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Hacker News (2021)

Traffic Simulator
529 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Nyxt Browser
529 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
529 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
529 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
528 points • comment • may 17, 2021
Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
528 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
528 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Notion API – public beta
528 points • comment • may 13, 2021
Jörg Schilling has died
528 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
FAA investigating controversial crash video
528 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
528 points • comment • may 11, 2021
Microsoft announces Windows 11
528 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
Reddit files to go public
527 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
527 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
526 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
526 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Apple Helps Asahi Linux
526 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
525 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
Be My Eyes
525 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
HTTP Toolkit
525 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Making Vaccine
525 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
525 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
525 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
Don’t do interviews, do discussions
525 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
524 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
524 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
524 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
523 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'
523 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
523 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
522 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
Bring Your Own Client
522 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
522 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
521 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
521 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
521 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
521 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Issues with Cloudflare Images
521 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage
521 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
521 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
Zoom zero-day discovery
520 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication
520 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
520 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
520 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
Ripgrep 13.0
520 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
Useful sed scripts and patterns
519 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
519 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
MDN Plus
519 points • comment • may 27, 2021
Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
519 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades
519 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
519 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place
518 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
518 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
518 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
518 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Things I learned from building a production database
518 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
518 points • comment • may 16, 2021
A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
518 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
Why Russians do not smile (2002)
517 points • comment • may 28, 2021
Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
517 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
Zero Data App
516 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Google Internal Comics
516 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
516 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television
516 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
516 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
Please commit more blatant academic fraud
516 points • comment • may 30, 2021
Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
516 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
515 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
515 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
Unsettling capital letters
515 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)
515 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
515 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
514 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
514 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
Test your product on a crappy laptop
514 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
Understanding Python through its builtins
514 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
CSS Tips
514 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
514 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
514 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
514 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
513 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
513 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
Terms and Conditions Game
513 points • comment • may 18, 2021
Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
513 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Disqus, a dark commenting system
513 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
513 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
513 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
512 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
512 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
Retiring Tucows Downloads
512 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
We Don’t Use Docker
512 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
512 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
511 points • comment • may 24, 2021
The Expanse UI Design
511 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News
511 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
511 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Don't Offer a Free Plan
510 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
How does apt render its fancy progress bar?
510 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
510 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
510 points • comment • aug 17, 2021