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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

    524 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  2. Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'

    523 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  3. Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked

    521 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  4. Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

    518 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  5. Understanding Python through its builtins

    514 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  6. Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

    514 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  7. How does apt render its fancy progress bar?

    510 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  8. About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview

    509 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  9. RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

    506 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  10. Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules

    504 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  11. Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab

    504 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  12. The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]

    503 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  13. Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching

    503 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  14. Personal Information of More Than 1.5B Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum

    502 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  15. Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

    502 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  16. First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years

    501 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  17. HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)

    499 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  18. Coinbase Breach Notification

    498 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  19. China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

    491 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  20. Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

    491 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  21. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

    489 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  22. California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in

    487 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  23. Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

    486 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  24. What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?

    483 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  25. U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income

    482 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  26. Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

    482 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  27. It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is

    481 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  28. Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

    481 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  29. CT Scan of a Pumpkin

    480 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  30. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

    479 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  31. ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier

    478 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  32. European Parliament Calls for a Ban on Facial Recognition

    477 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  33. PinePhone Pro Announced

    470 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  34. Thank HN: 7 years and $7M later, it all started right here

    466 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  35. Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility

    466 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  36. Open secrets about Hacker News

    463 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  37. How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams

    461 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  38. Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

    461 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  39. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

    461 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  40. Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI

    459 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  41. Giant, free index to world's research papers released online

    457 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  42. Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers

    457 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  43. YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

    457 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  44. Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

    456 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  45. Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

    455 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  46. Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

    452 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  47. More details about the October 4 outage

    451 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  48. 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

    450 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  49. Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds

    449 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  50. Solving NP-hard puzzles with the oldest trick in the book

    446 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  51. Writing a “bare metal” operating system for Raspberry Pi 4

    445 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  52. Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

    444 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  53. Project Gutenberg is no longer fully blocked in Germany

    442 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  54. We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers

    441 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  55. How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS

    440 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  56. Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

    439 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  57. Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed

    439 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  58. Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

    438 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  59. Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)

    438 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  60. Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings

    437 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  61. It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

    436 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  62. Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

    434 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  63. The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States

    433 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  64. Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

    431 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  65. The 100 MHz 6502

    430 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  66. macOS Monterey

    427 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  67. Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow

    427 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  68. How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

    426 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  69. L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

    426 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  70. Leaving Google

    424 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  71. Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h

    423 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  72. Bitcoin is a Ponzi

    423 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  73. Next.js 12

    423 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  74. Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux

    421 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  75. Statement from Mark Zuckerberg

    420 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  76. Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site

    420 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  77. Bash functions are better than I thought

    417 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  78. Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

    416 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  79. Get started making music

    416 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  80. AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

    416 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  81. $1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing

    415 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  82. Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin

    409 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  83. Facebook employees badges aren't working, unable to enter buildings

    409 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  84. Offline-First Database Comparison

    407 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  85. Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws

    406 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  86. Android and iOS data collection

    405 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  87. Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery

    404 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  88. Canyon.mid

    404 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  89. Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

    402 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  90. Moving Google toward the mainline

    401 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  91. An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles

    400 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  92. It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question

    400 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  93. McKinsey never told the FDA it was working for both the FDA and opioid makers

    399 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  94. Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

    399 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  95. Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

    396 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  96. Web Browser Engineering

    395 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  97. The latest campus cancellation is different

    395 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  98. Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

    394 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  99. To learn a new language, read its standard library

    392 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  100. Privacy Is a Human Right

    392 points • comment • oct 26, 2021