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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

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

    139 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  2. Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging

    139 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  3. FOSDEM 2022 will be online

    138 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  4. Free resources to promote your next startup

    138 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  5. SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale

    138 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  6. Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10

    137 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  7. What do people want in a co-founder?

    137 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  8. Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950

    137 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  9. After a decade as Apple’s assistant, Siri still hasn’t figured out the job

    137 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  10. Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system

    137 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  11. Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership

    137 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  12. Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floor yields hours of video

    137 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  13. Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

    137 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  14. Show HN: Datree (YC W20): Prevent K8s misconfigurations from reaching production

    137 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  15. Live Not by Lies (1974)

    136 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  16. ‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups

    136 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  17. Back to EU

    136 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  18. Containers vs. pods – taking a deeper look

    136 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  19. The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (2015)

    136 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  20. Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for murder?

    136 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  21. Show HN: IndiePaper – An easy way to write and sell self-published books

    136 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  22. Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

    136 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  23. Beware Centralization

    135 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  24. Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

    135 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  25. Simple Code, High Performance [video]

    135 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  26. Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing

    135 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  27. Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health

    135 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  28. Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working. what is your life like?

    135 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  29. A dependently typed language for proofs that you can implement in one day

    134 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  30. Wg-access-server: An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web UI

    134 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  31. Strike Date Set for 60k Film and Television Workers

    134 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  32. Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings

    134 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  33. Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent

    133 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  34. Lots to See in Firefox 93

    133 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  35. Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next

    133 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  36. Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot

    133 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  37. Bonhoeffer on Stupidity

    133 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  38. Android 12

    133 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  39. 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction

    133 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  40. Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill

    133 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  41. Seashells: Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time

    132 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  42. The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. We Hope It Does

    132 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  43. Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth

    132 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  44. Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021

    132 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  45. For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Harder to Ignore

    132 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  46. Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company

    132 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  47. Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes

    132 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  48. Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

    132 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  49. Android Apps on Windows 11

    132 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  50. Signed integers are asymmetrical

    132 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  51. Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

    132 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  52. Why Japan Looks the Way It Does: Zoning [video]

    131 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  53. Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?

    131 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  54. Crypto CEO threatens customers after mistakenly sending them millions

    131 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  55. Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content

    131 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  56. FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming

    131 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  57. Watermelons

    131 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  58. Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad

    131 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  59. Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better

    131 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  60. Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's

    131 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  61. Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands

    130 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  62. WWII ships from Battle of Iwo Jima raised by volcanic activity, seismic shifts

    130 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  63. Show HN: Made a web app to read a book carefully, paragraph by paragraph

    130 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  64. We are seeing continued DDoS attacks against our infrastructure

    130 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  65. Show HN: Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course

    130 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  66. How South Dakota has become a global tax haven

    130 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  67. Some tech founders are getting huge pay packages

    130 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  68. Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature

    129 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  69. Facebook harms its users because that’s where its profits are

    129 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  70. Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget about her VC enablers

    129 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  71. Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet

    129 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  72. Show HN: Sending and Receiving SMS via APRS (VHF Amateur Radio)

    129 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  73. My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

    129 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  74. Git as a Storage

    129 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  75. Notation as a Tool of Thought (1986) [pdf]

    129 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  76. Polyhedra Viewer: Visualize relationships between convex regular-faced polyhedra

    129 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  77. You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly

    129 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  78. Employees given three months to return to Facebook office

    128 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  79. Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record

    128 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  80. Facebook's Novi wallet hits trouble as two top engineers depart

    128 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  81. Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss

    128 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  82. Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill

    128 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  83. Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)

    128 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  84. Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism

    128 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  85. Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging

    128 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  86. Building an Emacs Lisp VM in Rust

    127 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  87. Tadayuki Watanabe disproved a major conjecture about spheres

    127 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  88. RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

    127 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  89. Ad Astra: The coming battle over space

    127 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  90. Facebook Political Problems

    127 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  91. Don't write bugs

    127 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  92. IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration [video]

    126 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  93. Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments

    126 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  94. Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]

    126 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  95. What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020)

    126 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  96. Waterfox Browser

    126 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  97. A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)

    126 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  98. All Atari Games

    126 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  99. Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden)

    126 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  100. Privacy Redirect: Redirects browser requests to privacy-friendly alternatives

    125 points • comment • oct 18, 2021