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Hacker News (2021)

  1. Grauballe Man

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  2. “Whoops I Rewrote It in Rust” by Brian Martin [video]

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  3. A sand shortage? We are running out of a crucial and underappreciated commodity

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  4. What Apple’s New Repair Program Means for You (and Your iPhone)

    5 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  5. Robinhood’s revenue more than doubles to $565M last quarter

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  6. How to run a small social network site for your friends

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  7. Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in July

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  8. Dancing Mania

    5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  9. SixWordSciFi

    5 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  10. Researchers propose a simpler design for quantum computers

    5 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  11. Mathias Rust

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  12. Top Best Linux Distros for Programmers and Developers

    5 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  13. City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  14. More than 200 medical journals call for urgent action on climate change

    5 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  15. N-Back

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  16. Show HN: Diary.by – minimalist, ad and tracking-free blogging platform

    5 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  17. Facebook Illegaly Scraped 1B Pictures from Instagram to Train Its A.I

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  18. Why Dating App Feeld Is Paying All Employees an $80k Minimum Salary

    5 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  19. The Need for a Unified Ethical Stance on Child Genital Cutting

    5 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  20. LockPickingLawyer: Handheld EMP to disable electronic timer lock

    5 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  21. Attention in the Human Brain and Its Applications in ML

    5 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  22. 4 Years After the FCC Repealed Net Neutrality, the Internet Is Better Than Ever

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  23. NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  24. Disaster looms as managers refuse to listen

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  25. Dan Kaminsky’s Premature Death Wasn’t Associated with Covid-19 Vaccination

    5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  26. The last remaining patches that enable FreeBSD on .NET have been merged upstream

    5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  27. We are testing too many vaccinated people who lack Covid symptoms

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  28. Benedict Evans, Three steps into the future (Dec 2021)

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  29. Free APIs That Nobody Is Talking About

    5 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  30. Think Netflix’s Maid Is Hard to Watch? Good: That’s the Point

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  31. Extinct 'Hobbit' creature the size of a house cat discovered in Wyoming dig site

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  32. Intensifying Seismic Crisis at La Palma Volcano: Mega-Tsunami Potential

    5 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  33. Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying, Almost Everywhere

    5 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  34. SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space

    5 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  35. Twitter’s Decentralized Future

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  36. U.S. Covid fatalities surpass 1918 flu estimates

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  37. 100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  38. Tyler Cowen on the future of many jobs

    5 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  39. A bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral

    5 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  40. The Smug Politics of Covid-19 Empowers the Far Right

    5 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  41. Extrapolating to Unnatural Language Processing with GPT-3's In-Context Learning

    5 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  42. Picking a Wedge to Win a Market

    5 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  43. India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  44. Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8

    5 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  45. Inflation hits levels last seen in May 2008

    5 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  46. The Insides of a Bluetooth-Enabled Covid-19 Self-Test

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  47. Cox–Zucker Machine

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  48. Biometrics, Smartphones, Surveillance Cameras Pose New Obstacles for U.S. Spies

    5 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  49. Idiot Coin

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  50. Deepfaking Genitalia into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  51. What Ever Happened to Toms Shoes?

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  52. Sam Altman Q&A: GPT and AGI

    5 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  53. The Rise of the Synths

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  54. Why Your Car Remote Works from Farther Away If You Hold It to Your Head

    5 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  55. Wine PPC64 Revived Again for Running Windows Programs on Power CPUs

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  56. Spiders are much smarter than you think

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  57. Millions of U.S. Covid Vaccine Doses Set to Expire and Be Destroyed This Summer

    5 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  58. Raspberry Pi overclocked to 2.9 GHz

    5 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  59. Gaddafi's Oddest Idea: Abolish Switzerland

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  60. China's Robotaxis Hit the Road

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  61. Discord will block NSFW servers on iOS

    5 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  62. Ask HN: How would you explain an ABI?

    5 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  63. Social app Parler is cracking down on hate speech – but only on iOS

    5 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  64. Glewlwyd SSO Server

    5 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  65. Covid-19 originated naturally and not in lab, virologists conclude

    5 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  66. California will require large retailers to provide gender neutral toy sections

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  67. Sony Music Is Wiping Out the Old Debts of Catalog Artists

    5 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  68. WristMac – 1988 Legendary first Apple Watch

    5 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  69. Oilshell Summer Blog Backlog: Understanding and Using Shell

    5 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  70. Ridley Scott Pins ‘The Last Duel’ Bombing on Apathetic Millennials

    5 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  71. Insane life of former fugitive and eccentric cybersecurity legend John McAfee

    5 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  72. Fact check: N95 filters are not too large to stop Covid-19 particles

    5 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  73. Ask HN: As a coding teacher in middle / high school, which tools are you using?

    5 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  74. The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts to Mars

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  75. Starlight Could Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  76. Surrogacy Across Species

    5 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  77. Sick Days Don't Look So Good Now That You Can Work from Home

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  78. Unvaccinated are 5X more likely to catch delta, 11X more likely to die

    5 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  79. Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable

    5 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  80. NSO was about to sell hacking tools to France. Now it’s in crisis

    5 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  81. Russia’s Drive to Replace Foreign Technology Is Slowly Working

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  82. Ransomware may have stolen Christmas across the US

    5 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  83. Wildfire preparedness and mindset – How to evacuate quickly, safely

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  84. Did Vikings and their stowaway mice beat Portugal to the Azores?

    5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  85. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ – A Comparison

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  86. Ask HN: What are the best tools to calculate a startup valuation?

    5 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  87. Microsoft will no longer stop you from installing Windows 11 on older PCs

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  88. Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes? (2015)

    5 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Why did everyone buy electrical surge protectors in the 90s?

    5 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  90. List of Hypothetical Technologies

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  91. Scientists Reveal World’s First 3D-Printed, Marbled Wagyu Beef

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  92. Anycast IPsec: a new on-ramp to Cloudflare One

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  93. Minecraft is now an R-rated game in South Korea

    5 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  94. From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates

    5 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  95. Stockpile of Unfinished Ford Pickups Missing Chips Is Now Visible from Space

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  96. Iodine used to power craft in space for first time

    5 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  97. VoxelQuest

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  98. Car manufacturers out of touch with how users use “infotainment”

    5 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  99. Price of silver surges as Reddit traders find new target

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  100. Europe’s Big Bang: How Gunpowder Transformed the Medieval World

    5 points • comment • nov 12, 2021