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Hacker News (2021)

Why is Excalidraw so good?
714 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
Advent of Code 2021
713 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
712 points • comment • may 23, 2021
How to overcome Phone Addiction
710 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
710 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
710 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]
710 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
Coinbase from YC to DPO
709 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
709 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
709 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
RIP Google Reader
709 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
Permission.site
708 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
708 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
Phrack Issue 70
708 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
707 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
Show HN: Emoji to Scale
707 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
706 points • comment • may 11, 2021
Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
705 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
704 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
704 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Chick Corea has died
704 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
703 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
Making bracket pair colorization faster
702 points • comment • sep 29, 2021
Null
701 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
701 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
700 points • comment • may 21, 2021
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
700 points • comment • sep 19, 2021
Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
700 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
700 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
699 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
698 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
697 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
697 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
697 points • comment • sep 24, 2021
Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
696 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
The Insecurity Industry
696 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
695 points • comment • may 17, 2021
Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
695 points • comment • may 26, 2021
BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
695 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
It's your device, you should be able to repair it
694 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
694 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
694 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
694 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
Airyx OS
694 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
693 points • comment • may 09, 2021
I keep making things out of checkboxes
693 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS
693 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Open Source Smartwatch
693 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
AWS's Egregious Egress
693 points • comment • jul 23, 2021
The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
692 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
691 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
691 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
691 points • comment • jul 26, 2021
Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
691 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
691 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
691 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
691 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
690 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
Townscaper Running in the Browser
690 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Animated Engines
690 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
Functorio
689 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells
689 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
“User engagement” is code for “addiction”
688 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
My Room in 3D
688 points • comment • sep 11, 2021
Lesser-known Postgres features
687 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
687 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
687 points • comment • sep 06, 2021
Naval Architecture
686 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Use console.log() like a pro (2020)
686 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
685 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
685 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
Why I Built Litestream
685 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
Poor in Tech
685 points • comment • may 19, 2021
Something weird is happening on Facebook
684 points • comment • sep 27, 2021
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
684 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
683 points • comment • sep 22, 2021
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
683 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
683 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
683 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
683 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
Apt Encounters of the Third Kind
682 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
Windows 96
682 points • comment • jul 27, 2021
Terraform 1.0
682 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
682 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
uBlock Origin review
682 points • comment • sep 04, 2021
Docker without Docker
681 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
680 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
680 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
680 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
School or Prison
680 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
679 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
679 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
679 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
Beyond Smart
679 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks
678 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
678 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
678 points • comment • mar 29, 2021
Algorithms for Decision Making
678 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
Bosch opens German chip plant
677 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
676 points • comment • jun 26, 2021