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Hacker News (2021)

Incidents Are for Everyone
22 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Inflation Is Here to Stay
22 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
Atlas of Poetic Zoology
22 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Taken His Own Life
22 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
Show HN: A piano chord-switch practicing tool I made
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
WTF Is .xyz?
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Ask HN: A contractor published all my private code publicly. What would you do?
22 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Corrugated-paper-making machine patent (1918)
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
The Risk of Vaccinated Covid Transmission Is Not Low
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
BGP routes withdraw before Facebook Down
22 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Security firm Blumira discovers major new Log4j attack vector
22 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Ask HN: Have you ever written code that you later regretted for ethical reasons?
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur
22 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Enigma Virtual Box – Application Virtualization System for Windows
22 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
DHH on Rails 7.0, Hotwire, and the future of Rails
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Show HN: AirClick – Note taking/sharing designed for developers
22 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
Covid-19: World's first human trials given green light in UK
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java application
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Playing GTA3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
Apple is asking people to opt into their “Personalized Ads” in iOS 15
22 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
The Other 'Tank Man' Photographs (2014)
22 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
Show HN: Open-source web embeddable code runner
22 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
Elixir Is Safe
22 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
U.S. government prepares to issue landmark report on UFOs
22 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down
22 points • comment • may 09, 2021
Didi will delist from the New York Stock Exchange
22 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
4G LTE Coverage as of May 15, 2021 (AT&T, T-Mobile, UScellular, Verizon)
22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Microsoft releases a cyberattack simulator – Shall we play a game?
22 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as storm brews
22 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
AB71: $2.4B Tax Hike to Create a ‘Statewide Homelessness Solutions Program
22 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
The Subreddit /R/Collapse Has Become the Doomscrolling Capital of the Internet
22 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation
22 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot
22 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Intel Videos Explain the Basics of Modern CPU Architectures Sans Marketing Fluff
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
Scientists mystified as Africa avoids Covid disaster
22 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
Email Protection: The easy way to block email trackers and hide your address
22 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks
22 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
22 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Tanning an Animal Skin
22 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Desperate Measures
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Kimarite
22 points • comment • may 12, 2021
El Salvador: A $1B Bitcoin bond, to set up ... Bitcoin City!
22 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility
22 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
UFO Hunter and Harvard Geneticist: $15 Mil Effort to Resurrect Woolly Mammoths
22 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic
22 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
HCA posts stories of anti-vaxxers dying, scaring fence-sitters into the shot
22 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
Millions at security risk from old routers, provided by EE, Sky and Virgin
22 points • comment • may 06, 2021
Astronomers Found a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death
22 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
Elevated Error Rates at Reddit
22 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Bell Labs Holmdel Is Now Mainly a Food Court
22 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
Temporary or not, inflation is rattling restaurants and broader economy
22 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
MasterCard Rewrites Rules for Banks Backing Pornography Sellers
22 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
4x Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi – an 8x Voodoo GPU bodge and restoration
22 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Take sheep across Southwark Bridge
22 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
Running a CNC machine is definitely about sex and should be demonetized
22 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Scala 3.0.0-RC1 – first release candidate is here
22 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
A Friendly Introduction to Principal Component Analysis
22 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
Supply Chain and Network Security for Military 5G Networks [pdf]
22 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate
22 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
CDC Director: U.S. may change “fully vaccinated” definition as boosters roll out
22 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
Dementia Cases Have Declined by 13% in US and Europe Every Decade Since 1988
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
WeWork will accept crypto as payment, hold digital currency on its balance sheet
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single Covid Case
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs
22 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Q Accidentally Outed Himself, but QAnon Followers Don’t Care
22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
‘So Long’ from King Naimbanna II – Manuscripts from an 18th Century African King
22 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK
22 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
2021 State of Haskell Survey
22 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Ask HN: At this point, are PUT and PATCH helpful?
22 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements
22 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
Mexico is moving to legalize cannabis in 2021
22 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
22 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Robert’s Rules Suck: Why We Can’t Make Change Until We Change the System
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
Chinese breakfasts are almost beyond the imagination
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans
22 points • comment • may 29, 2021
Google removed my app due to Apple Music login
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps
22 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
U.S. to add ‘X’ gender marker on passports
22 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
22 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Beginning Woodworking
22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Bitcoin tumbles 17% as doubts grow over valuations
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
It's been nearly 20 years since inflation has been this high in Canada
22 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
GS Quant
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Why is Git so popular and frequently used?
22 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
Apple patches a NSO zero-day flaw affecting all devices
22 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Principle of Maximum Entropy
22 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Deutsche Bahn whistleblowers alleged fraud at Germany’s biggest infra project
22 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
Woman who received $9,300 electric bill sues wholesale electric provider
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
22 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
22 points • comment • jan 03, 2021