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Hacker News (2021)

Ask HN: What will stay the same in the next 50 years?
49 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
EarthDAO – We are buying the Earth
49 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
LemonScript: A typed programming language inspired by TypeScript and Python
49 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
Prevayler: ACID persistence for plain old Java objects (2013)
49 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise
49 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Why TV Lost (2009)
49 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Man to sue parents for giving birth to him
49 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
An Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
49 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
Detailed Report on Local Privilege Escalation in Ubuntu Desktop (Pwn2Own 2021)
49 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Show HN: Automatic proxy setup for SSH'able boxes that have no network access
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive
49 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
Real first world war: A monumental account of the Napoleonic Wars (2020)
49 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
Everyone used to raise hogs (2016)
48 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
Drinking year-old eggnog to put science to the test (2014)
48 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the U.S.
48 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Toba Catastrophe Theory
48 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings
48 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
IHP v0.17.0 has been released
48 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Ask HN: What is your playbook for profitable SaaS without outside investment?
48 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Libcontainer: Insecure handling of bind mount sources
48 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Developer's Porn Stash Gets Banned from Steam
48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
How IPFS is broken
48 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
UK spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists
48 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail
48 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
About the Urgency of Building Web3
48 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
The True Cost of Kubernetes: People, Time and Productivity
48 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Strong quantum computational advantage using a superconducting quantum processor
48 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Optimal Strategies for Exploring Nearby Stars
48 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
Unravelling `Async for` Loops
48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Tracing Octavia Butler’s footsteps
48 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
Apple makes its case against iPhone app sideloading
48 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
Instrument a Rust Application with OpenTelemetry
48 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
I moved my workspace to VR, here's what I learnt
48 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Regression with the C64
48 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Who should your computer take its orders from? (2002)
48 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy to Push Employees Out
48 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum
48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired
48 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Mary Mallon
48 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation
48 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion
48 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
The Blog Is the Program
48 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
The Facebook Status Page is up again
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development
48 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)
48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor (2008)
48 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
48 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
Understanding onset of hot streaks in artistic, cultural and scientific careers
48 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
The Case Against Crypto
48 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
“The Stasi Had a Giant Smell Register of Dissidents”
48 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
48 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion
48 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Fundamental physical theory is being replaced with a pseudo-science
48 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Moderna has fewer breakthrough cases than Pfizer's, but higher myocarditis rates
48 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Reverse-engineering Roman cavalry
48 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release
48 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Opto-electronic voice transceiver for covert infra-red light communication
48 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)
48 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
KiCad 6.0.0 Release Announcement
48 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Using Argo to Train Predictive Models at FlightAware
48 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
Tell HN: Edge collects all search history, even on Google/DDG
48 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Liverpool stripped of UNESCO World Heritage status
48 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
Ask HN: How best to prepare for Python interviews starting in 3 months?
48 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
Responsibly recycle your used Dell and non-Dell equipment for free
48 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Stack Safety for Free?
48 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Better Operator Precedence
48 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
Chinese tennis star recants sexual assault allegations against CCP vice-premier
48 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Map[string]interface{} in Go: a user's manual
48 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
Researchers are hoping to “hear” dark matter using a super-cooled experiment
48 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
China schools: 'Xi Jinping Thought' introduced into curriculum
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
A ghostly galaxy lacking dark matter
48 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill
48 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
Earthquakes with Exaggerated Depth
48 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do?
48 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Causal Information Affects Decisions
48 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Raspberry Pi 4 model Bs arriving with newer 'C0' stepping
48 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
Jack Dorsey caused an uproar with a bizarre Web3 Twitter rant
48 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
WiFiDemon – iOS WiFi RCE 0-Day Vuln, and a Zero-Click Vuln That Was Patched
48 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
The Racial Experience of a White Working Class American Boy
48 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
Who Owns In-Chip Monitoring Data?
48 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Quanta of the Third Kind
48 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Ask HN: How can I continue working as long as possible?
48 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
USB floppy controller for Amiga disks
48 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Mirror image DNA polymerase has been engineered
48 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
Using brain interfaces to learn about learning
48 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill
48 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Car Connectivity Consortium
48 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase
48 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
How useful should copy_file_range be?
48 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Honoring Your Craft – An alternative to the Four Hour Work Week mindset
48 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Three Former U.S. Intelligence Operatives Admit Hacking for United Arab Emirates
48 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Why is India having a Covid-19 surge?
48 points • comment • may 01, 2021
Show HN: MergeFeed – Paste a bunch of links to create a multifeed
48 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
European startups hacking the ageing process
48 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
Building a Stratum 1 Time Server for 16 bit DOS
48 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets
48 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
Cash Flood Drives Use of Fed Reverse Repo to Record $1T
48 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
90K packages are stolen daily in NYC. A building resisted
48 points • comment • feb 20, 2021