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Hacker News (Oct 2021)
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Facebook-owned sites were down
2577 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
1893 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Willingness to look stupid
1837 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
1639 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
1553 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
1469 points • comment • oct 08, 2021
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Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
1359 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
1260 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
1243 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
1233 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
1228 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
1222 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
1221 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
1192 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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This word does not exist
1156 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
1114 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Facebook Renames to Meta
1056 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
1054 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
1035 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
1000 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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The metaverse is bullshit
943 points • comment • oct 30, 2021
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Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
927 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
905 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
892 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
874 points • comment • oct 16, 2021
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Open Source Tractor
868 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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A viable solution for Python concurrency
827 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
822 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
812 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
811 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
801 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
794 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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RSS is wonderful
792 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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A patent troll backs off
786 points • comment • oct 26, 2021
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Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
782 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Overly analytical guide to escorting
781 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
770 points • comment • oct 18, 2021
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Vscode.dev
758 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites
757 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
740 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
738 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
737 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
720 points • comment • oct 28, 2021
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New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012
715 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]
710 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Phrack Issue 70
708 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
699 points • comment • oct 01, 2021
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I keep making things out of checkboxes
693 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
691 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
685 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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Beyond Smart
679 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
669 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
668 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
668 points • comment • oct 23, 2021
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E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
667 points • comment • oct 03, 2021
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Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
664 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
662 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
653 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Moths in slow motion [video]
650 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker
646 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
643 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
634 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
633 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
630 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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How to permanently delete your Facebook account
628 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
625 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
625 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
624 points • comment • oct 25, 2021
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Gitlab from YC to IPO
623 points • comment • oct 14, 2021
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It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
615 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
610 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
607 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
604 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
599 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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It takes a PhD to develop that
596 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
595 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
595 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
583 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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The Financial Times’ 404 page
572 points • comment • oct 24, 2021
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Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
572 points • comment • oct 29, 2021
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Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
572 points • comment • oct 12, 2021
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What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
570 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
568 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
563 points • comment • oct 19, 2021
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Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
562 points • comment • oct 04, 2021
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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
557 points • comment • oct 22, 2021
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Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
557 points • comment • oct 31, 2021
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Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks
556 points • comment • oct 21, 2021
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Roger Hui has died
555 points • comment • oct 17, 2021
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Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less
549 points • comment • oct 07, 2021
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Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
544 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
539 points • comment • oct 13, 2021
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HN 15 Years ago
539 points • comment • oct 09, 2021
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Open Source Tax Software
539 points • comment • oct 05, 2021
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The naughty username checking system used by Twitch
538 points • comment • oct 06, 2021
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We analyzed 425k favicons
537 points • comment • oct 20, 2021
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Nomad vs. Kubernetes
536 points • comment • oct 15, 2021
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Jörg Schilling has died
528 points • comment • oct 11, 2021
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GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
528 points • comment • oct 27, 2021
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Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
525 points • comment • oct 30, 2021