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Hacker News (2021)

  1. M.I.T.’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel

    17 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  2. Shippers Saw a Need for Bigger Vessels. They Built Them Too Big

    17 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  3. Artist and Computer (1976)

    17 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  4. Show HN: I Made a Chat Server

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  5. A Portable Machine-Independent Global Optimizer (1983) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  6. Mother-of-four, 27, dies of cancer after check-ups were halted by pandemic Rules

    17 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  7. Jeff Bezos successfully lands back on Earth

    17 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  8. Bitcoin’s Troubles Go Far Beyond Elon Musk

    17 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  9. America is turning into the Soviet Union

    17 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  10. How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails

    17 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  11. Alexandra Elbakyan's Reply to Nature over Sci-Hub “Threat”

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  12. mRNA Vaccine

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  13. The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

    17 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  14. Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Imaginary Property Rules

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  15. Google PageRank-like algorithm dates back to 1941

    17 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  16. The NFT bubble might be bursting already

    17 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  17. Seven part series to help people learning x86-64 Assembly Language

    17 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  18. The Censored: Bret Weinstein

    17 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  19. Peanutize Me – A recovered version of the Peanuts Movie character creator

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  20. The Next Car You Buy Should Be Electric

    17 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  21. The “Happy Birthday Chip” and Beam Robots

    17 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  22. ;)

    17 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  23. Pattern Matching in TypeScript

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  24. It’s Finally Clear Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods

    17 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  25. An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  26. Dbt Labs (formerly Fishtown Analytics) raises $150m Series C

    17 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  27. China-Lithuania tension: German firms may have to shut factories in Baltic state

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  28. M1 Mac SSD Wear Issue Tested and Explored [video]

    17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  29. Ask HN: How do you stop someone from promoting a fake GitHub?

    17 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  30. Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional

    17 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  31. Olaus' Carta Marina

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  32. Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration

    17 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  33. The rise and rise of corrugated iron

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  34. OpenBSD 6.9 – May 1, 2021 (50th OpenBSD release)

    17 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  35. More Than You Wanted to Know About Webb’s Mid-Course Corrections

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  36. Immune System Evolves to Fight Coronavirus Variants

    17 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  37. Moderator Who Watched Hours of Traumatic Videos Sues TikTok

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  38. France mulls permanent surveillance of terrorist websites

    17 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  39. Tuning Your Code’s Performance for Apple silicon

    17 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  40. Texas police to demand Tesla crash data as Musk denies autopilot use

    17 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  41. Little Switzerlands: Alpine Kitsch in England

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  42. Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

    17 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  43. Visualizing the Most Widespread Blood Types in Every Country

    17 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  44. What an Amazon Dispatcher Sees While You're Delivering

    17 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  45. No Sex Please We’re Chinese

    17 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  46. The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  47. Surgeon General Warns of Youth Mental Health Crisis

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  48. The New Irrelevance of Intelligence

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  49. Levels: How We Work Without Meetings

    17 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  50. Ready-to-eat spices and food additives exposed to widespread rodent infestation

    17 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  51. Amazon Astro: What If Wall-E but Evil?

    17 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  52. DOS 2.11 from Scratch

    17 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  53. Micrograph Contest

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  54. Amazon’s long-awaited home robot is here

    16 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  55. Stop Building Websites for iPhones

    16 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  56. Pingdemic: Bar staff being told to delete NHS Covid-19 app

    16 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  57. CIA releases UFO ‘Black Vault’ documents early: How to see them online

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  58. The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive

    16 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Have you ever been demoted months after being hired?

    16 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  60. Updates on the Twitch Security Incident

    16 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  61. How to Solve the Homeless Problem, Once and for All

    16 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  62. Loops in Lisp Part 3: Iterate (2016)

    16 points • comment • jul 16, 2021

  63. Idaho moves to ban critical race theory instruction in all public schools

    16 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  64. Apple Loses $85B in value after app store ruling

    16 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  65. Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Funny. Seriously

    16 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  66. Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school

    16 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  67. Coinbase is no longer allowing new hires to negotiate their salaries

    16 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  68. EU to tighten rules on cryptoasset transfers

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  69. The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

    16 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  70. Product Managers Have the Worst Ideas

    16 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  71. Charter must pay $19M for tricking customers into switching ISPs

    16 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  72. Amazon’s Astro takes surveillance capitalism to the next level

    16 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  73. Uber drivers are workers, UK Supreme Court rules

    16 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  74. Mobilizon – federated organization and mobilization platform using ActivityPub

    16 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  75. I Became the Most Hated Man in Tech (2019)

    16 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  76. Pro-Trump counties now have far higher Covid death rates due to misinformation

    16 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  77. Texans in the Midst of Another Avoidable Catastrophe

    16 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  78. Andrew Bosworth says Meta requires “Disney level” safety, which they can't do

    16 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  79. America’s cultural revolution is just like Mao’s (2020)

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  80. Loop Perforation (2019)

    16 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  81. FB and Instagram threaten to charge for iOS 14.5 users unless you give them data

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  82. Nomura Tells Staff Not to Smoke Cigarettes When Working from Home

    16 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  83. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  84. Tesla Had 5 Founders. Why Did Only Two Get Rich?

    16 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  85. Could Time-Blocking Replace Your To-Do List? (2017)

    16 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  86. Show HN: Dopaminite – I wasn't productive, so I built this tool for myself

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  87. Tellme – text-to-speech command execution notifier

    16 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  88. Open Letter: Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework

    16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  89. Neocities, a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities

    16 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  90. Dozens of looters rush California Nordstrom store

    16 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  91. Kea: Production Ready React State Management

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  92. Early-Morning Light Exposure Makes Mice Less Depressed

    16 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  93. M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM, Even with 16GB

    16 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  94. Smokers were never protected from Covid

    16 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  95. Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Is Crowdfunding Another Comeback

    16 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  96. Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin Is ‘Mathematical Miracle’

    16 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  97. Gasoline Prices Adjusted for Inflation

    16 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  98. Amazon.com.au encourages customers to stop using their Visa card

    16 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  99. A Hundred Companies Account for More Than Half of the "Blue Economy"

    16 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  100. Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

    16 points • comment • nov 01, 2021