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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. Security researcher penalised $3750 by Facebook for verifying vulnerability

    38 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  2. Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but it does – Investigation

    38 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  3. Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab

    38 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  4. Spread of Delta variant driven by both immune escape and increased infectivity

    38 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  5. The Silicon Carbide Race Begins

    38 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  6. Tree-ring dating of musical instruments

    38 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  7. Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV

    38 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  8. Amazon reaches agreement with trade unions in Italy

    38 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  9. Declassified FBI Report Reveals Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hijackers

    38 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  10. 2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America

    38 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  11. Japan’s deep connection to childish relationships (2019)

    38 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  12. Binary Banshees and Digital Demons

    38 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  13. Drum Juggling

    38 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  14. Tesla offers ‘Full Self-Driving’ option, prompting criticism from regulators

    38 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  15. Coinbase Gets a Wells Notice

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  16. Big data in the age of the telegraph

    38 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  17. Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired

    38 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  18. Welcome to Speed Week and a Waitless Internet

    37 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  19. An Austrian communications professor who hunts plagiarists

    37 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  20. Pirating GPL Software

    37 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  21. Facebook denies having '2 systems of justice' for users after WSJ report

    37 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  22. Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies with a Single Video

    37 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  23. Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers

    37 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  24. One giant leap for tortoise-kind

    37 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  25. PS4 Emulator for Linux Now Plays Hundreds of Games

    37 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  26. I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

    37 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  27. Piracy Is Progressive Taxation (2002)

    37 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  28. Now You Can Probably Afford That Device You Longed for a Decade Ago

    37 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  29. Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender

    37 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  30. The Met commissioner: Tech giants make it impossible to stop terrorists

    37 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  31. Become a Copenhagen Suborbitals Supporter

    37 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  32. MLP-Mixer: An All-MLP Architecture for Vision

    37 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  33. Banning Airbnb considered as housing crisis bites in coastal towns

    37 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  34. Reading Rituals

    37 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  35. This implanted microchip may one day control your sleep

    37 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  36. Inferno OS source code was released under open source license

    37 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  37. A primer on the OpenAI API – Part 1

    37 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  38. Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf]

    37 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  39. Skia Shaders in Compose Desktop

    37 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  40. You Need a Personal Laptop

    37 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  41. Facebook Sunglasses – No Thanks

    37 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  42. Ask HN: Are you terrified of Plaid’s account verification approach?

    37 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  43. Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik

    37 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  44. Dark Patterns That Mislead Consumers Are All over the Internet

    36 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  45. California unemployment claims rocket higher, worst in five months

    36 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  46. Textdistance: Compute distance between sequences with 30 algorithms

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  47. Loda-lang – language, computational model, and OEIS miner

    36 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  48. The Changing Venture Landscape

    36 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  49. Steam Deck: “The Start of a Golden Age for Linux Gaming”

    36 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  50. Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks

    36 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  51. A Convivial Chap Led Easily Astray: On G. K. Chesterton

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  52. Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban

    36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  53. What happened to construction productivity? Part 1: Measurement

    36 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  54. Fake it till you make it: Review of “Index, A History of the”

    36 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  55. Dataset of Linus Torvalds' rants ranked by hate

    36 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  56. Teams' Linux client keeps recording after call

    36 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  57. The Future of Weight Loss

    36 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  58. How JavaScript works: class static blocks and 6 proposed semantics

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  59. Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  60. Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  61. Rust 2021 Celebration and Thanks

    36 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  62. Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2B WhatsApp Users

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  63. Predictor of learning to code is language aptitude – not math/cognitive ability

    36 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  64. The case of the curious commit message

    36 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  65. Turning the Labor Shortage Up to 11

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  66. Man who unlocked 1.9M AT&T phones sentenced to 12 years in prison

    36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  67. Public Comment on Inflation Measurement

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  68. Moral Majority Media Strikes Again

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  69. Diving into “Ghost Ships of the Baltic Sea”

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  70. Ask HN: Best books on modern distributed systems

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  71. Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools

    36 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  72. Ay Chavrusa, Ay Meesusa

    36 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  73. Patterns of Legacy Displacement

    36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  74. How to Interview Engineers (2020)

    36 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  75. Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed over the Philippines

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  76. Predicting Your Area's Election Results Based on Cracker Barrel and Whole Foods

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  77. Gödel's Disjunction [video]

    36 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  78. Intel is adding subscription-based feature switches to chips

    36 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  79. Amazon abruptly banned Washington state treat-maker Chukar Cherries

    36 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  80. Hospital staff must swear off Tylenol, Tums to get religious vaccine exemption

    36 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  81. Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller

    36 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  82. Face ID stops working if you replace the iPhone 13 screen with 3rd-party repair

    36 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  83. Alibaba to invest $15.5B for “common prosperity”

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  84. The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop

    36 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  85. Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

    35 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  86. Don't insult me with your pricing (2019)

    35 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  87. Blue Origin is a ‘toxic’ workplace, some current and ex-workers claim in essay

    35 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  88. Ask HN: What’s the server architecture of Hacker News?

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  89. Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android]

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  90. Medical debt plays a role in a majority of Oregon bankruptcy filings

    35 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  91. Show HN: FINLO - Stock tracking & research tools built by retail investors

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  92. Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in prison

    35 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  93. iPhone 13 announced with redesigned camera array and smaller notch

    35 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  94. Show HN: React Oxide: open source ReactJS code editor with tabs, files & webDAV.

    35 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  95. Staggering US wealth inequality heaps long-term harm on to minority children

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  96. Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19

    35 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  97. Tesla finds loophole to New Mexico’s ban by launching on tribal land

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  98. Docker compatible open source: Containerd nerdctl

    35 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  99. Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger

    35 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  100. Applications of Randomness in Systems Performance Measurement [pdf]

    35 points • comment • sep 30, 2021