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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months

    321 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  2. 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

    321 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  3. Is going to the office a broken way of working?

    320 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  4. There is no 'printf'

    320 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  5. Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector

    319 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  6. Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

    319 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  7. GTFOBins

    318 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  8. Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

    317 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  9. Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

    317 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  10. Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid

    316 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  11. Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

    316 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  12. Which version of JDK should I use?

    316 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  13. Hackernews.com

    316 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  14. 2021 MacBook Pro has a replaceable battery

    313 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  15. Bashcrawl: Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure

    313 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  16. 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

    312 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  17. A Prototype Original iPod

    311 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  18. 1.1.1.1 for Families

    311 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  19. Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter

    311 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  20. Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?

    311 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  21. Whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public

    311 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  22. Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

    311 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  23. Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able to quit

    311 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  24. DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008

    311 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  25. Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year

    311 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  26. Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests

    310 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  27. React Docs Beta – rewritten with hooks and interactive examples

    308 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  28. What is BGP? – BGP routing explained

    308 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  29. .NET Hot Reload Support via CLI

    307 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  30. GPU.js

    305 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  31. My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)

    305 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  32. Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video

    305 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  33. Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou

    304 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  34. The Martians of Budapest

    304 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  35. Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

    304 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  36. GitHub stale bot considered harmful

    303 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  37. Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement

    303 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  38. Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic

    302 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  39. Internet Hay Exchange

    301 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  40. ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”

    301 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  41. Starship is still not understood

    301 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  42. A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009)

    301 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  43. Something special is happening in Barcelona

    300 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  44. Effective Go

    300 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  45. Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%

    300 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  46. Where have all the insects gone?

    299 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  47. Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

    298 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  48. Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process

    298 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  49. Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web

    296 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  50. Software Architecture Patterns: 5 minute read

    296 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  51. M1 Pro and M1 Max

    295 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  52. If your MacBook Pro shows high % CPU, try charging on the right and not the left (2019)

    294 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  53. Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms

    294 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  54. New York Public Library ends all late fees

    294 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  55. Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage-related charges

    293 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  56. Five things we still don’t know about water

    293 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?

    292 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  58. Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot

    292 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  59. Hertz orders 100k Teslas

    292 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  60. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)

    292 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  61. Financial innovations brought by technology

    292 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  62. A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system

    291 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  63. Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums again

    291 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  64. The Wayforward Machine

    291 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  65. Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change?

    290 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  66. Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population

    290 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  67. Nim 1.6

    290 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  68. Malwarebytes' privacy VPN is Mullvad in a shady trenchcoat

    289 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  69. I don’t know how to count that low

    289 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  70. Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free

    289 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  71. EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR

    289 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  72. Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

    289 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  73. Async Ruby

    288 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  74. A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure

    287 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  75. Apple Is Normalising Surveillance

    286 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  76. U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens

    286 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  77. A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM-only race condition

    285 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  78. Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters

    285 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  79. Ć Programming Language

    283 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  80. Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online

    283 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  81. Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack

    283 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  82. Hands-On Rust: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play

    282 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  83. Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green

    281 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  84. Git Command Explorer

    280 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  85. Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis

    279 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  86. Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous

    279 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  87. Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

    279 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  88. Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis

    279 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  89. Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

    279 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  90. SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

    278 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  91. Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money

    278 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  92. Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users

    277 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  93. FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

    276 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  94. Is 40 the New 60?

    276 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  95. I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest”

    274 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  96. Programmers’ emotions

    274 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  97. SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020)

    274 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  98. Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries

    274 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  99. Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

    273 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  100. Gallium helps convert CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen

    273 points • comment • oct 23, 2021