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Hacker News (2021)

  1. The philosophical and musical failings of “Beethoven X: The AI Project”

    7 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  2. EV rollout will require investments in strained U.S. power grids

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  3. Israel halts disputed Omicron tracing through phone surveillance

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  4. Facebook says Instagram-trained A.I. is a big leap forward for computer vision

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  5. How to Interview a Programmer (2003)

    7 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  6. The Phoenix Checklist for Framing a Problem and Its Solution

    7 points • comment • jul 04, 2021

  7. The mosque built once a year (2019)

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  8. GameStop Frenzy Puts Spotlight on Trading Giant Citadel Securities

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  9. Animating 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  10. Soviet Mainframes: The M188

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  11. Microsoft's Bingbot crawler is relentless for changing pages (it seems)

    7 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  12. GNU Emacs / N Λ N O – Emacs made simple

    7 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  13. TDBC: Tcl Database Connectivity

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  14. Cloudflare Is Down in NYC

    7 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  15. The most dangerous man in the world

    7 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  16. Texas Opts Not to Fix $16B Power Overcharge

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  17. Unisys Icon

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  18. Why is every European startup run by the same 3 guys?

    7 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  19. Out Past The Eye-Mark: On Anchorites

    7 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  20. Over 1000 free tutorials for non technical founders

    7 points • comment • jul 09, 2021

  21. Facebook and Apple’s privacy war is mucking up voter turnout efforts

    7 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  22. White House signals coming antitrust push with Tim Wu appointment

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  23. Crawler Hints Update: Cloudflare Supports IndexNow

    7 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  24. Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years

    7 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  25. High Performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp

    7 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  26. Aphantasia: Text-to-image tool for creating art

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  27. Ask HN: Is there a good reason why I can't set my oven below 200F?

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  28. Myanmar coup feared as army detains Aung San Suu Kyi

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  29. TikTok is now the most popular online destination globally, ahead of Google

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  30. Google Argentina's domain name bought for £2

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  31. Apple’s MacBook Pro Is a GPU-Shaped Warning to Nvidia and AMD

    7 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  32. Zoom has access to a private iPad camera API, a new report claims

    7 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  33. Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult to Understand

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  34. Hackers [recte Crackers] are finding ways to hide inside Apple’s walled garden

    7 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  35. DHCP Games with Smart Router Devices

    7 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  36. Tie Fighter: The Second Coming of Star Wars

    7 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  37. Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino over Planned ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  38. Torvalds: Don’t use the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel

    7 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  39. Iterating on how we do NFS at Wikimedia Cloud Services

    7 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  40. Washington state passes new capital gains tax

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  41. Hayao Miyazaki Prepares to Cast One Last Spell

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  42. TikTok changed the shape of some people’s faces without asking

    7 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  43. China Again Uses Force to Bully Its Neighbors

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  44. Operation Outward: Attacking power lines with balloons in WWII

    7 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  45. The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  46. ‘Freeze the keys’ key-locking mechanism aims to prevent suicide among veterans

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Procrastination, What's Up with That?

    7 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  48. Erik Prince's Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine

    7 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  49. Rclip: An AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  50. Write signatures, not schemas

    7 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  51. HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  52. Show HN: I have curated a list of 127 remote companies

    7 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  53. Practical SNARK-based VDF

    7 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  54. Carbon-Capture Pipelines

    7 points • comment • jul 24, 2021

  55. Office of Personnel Management data breach

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  56. A Desktop Quantum Computer for Just $5k

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  57. Ksmbd In-Kernel File Server Already Needs Important Security Fix

    7 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  58. Show HN: Lensflare – The Next Unsplash

    7 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  59. Ontario will not mandate Covid vaccine for hospital staff after problems in B.C.

    7 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  60. PlasticArm is a 32-bit bendable processor

    7 points • comment • jul 23, 2021

  61. Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation (1987) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  62. Show HN: Connect with people visiting the same webpage

    7 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  63. Go-ds-CRDT: distributed datastore using Merkle-CRDTs

    7 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  64. The Real-Life Risks of Our Digital World

    7 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  65. Over $90M in cryptocurrency stolen after top Japanese exchange is hacked

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  66. Vietnam banned travel to fight Covid-19, defying experts. It worked

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  67. Show HN: A cross-platform, modular dotfiles installer for my personal setup

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  68. Reframing Imposter Syndrome

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  69. Math may have caught up with Google’s quantum-supremacy claims

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  70. Pork-Cat Syndrome

    7 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  71. New Orleans Man to Get His Life Savings Back, a Year After DEA Civil Forfeiture

    7 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  72. Pump and Dumps in the Bitcoin Era

    7 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  73. Show HN: Detailed ASCII Web Animations

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  74. The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  75. The turbulent and uncertain future of AI

    7 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  76. Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% in First 6 Months of 2021

    7 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  77. The Quite OK Image Format for Fast, Lossless Compression

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  78. Galaxy's Meltdown – Exploiting SVE-2020-18610, a write-up

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  79. As Covid-19 Boosters Loom, Manufacturers Expected to See Billions More in Sales

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  80. We’re hitting a vaccination wall, so open everything

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  81. The Intolerance Network

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  82. The Airline Safety Revolution

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  83. FIA boss: Electric F1 racing is 'simply not possible'

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  84. Memgraph DB 1.3 release brings high availability replication (HA)

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  85. CDC Overcounts Millions of Vaccinations

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  86. On Guilt

    7 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  87. Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  88. Republican lawmakers want to use pro-Trump rioters to undermine peaceful protest

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  89. Adults nationwide eligible for boosters this weekend as CDC gives sign-off

    7 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  90. Blush, illustrations for your product page

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  91. Bounded Rationality

    7 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  92. The Little Known Passport That Protected 450k Refugees

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  93. Electrons May Well Be Conscious

    7 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  94. Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

    7 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  95. Mailchimp: Employees got no equity but were promised transaction bonuses

    7 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  96. Quantum Mechanics is not confusing

    7 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  97. We finally know why stress turns your hair white (2020)

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  98. In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband

    7 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  99. LG's 325-inch Direct View LED TV is an answer to Samsung's The Wall

    7 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  100. Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise

    7 points • comment • jul 01, 2021