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Hacker News (2021)

NYT Crossword Decision Puzzles Many
18 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
Robinhood Says it Will Reallow GameStop Trades
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Retrieve a random Wikipedia page
18 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB
18 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
You shop, Maersk ships: A new challenger to Amazon emerges
18 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Kinx: A scripting language for people who want C-like syntax
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
Non-Standard Analysis in ACL2 (2001) [pdf]
18 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Google's Airtable competitor experiment graduating to full product
18 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing [2020]
18 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War
18 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
Data Models for SQL and NoSQL: Horseshoe Pattern
18 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
Petal – the end-to-end web stack
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
Ask HN: Running production server on M1 mini?
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
I.B. Chairman Admits to Market Manipulation on Live T.V
18 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
United States issues its first passport with 'X' gender marker
18 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
Reasoning about Taxes
18 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
Brex is moving away from Elixir to Kotlin
18 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Using Neural Networks to Refute Conjectures in Combinatorics
18 points • comment • may 03, 2021
Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
Hitler reacts to functional programming [video]
18 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
The hacker who stole and gave back $600M has been offered a job from the company
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
UK meteor: 'huge flash' as fireball lights up skies
18 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
The Spine Collector
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars
18 points • comment • may 15, 2021
Why We Moved from Druid to ClickHouse
18 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
In Defense of Substack
18 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Science confirms it: Open offices are a nightmare
18 points • comment • jul 07, 2021
Gradients on grids of pixels/voxels – forward, central, and diagonal differences
18 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
Covid – not vaccinations – presents biggest blood clot risk, large study finds
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Carl Jung – Ending Your Inner Civil War (Read by Alan Watts)
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
The Big Facebook Leak
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
SpaceX violated its launch license, triggering an FAA probe
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
Tidying up the Go web experience
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
Carboncounter – Cars evaluted against climate targets
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
The Memory Image Pattern
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Stop Pushing JavaScript
18 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Turned Goodreads into Authors Worst Nightmare
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Belgian home affairs ministry hacked, ‘probably by China’
18 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Researchers Ready Lab-Grown Delta for Human Trials
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open-source low-code language
18 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
A Volcanic Ritual on the Indonesian Island of Java
18 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
The Most Ambitious Diary in History
18 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
The Girl in the Kent State Photo
18 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google in US
18 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
Apple’s Double Agent
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Python is not a great programming language.
18 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
People who made the rules you think you have to live by weren't smarter than you
18 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Email is the messenger you should migrate to
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10B NSA cloud contract
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
Artist's Shit
18 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day
18 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
Ask HN: Game development for non-game developers
18 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
California legalized weed 5 years ago, but illicit market still thrives
18 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
Why Are So Many Base Jumpers Dying? (2016)
18 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Congressman: Yes, We Did in Fact Lose Afghanistan Because of Big Tech
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Solving the “garage orphans” problem (2019)
18 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
Self-Driving Cars Are Self-Driving Bullets
18 points • comment • jul 11, 2021
“True Lies” – Or “What LLVM Claims, but Fails to Deliver”
18 points • comment • may 30, 2021
Events, Flows and Long-Running Services (2017)
18 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
‘A united nations of crime’: how Marbella became a magnet for gangsters
18 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
MIT Has Predicted That Society Will Collapse in 2040 [video]
18 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
France and Germany threaten AstraZeneca over vaccine shortage
18 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
Ask HN: Best way to spend $25k in GCP
18 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?
18 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Facebook Has 47 Data Centers Under Construction
18 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
NVMe 2.0 Specification Released: Major Reorganization
18 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Watch Your Step(ping): Atoms Breaking Apart
18 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
GitHub secures license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to devs in Iran
18 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Perhaps You Should Not Spend All Day Ridiculing Others from Afar
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Players will be able to continue to purchase games on PS3 and PS Vita
18 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
Big Tech’s not-so-secret plan to monopolize your home
18 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
System failure: Inside Maine’s $35M human resources software meltdown
18 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
“Melting face,” “pregnant person,” and 35 other emoji approved for Unicode 14.0
18 points • comment • sep 15, 2021
The Central Problem: The World of Late Antiquity from Its Persian Centre
18 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
Miami is banking on cryptocurrency and New York wants in
18 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)
18 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
NYC schools will replace the gifted admissions exam with a lottery this year
18 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
Tesla's dirty little secret: Its net profit doesn't come from selling cars
18 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
For Next-Generation CPUs, Not Moving Data Is the New 1GHz
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
18 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
Nix – A One Pager
18 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer
18 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
Explained: Knightian Uncertainty
18 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
When Then Zen
18 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
China sends a drone (UAV) to provide temporary mobile network in disaster area
18 points • comment • jul 22, 2021
Seattle scientist digs up deleted coronavirus genetic data
18 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
The Beasts That Keep the Beat (2016)
18 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Ask HN: If I travel to China, does China have all of my iCloud data?
18 points • comment • may 22, 2021
In asking NASA to accept his billions for the Moon, Bezos admits his mistake
18 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research
18 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
The war in Afghanistan is what happens when McKinsey types run everything
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
Why the textbook marketplace is fundamentally broken
18 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
18 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet deadline
18 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
Greek Hearts and Diadems
18 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
Tether: The Story So Far (2019)
18 points • comment • may 23, 2021
1Password Alternatives
18 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
ACLU Again Cowardly Abstains from an Online Censorship Controversy
18 points • comment • apr 26, 2021