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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Namewee and Kimberley Chen: How Two Singers Defeated the CCP

    7 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  2. JavaScript timers can be bypassed with “Infinity”

    7 points • comment • jul 28, 2021

  3. Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  4. To make money in FOSS, build a business first

    7 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  5. Amazon urges FCC to reject SpaceX proposals for next-generation Starlink

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  6. Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos to Google Photos

    7 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  7. Update #1: Simula One Teaser

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  8. Justices narrow federal computer-fraud statute

    7 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  9. Securing your digital life, part three: How smartphones make us vulnerable

    7 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  10. Battle over Critical Race Theory

    7 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  11. Playing Doom on a Pregnancy Test

    7 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  12. It’s so hot that Canada’s sea creatures are cooking to death in their shells

    7 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  13. Edge-AI: A night vision face blurring open camera for data privacy protection

    7 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  14. Hacker rewrote complex backend with Postgres and cron, CEO fired 40% of devs

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  15. Ask HN: What would it take for you to stop using Hacker News?

    7 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  16. The Magazine That Helped 1920s (Black) Kids Navigate Racism

    7 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  17. Amazon's never-ending fake reviews problem, explained

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  18. China’s Heavy-Lift Rocket Due for Uncontrolled Reentry Within Days

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  19. Understanding NSF and ANSI Water Quality Certifications

    7 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  20. Muphry's Law

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  21. Alzheimer's: The heretical and hopeful role of infection

    7 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  22. Apple isn't just a walled garden, it's a carrier

    7 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  23. Sharks were spared during extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs, study finds

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  24. GNU is not in the public domain (RMS)

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  25. TikTok tells U.S. lawmakers it does not give information to China's government

    7 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  26. Ask HN: What do you want life to be like in 10 years, and how can we help?

    7 points • comment • jul 18, 2021

  27. Academia’s ableist culture laid bare

    7 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  28. The Central Park Karen

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  29. Best Practices for Versioning REST and GraphQL APIs

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  30. Heart and respiratory rate measurements using just your smartphone’s camera

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  31. Show HN: ReleaseChurch – a fun-website to cast a prayer for your release

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  32. Lawmakers’ social media activity changed after the U.S. Capitol riot

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  33. World's biggest clean energy project to power Singapore from Australia

    7 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  34. Is it a red flag when companies search for [language] engineer?

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  35. Common Log Format

    7 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  36. Ask HN: What’s Something You Regret?

    7 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  37. OpenVPN vs. WireGuard

    7 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  38. Anti-vaxxer deputy dies from Covid-19 complications after mocking vaccine on FB

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  39. The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  40. Flawed Heatwave Report Leads to False Headlines in Major Media

    7 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  41. Far-right cryptocurrency follows ideology across borders

    7 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  42. Moral Costs of Chicken vs. Beef

    7 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  43. Leftover bacon grease is liquid gold

    7 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  44. Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  45. Valid JavaScript code calling alert() without letters, numbers, and parentheses

    7 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  46. Ask HN: What language would you code if you didn't need to make money?

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  47. Richard Feynman, the Physicist Who Didn’t Understand His Own Theories

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  48. Compressing JSON: Gzip vs. Zstd

    7 points • comment • jul 01, 2021

  49. The Twenty-First Chromosome

    7 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  50. Bitcoin tumbles after Elon Musk tweets breakup meme

    7 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  51. Why don't airlines have in-flight video recordings like buses do?

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  52. Data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group's spyware used to target activists

    7 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  53. The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  54. Datahorder thread with content from the Capitol protests

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  55. Questions about Hacker News

    7 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  56. Amazon's profits are up 35% in 2020 and many also started to make money

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  57. Medicine won’t remain more trusted than activism if they are indistinguishable

    7 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  58. Live Map of Strikes and Other Labor Actions in US

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Where to ask for feedback about a cryptography related tool

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  60. In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  61. What Is DAO2DAO?

    7 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  62. Travelling downwind faster than the wind [video]

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  63. Rather than blowing £1,450 on a steak, enjoy a gorgeous Kebab Kid £8.50 kebab

    7 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  64. Californians are resorting to crowdsourcing to get their Covid-19 vaccine

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  65. Does anyone here use Dvorak?

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  66. A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  67. Blood clotting may be the root cause of Long Covid syndrome, research shows

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  68. Crucial Keys to Create a Data-First Company Culture

    7 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  69. In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?

    7 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  70. SpaceX has successfully landed Starship after flight for the first time

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  71. Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be based on Arch Linux–not Debian

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  72. First Principles as a Life Strategy

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  73. Jugger, a sport inspired by a 1989 film

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  74. The Richest Black Girl in America

    7 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  75. China enforcing replacement of .com domains with .cn for in-country HTTP traffic

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  76. Postgres Notify for Real Time Dashboards

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  77. SymbiFlow: Open-source toolchain for the development of FPGAs

    7 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  78. Utah House and Senate Pass H.B. 72: Mandatory “Porn Filter” Bill

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  79. Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  80. The internet has turned us all into amateur detectives

    7 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  81. How Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Which books would you recommend to me that had a big impact on you

    7 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  83. India, Singapore to link their payments systems for low-cost cross-border txns

    7 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  84. Peer reviewers and editor wanted to publish my paper. The legal team rejected it

    7 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  85. Police bust men smuggling KFC chicken into city locked down for Covid

    7 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  86. Ashtiname: The Covenant of Muhammad with the Monks of Mount Sinai

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  87. Amazon Removed Reviews of Xi Jinping's Book on Orders from Beijing: Report

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  88. A quantitative analysis of Calvin and Hobbes

    7 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  89. Facebook’s Meta mission laid out in a 2018 paper written by an Oculus executive

    7 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  90. What's popular on Facebook?Extreme far right political views and lies – Study

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  91. US boss fires 900 employees over Zoom

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  92. Scientists Detect Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  93. Ain't No Sunshine in the Big Easy

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  94. Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states

    7 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  95. Ford drops plan for Rivian-powered EV

    7 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  96. I promise this story about microwaves is interesting (tom scott) [video]

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  97. How Docker Broke in Half

    7 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  98. Are We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked?

    7 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  99. GLIDE: Photorealistic Image Generation, Editing w/ Text-Guided Diffusion Models

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  100. Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings (2009) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2021