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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I

    133 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  2. Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming

    133 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  3. Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  4. Logical Fallacies

    133 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  5. Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018)

    133 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  6. Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine

    133 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  7. Lots to See in Firefox 93

    133 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  8. Reverse Cargo Cult (2017)

    133 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  9. Show HN: Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor

    133 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  10. JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site

    133 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  11. Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  12. Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank tests

    133 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  13. An NFT That Saves Lives

    133 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  14. Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG

    133 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  15. A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]

    133 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  16. An SQL Solution for Jupyter

    133 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  17. Build your own SPARC workstation

    133 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  18. FTC to close down mobile banking app Beam

    133 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  19. Tensions rise as Iranian dams cut off Iraqi water supplies

    133 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  20. Backdoor account discovered in more than 100k Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways

    133 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  21. Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)

    133 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  22. Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)

    133 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  23. Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE

    133 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  24. The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

    133 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  25. Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns

    133 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  26. Is This a Branch?

    133 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  27. Tracing SSL/TLS connections using eBPF

    133 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  28. Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]

    133 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  29. Micro-Max, a 133-line Chess Source

    133 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  30. Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables

    133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  31. Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill

    133 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  32. English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

    133 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  33. Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?

    133 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  34. The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor

    133 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  35. Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?

    133 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  36. Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones

    133 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  37. Who’s running the Vincere bot network on Instagram?

    133 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  38. On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust [video]

    133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  39. There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now

    133 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  40. British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left on during launch

    133 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  41. Clearing up Myths about Ada

    133 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  42. RNA Takes Over

    133 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  43. Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores

    133 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. Z Library

    133 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  45. Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23

    133 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  46. How Michigan grew its startup ecosystem

    133 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  47. DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses

    133 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  48. Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court

    133 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  49. Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

    133 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  50. Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++

    133 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  51. K Programming Language

    133 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  52. California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident

    133 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  53. Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

    133 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  54. AirCover by Airbnb

    133 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  55. Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade

    133 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  56. Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)

    133 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  57. Games that emphasize emergent narrative

    133 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  58. Microsoft Edge GA on Linux

    133 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  59. Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?

    133 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  60. Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot

    133 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  61. Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist

    133 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  62. NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations

    133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  63. Android 12

    133 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  64. We need your beginner’s mind

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  65. Bonhoeffer on Stupidity

    133 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  66. Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  67. Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next

    133 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  68. 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction

    133 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  69. Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]

    133 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  70. Railway lines once connected the Middle East

    133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  71. Embedded Malware in Coa

    133 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  72. Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  73. I could send any text message from Indian government IDs

    132 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  74. C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression

    132 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  75. This Chemical Does Not Exist

    132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  76. Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth

    132 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  77. Engineers can disrupt climate change

    132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  78. What's New in ClickHouse 21.12

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  79. Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13

    132 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  80. Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card

    132 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  81. America is substantially reducing poverty among children

    132 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  82. One of these JPEGs is not like the other

    132 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  83. I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know

    132 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  84. Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool

    132 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  85. The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies

    132 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  86. 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets

    132 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  87. Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++

    132 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  88. DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots

    132 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  89. OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world

    132 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  90. The promise and paradox of decentralization

    132 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  91. Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

    132 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  92. Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

    132 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  93. Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation

    132 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  94. The curious tale of a Nintendo UK Hotliner during the console war era

    132 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  95. Gramps – Free Genealogy Software

    132 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  96. The cost of cloud

    132 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  97. Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster

    132 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  98. In-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system

    132 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  99. Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

    132 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  100. Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke and dementia

    132 points • comment • nov 17, 2021