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Hacker News (2021)

Peter Naur's view of programming
282 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
HyperNeRF
282 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
282 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
282 points • comment • sep 17, 2021
Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
281 points • comment • jul 02, 2021
The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet
281 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids
281 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide
281 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
Crazy Clock
281 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown
281 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
Checkboxland
281 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
281 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
281 points • comment • jul 09, 2021
Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers
281 points • comment • may 18, 2021
Is my cat Turing-complete?
281 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
The World of CSS Transforms
281 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
CVE Stuffing
281 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
PHP is worth learning and using
281 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
SoME1 results
281 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
281 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
BTC Endgame
281 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)
281 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
Firefox: Performance in Progress
281 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
281 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green
281 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
281 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
Tools for Thinking
281 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Privacy Analysis of FLoC
281 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
What Oxford taught me about posh people
281 points • comment • may 31, 2021
Floating point visually explained (2017)
280 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Why are German numbers backwards?
280 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
280 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
280 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)
280 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Loon’s final flight
280 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
280 points • comment • may 20, 2021
Writing a firmware-only keylogger
280 points • comment • jul 05, 2021
Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate
280 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
280 points • comment • sep 18, 2021
Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
280 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance
280 points • comment • sep 23, 2021
Intl
280 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
280 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
LLVM relicensing update and call for help
280 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
280 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
Git Command Explorer
280 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
280 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme
280 points • comment • may 01, 2021
A Solarpunk Manifesto
280 points • comment • jul 17, 2021
Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database
280 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (2020)
280 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
280 points • comment • may 29, 2021
Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D
280 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona
280 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
280 points • comment • may 09, 2021
Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained
279 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
279 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse
279 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
Software is eating the car
279 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
Game Theory (2007)
279 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine
279 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
“Open source” is broken
279 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors
279 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
From First Principles: Why Scala?
279 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck
279 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous
279 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL
279 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors
279 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
279 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Rust-Analyzer Architecture
279 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications
279 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
279 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
We Built a Facebook Inspector
279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
279 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
What I Use Instead of Google
279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
Decoded: GNU coreutils (2019)
279 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
279 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis
279 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
279 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges
279 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
279 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
279 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
TTS: Text-to-Speech for All
279 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
“It's a truck full of traffic lights”
279 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Ray Tracing in pure CMake
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
279 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
279 points • comment • may 01, 2021
How to Read Assembly Language
279 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)
279 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
_why's Estate
279 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades
279 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
Delta Variant
278 points • comment • jul 13, 2021
What Is Huffman Coding?
278 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Vue 3.2
278 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?
278 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
The dispassionate developer
278 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell
278 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
Summary After Four Months with Ada
278 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
278 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants
278 points • comment • jul 26, 2021