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Hacker News (2021)

ACLU released a statement condemning Big Tech’s censorship of Trump
20 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Say “No” to Smoke Detectors
20 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Anglo-Saxon ship burial was likely the last of its kind
20 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
AdGuard names 6k web trackers that use CNAME chicanery
20 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Samsung-Esperanto Concept AI-SSD Prototype
20 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
Stunned by Trump, The New York Times Finds Time for Some Soul-Searching (2016)
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
Meat packaging without absorbent materials
20 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Ask HN: List of failed Smart Fridge startups?
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
Edge and Windows 11 – the return of Microsoft's IE fiasco?
20 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups’, Now Plans Overhaul
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Mrcal 2.0: nicer dense stereo and uncertainty-aware triangulation
20 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Google Opens Workspace to Everyone
20 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Digital nomads are here to save Spain’s ghost towns
20 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab
20 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Using GPT-J and GPT-Neo, GPT-3 open-source alternatives, with few-shot learning
20 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
Immutable Approaches
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Show HN: The most popular newspaper in Denmark, and its insane font sizes
20 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
Twitter restricts several high-profile accounts in India citing ‘legal demand’
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Students pay price for UM diversity goals (2019)
20 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
TSMC's bet on global dominance pays off after decades of planning
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
SEC Sues Space SPAC
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
Virtual contact worse than no contact for over-60s in lockdown, says study
20 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
On Square using iPhone audio jack to read credit cards
20 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Apple’s Privacy Mythology Doesn’t Match Reality
20 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
SmooshGate FAQ (2018)
20 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Ask HN: What are some promising “healthy social media” projects?
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Spotify's big bet on podcasts is failing, Citi says
20 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
Python Module of the Week
20 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
20 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2021)
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
Graffiti (Palm OS)
20 points • comment • may 14, 2021
The Not-So-Special Relationship
20 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Ask HN: How to Cultivate Gifted Child's Interest in Science?
20 points • comment • may 08, 2021
The crypto revolution is failing
20 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
The ultrathin new iMac lost a lot more than size, like USB-A ports
20 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
When Will the FDA Approve Paxlovid?
20 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
20 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service
20 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Amazon Fresh Opens in London
20 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Malware found in [UAParser.js] NPM package with millions of weekly downloads
20 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game
20 points • comment • may 02, 2021
A Hasidic rabbi created a Shabbat jacket for carrying guns in synagogues
20 points • comment • sep 05, 2021
Robinhood plummets back down to a one-star rating on Google Play
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Hammerhead Rhythm Station (1997)
20 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Airpods V1 (2007)
20 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Party's over: Microsoft Silverlight support ends on October 12, 2021
20 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
Facebook Still Doesn't Get It–People Care About Their Privacy
20 points • comment • may 29, 2021
What I wish someone had told me before I became a Manager
20 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Pale Moon 29.0
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Apple’s developer problems are much bigger than Epic and ‘Fortnite’
20 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’ (2019)
20 points • comment • may 23, 2021
Windows 365
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
Will Work for Air-Conditioning
20 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
Judge Grants Injunction Blocking Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Law
20 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
Microsoft says error led to no matching Bing images for Tiananmen 'tank man'
20 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
Profiling Newlib-Nano's Memcpy
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
The Ascent of Mont-Blanc (ca. 1855)
20 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Ask HN: Could plain old RSS be a replacement for Twitter?
20 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
Maine Passes the Strongest State Facial Recognition Ban Yet
20 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
Apple will switch to randomized serial numbers in early 2021
20 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
The Jigsaw of Independence
20 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
WSB-like financial rebellion part of the fall of Technofeudalism in 2020 book
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Computer Vision Enhanced Lego Building
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2021
So let’s talk about Parler
20 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
Unexpected Perseid Meteor Outburst on 14 August 2021
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Tax Consequences of John Oliver’s $15M Medical Debt Forgiveness (2016)
20 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
Serial, Parallel, and Quorum Latencies
20 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Australia’s environmental scientists intimidated,silenced by threats of job loss
20 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
12 Predictions for the Future of Music
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
Google Wants Rust in the Linux Kernel
20 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Elon Musk Fans Bullied a Transportation Official Off Twitter
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
The Hunt for the Lost Phoenix Games (2019)
20 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
Amazon’s New World reportedly breaking RTX 3090 graphics cards
20 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
High school required students to confess their “white dominance” to pass a class
20 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
Anonymous advice: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want your name on?
20 points • comment • jul 31, 2021
The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism
20 points • comment • may 09, 2021
A $10M Dollar Gift Card Scam
20 points • comment • jul 01, 2021
No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)
20 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says
20 points • comment • oct 02, 2021
Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs
20 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Patent Toxicity
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
Apple presses ahead with aim to replace paper passports and ID with iPhone
20 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
Deep-copying in JavaScript using structuredClone
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Drawbacks of Developing in Containers
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
Congress Beats Up Charter Schools
20 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Zathura – A Document Viewer
20 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late–here’s why
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
The Story of Stuff Project
20 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
Boar Bot 2.0
20 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part II: Scouring in the Shire
20 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
A Brain with “Multiple Demand” Is What Drives Human Reasoning, Scientists Say
20 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
How to Use Siri I'm Getting Pulled over to Record Police
20 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
A Dentist’s Chair: For Practicality, Comfort, or Spectacle?
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2021
I Almost Got Fired for Choosing React in Our Enterprise App
20 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
CNN Fires Three Employees for Coming into the Office Unvaccinated
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2021