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Hacker News (2021)

Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Steam's login method is kinda interesting
509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance
509 points • comment • may 13, 2021
Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
509 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
The MIT Press launches Direct to Open
509 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
509 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
The Kilobyte’s Gambit
508 points • comment • mar 07, 2021
Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status
508 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
Life after an internet mob attack
508 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Stepping Back from Speaking
508 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
508 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Simple Bank Is Closing
507 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
507 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
ClickHouse, Inc.
507 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]
506 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
506 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
506 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]
506 points • comment • jul 19, 2021
RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
506 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Why we should end the data economy
506 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
506 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Against 3x Speed
505 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)
504 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules
504 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
504 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
504 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)
504 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
503 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t
503 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
503 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Building a personal website in 2021
503 points • comment • may 16, 2021
Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes
503 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication
503 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement
503 points • comment • may 12, 2021
Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
503 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]
503 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
502 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
502 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
Personal Information of More Than 1.5B Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum
502 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Helion
502 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
502 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac
501 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
501 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
.plan
501 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
500 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
PNG files can be animated via network latency
500 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
500 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)
499 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits
499 points • comment • may 20, 2021
How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
499 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark
499 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1
499 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
One week of Libera Chat
499 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
499 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI
499 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
499 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
498 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures
498 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
Improving GitHub Code Search
498 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
498 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
498 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
498 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager
498 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter
498 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Ask HN: What are you working on?
498 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Coinbase Breach Notification
498 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
498 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”
498 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
498 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
498 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
498 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
497 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
497 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
497 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes
497 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
496 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
496 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
495 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
495 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
495 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
495 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
The most expensive number in engineering
495 points • comment • may 31, 2021
Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
495 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose
495 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
495 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
495 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Gail.com
494 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
494 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python
494 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
494 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
494 points • comment • may 06, 2021
Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
494 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
493 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
Wolves make roadways safer
493 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
493 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
493 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
The case for banning non-competes
493 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
Yamaha MOTOROiD
493 points • comment • may 29, 2021
Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
493 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
492 points • comment • may 17, 2021