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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Show HN: Test if your (US) phone number is in the leaked Facebook data

    43 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  2. Designing Aero Snap (2009)

    43 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  3. A Soroban Beats an Electric Calculator (1946)

    43 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  4. A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)

    43 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  5. From Academia to Startups – Common Founder Foibles

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  6. Cleaning up header bars in GNOME 41

    43 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  7. Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum world (2018)

    43 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  8. NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon

    43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  9. Let’s Destroy Bitcoin

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  10. Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)

    43 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  11. Warren Buffett sinks climate shareholder resolution, says world will adapt

    43 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  12. What science can tell us about C and C++'s security (2020)

    43 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  13. A never-before-documented flower blooms on one of world’s rarest trees

    43 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  14. Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup (2018)

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  15. Sevenhugs exits the universal remote business

    43 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  16. Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  17. Stardew Valley: The Board Game – a loving production but a mixed review

    43 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  18. Parking Functions: Choose Your Own Adventure

    43 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  19. Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe's 'biggest regeneration project' fell flat

    43 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  20. Graceful Degradation (2014)

    43 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  21. Elm Roadmap

    43 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  22. Minims

    43 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  23. ‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation

    43 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  24. Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021

    43 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  25. Another Man’s DNA Is Found on Murder Weapon Years After Execution

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  26. Can a soundbar rival a surround-sound system in a blind listening test? (2020)

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  27. A third of Covid survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders

    43 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  28. Mapbox Workers Union

    43 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  29. Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees

    43 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  30. In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years

    43 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  31. Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  32. I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'

    43 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  33. To Craunch the Marmoset (2016)

    43 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  34. Let's Build a Chip with Math

    43 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  35. Alexandra Elbakyan speaks about how Sci-Hub came to be

    43 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  36. On Diego Rivera

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  37. Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses

    43 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  38. Aaron Swartz

    43 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  39. Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

    43 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  40. Aaron Swartz – The Network Transformation

    43 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  41. Every Programmer Should Know

    43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  42. The Overview Effect

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  43. Ensmallen: A C++ Library For Efficient Numerical Optimization

    43 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  44. L-arginine in severe Covid-19 decreases the length of hospitalization

    43 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  45. The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for an US of A television

    43 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  46. Indra – Hackers Behind Recent Attacks on Iran

    43 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  47. A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays

    43 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  48. Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first

    43 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  49. The Pinouts Book

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  50. SpaceX becomes the second-ever unicorn company to reach a $100B valuation

    43 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  51. Guided by plant voices

    43 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. Baby Boom or Bust?

    43 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  53. The Myth of Multitasking (2008)

    43 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  54. Characterization of bacteria and fungi associated with the ISS' surfaces (2019)

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  55. Conversation-Based Pricing

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  56. Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  57. Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution

    43 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  58. Bad Apple*

    43 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  59. Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors)

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  60. Google handed user data to Hong Kong authorities despite pledge

    43 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  61. Stablecoins to face new restrictions in Japan

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  62. Evolution of code deployment tools at Mixpanel

    43 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  63. Crimes of Fashion: Clothes in early modern England

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  64. Lttng: An open-source, eBPF alternative

    43 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  65. Is Haskell a good choice for software security?

    43 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  66. Who's taking over PCem development?

    43 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  67. Time formatting and storage bugs

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  68. Pfizer to Pay $2.3B for Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History

    43 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  69. The Background for CAR and CDR

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  70. Major Errors and Corrections

    43 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  71. Show HN: Interpretable Text Classification and Clustering in the Browser

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  72. Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming [pdf]

    43 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  73. Show HN: t2md – convert Trello to markdown folders on disk, fast

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  74. The brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s accordions

    43 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  75. Bitburner: An open-source programming-based incremental game

    43 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  76. Receiving Starlink satellite beacons on a budget

    43 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  77. Twitter bans sharing images/videos of private individuals without their consent

    43 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  78. AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon

    43 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  79. The Mechanical King

    43 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  80. Starship: Cross-shell prompt written in Rust

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  81. S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin

    43 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  82. $30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  83. Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50k-year-old social network across Africa

    43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  84. Income Inequality Is Big, Wealth Inequality Is 100 Times Bigger

    43 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  85. Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  86. The Year in Physics

    42 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  87. Parentheses Are Just Typechecking

    42 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  88. Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart (2001)

    42 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  89. Fear and Loathing in America (2001)

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  90. Ask HN: Has anyone else been ghosted by Cloudflare?

    42 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  91. YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  92. A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers

    42 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  93. The question we’ve stopped asking about teenagers and social media

    42 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  94. Servefolder.dev

    42 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  95. Generating relocatable code for ARM processors

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  96. Yale’s continuing retreat from academic freedom

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  97. LinkedIn breaks because of too many tracking cookies

    42 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  98. Great Inheritors: How 3 Families Shielded Fortunes from Taxes for Generations

    42 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  99. Scamspotter.org – Google and Cybercrime Support Network Partnership

    42 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  100. Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer

    42 points • comment • dec 17, 2021