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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. ‘ASIC has joined the group’: Pump and dumpers in a tizz after warning

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  2. Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

    14 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  3. Binary GCD

    14 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  4. Ask HN: Is all code patchy and bad in FANG?

    14 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  5. Google's Privacy Budget doesn't add up, says Mozilla CTO

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  6. Texas governor bans all Covid-19 vaccine mandates, including by private business

    14 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  7. TX Gov Abbott Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Vaccine Mandates by Any Entity

    14 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  8. CVE-2021-26333 - Flaw in AMD PSP chipset affects millions of computers

    14 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  9. Ask HN: How to start with formal verification to find bugs

    14 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  10. Why the U.S. Navy Never Built Titanium Submarines Like Russia

    14 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  11. Truth Social Violated Mastodon’s License; Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA

    14 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  12. ‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology

    14 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  13. Doctor Copper Is Sick

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  14. Postgres Queries for Projecting Monthly Revenue Run Rate

    14 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  15. China’s New Aircraft Carrier Is as Big as It Can Be

    14 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  16. Alex Jones held liable in Sandy Hook defamation cases

    14 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  17. FreeTDS – open-source client for Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  18. Apple worker says she was fired after leading movement against harassment

    14 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  19. Implementing VisiCalc – Bob Frankston

    14 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  20. Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again

    14 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  21. California is shutting down its last nuclear plant

    14 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  22. GNU Recutils

    14 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  23. Facebook's metaverse spending will top $10B this year

    14 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  24. Zuckerberg named as defendant in Facebook privacy suit

    14 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  25. Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took over Schools

    14 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  26. Private jets to COP26 in Glasgow emit more CO2 than Scots pump out in a year

    14 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  27. Chrome “Following” Feature (RSS)

    14 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  28. Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon

    14 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  29. “The Possibility of Bigger Bangs”

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  30. Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate

    14 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  31. Noam Chomsky: Ireland robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars

    14 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  32. Cloudflare uses a wall of Lava Lamps as it's backup random number generator (2017)

    14 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  33. The Canadian province Ontario proposes right to disconnect law for employees

    14 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  34. Taiwan says dozens of Chinese military jets entered defense zone

    14 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  35. Earl Odda’s Chapel at Deerhurst

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  36. When Chomsky Worked on Weapons Systems for The Pentagon (2018)

    14 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  37. Introduction to keywords via understanding searcher psychology

    14 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  38. Attaching to a Raspberry Pi's Serial Console (UART) for Debugging

    14 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  39. Why Does Everyone Suddenly Care About Supply Chains?

    14 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  40. Ask HN: Do you know uninteresting but useful scientific discoveries?

    14 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  41. How to use native Git as a key-value store

    14 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  42. Obscure challenges supporting Kubernetes 1.22 in Pixie

    14 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  43. Driven By Compression Progress (2009) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  44. The Desire of a Post-Facebook Era – An Anti-Facebook Rant

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  45. David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear

    14 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  46. Merck says research shows its Covid-19 pill works against variants

    14 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  47. Southwest flights cancelled after pilots union sues over vaccine

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  48. How to Solve the Sudoku Puzzle with Programming

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  49. Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

    14 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  50. Ask HN: Any experience of senior colleagues who had a consistent rude demeanor?

    14 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  51. Hertz agrees to buy 100k Teslas

    14 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  52. US Gold Reserve Act

    14 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  53. Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

    14 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  54. How to fall asleep more quickly – the healthy way

    14 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  55. Tesla's Spending on R&D and Marketing, Compared to Other Automakers

    14 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  56. What Rust could learn from Kotlin

    14 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  57. The Dust That Measures All Our Time

    14 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Is a 2019 guide for AWS Certified Developer guidebook still up-to-date?

    14 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  59. Apple takes down Quran app in China

    14 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  60. Infix operators in Python: f |o| g

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  61. MacBook Pro 2021 Review: Nearly Perfect Back-to-the-Future Laptops

    13 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  62. Ted Cruz says Bitcoin will stabilize Texas electric grid–here’s why he’s wrong

    13 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  63. Southwest Airlines cancels 1,000 more flights as disruptions mount

    13 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  64. Maybe we need a moral panic about Facebook

    13 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  65. Alzheimer’s disease progresses much differently than previously thought

    13 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  66. Coal is 'king' as gas prices soar – and it's backfiring on cleaner energy goals

    13 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  67. Exposing Climate Threats from an Empire of Dying Gas Wells

    13 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  68. Steam is removing NFT games from the platform

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  69. Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen represented by US intelligence insiders

    13 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  70. Robot dogs don't look as cute with night-vision sniper rifles on board

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  71. Gain of Function

    13 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  72. Insect fatalities at wind turbines as biodiversity sinks

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  73. Cryptocurrency influencer follower wins $500k in court over failed investment

    13 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  74. GitHub Codespaces Updates at Universe 2021

    13 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  75. A small Documerica Twitter bot

    13 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  76. Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  77. Ask HN: What would you tell your younger self 10 years ago?

    13 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  78. Astronomers spot first possible exoplanet outside our galaxy

    13 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  79. U.S. lawmakers push for new controls on ex-spies working overseas

    13 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  80. Trump’s new social media SPAC is soaring. Also, what is a SPAC?

    13 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  81. Autonomous vehicles create new problems and solve none

    13 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  82. Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  83. Sculpt OS Release 21.10

    13 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  84. I get abuse and threats online – why can't it be stopped?

    13 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  85. It's All Just Displacement

    13 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  86. The Myth of Regenerative Ranching

    13 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  87. Mining Bitcoin Using Nuclear Power May Be Fine

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  88. LinkedIn to Shut Down Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  89. Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy

    13 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  90. Debloat Windows 11

    13 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  91. Stop Using Microservices. Build Monoliths Instead

    13 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  92. Hedges vs. Obama

    13 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  93. Uaparser.js NPM Package Supply Chain Attack: Impact and Response

    13 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  94. A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup

    13 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  95. Visualization of Sea Level Rise for American and Other Landmarks

    13 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  96. No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination

    13 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  97. Facebook’s Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations”

    13 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  98. Facebook shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk

    13 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  99. Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes

    13 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  100. Tim Sweeney says Epic will welcome blockchain games on the Epic Games Store

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2021