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Top of Year 2021

1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
   (5 Apr 2021 | 4103 points | Comments)

2. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
   (7 Jun 2021 | 4022 points | Comments)

3. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
   (28 Feb 2021 | 3883 points | Comments)

4. A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
   (16 Sep 2021 | 3441 points | Comments)

5. GitHub, fuck your name change
   (17 Mar 2021 | 3353 points | Comments)

6. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
   (17 Nov 2021 | 3192 points | Comments)

7. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
   (21 Apr 2021 | 3025 points | Comments)

8. GitHub Copilot
   (29 Jun 2021 | 2905 points | Comments)

9. Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
   (28 Jan 2021 | 2706 points | Comments)

10. A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
    (30 Jun 2021 | 2682 points | Comments)

11. The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
    (21 Sep 2021 | 2666 points | Comments)

12. Facebook-owned sites were down
    (4 Oct 2021 | 2589 points | Comments)

13. The Framework Laptop
    (25 Feb 2021 | 2563 points | Comments)

14. Valve Steam Deck
    (15 Jul 2021 | 2517 points | Comments)

15. An Unbelievable Demo
    (4 Jun 2021 | 2339 points | Comments)

16. Internal Combustion Engine
    (30 Apr 2021 | 2333 points | Comments)

17. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
    (2 Jun 2021 | 2330 points | Comments)

18. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
    (5 Aug 2021 | 2260 points | Comments)

19. WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
    (6 Jan 2021 | 2254 points | Comments)

20. Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
    (20 Dec 2021 | 2244 points | Comments)

21. There are no results for tank man
    (4 Jun 2021 | 2105 points | Comments)

22. John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
    (23 Jun 2021 | 2091 points | Comments)

23. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
    (14 Jul 2021 | 2075 points | Comments)

24. Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities
    (24 Sep 2021 | 2049 points | Comments)

25. Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
    (8 Feb 2021 | 2023 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
    (7 Apr 2021 | 2022 points | Comments)

27. Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
    (21 Jan 2021 | 2019 points | Comments)

28. Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
    (29 Jan 2021 | 2009 points | Comments)

29. Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
    (26 Feb 2021 | 1998 points | Comments)

30. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
    (6 Jan 2021 | 1986 points | Comments)

31. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
    (8 Jan 2021 | 1961 points | Comments)

32. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
    (30 Mar 2021 | 1944 points | Comments)

33. Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
    (2 Feb 2021 | 1941 points | Comments)

34. IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
    (12 Oct 2021 | 1912 points | Comments)

35. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
    (21 Apr 2021 | 1897 points | Comments)

36. Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research
    (21 Apr 2021 | 1883 points | Comments)

37. Just Be Rich
    (13 Apr 2021 | 1875 points | Comments)

38. Willingness to look stupid
    (21 Oct 2021 | 1859 points | Comments)

39. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
    (2 May 2021 | 1812 points | Comments)

40. Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
    (18 Feb 2021 | 1801 points | Comments)

41. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
    (17 Jun 2021 | 1797 points | Comments)

42. Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
    (3 Jan 2021 | 1793 points | Comments)

43. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
    (12 Aug 2021 | 1778 points | Comments)

44. Sir Clive Sinclair has died
    (16 Sep 2021 | 1746 points | Comments)

45. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
    (7 Jun 2021 | 1743 points | Comments)

46. GitHub is fully available in Iran
    (5 Jan 2021 | 1727 points | Comments)

47. My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
    (24 Feb 2021 | 1723 points | Comments)

48. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
    (16 Jan 2021 | 1714 points | Comments)

49. Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
    (30 Nov 2021 | 1703 points | Comments)

50. Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
    (9 Feb 2021 | 1692 points | Comments)

51. I resigned from Twitter
    (29 Nov 2021 | 1692 points | Comments)

52. O.mg Cable
    (2 Sep 2021 | 1690 points | Comments)

53. It Can Happen to You
    (4 Mar 2021 | 1683 points | Comments)

54. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
    (11 Mar 2021 | 1683 points | Comments)

55. Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
    (20 Feb 2021 | 1669 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
    (16 Dec 2021 | 1665 points | Comments)

57. Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
    (18 Feb 2021 | 1663 points | Comments)

58. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
    (18 May 2021 | 1661 points | Comments)

59. AWS us-east-1 outage
    (7 Dec 2021 | 1658 points | Comments)

60. MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
    (18 Oct 2021 | 1657 points | Comments)

61. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
    (28 May 2021 | 1644 points | Comments)

62. A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
    (4 Jan 2021 | 1643 points | Comments)

63. Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
    (8 Nov 2021 | 1631 points | Comments)

64. Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
    (8 Oct 2021 | 1605 points | Comments)

65. My Experience at Apple
    (1 Jan 2021 | 1602 points | Comments)

66. Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
    (17 Dec 2021 | 1599 points | Comments)

67. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
    (9 Apr 2021 | 1595 points | Comments)

68. Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
    (22 Sep 2021 | 1595 points | Comments)

69. Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
    (26 Jan 2021 | 1569 points | Comments)

70. Microsoft Coffee
    (2 Apr 2021 | 1558 points | Comments)

71. TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
    (17 Dec 2021 | 1545 points | Comments)

72. Total Cookie Protection
    (23 Feb 2021 | 1527 points | Comments)

73. Why Lichess will always be free
    (23 Apr 2021 | 1524 points | Comments)

74. Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
    (8 Oct 2021 | 1513 points | Comments)

75. I started a paper website business
    (14 Dec 2021 | 1511 points | Comments)

76. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
    (10 Jan 2021 | 1505 points | Comments)

77. The Framework Laptop is now shipping
    (23 Jul 2021 | 1502 points | Comments)

78. One Bad Apple
    (8 Aug 2021 | 1484 points | Comments)

79. 100 years of whatever this will be
    (2 Dec 2021 | 1475 points | Comments)

80. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
    (9 Aug 2021 | 1465 points | Comments)

81. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
    (19 May 2021 | 1464 points | Comments)

82. Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
    (19 Jan 2021 | 1461 points | Comments)

83. Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
    (7 Mar 2021 | 1461 points | Comments)

84. Is that ship still stuck?
    (25 Mar 2021 | 1453 points | Comments)

85. A half-hour to learn Rust
    (2 Jan 2021 | 1444 points | Comments)

86. Making the dislike count private across YouTube
    (10 Nov 2021 | 1439 points | Comments)

87. Sublime Text 4
    (21 May 2021 | 1436 points | Comments)

88. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
    (27 Jan 2021 | 1434 points | Comments)

89. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
    (3 Jun 2021 | 1426 points | Comments)

90. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
    (16 Sep 2021 | 1426 points | Comments)

91. Welcome to Libera Chat
    (19 May 2021 | 1425 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
    (25 Feb 2021 | 1422 points | Comments)

93. Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
    (10 Sep 2021 | 1420 points | Comments)

94. Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
    (24 Oct 2021 | 1417 points | Comments)

95. Dan Kaminsky has died
    (24 Apr 2021 | 1414 points | Comments)

96. YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
    (29 Sep 2021 | 1408 points | Comments)

97. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
    (3 Sep 2021 | 1401 points | Comments)

98. TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
    (1 Jan 2021 | 1400 points | Comments)

99. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
    (18 Aug 2021 | 1389 points | Comments)

100. 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
     (8 Feb 2021 | 1388 points | Comments)