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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Facebook-owned sites were down

    2577 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  2. IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

    1893 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  3. Willingness to look stupid

    1837 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  4. MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

    1639 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  5. Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

    1553 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  6. Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

    1469 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  7. Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

    1359 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  8. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

    1260 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  9. Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

    1243 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  10. Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

    1233 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  11. Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

    1228 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  12. 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz

    1222 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  13. Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

    1221 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  14. Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

    1192 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  15. This word does not exist

    1156 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  16. Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

    1114 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  17. Facebook Renames to Meta

    1056 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  18. NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

    1054 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  19. Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

    1035 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  20. Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31

    1000 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  21. The metaverse is bullshit

    943 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  22. Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

    927 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  23. Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

    905 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  24. EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

    892 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  25. Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

    874 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  26. Open Source Tractor

    868 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  27. A viable solution for Python concurrency

    827 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  28. I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

    822 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  29. The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

    812 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  30. Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices

    811 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  31. Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

    801 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  32. John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

    794 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  33. RSS is wonderful

    792 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  34. A patent troll backs off

    786 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  35. Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    782 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  36. Overly analytical guide to escorting

    781 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  37. AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

    770 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  38. Vscode.dev

    758 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  39. NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites

    757 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  40. The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription

    740 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  41. Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

    738 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  42. Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

    737 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  43. What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?

    720 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  44. New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012

    715 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  45. Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]

    710 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  46. Phrack Issue 70

    708 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  47. Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

    699 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  48. I keep making things out of checkboxes

    693 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  49. Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]

    691 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  50. An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion

    685 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  51. Beyond Smart

    679 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  52. Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

    669 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  53. Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan

    668 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  54. Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

    668 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  55. E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi

    667 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  56. Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler

    664 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  57. Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return

    662 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  58. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021

    653 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  59. Moths in slow motion [video]

    650 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  60. Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

    646 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  61. Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

    643 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  62. Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office

    634 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  63. Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined

    633 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  64. Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

    630 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  65. How to permanently delete your Facebook account

    628 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  66. Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement

    625 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  67. Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health

    625 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  68. WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers

    624 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  69. Gitlab from YC to IPO

    623 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  70. It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

    615 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  71. Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting

    610 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  72. Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

    607 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  73. Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

    604 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  74. Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

    599 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  75. It takes a PhD to develop that

    596 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  76. Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

    595 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  77. Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)

    595 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  78. Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

    583 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  79. The Financial Times’ 404 page

    572 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  80. Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

    572 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  81. Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript

    572 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  82. What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

    570 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  83. Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

    568 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  84. Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

    563 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  85. Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge

    562 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  86. Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused

    557 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  87. Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?

    557 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  88. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

    556 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  89. Roger Hui has died

    555 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  90. Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less

    549 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  91. Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party

    544 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  92. Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands

    539 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  93. HN 15 Years ago

    539 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  94. Open Source Tax Software

    539 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  95. The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

    538 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  96. We analyzed 425k favicons

    537 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  97. Nomad vs. Kubernetes

    536 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  98. Jörg Schilling has died

    528 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  99. GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

    528 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  100. Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player

    525 points • comment • oct 30, 2021