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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

    1100 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  2. Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

    1092 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  3. U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

    1086 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  4. Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

    1085 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  5. Daft Punk Break Up

    1081 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  6. Click

    1077 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  7. CT scans of AirPods evolution

    1075 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  8. Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

    1075 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  9. Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

    1066 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  10. Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

    1065 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  11. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

    1063 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  12. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

    1061 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  13. M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability

    1057 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  14. Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

    1057 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  15. Facebook Renames to Meta

    1056 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  16. NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

    1054 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  17. G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

    1047 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  18. 3D printed mirror array

    1045 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  19. GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

    1043 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  20. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

    1043 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  21. Stripe Identity

    1042 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  22. Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

    1041 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  23. Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

    1040 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  24. QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time

    1040 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  25. Windy.com

    1038 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  26. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

    1038 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  27. Thank you, GitHub

    1037 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  28. Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying

    1036 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  29. Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

    1035 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  30. An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

    1035 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  31. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

    1030 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  32. Audacity 3.0

    1030 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  33. Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

    1030 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  34. How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    1029 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  35. Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

    1028 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  36. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

    1028 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  37. Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

    1028 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  38. 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

    1028 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  39. ECC matters

    1027 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  40. NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images

    1023 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  41. I Still Use RSS

    1020 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  42. All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

    1012 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  43. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

    1012 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  44. Screw it, I’ll host it myself

    1012 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  45. Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

    1005 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  46. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

    1003 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  47. What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

    1002 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  48. LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

    1002 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  49. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

    1001 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  50. Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

    1000 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  51. Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31

    1000 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  52. Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair

    997 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  53. Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?

    996 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  54. Moiré No More

    994 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  55. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

    994 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  56. GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

    991 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  57. Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

    991 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  58. Getting better at Linux with mini-projects

    991 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  59. I want a computer that I own

    988 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  60. Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

    984 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  61. Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

    984 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  62. Slack is down

    983 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  63. Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong

    982 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  64. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

    981 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  65. IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax

    979 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  66. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

    976 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  67. Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

    975 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  68. A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

    973 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  69. MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

    972 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  70. Stripe Payment Links

    972 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  71. Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

    971 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  72. Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

    971 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  73. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    968 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  74. A New Future for Icanhazip

    968 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  75. Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

    965 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  76. Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

    965 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  77. “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

    964 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  78. Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy

    962 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  79. SQLite is not a toy database

    961 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  80. What I Worked On

    960 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  81. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

    959 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  82. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

    958 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  83. Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

    957 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  84. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

    955 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  85. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

    955 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  86. Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

    955 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  87. Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful

    954 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  88. Htmlq: like jq, but for html

    953 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  89. The rise of never-ending job interviews

    951 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  90. Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up

    950 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  91. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning

    949 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  92. Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

    946 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  93. Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it

    946 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  94. Mess with DNS

    943 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  95. The metaverse is bullshit

    943 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  96. Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

    941 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  97. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

    938 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  98. Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

    937 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  99. Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

    937 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  100. NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild

    937 points • comment • sep 13, 2021