woid

top stories

Hacker News (2021)

Australia to kill US pigeon that crossed Pacific
20 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Unexpected Perseid Meteor Outburst on 14 August 2021
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
North Korea: Russian diplomats leave by hand-pushed trolley
20 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot
20 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe
20 points • comment • may 10, 2021
Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police
20 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer
20 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
My Opinion on “5” == 5
20 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen
20 points • comment • may 18, 2021
reddit.com/etc/passwd
20 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
Researchers isolate single artificial atoms in silicon
20 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Tesla suffers nationwide app server outage, owners can't connect to their cars
20 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
Show HN: Hammerkit – Build Tool
20 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
Work Is a False Idol
20 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
Starbucks Waiting Time and Lean Operations (2010)
20 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
An NFT Just Sold for $532M, but Didn’t Sell at All
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips
20 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs
20 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Windows – Now Open Source
20 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
Veritasium: A Physics Prof Bet Me $10k I'm Wrong
20 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
Facebook Still Doesn't Get It–People Care About Their Privacy
20 points • comment • may 29, 2021
Roland Barthes: Studium and Punctum (2013)
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Feds say man broke into public water system and shut down safety processes
20 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
Monocles: Secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, open source web services
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
In Search Of: Simpson's Paradox
20 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Bitten by the 90 day exercise window
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
Why are house prices rising so fast in a pandemic?
20 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
Marketing sneakily affects our decision-making
20 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
Meta-design: a manifesto for end-user development (2004) [pdf]
20 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data – In Real Time
20 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism
20 points • comment • may 09, 2021
GitNFT: Autograph and sell your GitHub commits as NFTs
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)
20 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Do we Believe in U.F.O.s? That's the wrong question
20 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
Intel Core i7-11700K falls behind AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
20 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
The Not-So-Special Relationship
20 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Scientist Author Busts Myths About Exercise, Sitting and Sleep
20 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
Constructions in Combinatorics via Neural Networks
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
At 20, Wikipedia has become a refuge from Big Tech's misinformation
20 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
NPM package with 3M weekly downloads had a severe vulnerability
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Playing with symmetric encryption algorithms in Ruby
20 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
FTC sues to block Nvidia’s $40B acquisition of Arm
20 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
Fontpreview: Python library for font previews
20 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire
20 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today?
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Google Deletes 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App from Angry Users
20 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
Google may cut pay of staff who work from home
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Upcoming macOS 11.3 update may remove Rosetta 2 in some regions – AppleInsider
20 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Throw It in the Pile
20 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Nuclear Bomb Detection System via GPS
20 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
Ask HN: What are some promising “healthy social media” projects?
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
3D Printing with a Robot Arm [video]
20 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Intel 12thGen Core I9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
20 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Tesla's Autopilot 'tricked' to operate without driver
20 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020
20 points • comment • may 11, 2021
Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Ask HN: How to get first 10 paying customers?
20 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
A Smart Guy's Frank Take on Working in Major Tech Companies (2018)
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
20 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Philippine 2021 Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook “biased against facts”
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
Apple Human Interface Guidelines (1995)[pdf]
20 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Arthur' Canceled at PBS After 25 Seasons
20 points • comment • jul 28, 2021
ACLU released a statement condemning Big Tech’s censorship of Trump
20 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Facebook is out of control and surviving at all costs
20 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service (2020)
20 points • comment • may 22, 2021
Ferrocene: Road to Rust in mission and safety-critical software development
20 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
Anglo-Saxon ship burial was likely the last of its kind
20 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)
20 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
AdGuard names 6k web trackers that use CNAME chicanery
20 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Hi, I'm benny. How can I help?
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Google Opens Workspace to Everyone
20 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Show HN: Alon – Build and test Solana BPF programs in the browser
20 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
Ask HN: List of failed Smart Fridge startups?
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
SEC Sues Space SPAC
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Is Leaving YouTube After $760,999 NFT Sale
20 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Is Moderna Better Than Pfizer–Or Is It Just a Higher Dose?
20 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
Stunned by Trump, The New York Times Finds Time for Some Soul-Searching (2016)
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
Windows 365
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups’, Now Plans Overhaul
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Biggest Bitcoin Hacks in History
20 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Court order may shut down Clearview
20 points • comment • may 03, 2021
NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don't
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
The Story of Stuff Project
20 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
Refusal to treat AIDS and HIV positive patients. (1987)
20 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
Immutable Approaches
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Free (open source) is good. Free (cost) is bad?
20 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Twitter restricts several high-profile accounts in India citing ‘legal demand’
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Delta wants other airlines to share 'no-fly' lists of unruly passengers
20 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
TSMC's bet on global dominance pays off after decades of planning
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Unvaccinated People Belong on the No-Fly List
20 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
Ask HN: What’s a Good Audiobook on Hacking
20 points • comment • may 16, 2021
YouTube Removes Bolsonaro's Lying About Covid Vaccine, Suspends for 1 Week
20 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
EISA Specification 3.1
20 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
One French City
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
The Universe Is Hostile to Computers
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
On Square using iPhone audio jack to read credit cards
20 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Microsoft Abandons LinkedIn in China, Citing Challenging Operating Environment
20 points • comment • oct 14, 2021