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1981.
The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States (smithsonianmag.com)
445 points by elorant on Oct 9, 2021 | 184 comments
1982.
Bitcoin Is Time (dergigi.com)
444 points by taylorwc on Mar 2, 2021 | 1144 comments
1983.
Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous (roadandtrack.com)
444 points by mdbug on Mar 19, 2021 | 446 comments
1984.
A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech (wired.com)
444 points by lxm on Jul 22, 2021 | 424 comments
1985.
The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty of justice (tribunemag.co.uk)
444 points by thinkingemote on Jul 25, 2021 | 324 comments
1986.
Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM (github.com)
444 points by dattl on Dec 18, 2021 | 151 comments
1987.
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization (github.com)
444 points by quyleanh on May 13, 2021 | 146 comments
1988.
CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU (techxplore.com)
444 points by gumby on Apr 9, 2021 | 143 comments
1989.
A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong (twitter.com)
443 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 419 comments
1990.
Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says (arstechnica.com)
443 points by samizdis on Sep 1, 2021 | 264 comments
1991.
Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail (mikko-kenttala.medium.com)
443 points by jviide on Apr 1, 2021 | 257 comments
1992.
Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font (codingfont.com)
443 points by wentin on Oct 27, 2021 | 218 comments
1993.
Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use (open-meteo.com)
443 points by meteo-jeff on Sep 12, 2021 | 147 comments
1994.
Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode (twitter.com)
443 points by BlackLotus89 on Mar 20, 2021 | 134 comments
1995.
Faster JavaScript Calls (v8.dev)
443 points by feross on Feb 15, 2021 | 126 comments
1996.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
443 points by sohkamyung on May 29, 2021 | 98 comments
1997.
U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees (reuters.com)
442 points by alexrustic on Apr 29, 2021 | 517 comments
1998.
German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)
442 points by jrepinc on Nov 18, 2021 | 349 comments
1999.
Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
442 points by man-next-door on Nov 27, 2021 | 349 comments
2000.
Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] (diode.zone)
442 points by x14km2d on Sep 19, 2021 | 295 comments
2001.
Can we trust Microsoft with open source? (dusted.codes)
442 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2021 | 280 comments
2002.
Tell HN: GitHub is down again
442 points by pupdogg on Nov 27, 2021 | 272 comments
2003.
US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
442 points by panarky on Jun 3, 2021 | 260 comments
2004.
Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote (youtube.com)
442 points by brudgers on Nov 28, 2021 | 234 comments
2005.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries (duckduckgo.com)
442 points by Aaronmacaron on Jan 14, 2021 | 176 comments
2006.
I hacked an office telephone to play Doom (neilbostian.github.io)
442 points by joshmanders on Aug 27, 2021 | 57 comments
2007.
Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
441 points by pramodbiligiri on Mar 16, 2021 | 795 comments
2008.
Fierce Nerds (paulgraham.com)
441 points by prtkgpt on May 18, 2021 | 452 comments
2009.
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust (benhoyt.com)
441 points by benhoyt on Mar 15, 2021 | 303 comments
2010.
Why I no longer contribute to Racket (beautifulracket.com)
441 points by velcrovan on Jun 16, 2021 | 227 comments