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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

    1341 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  2. Pixel prevented me from calling 911

    1337 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  3. Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

    1335 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  4. Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

    1334 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  5. Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

    1327 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  6. All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

    1324 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  7. Architecture.md

    1323 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  8. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

    1318 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  9. California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement

    1316 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  10. One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

    1315 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  11. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    1312 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  12. VideoLAN is 20 years old today

    1309 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  13. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

    1308 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  14. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

    1305 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  15. No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees

    1301 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  16. Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

    1294 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  17. AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

    1287 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  18. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

    1284 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  19. The Animal Is Tired

    1276 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  20. 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

    1276 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  21. Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

    1274 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  22. Log4j RCE Found

    1269 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  23. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

    1260 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  24. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

    1259 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  25. NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

    1259 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  26. Yayagram

    1254 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  27. WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

    1250 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  28. DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

    1248 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  29. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

    1247 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  30. Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)

    1246 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  31. Fastly Outage

    1245 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  32. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

    1244 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  33. Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

    1243 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  34. Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today

    1243 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  35. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

    1241 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  36. Apple announces Self Service Repair

    1240 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  37. Apple’s Mistake

    1238 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  38. Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

    1233 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  39. iOS 15 Humane

    1233 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  40. Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address

    1233 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  41. Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

    1232 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  42. Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

    1228 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  43. Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August

    1225 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  44. 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz

    1222 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  45. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

    1222 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  46. This website has 81% battery power remaining

    1221 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  47. Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

    1221 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  48. Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

    1213 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  49. Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

    1210 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  50. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

    1209 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  51. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

    1201 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  52. How to Work Hard

    1201 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  53. Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

    1200 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  54. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

    1199 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  55. A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

    1193 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  56. Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

    1192 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  57. Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

    1192 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  58. A URL Lengthener

    1191 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  59. “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

    1188 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  60. Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

    1186 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  61. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

    1182 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  62. Reddit’s disrespectful design

    1182 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  63. My Current HTML Boilerplate

    1181 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  64. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    1178 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  65. Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

    1174 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  66. Google have declared Droidscript is malware

    1174 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  67. What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

    1171 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  68. I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

    1164 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  69. Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

    1164 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  70. IPFS Support in Brave

    1163 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  71. Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

    1159 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  72. This word does not exist

    1156 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  73. Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

    1155 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  74. Embrace the Grind

    1154 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  75. Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

    1149 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  76. I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

    1145 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  77. Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice

    1143 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  78. Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

    1142 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  79. Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

    1138 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  80. The 'Fuck You' Pattern

    1137 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  81. An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

    1135 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  82. Wish HN: Happy Holidays

    1133 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  83. My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

    1133 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  84. Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

    1132 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  85. Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

    1129 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  86. CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

    1126 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  87. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

    1126 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

    1125 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  89. Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

    1125 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  90. How Dwarf Fortress is built

    1124 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  91. “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

    1117 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  92. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

    1116 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  93. Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

    1115 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  94. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

    1115 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  95. Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

    1114 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  96. Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

    1111 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  97. How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home

    1107 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  98. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

    1105 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  99. Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

    1103 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  100. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    1101 points • comment • apr 20, 2021