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Hacker News (2021)

  1. We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus

    391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  2. Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

    391 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  3. ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts

    391 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  4. Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

    391 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  5. Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

    391 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

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

    391 points • comment • may 31, 2021

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

    391 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  8. New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception

    390 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  9. Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect

    390 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  10. Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc

    390 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  11. In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

    390 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  12. Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu

    390 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  13. FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust

    390 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  14. Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules

    390 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  15. Stanford CS Curriculum 2021

    390 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  16. Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

    390 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  17. Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

    390 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  18. Lessons from my PhD

    390 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  19. The Teamsters announce coordinated nationwide project to unionize Amazon

    390 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  20. Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?

    390 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  21. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

    390 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  22. Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study

    390 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  23. Django 3.2

    390 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  24. Playstation 3 Architecture

    390 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  25. How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players

    390 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  26. After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

    390 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  27. Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

    390 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  28. Why has no one made a better Goodreads

    390 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  29. Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library

    389 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  30. Postgres scaling advice

    389 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  31. Remote OK Open Startup

    389 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  32. Kinesis Advantage 360

    389 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  33. Second IC

    389 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  34. 112 Gripes About the French

    389 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  35. My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions

    389 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  36. Pico CSS Framework

    389 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  37. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)

    389 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  38. How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub

    389 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  39. Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna

    389 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  40. Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION

    389 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  41. “This project will only take 2 hours”

    389 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  42. The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

    389 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  43. How to Learn Stuff Quickly

    389 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  44. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

    389 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  45. Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

    389 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  46. RegEx Crossword

    389 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  47. Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

    389 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  48. I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries

    389 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  49. Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

    389 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  50. iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

    389 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  51. Defensive CSS

    389 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission

    388 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  53. Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses

    388 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  54. Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

    388 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  55. A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

    388 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  56. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

    388 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  57. Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform

    388 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  58. Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name

    388 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  59. Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

    388 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  60. Setting up Starlink

    388 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  61. Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone

    388 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  62. Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)

    388 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  63. Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

    387 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  64. When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up

    387 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  65. ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect

    387 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  66. Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed

    387 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  67. Software estimation is hard – do it anyway

    387 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  68. Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

    387 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  69. You Don't Need a GUI

    387 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  70. Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

    387 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  71. Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes

    387 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  72. How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

    387 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  73. Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5

    387 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  74. Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

    387 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  75. Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

    387 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  76. After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off

    386 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  77. Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?

    386 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  78. How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation

    386 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  79. Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

    386 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  80. One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected

    386 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  81. How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection

    386 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  82. A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room

    386 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  83. iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer

    386 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  84. Common Crawl

    386 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

    386 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  86. Toxic positivity does more harm than good

    386 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  87. Little League wants all your information

    386 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  88. DIY Acoustic Camera

    386 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  89. Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched

    385 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  90. Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

    385 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  91. Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

    385 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  92. Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

    385 points • comment • jul 26, 2021

  93. Runway – Create impossible video

    385 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  94. A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

    385 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  95. Designing Low Upkeep Software

    385 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  96. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system

    385 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  97. How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus

    385 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  98. Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

    385 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  99. The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

    385 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  100. Back Orifice (1998)

    385 points • comment • sep 04, 2021