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Hacker News (2021)

Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
California unemployment claims rocket higher, worst in five months
36 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
The Attack on Rooftop Solar Power in California Is Beyond Stupid
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF
36 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
BuzzFeed to go public, after shareholders approve SPAC deal
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
The case of the curious commit message
36 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Google Play banned my highly rated app with no real justification
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
If Microsoft Made Cars
36 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
On Generative Algorithms (2016)
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
The original source for the 1981 masterpiece “Defender” is now on GitHub
36 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
Share Your Results of 2021
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
36 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
App Tracking Transparency causing 15% to 20% revenue drop for advertisers
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Christmas in 19th-Century America (1995)
36 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story
36 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, has died
36 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
LastPass to become independent company
36 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks
36 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Telegram is anything but secure; even Facebook is safer, says Signal founder
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Amazon abruptly banned Washington state treat-maker Chukar Cherries
36 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
WIP: Hacking the Nokia Fastmile (T-Mobile's 5G Gateway)
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Vinix, a new OS written in V, now runs mlibc and bash
36 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
Show HN: JWEB (a modern implementation of the CWEB Literate Programming system)
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Lodash's Chain vs. Native Methods
36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Frame.work laptop now accepting pre-orders from UK, Germany and France
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Improving a Machine Learning System – Broken Abstractions
36 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
The Begum's Fortune
36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Yamaha RA-100 Rotating Speaker Organ Amp
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Lambda School is renaming itself to Bloom Institute of Technology
36 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Steam Deck: “The Start of a Golden Age for Linux Gaming”
36 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
Show HN: I've made a Figma plugin that converts design to HTML with TailwindCSS
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
History as Weather
36 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
‘Building back badly’: Global power sector emissions soar
36 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's real (2009)
36 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
Sunscreen Worries Grow as Another Potential Carcinogen Found
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Linux 5.16 Has a Nice Performance Gift for AMD Ryzen Laptops
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
The CDC Needs to Stop Confusing the Public
36 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Tiny primate may join the ranks of the world’s model organisms
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Get Rid of Failed Leaders, Publicly
36 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
China hoards over half the world's grain
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Rust 2021 Celebration and Thanks
36 points • comment • sep 03, 2021
Ask HN: Is This Parenting or Scrum?
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
America, Stop Moving West
36 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Google Fires VP over Bizarre Anti-Anti-Semitic Rant
36 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Show HN: Markdown docs automation (like README.md) from external or remote files
36 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
36 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
Decoding DART
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Show HN: Nhi – capture every information about each executed command [video]
36 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
The $900B Cash Pile Inflating Startup Valuations
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
In Re-Analysis, Ivermectin Benefits Disappeared as Trial Quality Increased
36 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
Ask HN: Is Wikipedia running out of money?
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Linux 5.15-Rc5 x86 Changes Aim to Fix “Yet Another Hardware Trainwreck”
36 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
Cat meow sounds visualized with auto-correlation function
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
I'm a Luddite. You should be one too
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Computational Social Science (from the point of view of mobile phones)
36 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
PlutoCon 2021
36 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
Loda-lang – language, computational model, and OEIS miner
36 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
Fitted Filtration Efficiency of Double Masking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
36 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
Yue – A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps
36 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
36 points • comment • may 11, 2021
Intel is adding subscription-based feature switches to chips
36 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Simhashing (Hopefully) Made Simple (2012)
36 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
The Next Big Challenge for Data Is Organizational
36 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?
36 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Tag politicians when they use their phone on the daily livestreams through AI
36 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Without these lipid shells, there would be no mRNA vaccines for Covid-19
36 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Debian Bullseye Fully Frozen
36 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Bell's theorem refuted?
36 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Man’s Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing
36 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
We Fixed the Ozone Layer
36 points • comment • may 22, 2021
Diving into “Ghost Ships of the Baltic Sea”
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010)
36 points • comment • may 12, 2021
The Future of Weight Loss
36 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Why are Hart Taxis more expensive?
36 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
Federal Reserve Now Projects Rate Increases in 2023 as Economy Heals
36 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Scaling PostgreSQL
36 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed over the Philippines
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Show HN: Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language
36 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Lessons Learned from 5 years using Pivotal Tracker
36 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Audacity and MuseScore Announcement
36 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Ask HN: Did you quit smoking cannabis? If so, why?
36 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
Etna is erupting
36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Rosette: A solver-aided programming language
36 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Spectrum Workers on Strike Build Their Own ISP
36 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western
36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex
36 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Why Not WireGuard (2020)
36 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
Omnimatte: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Video
36 points • comment • may 17, 2021
Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf]
36 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
Superintelligence
36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Audacity Forked
36 points • comment • jul 05, 2021