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Hacker News (2021)

The threat of China invading Taiwan is growing every day. What the U.S. can do
22 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Research Notes on Humanoid Robots
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Baby boomers are snatching houses out of the hands of millennials
22 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
“The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
22 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Nokia XR20 Mobile
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
IBM Telum Processor: the next-gen microprocessor for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Eric Weinstein: How Not to Formulate a Theory of Everything
22 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
The Risk of Vaccinated Covid Transmission Is Not Low
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Visualizing Voting Systems: Plurality vs. Approval Voting
22 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
Stochastic Bisection in Git
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
22 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
WTF Is .xyz?
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Elizabeth Minkel on fanfiction and culture
22 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
Google removed my app due to Apple Music login
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Sinus flush after positive Covid test reduced risks 19 times
22 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
CISA Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) Vulnerability Guidance
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
A/B testing and the historic lift paradox
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1M people every year, study says
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Andrew Yang: When I Ran for President, It Messed with My Head
22 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Looters strike high-end San Francisco-area stores for third day in a row
22 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Corrugated-paper-making machine patent (1918)
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Why people eat horse dewormer
22 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
Ask HN: Best place to purchase (used) technical books that's not Amazon?
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
The Rise of Deepfake Clothing
22 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Apple and Google Asked to Remove ‘Play to Earn’ Games in South Korea
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
22 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
GS Quant
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Judging Janet
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start into a Subscription Service
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
KDE: Who Is the Target User?
22 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
In Praise of Ponzis
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?
22 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Border Agency Accused of Tracking U.S. Journalists with Tech Meant for Terrorist
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur
22 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Watch an earthquake roll across a continent
22 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
Toxicity Dataset
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single Covid Case
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
The History of Surveying
22 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
22 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
Twitter to Penalize Users Who Claim Vaccinated People Can Spread Covid-19
22 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
iPhone with USB-C mod sells for $86,000 on eBay
22 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
A fork() in the road – fork was a mistake [pdf]
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Ask HN: What is your ideal email backup solution?
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Simplest automatic Lego transmission in the world?
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
Covid-19: World's first human trials given green light in UK
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
Amnesty clarifies: The list of 50000 phone numbers not directly related to NSO
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Playing GTA3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2
22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
TI Silent 703 Terminal – Texas Instruments’ slick answer to clunky Teletypes
22 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
TIL you can make a C++ object smaller by adding a field
22 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
YouTube says it pulled Bolsonaro videos for Covid-19 misinformation
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Please stop sharing lines of code on medium.com
22 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
Astronomers Found a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death
22 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
The Antikythera Mechanism
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
EU to charge Apple with anticompetitive behavior this week
22 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Show HN: Practice Python Projects eBook for beginners
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
AB71: $2.4B Tax Hike to Create a ‘Statewide Homelessness Solutions Program
22 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Intel Videos Explain the Basics of Modern CPU Architectures Sans Marketing Fluff
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
El Salvador: A $1B Bitcoin bond, to set up ... Bitcoin City!
22 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java application
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
22 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Wealthy EU states treat Eastern Europe as a colony
22 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
It looks like a product but is a subscription
22 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
YouTube CEO Wins ‘Free Expression Award’ Sponsored by YouTube
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
22 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Greek myths of programming – how to find a mythological god of programming?
22 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
A Dementia-Like Illness Has Sickened over 40 People in Canada
22 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform
22 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
22 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
4G LTE Coverage as of May 15, 2021 (AT&T, T-Mobile, UScellular, Verizon)
22 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan Stalin Did (2013)
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
Among the Unvaccinated
22 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
Astronomical Algorithms (1999)
22 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
22 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
She Had No Idea Her Dog Was Blind – Vet Declares It a ‘Medical Mystery’
22 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
Pfizer seeks to store vaccine at higher temperatures, easing logistics
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Newspeak and Domain Modeling
22 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
10-20% of pulls of Docker Official Images coming from Apple M1 machines
22 points • comment • may 19, 2021
GitHub’s commitment to NPM ecosystem security
22 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
22 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
Epik Registrar Hacked
22 points • comment • sep 14, 2021
Ubuntu 21.04 Is Here
22 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
Ask HN: A contractor published all my private code publicly. What would you do?
22 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
Java early stage draft: Functional transformation of immutable objects
22 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
Ask HN: Have you ever written code that you later regretted for ethical reasons?
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Vancouver Gave Homeless People $5,800. It Changed Their Lives
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?
22 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate
22 points • comment • apr 16, 2021