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Hacker News (2021)

Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
17 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Tesla Model 3 fleet suspended by major Paris taxi firm after fatal accident
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Immune System Evolves to Fight Coronavirus Variants
17 points • comment • may 13, 2021
Bank of England: UK interest rates hiked to 0.25% to combat surge in inflation
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
R.A. Lafferty: “The Greatest Catholic Novelist You Never Heard Of” (2018)
17 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
Log4Shell Vulnerability Test Tool
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
China’s population appears to be shrinking
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
Bell Hooks, Groundbreaking Feminist Thinker, Dies at 69
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
What you can (and can’t) learn from Gitlab about remote work
17 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
Man Searches Through Landfill for 8 Years for $350M Lost Bitcoin Wallet
17 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
mRNA Vaccine
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Eptstein's video catalogue was previously cataloged by FBI and Returned to him
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
The “Happy Birthday Chip” and Beam Robots
17 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Air Force proves it’s possible to make jet fuel out of thin air
17 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Ask HN: Security Cameras Inside Houses?
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
Ready-to-eat spices and food additives exposed to widespread rodent infestation
17 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter
17 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Car brands that have increased the most and least in the past year
17 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
What an Amazon Dispatcher Sees While You're Delivering
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Amazon Astro: What If Wall-E but Evil?
17 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
The Future of Work Is Not Corporate – It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
FB's BGP routes have been “withdrawn from the internet.“
17 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
The rise and rise of corrugated iron
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Swedish nationwide study: vaccine effectiveness lower and waned faster in men
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
China-Lithuania tension: German firms may have to shut factories in Baltic state
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Twitter to Pay $809.5M to Settle Lawsuit
17 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
FAA Investigating Boeing's Safety Culture Amid Engineers' Complaints
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Seven part series to help people learning x86-64 Assembly Language
17 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
Pattern Matching in TypeScript
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Ask HN: How do you stop someone from promoting a fake GitHub?
17 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Evaluating syntactic abilities of language models
17 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
Pyth project could open up decentralized trading and lending, supporters say
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Peanutize Me – A recovered version of the Peanuts Movie character creator
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Google veteran says Timnit Gebru's departure extinguished all desire to continue
17 points • comment • sep 30, 2021
Tuning Your Code’s Performance for Apple silicon
17 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Facebook Removed Seek Bar in Videos on Home Feed
17 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
SimulaVR Update: Technical Overview
17 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
AXPbox 1.1.0 Released · (Dec Alpha Emulator for OpenVMS/NetBSD)
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
The New Irrelevance of Intelligence
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Danish artist takes payment, sends blank canvasses titled Take the Money and Run
17 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
More Than You Wanted to Know About Webb’s Mid-Course Corrections
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional
17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
Moderator Who Watched Hours of Traumatic Videos Sues TikTok
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Earth heads for tipping point as it could reach 1.5°C over next 5 years
17 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
The 'NULL' License Plate (2019)
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
Fake Press Release Claiming Walmart Is Accepting Litecoin Boosts Its Value
17 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
CSS in the Terminal with Python and Textual
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Olaus' Carta Marina
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
'Mysterious gang' saves dogs trapped by eruption before drone attempt
16 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Netflix for Documentaries for $15/Year
16 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
Updates on the Twitch Security Incident
16 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
Ask HN: How do you use HN?
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Website that generates a Spotify playlist from the words of a sentence
16 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
WildDuck, a modern email server implementation with Unicode and REST API
16 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
Ask HN: Best speech-to-text resource?
16 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
GitLab 14.6 Released
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Smokers were never protected from Covid
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
The great American shoplifting freakout
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
Kodak Deletes Post by Photographer Who Called Xinjiang an ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2021
Hunger was something we read about: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Jack Dorsey’s hot takes are apparently too much for Marc Andreessen to handle
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space
16 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Amazon’s Alexa Stalled with Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
The ‘R’ Word: Book Ownership in Stuart England
16 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Show HN: OnlyFans for Investing – Follow investors and monetize your alpha
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Hikvision Has “Highest Level of Critical Vulnerability”, Impacting 100M
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
GoG Is Losing Millions
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Delta to add $200 monthly health insurance charge for unvaccinated staff
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Pioneer startup accelerator
16 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Entrepreneurs Are the New Labor (2012)
16 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
Pfizer booster’s ability to prevent symptomatic Covid wanes within weeks
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
16 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
Astronomers Dream Big, Consider Four Future Space Telescopes
16 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts
16 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Absolute Legend: Hunting in the Archives for the ‘Real’ Robin Hood
16 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
Gabon says rich countries should pay for forests as a service
16 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
The long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work
16 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Ask HN: Have you learned / tried to learn Vim? How did you approach it?
16 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
I ran away from open source
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Where I Live, No One Cares About Covid
16 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Micrograph Contest
16 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
A quarter of US adults on Twitter account for 97% of the tweets
16 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
Ask HN: How to know what I don't know, early in my career
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
M3O – An open source AWS alternative
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
Russian-Made Elbrus CPUs Fail Trials, 'A Completely Unacceptable Platform'
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
AT&T helped build far-right One America News
16 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
Tesla is recalling over 475,000 Model 3 and Model S vehicles
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
Why Year of the Linux Desktop Is Bullshit (2020)
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
Show HN: A Microkernel OS for Armv8
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure [audio]
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
Firmware attack can drop persistent malware in hidden SSD area
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries to Customers
16 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust [video]
16 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
“New York Times”: Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment (2020)
16 points • comment • dec 23, 2021