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Hacker News (2021)

Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
645 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
645 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
645 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
644 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
644 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
-2000 Lines of Code
644 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
644 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
Pattern matching accepted for Python
644 points • comment • feb 09, 2021
Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
643 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
643 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
643 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
642 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
642 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
642 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
642 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
Stripe bans Trump campaign
642 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
641 points • comment • may 11, 2021
Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
641 points • comment • jul 25, 2021
The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
641 points • comment • sep 16, 2021
A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley
641 points • comment • sep 21, 2021
Why I Work on Ads
640 points • comment • may 06, 2021
Economic costs of war
640 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
640 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
639 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
Ubiquiti Networks Breach
639 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)
639 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
I just don’t want to be busy anymore
639 points • comment • sep 26, 2021
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
638 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
Life before smartphones (2020)
638 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
Supersonic Trebuchet
637 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups
637 points • comment • jun 23, 2021
Upheaval at freenode
636 points • comment • may 26, 2021
Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
636 points • comment • may 04, 2021
Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
635 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
Has UML died without anyone noticing?
635 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
635 points • comment • may 26, 2021
A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
634 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
634 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
634 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
634 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
634 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
634 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
633 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
633 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
632 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
632 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
632 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
631 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
630 points • comment • may 03, 2021
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
630 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
630 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
630 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
630 points • comment • jul 29, 2021
Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
629 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
Improving Firefox stability on Linux
629 points • comment • may 19, 2021
NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
629 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
629 points • comment • jun 30, 2021
Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
629 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
Linux Rust Support
629 points • comment • jul 06, 2021
There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
629 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
628 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
628 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
628 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
628 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
Write libraries instead of services, where possible
628 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
How to permanently delete your Facebook account
628 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
627 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
627 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
626 points • comment • may 05, 2021
Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
626 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
626 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested
625 points • comment • sep 07, 2021
Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
625 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
625 points • comment • may 18, 2021
Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
625 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
624 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
Instagram Has Become SkyMall
624 points • comment • jul 10, 2021
EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
624 points • comment • may 25, 2021
Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree
624 points • comment • sep 12, 2021
WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
624 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
Gitlab from YC to IPO
623 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
623 points • comment • jul 16, 2021
Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
622 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
Actually Portable Executable
622 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
621 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
A Framework for Writing Better Documentation
620 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
620 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
619 points • comment • jul 18, 2021
I hope work from home continues
619 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
618 points • comment • may 09, 2021
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
618 points • comment • jul 30, 2021
Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
618 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
My House
618 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
617 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender
617 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life
617 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
617 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
616 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
615 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
615 points • comment • mar 05, 2021