Hacker News time machine
899 points on this day in 2021
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI led Hacker News 5 years ago today. The biggest of all three years: “I have toyota corola”, with 1,155 points.
Updated
1,291
points for today's top story
899
top story in 2021
1,155
top story in 2016
883
top story in 2011
Then and now, rank by rank
Points of the top 10 stories on this date in each year. Tap a year to hide it.
| Point | Today | 2021 | 2016 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 1,291 | 899 | 1,155 | 883 |
| #2 | 672 | 415 | 664 | 526 |
| #3 | 447 | 409 | 499 | 481 |
| #4 | 326 | 395 | 355 | 449 |
| #5 | 284 | 390 | 343 | 345 |
| #6 | 278 | 355 | 291 | 244 |
| #7 | 214 | 341 | 280 | 240 |
| #8 | 186 | 340 | 278 | 238 |
| #9 | 179 | 274 | 276 | 215 |
| #10 | 178 | 266 | 267 | 213 |
The stories
Today
The front page right now, by points
- 11,291points
FAA issues national ground stop
nbcnews.com · by zulln · 782 comments
- 2672points
Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud
scottjg.com · by scottjg · 199 comments
- 3447points
Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)
science.org · by voxleone · 308 comments
- 4326points
AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
theguardian.com · by bookofjoe · 91 comments
- 5284points
$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX
freightwaves.com · by crescit_eundo · 162 comments
- 6278points
It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad
reddit.com · by BobaFloutist · 141 comments
- 7214points
After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models
haddyalchaer.com · by halcdev · 35 comments
- 8186points
Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped
orcasairband.com · by mmaunder · 45 comments
- 9179points
open.m-vave.com · by simonebrunozzi · 105 comments
- 10178points
A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem
discourse.haskell.org · by cosmic_quanta · 84 comments
2021
5 years ago, November 14
- 1899points
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
hackaday.com · by zdw · 303 comments
- 2415points
U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
reuters.com · by mancerayder · 248 comments
- 3409points
Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)
blog.unity.com · by darknavi · 144 comments
- 4395points
Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
github.com · by hectorm · 189 comments
- 5390points
Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves
pluralistic.net · by akaij · 245 comments
- 6355points
Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels
npr.org · by akeck · 270 comments
- 7341points
Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
forbes.com · by jitl · 223 comments
- 8340points
Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say
businessinsider.com · by evo_9 · 387 comments
- 9274points
Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS
arstechnica.com · by fahd777 · 125 comments
- 10266points
My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
abishekmuthian.com · by Abishek_Muthian · 79 comments
2016
10 years ago, November 14
- 11,155points
daniel.haxx.se · by robin_reala · 350 comments
- 2664points
msdn.microsoft.com · by runesoerensen · 413 comments
- 3499points
Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved
ballotpedia.org · by coryfklein · 316 comments
- 4355points
Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com · by scarybeast · 95 comments
- 5343points
Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
kill-the-newsletter.com · by ProfDreamer · 109 comments
- 6291points
eev.ee · by exolymph · 61 comments
- 7280points
Google’s top news link for ‘final election results’ is a fake news site
washingtonpost.com · by pessimizer · 263 comments
- 8278points
Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off
motherboard.vice.com · by qzervaas · 104 comments
- 9276points
Miles Deep – Open Source Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Deep Learning
github.com · by rightsForRobots · 96 comments
- 10267points
You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start
medium.com · by silvaben · 35 comments
2011
15 years ago, November 14
- 1883points
boingboing.net · by CodeMage · 131 comments
- 2526points
applidium.com · by nolanbrown23 · 103 comments
- 3481points
Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too
groups.google.com · by patrickaljord · 114 comments
- 4449points
InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had
instacss.com · by idan · 91 comments
- 5345points
Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's Trivial Patents and Strategy Against Android
groklaw.net · by nextparadigms · 94 comments
- 6244points
At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
nytimes.com · by ssclafani · 95 comments
- 7240points
Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square daily
thenextweb.com · by goatcurious · 127 comments
- 8238points
Isaacs: try/catch is an anti-pattern
groups.google.com · by jacobr · 136 comments
- 9215points
Massive networks of stripes appear in Chinese Desert--visible from space
slashgear.com · by learc83 · 70 comments
- 10213points
paulgraham.com · by tyn · 80 comments