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Hacker News (2021)

'Babylon 5' is getting a reboot
22 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
Immortal Technologies (2006)
22 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
Facebook Says AI Can Enforce Its Rules, but the Company’s Engineers Are Doubtful
22 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
The prevalence of long Covid symptoms and Covid-19 complications
22 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
Amazon Denied a Worker Pregnancy Accommodations
22 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
Researchers learn about what they ate in medieval Sicily from cooking pots
22 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
Nokia XR20 Mobile
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Design Practices for Human Scale Online Games (2018)
22 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’
22 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
Show HN: Using Genetic Algorithm to Create Fractals
22 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
OnlyFans’ inexplicable ban on porn might be explained by this BBC investigation
22 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
Linus Torvalds on Why Open Source Solves the Biggest Problems
22 points • comment • may 16, 2021
Google experiencing billing notification issue
22 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas
22 points • comment • may 02, 2021
Martian Clock and Calendar (1991)
22 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Aaron Swartz: 7 Essays on Getting Better at Life (2012)
22 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start into a Subscription Service
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Germany agrees to pay Namibia €1.1bn over historical Herero-Nama genocide
22 points • comment • may 28, 2021
Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all
22 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
Tech Companies That Made #BlackLivesMatter Pledges Had 20% Fewer Black Employees
22 points • comment • may 17, 2021
Workers are 'rage quitting' their jobs as a tightening labor market
22 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Stripe Canceled My Account Today
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson in Central Asia, 1886-1887 (2019)
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
6.9 InterStellar Objects per year should pass within 1 AU of the Sun
22 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2bn in exchange for moon mission contract
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Is an Activist’s Pricey House News? Facebook Alone Decides
22 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
How to hack your Git history to look active
22 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Drain brain: The secret life of a gutter enthusiast
22 points • comment • may 15, 2021
A/B testing and the historic lift paradox
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Semantic search with embeddings: index anything
22 points • comment • may 14, 2021
Warehouses are overwhelmed by America's shopping spree
22 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Facebook's New Privacy Pop Up Shows the Company Just Doesn't Get It
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
Church That Defied Gavin Newsom's Covid Rules to Get $800k in Legal Settlement
22 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
The Savor of Memory – A Review Essay on Iranian Cookbooks
22 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Review of the Mustang Mach E
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
A Tale of Three Codebases
22 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, but Not White Supremacists
22 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Getting old is a crisis more and more Americans can’t afford
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
Show HN: Twiso – simple video editing tool
22 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
Ask HN: Where should I buy my next book?
22 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
Deducing This
22 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason
22 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
Don't add custom system calls to Linux
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
Minority professor denied grants because he hires on merit
22 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Scientists Create Living Entities in the Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos
22 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
Show HN: Qodebeam - platform for data sharing between users and services
22 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
How Not to Run a Vulnerability Disclosure Program
22 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests
22 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
What We Learned About Clearview AI and Its Secret ‘Co-Founder’
22 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
How to Catch a Cheating Candidate in an Interview
22 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets
22 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
Why are my gaming accounts more secure than my financial accounts?
22 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Structural Equality for Better Tests
22 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Australian High Court: media are "publishers" of users' defamatory FB comments
22 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
BPF Meets Io_uring
22 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
Ask HN: Any way for everyday programmers to help solve important problems?
22 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Playing the Open Source Game
22 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Project Horizon – Technical Considerations and Plans (1959) [pdf]
22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
Sinovac Announces Phase III Results of Its Covid-19 Vaccine
22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea – Computerphile [video]
22 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
SKreen: Human Centric Smartphones for Everyone
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Ask HN: What is your ideal email backup solution?
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Ask HN: What should a Principal Front end Engineer do?
22 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
Toxicity Dataset
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
German City Builds Solar Power Sleeping Pods to Keep Its Homeless Warm
22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
Troll farms reached 140M Americans a month on FB before 2020 elections
22 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
I made a state machine compiler
22 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
How the Epik hack reveals every secret the far-right tried to hide
22 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Putting Students Behind Plexiglass Isn’t Making Them Any Safer
22 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
A Poet’s Dublin
22 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Ask HN: Are Certifications Useful in Infosec?
22 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality [audio]
22 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Bitcoin Blackhole Effect
22 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
My Homebuilt 200W Laser (2016) [video]
22 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior
22 points • comment • may 14, 2021
Deepfakes replace women on sextortion calls
22 points • comment • sep 08, 2021
Linus Torvalds tears into Intel, favors AMD
22 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
YouTube alternatives: P2P video hosting that uses up to 60% less bandwidth [pdf]
22 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
Firefox to block Backspace key from working as “Back” button
22 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
In Praise of Ponzis
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
Richard Stallman: “Unjust computing clamps down” – video from LibrePlanet 2021
22 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
Maskless Mayor London Breed caught breaking SF health order at Tenderloin club
22 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Oxide Computer – Product
22 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
22 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Remote Work has exposed a Fundamental Truth
22 points • comment • may 28, 2021
“Diversity” as Tyranny
22 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uighur Muslims
22 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians
22 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Richard Stallman Announces Return to the Free Software Foundation
22 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
Liberal Hypocrisy Is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. – NYT Opinion
22 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be far-fetched
22 points • comment • may 10, 2021
We refreshed our 1800 emoji to support the new landscape of work
22 points • comment • jul 15, 2021
Show HN: A simple browser based video editor (desktop only)
22 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
Show HN: LogoMaker – Easily create and download free logos [no email required]
22 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
High Quits Rates, Poaching: U.S. Firms Are Plagued by Turnover
22 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
A Distinctly American Problem, Police Killings, Needs Systematic Investigation
22 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots
22 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
SymQEMU: Compilation-based symbolic execution for binaries
22 points • comment • jan 20, 2021