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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Bitcoin could become ‘worthless’, Bank of England warns

    29 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  2. New England Is an Energy Crisis Waiting to Happen

    29 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  3. The FDA could permanently lift some restrictions on abortion pills

    29 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  4. BlackBerry device and services end of life January 4, 2022

    29 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  5. Microsoft Teams is the reason some Android users can't dial 911

    29 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  6. Hacker News Best – Highest-voted recent links

    29 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  7. Porsche to begin producing synthetic fuels in 2022

    28 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  8. A tracking device made by Apple is showing up in suspected crimes

    28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  9. No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms (2018)

    28 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  10. What is Web3? Interview with Gavin Wood, who coined the term in 2014

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  11. Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will Change the EV Industry

    28 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  12. Rules of Program Behavior

    28 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  13. MX-19.4 Now Available

    28 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  14. LG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  15. 7 Years of Open-Source Database Development: Lessons Learned

    28 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  16. Poll: Over half of Ukrainians will actively resist Russian invasion

    28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  17. N.Y.P.D. Concludes Anti-Harassment Official Wrote Racist Online Rants

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  18. US Foreign Policy: A Big, Dumb Machine

    28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  19. QCovid: Personal Covid-19 risk calculator developed by Oxford University

    28 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  20. Online Dating Game à la 2048

    28 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  21. Twitter loses $5B, shares down 12% since Trump ban

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  22. Ask HN: Any better alternatives to Google Workspace for a family of five

    28 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  23. Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst (2000)

    28 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  24. I created Traddit, a Reddit client that cuts through FUD and eliminates FOMO

    28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  25. BiDirectional WebDriver Protocol

    28 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  26. Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials

    28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  27. Tesla crash driver posted videos of himself riding without hands on wheel

    28 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  28. Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  29. Reverse-Engineering a CRC Algorithm (2010)

    28 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  30. ‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library

    28 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  31. Converting a 13 year old .NET WPF app to .NET 5 with .NET Upgrade Assistant

    28 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  32. Hacker steals Sydney man's life savings after simjacking

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  33. Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance

    28 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  34. Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (2019)

    28 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  35. Blizzard Sends Cease-and-Desists to Diablo II: Resurrected Modders

    28 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  36. My Career of Treating Patients Has Ended

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  37. Two Year Work Retrospective

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  38. The wax engraving print-making process (1999)

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  39. In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  40. Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf]

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  41. Prenatal acetaminophen increases autism and ADHD risk 20%

    28 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  42. Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?

    28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  43. Basic Computer Games (ported to C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, VB.NET)

    28 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  44. Launch HN: Preflight (YC W19) – Better automated testing for web apps

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  45. Mobile Computational Photography: A Tour

    28 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  46. Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’ (2011)

    28 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  47. Former Navy pilot says flight crews saw Atlantic Coast UFOs every day for years

    28 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  48. Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  49. Chip-8 (and Emulators) in Plain English

    28 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  50. Arkansas waitress fired after getting $4,400 tip

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  51. Facebook’s settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog

    28 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  52. Journalist sues Twitter after ban for saying vaccine doesn't stop transmission

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  53. The ecological disaster that is Bitcoin

    28 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  54. Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things

    28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  55. The Pentagon will have to live with limits on F-35’s supersonic flights (2020)

    28 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  56. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is free on GOG today

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  57. Texas-Style Blackouts Are the Future

    28 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  58. Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3

    28 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  59. "Irssi does not take a political stance"

    28 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  60. Apple workers staging Walkout December 24th

    28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  61. A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

    28 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  62. Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I Using CT

    28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  63. Twitter bans James O’Keefe after major CNN bias exposé

    28 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  64. A Cloud-Like On-Prem Load Balancer for Kubernetes?

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  65. Intensional Logic in Context – from philosophy to technology

    28 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  66. Manhattan judge orders someone released from Rikers for 8th Amendment violation

    28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  67. The original XSS advisory (2000)

    28 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  68. Ask HN: Why is tech UX so bad in general?

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  69. Show HN: Patented Nevod technology for text search is now open source

    28 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  70. Facebook is planning to change its name, report says

    28 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  71. ROM site owner made $30k a year–now owes Nintendo $2.1M

    28 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  72. We’ve sold 5% of Explosion – the spaCy Company

    28 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  73. We need to throw out a mindblowing amount of science and start again

    28 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  74. Peter Thiel became the most feared man in Silicon Valley

    28 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  75. Implementing Parallel Copy_If in C++

    28 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  76. UPenn uses 3rd party to scan and rewrite all URLs in emails

    28 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  77. Pueue – a beautiful Unix job queue system

    28 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  78. Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers

    28 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  79. Uncomputable Numbers

    28 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  80. Why Embedded Software Development Is Harder

    28 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  81. Standard ECMA-4 Flow Charts, 2nd Edition (1966) [pdf]

    28 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Any HN users with ties to Afghanistan or adjacent regions?

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  83. 21,000 Cancer Patients Died in 2020 Lockdowns Forcing Cancelled Appointments

    28 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  84. Covid super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles

    28 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  85. Dreamcast Architecture: A Practical Analysis

    28 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  86. My performance benchmarking workflow

    28 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  87. One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

    28 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  88. Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York

    28 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  89. Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?

    28 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  90. We don't really need to take 10k steps a day for health

    28 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  91. Texas Senate Passes One of the Nation’s Strictest Voting Bills

    28 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  92. You Need a Novelty Budget (2018)

    28 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  93. Fewer guns, less crime: Evidence from Brazil

    28 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  94. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Apologizes for CCP Joke

    28 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  95. The Emerging Ship

    28 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  96. Show HN: One-on-one calls with your followers on Twitter

    28 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  97. CVE-2021-3156: Sudo privilege escalation

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  98. The US Government Lied for Two Decades on Afghanistan

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  99. Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time

    28 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  100. Oil Companies Placing Big Bets on Pyrolysis Oil

    28 points • comment • oct 16, 2021