The Best Hacker News Posts of 2021

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Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] supremecourt.gov · pdoconnell · 5 Apr 2021

4.1k pts 932 comments

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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project intuitiveexplanations.com · raxod502 · 7 Jun 2021

4k pts 1.3k comments

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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% nee.lv · kuroguro · 28 Feb 2021

3.9k pts 699 comments

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A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design search.marginalia.nu · Funes- · 16 Sep 2021

3.4k pts 717 comments

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GitHub, fuck your name change mooseyanon.medium.com · leontrolski · 17 Mar 2021

3.4k pts 2k comments

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“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says niemanlab.org · spzx · 17 Nov 2021

3.2k pts 861 comments

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“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” lore.kernel.org · kdbg · 21 Apr 2021

3k pts 1.9k comments

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GitHub Copilot copilot.github.com · todsacerdoti · 29 Jun 2021

2.9k pts 1.3k comments

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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop twitter.com · Miner49er · 28 Jan 2021

2.7k pts 1.6k comments

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A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing kleinbottle.com · _Robbie · 30 Jun 2021

2.7k pts 602 comments

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The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used pluralistic.net · samizdis · 21 Sep 2021

2.7k pts 1.4k comments

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Facebook-owned sites were down facebook.com · nabeards · 4 Oct 2021

2.6k pts 1.3k comments

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The Framework Laptop frame.work · bitigchi · 25 Feb 2021

2.6k pts 991 comments

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Valve Steam Deck steamdeck.com · homarp · 15 Jul 2021

2.5k pts 1.6k comments

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An Unbelievable Demo brendangregg.com · SerCe · 4 Jun 2021

2.3k pts 463 comments

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Internal Combustion Engine ciechanow.ski · algui91 · 30 Apr 2021

2.3k pts 393 comments

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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B wsj.com · DavidWilkinson · 2 Jun 2021

2.3k pts 846 comments

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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org · bbatsell · 5 Aug 2021

2.3k pts 824 comments

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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app arstechnica.com · erwinmatijsen · 6 Jan 2021

2.3k pts 1.1k comments

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Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps google.com · edge17 · 20 Dec 2021

2.2k pts 373 comments

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There are no results for tank man bing.com · rcoveson · 4 Jun 2021

2.1k pts 534 comments

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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US bbc.com · ews · 23 Jun 2021

2.1k pts 1.1k comments

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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday typesense.org · karterk · 14 Jul 2021

2.1k pts 579 comments

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Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities habr.com · jayhoon · 24 Sep 2021

2k pts 456 comments

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Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked twitter.com · benhurmarcel · 8 Feb 2021

2k pts 1.2k comments

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Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? lmueongoqx · 7 Apr 2021

2k pts 1.1k comments

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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle musclewiki.com · punkspider · 21 Jan 2021

2k pts 329 comments

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Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store twitter.com · redsolver · 29 Jan 2021

2k pts 940 comments

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Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server justine.lol · jart · 26 Feb 2021

2k pts 249 comments

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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests npr.org · fortran77 · 6 Jan 2021

2k pts 2.4k comments

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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump blog.twitter.com · minimaxir · 8 Jan 2021

2k pts 2k comments

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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” krebsonsecurity.com · picture · 30 Mar 2021

1.9k pts 785 comments

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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees aboutamazon.com · marc__1 · 2 Feb 2021

1.9k pts 1k comments

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IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district whitehoodhacker.net · revicon · 12 Oct 2021

1.9k pts 383 comments

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Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer signal.org · derekerdmann · 21 Apr 2021

1.9k pts 332 comments

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Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research neowin.net · prsutherland · 21 Apr 2021

1.9k pts 8 comments

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Just Be Rich keenen.xyz · kjcharles · 13 Apr 2021

1.9k pts 1.1k comments

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Willingness to look stupid danluu.com · ZephyrBlu · 21 Oct 2021

1.9k pts 777 comments

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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster phiresky.github.io · phiresky · 2 May 2021

1.8k pts 244 comments

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Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it imgur.com · jandll · 18 Feb 2021

1.8k pts 812 comments

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I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka gentlydownthe.stream · mitchum_ · 17 Jun 2021

1.8k pts 226 comments

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Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend twitter.com · rbanffy · 3 Jan 2021

1.8k pts 891 comments

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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources reuters.com · spenvo · 12 Aug 2021

1.8k pts 813 comments

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Sir Clive Sinclair has died theguardian.com · haasted · 16 Sep 2021

1.7k pts 438 comments

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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam casparwre.de · caspii · 7 Jun 2021

1.7k pts 395 comments

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GitHub is fully available in Iran github.blog · todsacerdoti · 5 Jan 2021

1.7k pts 483 comments

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My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies daliaawad28.medium.com · daliaawad · 24 Feb 2021

1.7k pts 460 comments

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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup gomox.medium.com · gomox · 16 Jan 2021

1.7k pts 543 comments

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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe danrocks · 30 Nov 2021

1.7k pts 655 comments

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I resigned from Twitter twitter.com · ryzvonusef · 29 Nov 2021

1.7k pts 1.1k comments

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Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code github.com · tardismechanic · 9 Feb 2021

1.7k pts 214 comments

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O.mg Cable shop.hak5.org · fredley · 2 Sep 2021

1.7k pts 538 comments

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 11 Mar 2021

1.7k pts 612 comments

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It Can Happen to You mattkeeter.com · mooreds · 4 Mar 2021

1.7k pts 403 comments

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Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water joshdata.me · raldi · 20 Feb 2021

1.7k pts 171 comments

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Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do? ConfessionTime · 16 Dec 2021

1.7k pts 1.1k comments

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Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] youtube.com · malloreon · 18 Feb 2021

1.7k pts 495 comments

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Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge blog.ethereum.org · vishnu_ks · 18 May 2021

1.7k pts 1.7k comments

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AWS us-east-1 outage status.aws.amazon.com · judge2020 · 7 Dec 2021

1.7k pts 957 comments

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MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch apple.com · 0xedb · 18 Oct 2021

1.7k pts 2.1k comments