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Hacker News (2021)

The Analog Computer Inside Prime Minister
23 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 reactive T-cells likely present due to prior exposure to flu viruses
23 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
90-year-old man takes out $10K ads to tell AT&T CEO about slow network
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? (1985) [pdf]
23 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Without Warrant
23 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
Book Review: Progress and Poverty
23 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
DeepMind plans to open source AlphaFold
23 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Israel ‘cancels’ prize to mathematician – and dishonors itself
23 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Ask HN: When coding, how to do remember what you were doing the previous day?
23 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes
23 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth
23 points • comment • may 04, 2021
What If Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?
23 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Statement from UMN CS&E on Linux Kernel Research
23 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
Google confirms Android bug that prevents emergency calling
23 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Sims 2 Dev Thread
23 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
Crunchy Bridge: In-place Upgrades, Postgres 14, more
23 points • comment • oct 10, 2021
Freenode has imploded – unannounced full services reset, database wipe
23 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity
23 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Firefox Performance Tweaks
23 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Amazon outage isn’t just online: Vans and Warehouse Bots aren’t moving packages
23 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Walking Dream: An RPG for the Oculus Quest with redirected walking
23 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Watching Age-Restricted Videos
23 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
Cryptocurrency Is Gambling
23 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
Addition on Turing Machines (2013)
23 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Ask HN: Who is paying for singal service hosting
23 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
Your Apple laptop is probably repaired at a facility workers say is a sweatshop
23 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
Bose built the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that won't require a doctor visit
23 points • comment • may 13, 2021
WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
23 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
23 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
German OSB Alliance warns: Microsoft Cloud threatens digital sovereignty
23 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Flattery-Driven Open-Source
23 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest of Work Conditions
23 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
Facebook bans President Trump ‘indefinitely’ after Capitol riot
23 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
Tiny Emulators
23 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
News Entropy
23 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
The xterm terminal emulator can do a lot more than just display text
23 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Only 6 of the 50 largest companies are in Europe. LVMH is highest at #18
23 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta Causes Accident with Model Y
23 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
What Happens If an Astronaut Floats Off in Space? (2013)
23 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Ask HN: How do I gauge the value of stock options that I have been offered?
23 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Ask HN: Build my own startup or continue the high paying job?
23 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Privacy and uniqueness of neighborhoods in social networks
23 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
Is the pandemic accelerating automation? Don’t be so sure
23 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
US Department of Justice creates cryptocurrency enforcement unit
23 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
CA to Pay Off All Past Due Rent Accrued During Covid, Giving Renters Clean Slate
23 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
A Solution to DeWitt Clauses
23 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
Show HN: Drop-in audio & video chat for remote teams
23 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
Jeff Bezos Is Not My Astronaut
23 points • comment • jul 24, 2021
Reordering Arguments (2016)
23 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
As Bikers Throng the Streets, ‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’
23 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects – The Pragmatic Engineer
23 points • comment • may 01, 2021
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on Chinese tech firms will continue
23 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
The Death of John Berryman (1996)
23 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
SWE Book (Software Engineering at Google) Is Freely Available
23 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
Exposure to plastics during pregnancy can raise blood pressure
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Firefox 94 inserting VPN ads into private browsing tabs
23 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
Shipwrecks, Stolen Jewels, Skull-Blasting Are Some of This Year’s Best Mysteries
23 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
OpenAI Codex
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Ask HN: How do you produce product/feature demo videos?
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Upcoming German Government Coalition Agrees on Legalizing Cannabis
23 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
Why the Fuck Do You Trust Harvard?
23 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)
23 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
6th Grader Saves the Lives of Two People on the Same Day
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Secure Containerized Browser
23 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Ask HN: What is humanity building towards?
23 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Apple charges 2X more to fix a Steel Watch as the same aluminium one
23 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Is original antigenic sin starting to dominate Covid?
23 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Giant cracks push imperilled Antarctic glacier closer to collapse
23 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
McNamara Fallacy
23 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Sheppard’s Warning
23 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
100% FOSS Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 4.0
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, important study finds
23 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Vehicle emission declines decreased deaths, study finds
23 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
MovForth: Compiler for the Forth language using LLVM
23 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Gabriel Boric, a Former Student Activist, Is Elected Chile’s Youngest President
23 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Omicron evades Moderna vaccine too, study suggests, but boosters help
23 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
The curious history of the clothespeg (2016)
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Half of energy used in the state of Western Australia is off-grid
23 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
Lego Sets Are Better Investments Than Stocks, Bonds or Even Gold
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Facebook's metaverse plans labelled as 'dystopian' and 'a bad idea'
23 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Floating-Point Determinism (2013)
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias
23 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Princeton-Radboud Study on Privacy Law Implementation
23 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
Dune: We simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive
23 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Ken Shirriff: Holiday decap of a tiny chip that plays Christmas songs
23 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive
23 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Dr. Robert W. Malone has been suspended from Twitter
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
DockerSlim – Optimize Your Containerized App Dev Experience
23 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Germany is building risk into its playgrounds
22 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
“The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
22 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Research Notes on Humanoid Robots
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Stochastic Bisection in Git
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
22 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
Apple and Google Asked to Remove ‘Play to Earn’ Games in South Korea
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Left-Wing Authoritarianism Real and Needs Taken Seriously Political Psychology
22 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1M people every year, study says
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
High-level Saudi visit follows multimillion-dollar foreign influence operation
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
A fork() in the road – fork was a mistake [pdf]
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021