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Hacker News (2021)

Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
Good News Richard Stallman Is Back at Free Software Foundation
16 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
Covid and the moral matrix: Will “lockdown ethics” persist beyond the pandemic?
16 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
The Careful Work of Breathing Life into the Corpse Flower
16 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Ford is ending production in India and taking a $2B hit in the process
16 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
16 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Metaphor: Searching the Web with Language Models
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Why does SSL client report Google’s certificate “self-signed”?
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Andrew Consortium (c. 1994)
16 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
Parents of Robinhood trader who died by suicide set to sue for wrongful death
16 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
Omicron deaths still zero despite spreading twice as fast as deadly Delta
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Whence Identify Drive?
16 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
Movile Cave
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
Ask HN: Is Bill Gates' opposition to waiving patents on Covid vaccines monetary?
16 points • comment • may 01, 2021
iOS and Android config-driven experiments without new releases
16 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Funny. Seriously
16 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
My Going Maskless Is Different, Says San Francisco Mayor
16 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
Not Just Bikes
16 points • comment • may 21, 2021
The quality of [Facebook's] secret research into mental health is abysmal
16 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
Chromium: Project Fugu
16 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuse during Ebola crisis
16 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
Intel CEO Fast-Tracks Turnaround Bid with $20B Investment Plan
16 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
Remove Video Background
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida making the water unsafe
16 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
Power outage at an Internet Archive datacenter takes down archive.org
16 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power
16 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
L.M. Sacasas on instant messenger over instant messenger
16 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
Freedom to Roam
16 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Is Digital Ocean Down?
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
20% of Wikimedia traffic used for an image of a flower
16 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
Effective immediately Long Beach allowing cargo stacked up to 4 containers high
16 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
As Tesla Invests $1.5B in Bitcoin, Former Goldman Exec Ditches Tesla Stock
16 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Ebooks Are an Abomination
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Doximity’s S-1 may explain why healthcare exits are heating up
16 points • comment • may 28, 2021
USA: All government employees will be vaccinated against Covid-19
16 points • comment • sep 09, 2021
Ask HN: I quit my job and my employer won’t take their equipment back
16 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Peter Jackson Selling Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity for $1.625 Bn
16 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Talking to Ourselves
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Amazon’s Astro takes surveillance capitalism to the next level
16 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Bisontrails Acquired by Coinbase
16 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Do political stickers work? (2020)
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets
16 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Sargable Queries and MUL Indexes; or Why My Query Is Slow
16 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
Principled Procedural Parsing (2019) [pdf]
16 points • comment • may 13, 2021
Let's write a compiler, part 7: Arrays
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
PSA on social engineering discord server takeover attacks
16 points • comment • may 16, 2021
Septa rape case is latest in a U.S. pandemic of police lying
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
Study shows printed books are still preferred to e-books
16 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
Waymo has no viable business model
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
What is trance? The complex relationship between shamans and 'trance' (2011)
16 points • comment • may 28, 2021
Child's Play: On Wittgenstein and teaching children
16 points • comment • sep 13, 2021
Freenode staff has nuked all the Raku channels
16 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers (2019)
16 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Satellites Are Littering Our Solar System at a Rapid Speed
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
Tell HN: Amazon Kindle's browser is not experimental anymore
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
U.S. dollar drops to two-week low; Bitcoin eyes $50k
16 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT
16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
A decentralized alternative to Facebook, Zoom, et al.
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Journalists mined terabytes of offshore data to expose the world’s elites
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Video games 'good for well-being'
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is
16 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Google to block logins on old Android devices starting September
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
Fintech Comes to America at Last
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
Nintendo to close Bay Area office
16 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
Choosing Haskell isn’t a stand-in for good software design
16 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
Los Angeles Covid Surge Being Driven by White, Affluent Neighborhoods
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
A new service manager for Linux distributions
16 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Andrew Bosworth says Meta requires “Disney level” safety, which they can't do
16 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Cellebrite Physical Analyzer no longer fully available for iPhones
16 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
Facebook’s WhatsApp Takes Aim at Apple over Child Safety Software Plan
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
NotesHub – Fully cross-platform, vendor-agnostic, Markdown based note-taking app
16 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
Visual Studio 2022 ate up 100 GB of memory and what XML bomb is
16 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
Fornax a Galaxy Investigated with AstroSat
16 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
Fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law
16 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
India is considering four-day work weeks but with longer shifts
16 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Mystery of Intel Cpuid 21H Leaf
16 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
Stoicism Is Not a Philosophy
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Gitlab Inc. takes The DevOps Platform public
16 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Ask HN: Catching Up with Python – Resources?
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
The Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Cheap DDoS or How to properly load test your application
16 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for Starlink broadband base stations
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
EU to tighten rules on cryptoasset transfers
16 points • comment • jul 20, 2021
The beauty of the ampersand and other keyboard symbols
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization ⋆ Brownstone Institute
16 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
The plan in the 1960s to blast a canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
Keyboard Walk Processor (2018)
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
Facebook and Twitter largely 'culpable for all the harm': former Obama adviser
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Long Covid in children 'nowhere near scale feared'
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Amy Klobuchar Is Coming for the App Store Tax
16 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
How we made Befriendus accessible
16 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
OpenSSH switches to using gender-neutral language
16 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
SE aeronautics claims tri-wing aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3
16 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Facebook can't hide its problems behind a new name
16 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
The Better.com CEO says he’s ‘deeply sorry’ for firing workers over Zoom
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
US Strategic Command tweets “;l;;gmlxzssaw”
16 points • comment • mar 29, 2021