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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. 34% of white college students lied about their race to improve admission chance

    61 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  2. Abusing Terraform to Upload Static Websites to S3

    61 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  3. Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

    61 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  4. Binance just transferred 6B Tethers to an unknown address

    61 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  5. Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main instance

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  6. Adventures in Category Theory – The algebra of types (2018)

    61 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  7. Find images from movies based on what you draw

    60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  8. How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats

    60 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  9. Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020

    60 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  10. Unsolved Problems in ML Safety

    60 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  11. Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved

    60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  12. Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?

    60 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  13. On Slow Writing

    60 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  14. Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed

    60 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  15. Fraidycat

    60 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  16. Software for Math Research

    60 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  17. Dangerous Logging in Swift

    60 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  18. National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change [pdf]

    60 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  19. FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology

    60 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  20. Reactive, DAG-based notebooks in Hex 2.0

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  21. Internet Communities: Otters vs. Possums (2017)

    60 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  22. Starting in 2017, Facebook treated emoji reactions as more valuable than likes

    60 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  23. Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  24. [Resolved] GitHub is returning 500 for all requests

    60 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  25. Slack LaTeX

    60 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  26. Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  27. Self-Optimizing A/B Tests

    60 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  28. The Windows 3.1 Virtual Machine Control Block Part 1 (1994)

    59 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  29. Ask HN: Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?

    59 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  30. Python 3.10

    59 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  31. The Trouble with Checked Exceptions (2003)

    59 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  32. C++ is faster and safer than Rust

    59 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  33. Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG

    59 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  34. Self-driving Citroën Skate carries swappable pods for inner-city travel

    59 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  35. SUVs are offsetting EV car gains

    59 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  36. After 3.5M-year hiatus, largest comet ever discovered is headed our way

    59 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  37. The brain processes speech in parallel with other sounds

    59 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  38. APL Compiler Based on Tail (Typed Array Intermediate Language)

    59 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  39. Is my Facebook activity fucking my finances?

    59 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  40. Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills

    59 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  41. The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs

    59 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  42. The Venus Project

    59 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  43. Watering and draining planets – math and data

    59 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  44. Toyota unveils its first all-electric car: the bZ4X

    59 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  45. Run Your Favorite 8-Bit Games on an ESP32 (2020)

    59 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  46. The New Timescale Cloud

    59 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  47. Manifold: Java typesafe metaprogramming with IDE support by abusing the compiler

    59 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  48. A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men (2007)

    59 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  49. Motorist fined after CCTV confuses his number plate with woman’s T-shirt

    58 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  50. Quantum Annealing opens a new door to Simulation Hypothesis

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  51. Blue Origin employees say they wouldn't feel safe riding the company's rockets

    58 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  52. Intel said it didn't consider UK for new chip-making factory because of Brexit

    58 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  53. Do Dev Careers Die at 35?

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  54. Conflict-free replicated datatypes solve distributed data consistency challenges

    58 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  55. Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses

    58 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  56. Foreign money floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted

    58 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

    58 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  58. LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents

    58 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  59. VirtualMEC – a free 3D CAD for MECCANO

    58 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  60. GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers [pdf]

    58 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  61. EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing

    58 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  62. Radio Station WWV

    58 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  63. Why Are American Houses So Flimsy and Poorly Built?

    58 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  64. What does Google think minimum wage is?

    58 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  65. Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained

    58 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  66. Publisher copies our app icon and Google Play removes us for impersonation

    57 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  67. Ivermectin shows that not all science is worth following

    57 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  68. U.S. regulators exploring how banks could hold Bitcoin – FDIC Chairman

    57 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  69. Blamer.el: A Git blame plugin for Emacs inspired by VS Code’s GitLens plugin

    57 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  70. The Kodak Brownie changed privacy rights

    57 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  71. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  72. Roblox Service Disruption

    57 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  73. The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary objects as too special to use

    57 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  74. Old Mouse Dot Com

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  75. List of IEEE Milestones

    57 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  76. Amiga 68000 Hardware Assembly Programming [video]

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  77. V8 Release v9.6

    57 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  78. Chinese live streamer does $2bn of sales in one day

    57 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  79. We set up an offshore company in a tax haven

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  80. Chicken and Egg Problem (2000)

    57 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  81. This Real Estate Bubble Won't Pop

    57 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  82. Comparing AWS's RDS and PlanetScale

    57 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  83. Space-Related Applications of Forth (1998)

    57 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  84. Old towns eager for new blood sell Italy homes for $1

    57 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  85. Perfect Numbers (1983)

    57 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  86. Harden and secure browsers in containers, with GUI

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  87. The internet isn’t buying Robinhood’s GameStop story

    57 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  88. When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for Halloween

    57 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  89. Improving the New York Times’ line wrap balancer

    57 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  90. What is the unit of a text column number?

    57 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  91. Incorrect Lift Theory

    56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  92. Finding Complex Metal Oxides for Technology Advancement

    56 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  93. Tesla’s Texas Move Is Latest Sign of California Losing Tech Grip

    56 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  94. My own personal AWS S3 bucket

    56 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  95. We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust

    56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  96. Lavish wealth tolerated more for individuals than groups

    56 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  97. Attacked from Within (2009)

    56 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  98. GCHQ award spy agencies cloud contract to AWS

    56 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  99. Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (1997)

    56 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  100. Gtk4 Tutorial

    56 points • comment • oct 21, 2021