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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

    466 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  2. Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility

    466 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  3. The Elephant at WWDC

    465 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  4. Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

    465 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  5. Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller

    465 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  6. 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

    465 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  7. 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

    465 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  8. “I will slaughter you”

    465 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  9. Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off

    464 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  10. Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

    464 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  11. Plain Text Accounting

    464 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  12. Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships

    464 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  13. How I Practice Piano

    464 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  14. A solo journey to $100k in sales

    464 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  15. Write Simply

    464 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  16. “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

    464 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  17. 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

    463 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  18. Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

    463 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  19. Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

    463 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  20. Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

    463 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  21. Open secrets about Hacker News

    463 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  22. Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

    463 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  23. Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

    462 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  24. Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

    462 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  25. My dead dad’s journal

    462 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  26. Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

    462 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  27. LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

    462 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  28. RMS addresses the free software community

    461 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  29. How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams

    461 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  30. Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny

    461 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  31. Imgur Acquired by Medialab

    461 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  32. A case against security nihilism

    461 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  33. Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

    461 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  34. I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them

    461 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  35. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

    461 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  36. A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

    461 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  37. Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

    460 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  38. Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist

    460 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  39. Automating my job with GPT-3

    460 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  40. Vivaldi 4.0

    460 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  41. Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

    460 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  42. Timeline of the Human Condition

    460 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  43. Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

    459 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  44. Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

    459 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  45. The Future of discord.py

    459 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  46. Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI

    459 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  47. Against SQL

    459 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?

    459 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  49. Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop

    459 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  50. WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys

    459 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  51. A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher

    458 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  52. Reactive Clojure: A web language

    458 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  53. Text to Image Generation

    458 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  54. Our self imposed scarcity of nice places

    458 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  55. An Update on the UMN Affair

    458 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  56. American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)

    458 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  57. HN was down

    458 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  58. YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

    457 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  59. Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers

    457 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  60. Giant, free index to world's research papers released online

    457 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  61. Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

    457 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  62. Prince Philip has died

    457 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  63. Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board

    457 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  64. Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

    457 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  65. Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

    457 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  66. Haiti’s President Is Assassinated

    456 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  67. Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf

    456 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  68. Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images

    456 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  69. Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

    456 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  70. AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

    456 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  71. Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter

    456 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  72. Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep

    456 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  73. The Ponzi Career

    456 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  74. Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

    456 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  75. Blender 2.92

    455 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  76. Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs

    455 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  77. Akamai Edge DNS was down

    455 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  78. When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)

    455 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  79. USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

    455 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  80. Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

    455 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  81. Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions

    455 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  82. Weird Languages

    454 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  83. Finishing my first game while working full-time

    454 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  84. Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

    454 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  85. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

    454 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  86. Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up

    453 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  87. macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good

    453 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  88. Wuffs’ PNG image decoder

    453 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  89. SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

    453 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  90. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

    453 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  91. Australia is becoming a surveillance state

    453 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  92. The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

    453 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  93. Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts

    452 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  94. Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System

    452 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  95. Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

    452 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  96. An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements

    452 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  97. Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

    452 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  98. The Mom Test – How to talk to customers

    452 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  99. US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

    452 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  100. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

    451 points • comment • feb 01, 2021