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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood

    492 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  2. McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

    492 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  3. Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

    492 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  4. Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

    491 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  5. The 88x31 GIF Collection

    491 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  6. Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case

    491 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  7. China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

    491 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  8. Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

    491 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  9. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

    490 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  10. URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

    490 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  11. Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

    490 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  12. Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home

    489 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  13. Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs

    489 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  14. Marketing is scary for a solo developer

    489 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  15. PNG Parser Differential

    489 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  16. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

    489 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  17. Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

    489 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  18. Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

    489 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  19. Eric Carle has died

    489 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  20. “Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”

    489 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  21. YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

    489 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  22. When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

    489 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  23. 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks

    489 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  24. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

    489 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  25. Why is everything so hard in a large organization?

    489 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  26. I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

    489 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  27. Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

    489 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  28. Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them

    488 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  29. PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

    488 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  30. Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

    488 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  31. Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end

    488 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  32. How the Python import system works

    488 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  33. Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

    488 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  34. Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX

    487 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  35. I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff

    487 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  36. Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

    487 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  37. California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in

    487 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  38. Light Pollution Map

    487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  39. Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers

    487 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  40. Data Structure Visualizations

    487 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  41. Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]

    487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  42. How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

    487 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  43. Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation

    487 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  44. History of Techno

    486 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  45. On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

    486 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  46. Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

    486 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  47. Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

    486 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  48. Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines

    486 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  49. Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

    486 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  50. On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

    486 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  51. The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

    486 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  52. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    486 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  53. New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

    486 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  54. Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)

    486 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  55. Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban

    486 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  56. Deurbanising the Web [pdf]

    486 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  57. Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust

    485 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  58. SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon

    484 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  59. Building Rich Terminal Dashboards

    484 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  60. Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

    484 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  61. Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account

    484 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  62. Do you really want Linux phones

    484 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  63. Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

    484 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  64. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

    484 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  65. Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”

    483 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  66. For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

    483 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  67. What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?

    483 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  68. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

    483 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  69. Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

    483 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  70. Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

    482 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  71. U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income

    482 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  72. Ruby 3.1

    482 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  73. Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal

    482 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  74. State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

    482 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  75. Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public

    482 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  76. Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

    482 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  77. Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

    482 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  78. The Matrix Is Unreal

    482 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  79. Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm

    481 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  80. Starlink review, four months in

    481 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  81. Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible

    481 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  82. John Carmack on JPEG

    481 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  83. An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel

    481 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  84. 'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude

    481 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  85. Firefox 85

    481 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  86. Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

    481 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  87. It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is

    481 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  88. Cryptanalysis of GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 suggest intentional weakness

    480 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  89. Visualization of 40M Cell Towers

    480 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  90. Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising

    480 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  91. UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

    480 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  92. CT Scan of a Pumpkin

    480 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  93. I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit

    479 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  94. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

    479 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  95. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

    479 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  96. U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent

    479 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  97. Horrifying PDF Experiments

    478 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  98. Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)

    478 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  99. Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh

    478 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  100. Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work

    478 points • comment • apr 19, 2021