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Hacker News (2021)

  1. AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

    770 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  2. Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

    769 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  3. “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

    768 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  4. Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

    768 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  5. Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop

    765 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  6. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)

    764 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  7. Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

    764 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  8. My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

    764 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  9. Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

    763 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  10. September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

    763 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  11. Flutter 2

    763 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  12. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

    762 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  13. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

    762 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  14. Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

    761 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  15. Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast

    761 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  16. YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

    761 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  17. NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

    761 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  18. On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

    760 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  19. Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns

    760 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  20. The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered

    760 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  21. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

    759 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  22. Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

    759 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  23. Vscode.dev

    758 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  24. PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

    758 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  25. Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

    757 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  26. NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites

    757 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  27. Individuals Matter

    757 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  28. Don't Feed the Thought Leaders

    755 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  29. uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

    755 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  30. Pip has dropped support for Python 2

    755 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  31. Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit

    754 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  32. Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

    753 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  33. An old hacker's tips on staying employed

    752 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  34. Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

    751 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  35. 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

    750 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  36. Poisson's Equation

    750 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  37. Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

    749 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  38. 4x Smaller, 50x Faster

    749 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  39. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

    748 points • comment • jul 13, 2021

  40. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission

    748 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  41. EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology

    748 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  42. If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room

    748 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  43. Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

    747 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  44. The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning

    747 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  45. Why I prefer making useless stuff

    747 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  46. GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

    746 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  47. Neovim 0.5 is overpowering

    746 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  48. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

    745 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  49. New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

    743 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  50. Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp

    741 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  51. Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE

    740 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  52. The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription

    740 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  53. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

    740 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  54. The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

    740 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  55. Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

    739 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  56. Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders

    739 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  57. Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

    738 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  58. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

    738 points • comment • jul 12, 2021

  59. Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

    738 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  60. Show HN: PDFs from HTML

    737 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  61. Security.txt

    737 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  62. Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

    737 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  63. Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun

    737 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  64. Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer

    735 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  65. How People Get Rich Now

    734 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  66. People Staring at Computers

    729 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  67. Git undo: We can do better

    729 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  68. The gift of it's your problem now

    728 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  69. What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting

    727 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  70. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

    727 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  71. Crystal 1.0 – What to expect

    727 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  72. A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

    726 points • comment • jul 07, 2021

  73. The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”

    726 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

    725 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  75. The surreal experience of my first developer job

    725 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  76. How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application

    725 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  77. Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday

    724 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  78. Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side

    723 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  79. Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

    723 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  80. Tqdm (Python)

    723 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  81. “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

    723 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  82. Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

    722 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  83. Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth

    722 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  84. What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?

    720 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  85. Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

    720 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  86. A Project of One’s Own

    720 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  87. iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

    720 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  88. Wikipedia is 20

    720 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

    720 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  90. United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine

    719 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  91. Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

    718 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  92. My product is my garden

    716 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  93. Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech

    716 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  94. Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt

    716 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  95. FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

    715 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  96. GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

    715 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  97. New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012

    715 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  98. Advent of Code 2021

    714 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  99. Why is Excalidraw so good?

    714 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  100. AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search

    714 points • comment • may 18, 2021