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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. The Structure of a Stand-Up Comedy (2018)

    152 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  2. Show HN: OtterTune – Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres

    152 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  3. Penguin is no longer the owner of the copyright to The Tao of Pooh

    152 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  4. UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube

    152 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  5. The next generation of AirPods

    152 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  6. Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)

    152 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  7. Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29

    152 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  8. The great executive-employee disconnect

    152 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  9. The SaaS Metrics That Matter

    152 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  10. Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash

    152 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  11. Intermittent fasting in mice improves long-term memory retention

    152 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  12. Knowledge Graphs

    152 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  13. Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment

    151 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  14. Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap

    151 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  15. We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work (2006)

    151 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  16. Sunset Geometry (2016)

    150 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  17. After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS

    150 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  18. Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award

    150 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  19. Pentium on a 386 Motherboard

    150 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  20. Project SPHINX – When the USSR tried to change the computer (2019)

    150 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  21. What Happened to Treehouse?

    150 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  22. Human History Gets a Rewrite

    150 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  23. After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep

    149 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  24. Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]

    149 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  25. Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

    149 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  26. The Problem with Macros

    149 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  27. It feels like America is running out of everything

    149 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  28. M1 Inside a G4 Sunflower iMac

    149 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  29. How PHP Opcache Works

    149 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  30. Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling

    149 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  31. Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks

    149 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  32. The Hidden Costs of Living Alone

    149 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  33. Financial Secrecy Index

    148 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  34. Why Lisp? (2015)

    148 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  35. Show HN: Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast

    148 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  36. Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19

    148 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  37. FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh

    148 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  38. Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang

    148 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  39. LLVM 13.0

    148 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  40. The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)

    147 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  41. The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images

    147 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  42. Launch HN: Rainforest QA (YC S12) – No-Code UI Test Automation

    147 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  43. Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)

    147 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  44. Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?

    147 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  45. Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms

    147 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  46. Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2

    147 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  47. Facebook Recruiter Correspondence

    147 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  48. Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996) [pdf]

    146 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  49. Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises

    146 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  50. Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists

    146 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  51. For a legally blind player, Far Cry 6’s accessibility options are empowering

    146 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  52. Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing

    146 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  53. Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

    146 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  54. Prague's Brutalist Buildings

    145 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  55. Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla

    145 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  56. Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system

    145 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  57. Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance

    145 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  58. Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan

    145 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  59. “Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful

    145 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  60. History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]

    145 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  61. ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    144 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  62. Pioneering work that has changed our understanding of migraines

    144 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  63. Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis

    144 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  64. This Sneaker Does Not Exist

    144 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  65. Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir

    143 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  66. Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects in Multicore OCaml

    143 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  67. A proposal for adding a pipe operator to JavaScript

    143 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  68. QNTM on memes, anti-memes, and knowledge that doesn't want to be shared

    143 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  69. Chevron wins case to jail lawyer Steven Donziger

    143 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  70. A Love Letter to Ruby and Rails

    143 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  71. How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem

    142 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  72. The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters

    142 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  73. Constitution Grove – the Navy’s White Oak Forest on a High Tech Base (2020)

    142 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  74. Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe

    142 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  75. Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year

    142 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  76. Amazon Corretto JDK

    142 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  77. Fake shutters make me angry (2018)

    141 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  78. Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers

    141 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  79. Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp

    141 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  80. Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?

    141 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  81. Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha

    141 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  82. Adventuron – Text Adventure Authoring in the Browser

    141 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  83. YubiKey Bio Series

    141 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  84. Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad (2020)

    141 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  85. Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement

    141 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  86. Grand mosaic of the Milky Way is now larger than ever

    141 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  87. Xorg-Server 21.1.0

    141 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  88. Ephemeralization

    140 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  89. ‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm

    140 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  90. Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript

    140 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  91. Seattle Votes to Decriminalize Psilocybin and Similar Substances

    140 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  92. Turing Complete is a game about computer science

    140 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  93. Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then talk back

    140 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  94. Freqfs: In-memory filesystem cache for Rust

    139 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  95. Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging

    139 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  96. Photos from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate ancient flash floods on Mars

    139 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  97. Helium: South Africa strikes new 'gold'

    139 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  98. No YAML

    139 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  99. Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location

    139 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  100. Spork: Peer-to-peer socket magic in the air

    139 points • comment • oct 19, 2021