Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224117 - Feb 2021 (50 comments)
Talking is throwing fictional worlds at one another - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468639 - Sept 2020 (42 comments)
A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21030971 - Sept 2019 (53 comments)
‘Anumeric’ people: when a language has no words for numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697453 - July 2017 (42 comments)
Grammar isn't merely part of language (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615273 - Feb 2017 (68 comments)
Chomsky, Wolfe and me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378341 - Jan 2017 (33 comments)
Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511631 - Sept 2016 (36 comments)
Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12450033 - Sept 2016 (95 comments)
Tom Wolfe tries to take down Darwin and Chomsky - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12402713 - Sept 2016 (12 comments)
The Chomsky Puzzle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12367289 - Aug 2016 (78 comments)
There is no language instinct (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612447 - Nov 2015 (30 comments)
MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10016052 - Aug 2015 (94 comments)
Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8772388 - Dec 2014 (30 comments)
What happens when a language has no numbers? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6569989 - Oct 2013 (53 comments)
Language may shape human thought - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2812011 - July 2011 (25 comments)
Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033741 - Jan 2010 (39 comments)
How does language shape the way we think? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804101 - Sept 2009 (1 comment)
Pirahã defies Chomsky's theory of universal grammar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740687 - Aug 2009 (6 comments)
Recursion and human thought - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283678 - Aug 2008 (6 comments)
MIT-led team finds language without numbers (update to earlier studies on the Piraha) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246459 - July 2008 (2 comments)
Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha Don't Have Numbers (quicktime video) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61237 - Sept 2007 (1 comment)
Btw, there are a ton more of these; the above are just the ones that got comments.