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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Just Ask for Generalization

    44 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  2. Meta buys Within, the studio behind VR fitness app Supernatural

    44 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  3. America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter

    44 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  4. The Fairchild Channel F: First and Finest?

    44 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  5. Hello (Bonjour) from Your Friendly TV Translator

    44 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  6. NYT Rectracts Number of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19 (From 900K to 63K)

    44 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  7. Open Letter of Solidarity with the University of Sussex from UK Philosophers

    44 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  8. Discuss: Google Cloud Spanner adds a PostgreSQL interface

    44 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  10. A man who takes 6 months of paternity is a loser – Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

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

    44 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  12. U.S. crude oil price tops $80 a barrel, the highest since 2014

    44 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  13. A Bitcoin Mining Operation Started a Secret Power Plant, It Did Not Go as Plannd

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  14. NPM Is Down

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  15. Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products

    43 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  16. A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

    43 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  17. Why Network Engineers Should Learn Go

    43 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  18. Online meetings are levelling the office playing field

    43 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  19. Jack Dorsey says Square is ‘considering’ building a Bitcoin mining system

    43 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  20. Characterization of bacteria and fungi associated with the ISS' surfaces (2019)

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  21. SpaceX becomes the second-ever unicorn company to reach a $100B valuation

    43 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  22. What’s New in F# 6

    43 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  23. Royal Families

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  24. Democratising the Right to Laziness

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  25. 40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months

    43 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  26. A tutorial on the principles of fault tolerance (1987) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  27. Firefox Wayland Development in 2021

    43 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  28. Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  29. Your sex toy might be spying on you

    43 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  30. Who's taking over PCem development?

    43 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  31. A Cool Customer

    43 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  32. It costs $438k to jail one person for one year at Rikers Island

    43 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  33. Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets

    43 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  34. Coinbase Digital Asset Policy Proposal

    43 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  35. Advanced Uniflow Steam Engine

    43 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  36. Show HN: Python library to overload functions based on interpreter version

    43 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  37. How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ahead of Jan. 6

    43 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  38. Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first

    43 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  39. Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)

    43 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  40. A Computer in the Game of Life (2020)

    42 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  41. The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn't go to college

    42 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  42. FTC Report – A Look at What ISPs Know About You [pdf]

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  43. Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide

    42 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  44. Fossil fuels may be responsible for twice as many deaths as first thought

    42 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  45. Android’s Bluetooth latency needs a serious overhaul

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  46. The Ideal Economy

    42 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  47. A cactus that came back from being endangered

    42 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  48. Interpol Weaponized by Governments Seeking to Hunt Down Critics and Activists

    42 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  49. Potato Toys (1931)

    42 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  50. Generating relocatable code for ARM processors

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  51. Complex Systems: A Physicist's Viewpoint (G. Parisi)

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  52. Covid vaccine makers brace for a variant worse than Delta

    42 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  53. More Than Half a Million Health Care Workers Quit Their Jobs in August

    42 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  54. The promise of pills that do nothing

    42 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  55. The ‘semi-rich’: Millions of high-income Americans may not feel wealthy but are

    42 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  56. Captured, Killed, Compromised: CIA Admits Losing Dozens of Informants

    42 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  57. Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  58. Is Nim a Transpiler?

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  59. As Far from Heaven as Possible

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  60. Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit

    42 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  61. SkipTheInterview launches then promptly shuts down

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  62. Ask HN: How to Sell a Website

    42 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  63. When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons? (2018)

    42 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  64. Show HN: OpenDeck – Platform for building MIDI controllers

    42 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  65. Show HN: The Billboard, a fully decentralised billboard stored in Ethereum

    42 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  66. Dendritic Computing: Branching Deeper into Machine Learning

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  67. What Makes Stuff Rot?

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  68. Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  69. Joys of Porting a Kernel to WebAssembly

    42 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  70. Pandora Papers: A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  71. YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  72. Ask HN: Remote workers, how are you meeting new people / making new friends?

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  73. DC3 Still Flying at 70

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  74. Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

    42 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  75. DOJ launches a plan to go after contractors that hide data breaches

    42 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  76. Structured Identifiers

    42 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  77. Let's Encrypt Root Expiration – Post-Mortem

    41 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  78. Met Police: Run away, call 999 if you feel danger when stopped by lone officer

    41 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  79. Sketching in eInk

    41 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  80. The Pharma Cult: How America Became the Most Troubled Drug Culture

    41 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  81. Fairphone 4 review: ethical repairable phone gets big upgrade

    41 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  82. It's time to repeal the Patriot Act and dismantle the surveillance state

    41 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  83. Tech workers warned they were going to quit. The problem is spiralling out

    41 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  84. CityEl Electric Car from 1992

    41 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  85. Let's hope nobody copies Apple's ridiculous MacBook notch

    41 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  86. TCL: The Tool Command Language – Lisp for the Masses [video]

    41 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  87. Diffusion Normalizing Flow

    41 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  88. Diablo Immortal

    41 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  89. Time Millionaires

    41 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  90. This influenza lineage may have become extinct

    41 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  91. Neighbour wins privacy row over smart doorbell and cameras

    41 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  92. Can Geoengineering Fix Climate Change?

    41 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  93. J&J is using a bankruptcy maneuver to block lawsuits over baby powder claims

    41 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  94. Std: Execution, Sender/Receiver, and the Continuation Monad

    41 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  95. Squeezing Down the Theory Space for Cosmic Inflation

    41 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  96. Replacing Docker with Podman on macOS

    41 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  97. Zales.com Leaked Customer Data Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018

    41 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  98. Liquid Gallium Shown to Break Down Carbon Dioxide – Sci-News.com

    41 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  99. Brain bursts can mimic famous AI learning strategy

    41 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  100. Brexit is ‘going badly,’ say Brits in new poll

    41 points • comment • oct 06, 2021