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Hacker News (2021)

Rash decisions, insecurity and burnout: The dark side of India’s startup boom
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Raspberry Pi SDR Cyberdeck
6 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Yahoo Pipes (2009)
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Dell’s Luna laptop concept is all about repairability
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
6 points • comment • may 14, 2021
Why Electron apps are fine
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
Slow Tuesday Night by R.A. Lafferty (1965) [pdf]
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Tensegrity
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Rare case of woman's body ridding itself of HIV
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
FBI: Multiple days of “Armed Protests” planned in all 50 states, and US Capitol
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Why Can’t Billionaires Advance the Common Good?
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
The Suez Canal Is Blocked by a Giant Container Ship
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Dawn of the 900-kW EV ultra-charger, and a battery that can handle it
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
All at sea: half a million seafarers stranded by the pandemic – in pictures
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Woke Movement Is Global, and America Should Be (Mostly) Proud
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Jensen's Kitchen was a lie: Nvidia reveals GTC 2021 keynote nearly 100% fake
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
The Mask Distraction
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
Spy agency taps into undersea cable (May 2001)
6 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
New Corona Mutation B1.1.529
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
Cassette Tape
6 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
Nintendo throws rare bone to modern EU gamers via N64 60 Hz toggle
6 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
Facebook will begin beaming advertisements into virtual reality
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
Youki – a container runtime in Rust that has passed all tests provided by OCI
6 points • comment • sep 28, 2021
Apple puts more adverts in App Store after ad-tracking ban
6 points • comment • may 05, 2021
Netflix Eyes New Jersey Army Base for Major Production Hub
6 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
WhatsApp for Work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Switch from Puppeteer to Playwright
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Texas weather: President Biden to declare major disaster
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve (2018)
6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We're Getting Closer to Finding Out
6 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
Twitch Leak Included Emails, Passwords in Clear Text: Researcher
6 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
The Descent Ripple Effect
6 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
Apple considering pulling Facebook from app store over human trafficking
6 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
NASA Perseverance Rover Touch-Down Success
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
Mister Car Wash sets IPO terms that values the carwash chain at about $5B
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Timeline of the Far Future
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
Why Does the U.S. Have So Many Mass Shootings? Research Is Clear: Guns
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Global Food Prices Surge as Inflation Spreads
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
When Clubhouse Runs Out of Money
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell retires the word 'transitory' in describing inflation
6 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Widelands, the Settlers II inspired strategy game has a 1.0 Release Candidate
6 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
How to Defend Good Code
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
Facebook's Meta mission was laid out in a 2018 paper on The Metaverse
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
In secret Facebook groups, America's best share racist jabs, 2020, QAnon
6 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Chip shortage's cause has been found. It boils down to one company, says report
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
Ask HN: Can you sell alternative data to financial firms as a side hustle?
6 points • comment • may 28, 2021
U.S. Debt ceiling can be sidestepped by minting a $1T platinum coin
6 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
People Are Photoshopping Covid Test Results to Bypass Travel Restrictions
6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
Charlottesville’s Robert Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down,Transformed into New Art
6 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
What happens when you die, according to people who died
6 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
Apple Is the $2.3T Fortress That Tim Cook Built
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Notes on a Remarkable Finding from Finland
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
A public archive of media from or about the Capitol Hill Riot on Jan 6
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
Space Florida thought it owned 3% of Rivian. It was wrong
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
Bits from the Debian Release Team: bullseye status update
6 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Wikipedia Editors Mad About Jimmy Wales’ NFT of a Wikipedia Edit
6 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
Elon Musk’s effect on crypto world shows how irrational markets are
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
The Rittenhouse Verdict Is Only Shocking If You Followed Terrible Reporting
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
Classical Reasoning and Debugging
6 points • comment • may 01, 2021
Fake Online Storefronts in 2021
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
Schoolgirl bullied for years has last laugh as 300 bikers accompany her to prom
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
Google Assistant “Memory” supercharges saving and reminders, in development
6 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
Telegram blocks Russian opposition leader's chat bots during vote
6 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
How Children Read Differently from Books vs. Screens
6 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
The Secret Diary of a 'Sustainable Investor'
6 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
Places to get free traffic for your Startup
6 points • comment • may 27, 2021
The Left is now too weak for democracy to survive (2013)
6 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
As cloud costs climb, is repatriation the answer?
6 points • comment • jul 12, 2021
Stanford physicists help create time crystals with quantum computers
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
Mistakes and Memes
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Neural nets (*) across all areas are starting to look identical – a Transformer
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
Venezuela Moves Closer to Dollarization with New Bank Rules
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
The ACLU's 2008 report on pandemic preparedness [pdf]
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2021
IOS15: Apple continues privacy war with app tracker reports
6 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Solar Panels Plus Farming? Agrivoltaics Explained
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
The FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
6 points • comment • jul 08, 2021
Covid, Climate, and the New Denialism
6 points • comment • sep 02, 2021
I tested the dumbest PPE of all time – the Rich Guy Covid Helmet
6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
NYTimes: Ivermectin safe for 'almost everyone except infants, pregnant' (2019)
6 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
Running Scheme on Bare Metal (Experience Report)
6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
The Silent Partner Cleaning Up Facebook for $500M a Year
6 points • comment • sep 01, 2021
“Postgres is adding the ability to query for similar vectors with kNN.”
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
30k Unsuspecting Rose Bowl Attendees Scooped Up in Facial Recognition Test
6 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
Fox News channel reigns as top-rated network in total day and primetime viewers
6 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
ECMAScript (JavaScript) Language Specification
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
Curl Pictures
6 points • comment • may 07, 2021
Dems propose raising corporate tax to 26.5% and 3% surtax on income above $5M
6 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Study: Half of US cosmetics contain toxic chemicals
6 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Exec (Amiga)
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
There's Another Facebook Phone Number Database Online
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
There's an Insane “Australia-Style” Lockdown Happening in the US
6 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
Beowulf Cluster
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
Senate parliamentarian rules against including immigration reform in $3.5T
6 points • comment • sep 20, 2021
The Dacha Is Russia's Summer Cure for Urban Life
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2021