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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Wikipedia: 10k Most Common Passwords

    7 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  2. Functional ‘while’ loops – no, really

    7 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  3. What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  4. Get Behind the M.U.L.E (2003)

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  5. Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  6. Asian countries are learning to cope with Chinese bullying

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  7. Kevin Hoffman: WTF Is WebAssembly?

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  8. Scientists who declared climate emergency say Earth’s vital signs have worsened

    7 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  9. Kelsey Hightower: Do you own your own tweets?

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  10. Ask HN: fsf.org and gnu.org are both down, anyone knows why?

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  11. Al Gore puts $600M into UK Green energy-tech startup Octopus Energy Group

    7 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  12. Apple and Google will both attend Senate hearing on app store competition

    7 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  13. Is anorexia the nexus of all online communities?

    7 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  14. JavaScript performance beyond bundle size

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  15. 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  16. Twitter opens account verification applications to the public

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  17. Countries with highest number of politicians named in Panama Papers

    7 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  18. The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

    7 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  19. Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, and Democracy

    7 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  20. Tether Leaks and Deltec Leaks: an unverified but interesting document dump

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  21. Cal.com – open-source Calendly alternative

    7 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  22. Podcasting, RSS, Openness, and Choice

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  23. 26 FDNY firehouses out of service over vaccine mandate staff shortage

    7 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  24. Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5M in Ransom to Hackers

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  25. Billions and Billions to Be Wasted

    7 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  26. Science Has Become a Cartel

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  27. Intel SGX Protects German Electronic Patient Records

    7 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  28. VPN by Google One: Technical Security and Privacy Assessment

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  29. A hundred things I learned writing my first technical book

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  30. NASA guide to pressure suits [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  31. PyTorch Live

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  32. How does IRC's federation model compare to ActivityPub?

    7 points • comment • jul 03, 2021

  33. Book Review: The Cult of Smart

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  34. Twitter confirms Spaces are coming to desktop web browsers

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  35. The World’s Best Chess Players Are Too Good to Win

    7 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  36. Time-Travel Rephotography

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  37. Staff of socialist magazine Current Affairs fired for attempting to organize

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  38. Law enforcement gets around your phone’s encryption

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  39. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022?

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  40. New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  41. Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks with Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  42. Those pesky pull request reviews

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  43. Taliban kill woman for not wearing burqa

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  44. Making a Lego Domino Machine

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  45. Egypt's Ambitious Strategy to Eliminate Hepatitis C Virus

    7 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  46. Chrome Canary Testing “Follow” Button for Websites

    7 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  47. Deno 1.15 Release Notes

    7 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  48. My Robot Vacuum Cleaner Is Afraid of Sunshine

    7 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  49. Why are We Vaccinating Children against Covid-19?

    7 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  50. Graphs of relationships between DNS RFCs

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  51. Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

    7 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  52. Biden declares state of emergency over fuel cyber-attack

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  53. “Fused-off” AVX-512 can be enabled on Alder Lake by disabling E cores

    7 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  54. Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  55. Esteroids: A search engine for ENS+IPFS websites

    7 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  56. Tesla files trademark for restaurant services

    7 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  57. Kids Can Recover from Missing Even Quite a Lot of School

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  58. What’s new in Chrome OS: Announcements, news, and resources from I/O '21

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  59. Starving extremophile microorganisms ate a nail in three days

    7 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  60. Engineer Builds Self-Balancing Autonomous Bicycle in Spare Time

    7 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  61. Ask HN: What are some job sectors which are crying out for tech talent in 2021?

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  62. Building your SaaS business with Partnerships

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  63. How to compare strings in Bash

    7 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  64. The Nature of Code (2012)

    7 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  65. OpenAI Demoing Codex Live

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  66. Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame

    7 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  67. US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies

    7 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  68. Inspired by DeepFuckingValue I made a website to track our journey to the moon

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  69. Climate Change, in 6 Charts

    7 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  70. Who Is Being Monitored?

    7 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  71. Margaret Atwood has become one of her own handmaidens, rising up against tyranny

    7 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  72. The Reddit Crowd Targets the Hedge Funds

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  73. Facebook's Nick Clegg Makes It Clear: Facebook Wants To Undermine Section 230

    7 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  74. Amazon’s Affordable Housing Pledge Won’t Fix Anything

    7 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  75. Academics bypass PINs for MasterCard and Maestro contactless payments

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  76. Gavin Newsom invites world's homeless to California

    7 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  77. Microbenchmarking is hard: how an innocent printf caused a drastic slowdown

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  78. Federal Judge Dismisses Government Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook

    7 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  79. You can buy a Toyota with corn in Brazil

    7 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  80. Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  81. Pip vs. Conda: an in-depth comparison of Python’s two packaging systems

    7 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  82. Evaluating Side Hustles

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  83. Nvidia will lose its grip on the AI industry

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  84. Does Google FLoC track your porn preferences using the ad blocking EasyList?

    7 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  85. Medicine Is Political

    7 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  86. A few bytes here, a few there, pretty soon you’re talking real memory

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  87. Hey linker, can you spare a meg?

    7 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  88. Emojipedia acquired by Zedge

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  89. 20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  90. Food website that 'fixed' blogger recipes removed after backlash

    7 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  91. Restaurant murals

    7 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  92. Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

    7 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  93. Stasi files: The biggest jigsaw puzzle(2012)

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  94. Snapchat Seed Memo [pdf]

    7 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  95. Covid-19 death rates 10x higher in countries where most adults are overweight

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  96. US built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest (2014)

    7 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  97. Textpattern CMS

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  98. Single-primitive authenticated encryption for fun

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  99. Ex Afgan communications minister works as bicycle curier in Germany

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  100. Light Years Ahead – The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer [video]

    7 points • comment • mar 02, 2021