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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Slack complaint spurs EU to investigate Microsoft Teams Office integration

    16 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  2. Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500B “City of the Future”

    16 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  3. The quality of [Facebook's] secret research into mental health is abysmal

    16 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  4. ‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything only way to avert catastrophe

    16 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  5. Updates on the Twitch Security Incident

    16 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  6. Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed

    16 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  7. Xkcd: Forget

    15 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  8. The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers

    15 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  9. Ask HN: Am I an Outlier?

    15 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  10. Links for October

    15 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  11. The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’

    15 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  12. Ask HN: Hacker News page width broken on mobile

    15 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  13. China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in Aug that circled the globe

    15 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  14. Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows written in Rust (v0.1.6)

    15 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  15. Apple iOS 15 Privacy: Inspecting App Activity Data

    15 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  16. A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in and got one interview

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  17. Boris Johnson to consider legalising psilocybin

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  18. Amazon accused of lying about its business practices to Congress

    15 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  19. Harvard moves Chinese language programme from Beijing to Taipei

    15 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  20. UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change

    15 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  21. Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law

    15 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  22. Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP – Thurrott.com

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  23. US begins legal appeal to get Julian Assange extradited

    15 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  24. France to ban plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables from January 2022

    15 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  25. William Shatner and crew blast to the edge of space

    15 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  26. Sham, a Linux shell (SQL blew my mind)

    15 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  27. DHS Wants Wearables to Track Employee Health at Work and at Home

    15 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  28. Andrew Kobin’s Lecture Notes

    15 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  29. IMF slashes US growth forecast and warns of rising risks to the global economy

    15 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  30. Principles of Abstract Interpretation by Patrick Cousot

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  31. Loop_tool: A toolkit for loop-based computation

    15 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  32. The Fluoride Wars Rage On

    15 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  33. A lost hiker ignored rescuers' phone calls, thinking they were spam

    15 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  34. Server overload by enforcing DHE key exchange using minimal bandwidth

    15 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  35. Story of How One Guy Keeps the World’s Computers Running on the Right Time Zone

    15 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  36. Losing Your Hair? You Might Blame the Great Stem Cell Escape

    15 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  37. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11

    15 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  38. Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon

    15 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  39. The Anger of Tesla Fans Is Becoming a Problem

    15 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  40. SUSE Harvester: Deploying virtual machines with Kubernetes

    15 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  41. Man Creates a 128 GB Floppy Disk (2016)

    15 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  42. U.S. Issued $100B in Export Licenses to Suppliers of Huawei, SMIC

    15 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  43. MIT cancels speech by University of Chicago professor following backlash

    15 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  44. Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girls being born by 2030

    15 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  45. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Explained

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  46. Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate

    15 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  47. Belgium Wants to Add Encryption Backdoors to Its Terrible Data Retention Law

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  48. BioBlock nasal spray protects against all major variants of coronaviruses

    15 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  49. The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients

    15 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  50. He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire

    15 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  51. Show HN: A curated list of PaaS and tools to emulate PaaS on cloud

    15 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  52. Academics discover hidden HTTPS SNI filtering system in China's Great Firewall

    15 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  53. Facebook fined $70M for withholding information about Giphy acquisition

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  54. Taiwan reports record number of Chinese planes in defence zone

    15 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  55. New Zealand abandons goal of eliminating virus and will lift restrictions

    15 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  56. Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump's social network over use of its code

    15 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  57. The cost of running government on COBOL (h/t Cowen)

    15 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  58. Doctors Caucus Letter Urging CDC to Acknowledge Covid-19 Natural Immunity

    15 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  59. Achsa Sprague, a spiritualist and abolitionist in 1850s Vermont

    15 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  60. Recent discovery may give solar cells 1000% more power

    15 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  61. Methane Gas Leaks in Central Asia Worsen Climate Change Crisis

    15 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  62. Ask HN: What is your preferred notebook screen size and why?

    15 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  63. Twitch Confirms Leak

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  64. Sweden's eco-town with a 20-storey wooden skyscraper

    15 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  65. Digging into Julia's Package System

    15 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  66. Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning

    15 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  67. MorphCharts

    15 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  68. Drilling in Yellowstone Could Save America

    15 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  69. Quebec delays vaccine mandate for health-care workers, fearing staffing crisis

    15 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  70. We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment

    15 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  71. How to optimize your GitHub for job interviews

    15 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  72. Show HN: Free FT

    15 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  73. NIH scrubs Gain of Function definition after expose

    15 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  74. Why Do U.S. Electrical Plugs Have Holes in the Blades?

    15 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  75. Algebraic Effects for Functional Programming [pdf]

    15 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  76. One Hundred Prisoners Problem

    15 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  77. Show HN: An online tool for making notion-style avatars

    15 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  78. Housing supply restrictions are driving the U.S. rent spike

    15 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  79. US Government ordering Google to provide users’ search data: report

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  80. Eaton 5P 1U Lithium Ion Rack Battery Unit Review

    15 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  81. Parca: Open-source Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling

    15 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  82. Covid-19 vaccine-myocarditis paper to be permanently removed: Elsevier

    15 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  83. M1Max outperforms the W6900X – a $6000, 300W desktop part in Affinity Photo

    15 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  84. The Development of Treatments for Diptheria

    15 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  85. Squid Game is entertaining the world. There's a different feeling in S. Korea

    15 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  86. Sinclair Broadcast Group identifies data breach

    15 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  87. The FBI’s FISA Mess

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  88. The Open Society and Its Prophets

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  89. Climate change is a big problem for farmers in Hawaii

    15 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  90. Hertz orders 100k Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2B

    15 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  91. Why are American homes so big? (2019)

    15 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  92. Turn On, Tune In, Fight Back

    14 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  93. ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’

    14 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  94. Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs

    14 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  95. How the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists

    14 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  96. PyTorch-DirectML: Train your machine learning models on any GPU

    14 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  97. Koyaanisqatsi flowing through the eye of an n-dimensional being

    14 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  98. Exploring Quantum Technology – Qiskit and RasQberry

    14 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  99. Facebook says new leak to come any time soon

    14 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  100. Intentionally Making Close Friends – LessWrong

    14 points • comment • oct 21, 2021