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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Homebrew 3.0

    841 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  2. An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

    841 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  3. Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

    838 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  4. Plans you're not supposed to talk about

    838 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  5. Overkill objects for everyday life

    838 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  6. Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

    836 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  7. Microsoft calls Firefox’s browser workaround “improper,” will block it

    835 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  8. HTTPWTF

    835 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  9. Blender 3.0

    834 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  10. GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

    834 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  11. Brave Search beta

    834 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  12. Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’

    831 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  13. Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

    830 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  14. How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)

    829 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  15. Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

    828 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  16. Rust Foundation: Hello, World

    827 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  17. HashiCorp – S1

    827 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  18. A viable solution for Python concurrency

    827 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  19. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

    827 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  20. Tailwind CSS v3.0

    826 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  21. Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

    826 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  22. America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

    824 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  23. I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

    822 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  24. 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

    822 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  25. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

    820 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  26. Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF

    820 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  27. ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

    819 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  28. FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

    816 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  29. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

    814 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  30. Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

    813 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  31. You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

    813 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  32. Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe

    813 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  33. Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

    813 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  34. Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update

    812 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  35. The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

    812 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  36. Learn CSS

    811 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  37. Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices

    811 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  38. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

    811 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  39. GitHub Should Start an App Store

    811 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  40. Sorry everybody, I failed with you

    810 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  41. Monolith First (2015)

    808 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  42. Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?

    807 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  43. Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)

    806 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  44. We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

    806 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  45. Fuckin' user interface design, I swear

    805 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  46. Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19

    805 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  47. Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

    804 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  48. USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment

    803 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  49. Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89

    803 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  50. Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

    801 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  51. U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

    800 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  52. Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

    799 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  53. The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

    799 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  54. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

    798 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  55. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

    798 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  56. Google turned me into a serial killer

    796 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  57. A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

    795 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  58. John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

    794 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  59. YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane

    794 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  60. Apps Getting Worse

    794 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  61. “Great resignation” wave coming for companies

    794 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  62. Computer Graphics from Scratch

    793 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  63. Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors

    793 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  64. SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

    793 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  65. RSS is wonderful

    792 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  66. Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

    792 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  67. Statement on New York Times Article

    791 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  68. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

    790 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  69. How we got to LiveView

    789 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  70. Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

    787 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  71. A patent troll backs off

    786 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  72. Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

    786 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  73. Et Tu, Signal?

    786 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  74. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

    785 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  75. Tokio Console

    784 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  76. I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot

    784 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  77. Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

    784 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  78. Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

    784 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  79. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

    784 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  80. Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

    783 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  81. Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit

    783 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  82. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

    783 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  83. Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    782 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  84. Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind

    782 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  85. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

    782 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  86. Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

    782 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  87. What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

    781 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  88. Observing my cellphone switch towers

    781 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  89. Overly analytical guide to escorting

    781 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  90. Rust for Windows

    781 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  91. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

    780 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  92. Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

    780 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  93. SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

    776 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  94. Inside a viral website

    775 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  95. An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

    774 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  96. Changes at Basecamp

    773 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  97. Fingerprints can be hacked

    773 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  98. Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

    772 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  99. Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux

    772 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  100. AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

    770 points • comment • oct 18, 2021