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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take

    87 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  2. AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence

    87 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  3. End of the line for Japan's only all-double-decker 'Max' E4 series bullet train

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  4. The economics of pumpkin patches

    86 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  5. Big Ball of Mud (1999)

    86 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  6. Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?

    86 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  7. Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018)

    86 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  8. JShelter – An anti-malware browser extension

    86 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  9. New features coming in Julia 1.7

    86 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  10. Facebook Outage Increased Developer Throughput by 32%

    86 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  11. Demo of a WAM Prolog Implementation in Python

    86 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  12. How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean

    86 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  13. The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids

    86 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  14. Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, hello Babelfish

    86 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  15. Unconventional Sorting Algorithms

    85 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  16. A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub

    85 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  17. SQL for Distributed Systems

    85 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  18. The Cutting Room Floor

    85 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  19. Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup

    85 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  20. Fast rebases with git-move

    85 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  21. Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again

    85 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  22. Ozy Media Says It Is Shutting Down

    85 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  23. iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video]

    85 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  24. Pull Requests vs. Pair Programming

    85 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  25. US Justice Department Launches a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

    85 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  26. The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)

    85 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  27. Analogue OS – Explore video game history

    85 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  28. Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation

    85 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  29. How Debian cron handles DST transitions

    85 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  30. 10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes

    85 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  31. How Animals Map 3D Spaces Surprises Brain Researchers

    85 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  32. Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners

    85 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  33. History of Mathematics Project

    85 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  34. One Typed Page

    85 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  35. Decades of disinformation by fossil fuels halted US climate policy

    85 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  36. Self-driving Waymo cars clog up dead-end San Francisco street

    84 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  37. Self Destructing Plastics via Embedded Enzymes

    84 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  38. Swapchains and Frame Pacing

    84 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  39. Cryptocurrency mining using integrated photonics

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  40. Tesla Q3 2021 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  41. A λ-calculus interpreter written in C preprocessor macros

    84 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  42. The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars

    84 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  43. Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All over Neolithic Britain

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  44. Trump's social media platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon

    84 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  45. I Was a Facebook Fact-Checker (2019)

    84 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  46. What's the best SaaS starter kit?

    83 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  47. The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  48. Fun with Nano Server

    83 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  49. TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

    83 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  50. The Rolling Stones’ studio receipt for recording ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘Brown Sugar’

    83 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  51. Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues

    83 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  52. You Already Know Formal Methods

    83 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  53. Online GIF Tools – Simple, free and easy to use GIF utilities

    83 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  54. Merge YJIT: an in-process JIT compiler

    83 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  55. 30 days ago I was an Apple employee

    83 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  56. Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

    83 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  57. Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test

    83 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  58. What if performance advertising isn't just an analytics scam?

    83 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  59. The Plague of the Poor

    83 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  60. Hegel Today

    83 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  61. Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust

    83 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  62. Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results

    82 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  63. Why Mathematics is Boring (2007) [pdf]

    82 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  64. The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text

    82 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  65. The Metaverse Is Bullshit

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  66. Bugs in Our Pockets?

    82 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  67. Kyoto – Build Front End with Golang

    82 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  68. Audio tape interface revives microcassettes as storage medium

    82 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  69. Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript (2019)

    82 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  70. Prosecutors uncover money-laundering operation between US and Dubai

    82 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  71. The brain as a universal learning machine (2015)

    82 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  72. Rich Salz to OpenSSL: Please change your mind

    82 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  73. Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector

    82 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  74. Stgi: A visual STG implementation to understand GHC/Haskell's execution model

    81 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  75. React Internals (2017)

    81 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  76. Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap

    81 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  77. New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers

    81 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  78. Vimconf 2021 – Oct 29, 30

    81 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  79. UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media

    81 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  80. Builder Pattern in Rust

    81 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  81. Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist

    81 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  82. Little Big Adventure series source code released

    81 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  83. How to design in every language at once

    81 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  84. Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir

    81 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  85. Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?

    81 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  86. Elite MBAs are no Longer Relevant

    81 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  87. MTA tests new subway map that evokes jettisoned 1972 version

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  88. A study of data collection by Android devices

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  89. How to Calculate the Trappiest Openings in Chess Using Stats

    81 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  90. Where transcendental numbers hide in everyday math

    81 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  91. Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

    81 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  92. The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes

    80 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  93. Ada is not just another programming language (1986)

    80 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  94. The Benefits of Iframe Based Development

    80 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  95. Poincaré, Heisenberg, Gödel and the limits of scientific knowledge

    80 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  96. Venture Fund Model

    80 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  97. Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch

    80 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  98. The Reemergence of Style in Software

    80 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  99. Facebook misled investors about its reach, whistleblower tells SEC

    80 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  100. Virtually no one left to vaccinate in Portugal: 98% of those eligible vaccinated

    80 points • comment • oct 03, 2021