Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 2,323 posts.

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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)

Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…

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We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR

This year Thinkst Canary crossed the line to $11M in ARR. That number is reasonably significant in the startup world, where Lemkin refers to it as “initial scale”. For us; it’s a happy reminder of Canary's spread into the market. $11M ARR certainly isn’t our end goal, but it provides the fuel for us to…