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Hacker News (2021)

Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community
29 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
Why ranking employees by performance backfires
29 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
Sometimes solecisms can reveal linguistic ingenuity
29 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
A Theory of Thorstein Veblen
29 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
Field Notes of a Sentence Watcher
29 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Modelling a Wealth Tax Correctly (2020)
29 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
Singapore deaths and cases spike with 88.5% vaxxed
29 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
Tor is killing off all v2 domains on October 15th, 2021
29 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
Cache-Control Recommendations
29 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Ask HN: Ex-Employer alleging me for hacking. What should I do?
29 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
Black Kids Jailed for Crime Doesn’t Exist. Nothing Happened to Adults in Charge
29 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Robot paramedic carries out CPR in ambulance in UK first
29 points • comment • may 22, 2021
AI Can Write Code Like Humans–Bugs and All
29 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry
29 points • comment • may 12, 2021
AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Happy 30th birthday, Python: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time
29 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Lemon Law
29 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
In Defense of the Present Tense (2015)
29 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud?
29 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
Sign for a ban on biometric mass surveillance
29 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
More filling? Tastes great? How flies, and maybe people, choose their food
29 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Enabling Support for MathML in Chrome
29 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sets Unwanted Record: Most Cases with Financial Conflicts
29 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Ben Barbersmith: Cryptocurrency is bad. For the planet, for consumers
29 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
Automatic daily updates for over 8000 Debian packages
29 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Trapped in the Technologist Factory
29 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
An Ode to Marmara
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP SEARCH
29 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
Make Light Trucks as Safe as Cars or Ban Them from Cities
29 points • comment • may 09, 2021
Ask HN: Do you tell your salary to people/family/friends outside your industry?
29 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks
29 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
'I Lost Everything': How Squid Game Token Collapsed
29 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
The Muppet Show: Disney+ adds content warning of negative depictions of cultures
29 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10
29 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Show HN: liwasc – Go network scanner, port scanner and WoL server with a PWA
29 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Cryptocurrencies’ dream of escaping the global financial system is crumbling
29 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged with willful neglect for Flint water crisis
29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Ethicists’ Courtesy at Philosophy Conferences (2011)
29 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
University of California Will No Longer Consider Sat and Act Scores
29 points • comment • may 15, 2021
After Apple Tightens Tracking Rules, Advertisers Shift Spending Toward Android
29 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Ask HN: Best way to learn networking fundamentals quickly
29 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
Reversing the Pokémon Snap Station Without a Snap Station
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Saving the World with Bayesian Modeling
29 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Satiety
29 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived
29 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules
29 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
In Praise of Lectures (2004) [pdf]
29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Nintoaster
29 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Show HN: ThermOS – A DIY multi-zone homekit compatible thermostat
29 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Pornhub Launches a Museum Guide for Classical Nudes
29 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
How Will Linux Handle Quantum Computing? (2017) [pdf]
29 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
An update on our privacy sandbox commitments
29 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever
29 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
29 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
Kids Can’t Use Computers
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Screening healthcare workers could serve early warning system for future viruses
29 points • comment • may 03, 2021
No Difference in Viral Load Between Un/Vaxed/A/Symptomatic Covid Delta Infected
29 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal'
29 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
The CBM 900 (2020)
29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
If you’re vaccinated, risk from the Delta variant is probably long-haul Covid
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons
29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams (2020)
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
IBM Common User Access
29 points • comment • may 20, 2021
Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by an engineer trying a quick fix
29 points • comment • may 23, 2021
Italy seeks to shield supercars from combustion engine ban
29 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
Consumer Reports tricks Tesla to drive with no one at wheel
29 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
Show HN: Made an internal communication app with just SWIFTUI
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
Why Logitech Just Killed the Universal Remote Control Industry
29 points • comment • may 30, 2021
“For this reason, your app will be removed from sale on the App Store”
29 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
Renaissance Science: the base ten number system
29 points • comment • may 17, 2021
WikipediaQL: Query language for efficient data extraction from Wikipedia (early
29 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Why would you ever trust Amazon's Alexa after this?
29 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?
29 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
We Spoke to a Guy Who Got His Dick Locked in a Cage by a Hacker
29 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
Two Things I Learned When I Crash Landed at a Startup
29 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
One Texas Resident Still Has Power, but His Bill Is Now over $8k
29 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
The 12 exploits, bugs, or security holes patched in iOS 14.8.1 and iPadOS 14.8.1
29 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Machine Learning for Developers weekly newsletter (ML4Devs, Issue 1)
29 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Gaming can officially improve mental health: 5 essential relaxing titles to play
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
The sensor stories behind the Mars Perseverance images
29 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Moscow tells 13 mostly U.S. tech firms they must set up in Russia by 2022
29 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Tesla’s market share in Europe keeps crumbling, as China reclaims top spot
29 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Hacking group says it has found encryption keys needed to unlock the PS5
29 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Physics
29 points • comment • may 24, 2021
Duenos Inscription
29 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
All stories are wrong but some are useful
29 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
Neo-Amish Drop Outs (2008)
29 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
List of remote companies offering 4 day work weeks
29 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
The X4ivygA51F Rabbit Hole (2020)
29 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
29 points • comment • may 02, 2021
Why you should not use (f)lex, yacc and bison
29 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Show HN: I created Make.rs – a place where makers show what they've made
29 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Ruthless Prioritization
29 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Algorithm Agility?
29 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
Pumpers, Dumpers, and Shills: The Skycoin Saga
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Why the KLF Burned One Million Pounds in 1994 (2017)
29 points • comment • jan 30, 2021