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Hacker News (2021)

Amazon vanishes 1984 from Kindles (2009)
50 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Fairphone beats the entire Android ecosystem with six years of support
50 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
UV light and mildew: why physical objects degrade over time
50 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
Post Infocom: Boffo Games
50 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
The Apple vs. Epic Decision
50 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Ask HN: Best way to prepare a codebase for open-source?
50 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Copilot and Conversational Programming
50 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
What can you do with an ISA specification?
50 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016)
50 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Is Technological Progress Slowing? The Case of American Agriculture
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
900-mile mantle pipeline connects Galápagos to Panama
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
50 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs
50 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Saule Omarova says banks sank her chance to become a key regulator
50 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
The Ramanujan Machine
50 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Inside The Tombs of Saqqara
50 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
Crisp: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures
50 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Rost – Write rust code in German
50 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why?
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
“We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
50 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Omicron poses high global risk, world must prepare – WHO
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Polite Technology
50 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?
50 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Curiosities in Vinyl
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Django Unicorn – A full-stack framework for Django
50 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate Fraud
50 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
Introducing Parca - Open Source Continuous Profiling
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Three systems beneath network effects
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot
50 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
$150B lawsuit over genocide may force Facebook to confront its dark side
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s failing
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
A cross-platform Markdown editor focused on speed and usability
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Italy reveals its new national airline
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
How to Open a Door (1979) [video]
50 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Apple’s Gaming Revenue Reportedly Exceeds Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo Combined
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
Mundaneum
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals
50 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
SolidLight offers a true holographic video display
50 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
U.S. Workers Are Realizing Life's More Than Just a Job
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
How to help GNU Emacs maintainers?
50 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Show HN: Download 12,000 Exclusive Design Resources
50 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Navalny 'losing sensation in legs and hands'
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed but underrated among informed
50 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
“Metadata of the metadata” informs product design without allowing backdoors
50 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Systemd Inhibitor Locks Deep Dive
50 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Gab is now the 647th most popular website in the US, explosive 90 day growth
50 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
Ask HN: What kind of projects make a junior candidate stand out from the rest?
50 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Worried about Signal, WhatsApp is taking out full page ads in Indian Newspapers
50 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
Democracy Is Losing Its Race with Disruption
50 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Svelte come on top for satisfaction and interest:3
50 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
Tom’s Essay (2008)
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
GPT-3, Esq? Evaluating AI Legal Summaries [pdf]
50 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
Canada's vaccination rate overtakes US
50 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Submarine Sleepovers
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
When did we start signing our names to authenticate documents? (2011)
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
How Finland rebranded itself as a literary country (2018)
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Grep.app: search across a half million Git repos
50 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Critique of 2018 Turing Award for Drs. Bengio and Hinton and LeCun
50 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks
50 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
I sent over 10k personal thank you videos to my customers
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Unique_ptr difference between libstdc++ and Libc++ crashes your application
50 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Over 10k species risk extinction in Amazon, says landmark report
50 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
No safe level of alcohol for brain health: observational cohort study [pdf]
50 points • comment • may 20, 2021
Making reverse engineering tools for DEF CON Quals
50 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy
50 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (2019)
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI conspired in his murder
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Michael, Dwight and Andy: The Three Aesthetics of the Creative Class
50 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
Senior NASA scientist pleads guilty om China ties
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Fauci-Email
50 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Science’s Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Sci-hub-p2p needs help with indexing & seeding on IPFS
50 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Gyroplane Accidents 1985-2005
50 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
Voynich, Hill, Crumb: A Hitherto Vexing Codex
50 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
Launch HN: Abacum (YC W21) – Easy collaboration and reporting for finance teams
50 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Depressed People See the World More Realistically
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
The Ghosts of Mark Fisher
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
The Launch Landscape: Small Rockets
50 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
Syngen: A library for audio game development
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume
50 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
Snowpack v3.0
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Latvia bans unvaccinated lawmakers from voting, docks pay
50 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
We need more than deplatforming
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Ask HN: How much equity to give board members of a startup?
50 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
Firefox for iOS 32
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Element adds voice messaging and new Matrix-native VoIP
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
C++ Alternative Operator Representations
50 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
The M1 Pro for Android Engineers
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020)
50 points • comment • jan 15, 2021