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  1. McKinsey never told the FDA it was working for both the FDA and opioid makers

    399 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  2. New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity

    399 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  3. Alias-Free GAN

    399 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  4. Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)

    399 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  5. Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

    399 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  6. The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

    399 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  7. Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

    399 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  8. Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

    399 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  9. Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to

    399 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  10. Lego Microscope

    398 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  11. Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues

    398 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  12. Transmission torrent client ported to C++

    398 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  13. “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”

    398 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  14. Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance

    398 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  15. Krita 5.0

    398 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  16. Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

    398 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  17. Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium

    398 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  18. Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

    398 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  19. Technologies I thought my son would never use

    398 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  20. “It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974”

    398 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  21. Pass: The standard Unix password manager

    398 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  22. Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

    397 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  23. Bluetooth Trackball Mark II

    397 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  24. Interactive introduction to game theory and trust

    397 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  25. Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections

    397 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  26. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    397 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  27. PHP's Git server compromised, moving to GitHub

    397 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  28. Show HN: Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502

    397 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  29. A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement

    397 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  30. Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

    397 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  31. PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

    397 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  32. I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

    397 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  33. Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53

    397 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  34. Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

    397 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  35. 2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident

    396 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  36. The Last Message Sent on AIM

    396 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  37. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

    396 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  38. WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

    396 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  39. How to Design Programs (2014)

    396 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  40. Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

    396 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  41. Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

    396 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  42. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    396 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  43. Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant

    396 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  44. LibreCellular

    396 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  45. Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020

    396 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?

    396 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  47. Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]

    396 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  48. Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

    396 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  49. Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

    396 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  50. Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released

    396 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  51. Open Source Farming Robot

    395 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  52. The latest campus cancellation is different

    395 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  53. Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)

    395 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  54. NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)

    395 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  55. The American prison system’s war on reading

    395 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  56. What Went Wrong?

    395 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  57. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

    395 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  58. Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack

    395 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  59. Web Browser Engineering

    395 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  60. Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)

    395 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  61. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

    394 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  62. Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox

    394 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  63. Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

    394 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  64. An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

    394 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  65. Train Wheels Are Cones

    394 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  66. Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

    394 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  67. Groove Pizza

    394 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  68. Offline First

    394 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  69. Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs

    394 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  70. Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

    394 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  71. Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

    394 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  72. Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

    394 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  73. Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

    394 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  74. How to programmatically find out if computer is on

    394 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  75. I don't want to do front-end anymore

    394 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  76. Java 16

    394 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  77. Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules

    393 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  78. I'm working on open source full time

    393 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  79. As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)

    393 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  80. TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)

    393 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  81. Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage

    393 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  82. FFMPEG from Zero to Hero

    393 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  83. Rails 7 Released

    393 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  84. Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

    393 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  85. Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

    393 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  86. Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

    393 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  87. Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower

    392 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  88. Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations

    392 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  89. Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root

    392 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  90. Privacy Is a Human Right

    392 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  91. Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?

    392 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  92. Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

    392 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  93. On Repl-Driven Programming

    392 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  94. Serverless SQLite

    392 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  95. To learn a new language, read its standard library

    392 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  96. World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years

    391 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  97. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

    391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  98. As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

    391 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  99. How to Learn Stuff Quickly

    391 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  100. NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

    391 points • comment • may 31, 2021