiDPI tricks for Linux

    138 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  100. Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success

    138 points • comment • jul 01, 2021