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Hacker News (2021)

What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer
48 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
Chain loading, not preloading: the dynamic linker as a virtualization vector
48 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth
48 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part IV: Screamers and Howlers
48 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
40 years ago, this family set off from Winnipeg to the Amazon in a canoe
48 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
The Source Code Control System (1975) [pdf]
48 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
A fancy open-source self-hosted monitoring tool
48 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
Statement by UEFA, FA, Premier League, RFEF, LaLiga, FIGC and Lega Serie A
48 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
UK court sets scene for $14B-plus class action against MasterCard
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Mice fed fast food get noticeably stupider, scientists warn
48 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
Dan Price Says Raising Min Wage to $70K Led to Baby Boom, Revenue Rise
48 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2021)
48 points • comment • may 03, 2021
Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans
48 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You
48 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
The Ascendant Steppe: A brisk tour of the early history of Central Asia
48 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
Inflation speeds up in April as consumer prices leap 4.2%, fastest since 2008
48 points • comment • may 12, 2021
GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod: Choosing the Best Online Code Editor
48 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
US Treasury to Allow Blockchains, Stablecoins for Bank Payments
48 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
48 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
48 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Google struggles to fix its new Stadia game after shutting down own studios
48 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Atomic image sets new record for highest resolution
48 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas (Turbulence)
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
Videohash – Perceptual video hashing python package
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous
48 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
An Escalator Made of Cardboard
48 points • comment • may 30, 2021
Show HN: Nothingly – The gift of nothing
48 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
Show HN: PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed
48 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
DALL-E Paper and Code
48 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
Computing Discrete Logarithms [pdf]
48 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
Superhuman is Sublime Text for Email
48 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
Saving books by keeping them expensive (2011)
48 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Show HN: 3D-Parallax, labelfree 3D experience from a 2D image using parallax
48 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Pigiron, a MIDI Routing Utility with OSC
48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
Global forest restoration is the most effective carbon capture opportunity
48 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?
48 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Nasdaq CEO Suggests Halt to Allow Investors to ‘Recalibrate’ to Combat Reddit
48 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
We don’t have unprofitable customers, just unhappy accidents (2019)
48 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
Megastructures Superweapons and Global Architectures in Sci-Fi Computer Games
48 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities
48 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do
48 points • comment • may 02, 2021
Probability for Slay the Spire Fanatics
48 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
Launch HN: Xix.ai (YC W17) – Securely authenticate in web apps by face
48 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
IPC Buffer Sizes
48 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Continuation on “Not This Lisp Again”
48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Plea: Help us get home from Afghanistan
48 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Ask HN: Is average code getting worse?
48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Powers of Hearing: The Military Science of Sound Location
48 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots [pdf]
48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Google Fires 80 Employees for Exploiting User Data
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
CVE-2021-24122 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure
48 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
Ask HN: Is this the most quoted quote on HN?
48 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps
48 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
“Host” WordPress on Cloudflare for Free
48 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
Tell HN: There Is a “$GME Go BRRR” Billboard on Times Square, NYC
48 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other people seem to care about?
48 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users over the past year
48 points • comment • may 09, 2021
Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency
48 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail
48 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
Rs of Note Taking
48 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
At Home with Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals (2020)
48 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Facebook will count one person as two on its platform
48 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?
48 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Humans could recolonize Earth after mass extinctions with ectogenesis
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas
48 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
Why we don't dole out many compliments, but should
48 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Ask HN: Non-US Fired after Bipolar depression shared with HR. Can they fire me?
48 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Completing Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony
48 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Pinephone Keyboard Update
48 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?
48 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Is the Industry Ready for T-0 Settlement? (2018)
48 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
48 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Balintore Castle Restoration Project
48 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
Israel surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank
48 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
The HK19 manual – A crowdsourced protest guide
48 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America
48 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
No Us Without You: elifdef and elifndef
48 points • comment • mar 13, 2021
The Looming Arctic Collapse
48 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
Show HN: Bookmark Knocking – Hidden Bookmarks Without a Browser Extension
48 points • comment • mar 13, 2021
Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM
48 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Trader gets painted stones instead of $36M of copper
48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
Scientists retrace steps of Ice Age mammoth over its entire lifetime
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
The U.S. government is begging you to destroy moss balls
48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality
48 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Google Must Face Suit over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
The BitcoinLaw has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress
48 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
Google breaks the trillion-parameter ceiling with the Switch Transformer
48 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
Amazon.com and its app are currently broken
48 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
Single Pfizer shot 90 percent effective after 21 days: study
48 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
A Simple Interpreter in Python
48 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
In Private Call, Texas Regulator Pledged to Protect Wall Street Blackout Profits
48 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't
48 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
Static website analytics with no JavaScript using GoAccess
48 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware
48 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey
48 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
What Became of the Arcos Undersea Cable Connection to Cuba? (2020)
48 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
The Transformer Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem
48 points • comment • mar 20, 2021