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Hacker News (Sep 2021)

  1. Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America

    311 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  2. Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

    310 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  3. Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't

    310 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  4. WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation

    310 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  5. Every engineer should do a stint in consulting

    310 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  6. 17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards

    309 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  7. iPhone remains findable after power off

    309 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  8. Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?

    308 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  9. Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

    307 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  10. Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel

    304 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  11. How to Study Effectively

    303 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  12. Resource efficient Thread Pools with Zig

    300 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  13. Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)

    297 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  14. Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

    297 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  15. Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

    295 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  16. Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon

    295 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  17. How Docker broke in half

    293 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  18. The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot

    292 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  19. The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC

    292 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  20. EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones

    289 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  21. Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking

    289 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  22. Spook: Side channel attack which could read the memory from password managers

    289 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  23. GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

    289 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  24. OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B

    288 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  25. AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

    288 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  26. I tried 30 mustards this summer

    288 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  27. Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas prices soar

    287 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  28. Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

    287 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  29. Why Authorization Is Hard

    287 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  30. Rainbow Six Vegas, SWAT 4 unplayable due to disabled ad server

    286 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  31. Asynchronous Programming in C#

    286 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  32. "Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution

    286 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  33. How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go

    286 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  34. ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities

    285 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  35. The Problem of Marital Loneliness

    285 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  36. Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs

    285 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  37. TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy

    285 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  38. China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’

    284 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  39. Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)

    283 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  40. 2006: Dwarf Fortress

    283 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  41. ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company

    283 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  42. Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends

    283 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  43. Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability

    283 points • comment • sep 25, 2021

  44. Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022

    282 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  45. Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

    282 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  46. The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits

    282 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  47. The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

    281 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  48. Checkboxland

    281 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  49. Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance

    280 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  50. Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords

    280 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  51. Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck

    279 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  52. Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors

    279 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  53. I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

    277 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  54. Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023

    277 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  55. Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K 60

    277 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  56. Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England?

    276 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  57. Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim

    276 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  58. Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

    275 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  59. Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say

    273 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  60. Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?

    272 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  61. Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces

    270 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  62. A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod

    270 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  63. Russia restricts opposition election voting app

    270 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  64. Category Theory Illustrated – Logic

    269 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  65. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

    269 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  66. Fortran Web Framework

    269 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  67. MIT Mathlets

    268 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  68. OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce

    268 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  69. Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)

    267 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  70. Sci-Hub new published papers are now available

    267 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  71. AI movie posters

    267 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  72. Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker

    267 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  73. Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

    267 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  74. The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon

    267 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  75. Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10

    266 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  76. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

    266 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  77. 65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam

    266 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  78. We killed our end-to-end test suite

    266 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  79. Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

    266 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  80. Facebook under fire over secret teen research

    266 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  81. Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]

    264 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  82. DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal

    264 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  83. Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'

    264 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  84. Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

    263 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  85. AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas

    263 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  86. How to Visualize Decision Trees

    262 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  87. Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry

    262 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  88. S.Korea fines Google $177M for blocking Android customisation

    262 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  89. Ask HN: How Do You Learn?

    262 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  90. Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?

    261 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  91. Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers

    260 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  92. Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

    258 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  93. Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby

    258 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  94. Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster

    258 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  95. Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one

    258 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  96. Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)

    258 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  97. Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks

    258 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  98. Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M

    257 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  99. EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web

    256 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  100. How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defence team

    256 points • comment • sep 20, 2021