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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer

    48 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  2. Everyone used to raise hogs (2016)

    48 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  3. Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

    48 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  4. Guantanamo Bay frees mistaken Karachi taxi driver after 17 years

    47 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  5. Hiawatha Webserver

    47 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  6. I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop

    47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  7. The Link Between Wandering and Sleeping Minds

    47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  8. Nearly half of toys from third-party online sellers found to be dangerous

    47 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  9. Brain implant may lift most severe depression

    47 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  10. Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language

    47 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  11. Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century

    47 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  12. PS3 Emulator Will Now Boot Every Game Ever Released on the Console

    47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  13. Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

    47 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  14. VoloDrone Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone Makes First Public Flight

    47 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  15. Why return to the office if you’re just Zooming all day anyway?

    47 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  16. Is Your Brain Wired for Numbers?

    47 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  17. Dead-End SF Street Plagued with Confused Waymo Cars Trying to Turn Around

    47 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  18. Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent

    47 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  19. RIP Jörg Schilling, cdrtools author

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  20. Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers

    47 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  21. Open-source economics is not what you think

    47 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  22. Show HN: Strange Attractor on an Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi Pico

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  23. A day with the squirrel hawkers of East Texas

    47 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  24. My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

    47 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  25. Show HN: StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions

    47 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  26. Coaching Paradox

    47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  27. Propositional logic exercises with the lean theorem prover

    47 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  28. Exosuit Designed in Woodruff School Helps with Awkward Lifts

    47 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  29. Man spent $150 eating every meal at Six Flags since 2014 to pay off student debt

    47 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  30. Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors

    47 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  31. A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook

    47 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  32. AWS Communism: How we cut our Load Balancing cost by more than 96%

    47 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  33. Heuristics to Ensure Your Team is on The Same Page

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  34. Show HN: Omnino, a windowing system for web apps, inspired by the Acme editor

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  35. Secretive: An app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  36. The Original Microcell

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  37. Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon

    46 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  38. US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  39. Alibaba has lost $344B market cap in the past year

    46 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  40. Tech Jobs Are Everywhere Now

    46 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  41. Casual Raiding and Deliberate Learning (2015)

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  42. Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California

    46 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  43. Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)

    46 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  44. Meteorology student submits Masters thesis, gets PhD

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  45. Raya and the Promise of Private Social Media

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to switch companies every few year?

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  47. MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me

    46 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  48. Show HN: Dev's Full Stack Nightmare (an accurate representation)

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  49. I Spent Weeks Converting This Go Kart to Electric [video]

    46 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  50. You Are Jeff Bezos

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  51. What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility)

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  52. 2021 MacBook Pro review: Yep, it’s what you’ve been waiting for

    46 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  53. Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science

    46 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  54. Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem (2012) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  55. Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change

    46 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  56. “Progress” by Aldous Huxley (1928)

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  57. A Prototype Original iPod

    46 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  58. Hertz Orders 100k Teslas

    46 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  59. Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private Web Attestation with Multi-Vendor Hardware

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  60. A River Reawakened

    46 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  61. 78% of the Web Powered by PHP

    46 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  62. The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  63. Some thoughts on asynchronous API design in a post-async/await world (2016)

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  64. Glimmer DSL for LibUI – Simplest Native Cross-Platform GUI Library

    45 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  65. There Is No Shortage of Reasons for the Broken Supply Chain

    45 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  66. Coinbase user lost $11.6M in 10 minutes, falling for a fake-notification

    45 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  67. Why this Website is not, and may never be, HTTPS

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  68. Cortical Column Networks

    45 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  69. Meta shares jump on name-change news, but it's a Canadian materials company

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  70. Aspirin About-Face

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  71. I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.com with low code

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  72. Ask HN: Unplugging

    45 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  73. Yorkshire gang's Game Boy device could unlock car in seconds

    45 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  74. Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays

    45 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  75. An update of 455 new words

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  76. Tesla FSD Beta Barely Avoids Crashing into Pole

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  77. The Nernst Lamp

    45 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  78. A pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time

    45 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  79. High-Level Synthesis for RISC-V

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  80. G7 finance officials endorse principles for central bank digital currencies

    45 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  81. Rewriting Go source code with AST tooling

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  82. Ask HN: A US programmer makes 3 times that of a EU programmer. Why?

    44 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  83. Earn.com will ruin email if it succeeds (2018)

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  84. Just Ask for Generalization

    44 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  85. Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet

    44 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  86. Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust? (2018) [video]

    44 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  87. Europol investigation busts 150 'high value' darknet vendors

    44 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  88. Nonconsenting prisoners are the source of many organ transplantations in China

    44 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  89. Remove the Notch

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  90. Show HN: Shadergarden: Create reloadable graphical pipelines with Lisp and GLSL

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  91. Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  92. Jon Ingold on translating archeology into video games

    44 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  93. Show HN: MistQL, a mini-language for querying JSON-like structures

    44 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  94. Anthony Levandowski to Larry Page: Google's self-driving project is broken (2016)

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  95. GitHub Removes GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC Following New Take-Two DMCA Notice

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  96. Gas-powered leaf blowers: the most polluting machinery still in legal use

    44 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  97. The Fairchild Channel F: First and Finest?

    44 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  98. Policing of foreign tech investment in the US is broken

    44 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  99. How to Fire Frank Lloyd Wright

    44 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  100. Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

    44 points • comment • oct 14, 2021