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Hacker News (2021)

  1. After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'

    261 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  2. Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)

    261 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  3. Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems

    261 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  4. Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen

    261 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  5. Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?

    261 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  6. Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

    261 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  7. The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones”

    261 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  8. Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?

    261 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  9. Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

    261 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  10. Germany: Data retention to be abolished

    261 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  11. Update on Omicron

    261 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  12. Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

    261 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  13. Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

    261 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  14. Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

    261 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  15. Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?

    261 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  16. FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly

    261 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  17. Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week

    261 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  18. Facebook is back up

    261 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  19. How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage

    261 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  20. Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows

    261 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  21. Ask HN: Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?

    261 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  22. Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons

    260 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  23. Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust

    260 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  24. Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)

    260 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  25. Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks

    260 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  26. Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

    260 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  27. True U.S. Death Toll from Covid Is More Than 900k, Study Finds

    260 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  28. Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers

    260 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  29. GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report

    260 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  30. Google Images Restored

    260 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  31. Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021

    260 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  32. Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation

    260 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  33. Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them

    260 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  34. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

    260 points • comment • jul 15, 2021

  35. Kape Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, Zenmate, and VPN “Review” Sites

    260 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  36. Apple AirDrop shares more than files

    260 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  37. /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system

    260 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  38. An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper

    260 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  39. Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

    260 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  40. Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

    260 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  41. NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

    260 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  42. Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (2008)

    260 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  43. How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs

    260 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  44. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    260 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  45. Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS

    260 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  46. In January, there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.

    260 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  47. Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp

    260 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  48. Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS

    260 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  49. Flying a drone into a volcano

    260 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  50. Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since records began'

    260 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  51. Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack

    260 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  52. The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition

    260 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  53. Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

    260 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  54. FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

    259 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  55. Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes

    259 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  56. Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked

    259 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  57. Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims

    259 points • comment • jul 27, 2021

  58. Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

    259 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  59. Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent

    259 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  60. The Entire History of Soviet Rocket Engines

    259 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  61. Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

    259 points • comment • jul 17, 2021

  62. “Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

    259 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  63. Google Outage in Europe

    259 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  64. Why Lisp?

    259 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  65. Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated

    259 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  66. Folk wisdom on visual programming

    259 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  67. Fuck Domainparkers

    259 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  68. Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate

    259 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  69. You can't tell people anything (2004)

    259 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  70. Booking.com fined €475k for reporting data breach too late

    259 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  71. Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

    259 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  72. Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers

    259 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  73. How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught

    259 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  74. A request for Pinboard old-timers

    259 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  75. Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)

    259 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  76. Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study

    259 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  77. DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

    259 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  78. Scanning “private” content

    259 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  79. The Need to Remove Bad Management

    259 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  80. We wrote a book about building business applications in Go

    259 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  81. AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

    259 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  82. 'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks of vertebrate genomes

    259 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  83. The Programmer's Brain

    259 points • comment • jul 05, 2021

  84. Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'

    259 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  85. The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space

    259 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  86. Show HN: Search inside YouTube videos using natural language queries

    258 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  87. Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

    258 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  88. AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers

    258 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  89. Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs

    258 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  90. Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit

    258 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  91. Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby

    258 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  92. Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

    258 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  93. Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter

    258 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  94. Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps

    258 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  95. Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

    258 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  96. My Go executable files are still getting larger

    258 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  97. Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time

    258 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  98. UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)

    258 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  99. How did this PayPal spoof email pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC

    258 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  100. Generating JSON Directly from Postgres

    258 points • comment • jul 15, 2021