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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Coca-Cola can dissolve gastric phytobezoars (2012)

    10 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  2. As beavers return to Britain, their presence becomes a gnawing problem

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  3. One of the best talks I have ever seen by a historian of science

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  4. Tesla Stock Soars To $1T Valuation with $1000/share with Rental Car deal

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  5. What we talk about when we want to do nothing

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  6. Aunt Dinald's Duct Tape Diner

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  7. A New Way to Learn Kanji

    10 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  8. Ask HN: What userscripts do you use to enhance your browsing experience?

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  9. How can companies use PyTorch commercially if some neural layers are patented?

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  10. GLapse: Create a Time Lapse Video

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  11. Python 3.10.0 Is Released

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  12. Is FB Whistleblower a Media Censorship Plant? (YouTube)

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  13. Facebook's problem isn't its brand – it's Mark Zuckerberg

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  14. One Man's Pest

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  15. T-Mobile Introduces Home Internet

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  16. How the Ford F-150's Taillight Scales Work

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  17. “Sequencer nodes” save the hashes produced by scanning people's eyes to your DB

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  18. Science and Sanity (1933) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  19. Show HN: RosettaBoy – the same Gameboy emulator in Rust, Python, and C++

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  20. Cidr.xyz

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  21. PostgreSQL 14 Is Here – A Look at Its Past and Future

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  22. Blue Origin Employees Say Don’t Think Its Rocket Is Safe, Wouldn’t Ride in It

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  23. Just How Many Days Does Bill Murray Spend Stuck Reliving Groundhog Day?

    10 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  24. From addiction to learning to code, now she’s leading a worker uprising at Apple

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  25. 63,000 pounds of trash pulled from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  26. Truth Social Violated Mastodon’s ToS; Trump’s Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  27. EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors'

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  28. Why Apple ditched the audio jack

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  29. Show HN: Messer, free macOS menu bar app to resize/optimize images

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  30. There May Be People Who Are Genetically Resistant to Covid-19, Scientists Say

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  31. Tesla is now worth $1T

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  32. Growing Crops Under Solar Panels? Now There’s a Bright Idea

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  33. Don’t Shower During a Thunderstorm, and Other ‘Myths’ That Are True

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  34. How do you handle 2FA?

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  35. The brain can store 1 petabyte of memories, or 13 years of HD video (2016)

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

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

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  37. Facebook Downtime Counter

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  38. The MacBook Pro 2021 notch is already wreaking havoc

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  39. ‘ Dystopian world’: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  40. HTML: Opportunity, Disruption, or Wedge

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  41. Lessons from Rolling Out One Million Postgres Indexes

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  42. Whistleblower Absurdly Attacks Facebook's Privacy-Protecting Encryption Efforts

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  43. Goldman Sachs: Home prices to climb another 16% by the end of 2022

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  44. The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat Became Digital Traps for Chinese Uyghurs

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  45. Improving DRAM Performance, Security, Reliability by Understanding DRAM Timing

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  46. Malware Discovered in Popular NPM Package, ua-parser-JS

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  47. Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  48. WeChat to stop routinely accessing photos after influencer exposé

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  49. Ask HN: What are the most valuable companies with the lowest headcounts?

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  50. Go: Don’t change the libraries in 1.18

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  51. The Terribly Tragically Sad Computer Owner

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  52. Excessive Collaboration Is Fueling Pandemic Burnout

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  53. Pedestrian Safety Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  54. Meta Plans to Reverse Controversial Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus

    10 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  55. J.G.Levitt believes future of storytelling is video games and not movies (2020)

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  56. Ingenious wall could harness enough wind power to cover your electric bill

    10 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  57. Ransomware hackers nervous, allege harassment from U.S.

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  58. Organizing Your Information with Zim Desktop Wiki (2020)

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  59. The Wall Dancer (2016)

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  60. Show HN: Organizedly – End-to-end encrypted notes and todo's

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  61. Hey linker, can you spare a meg?

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  62. Facebook whistleblower accuses the platform of a 'betrayal of democracy'

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  63. Why AI Lags Behind the Human Brain in Computational Power

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  64. Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  65. Trump's Truth Social Hacked Within Hours of Announcement

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  66. Grenfell drama Value Engineering exposes how cost-cutting cost lives

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  67. Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  68. A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  69. The Return of the Unix Shell

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  70. Emoji reactions were a cute addition to Facebook. Result: more “toxicity”

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  71. A comprehensive guide to go generate

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  72. Lawmakers accuse Amazon executives of misleading or lying to Congress

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  73. How Long Does It Take Ordinary People to “Get Good” at Chess?

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  74. Day Traders Phone Up Gambling Addiction Helplines

    10 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  75. But First, Don’t Do the Dishes

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  76. The origin of Covid-19: Evidence piles up, but the jury’s still out

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  77. New evidence emerges against Covid lab-leak theory – but press keeps pushing it

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  78. Hacker-X names his Disinformation Employer

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  79. 1B TikTok Users Understand What Congress Doesn’t

    10 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  80. Star Trek Continues

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  81. Sony Imagines We’ll Live at Sea with Self-Sustaining Floating Habitats in 2050

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  82. Warren Buffett's billionaire partner funds windowless dorm. An architect quit

    10 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  83. TikTok Blocks US Users with Hong Kong ESIMs

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  84. Bombshell – Instagram's suicide farm, and more – By Mike Solana – Pirate Wires

    10 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  85. Texas Republicans' Extreme Gerrymandering

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  86. Cosmopolitan Identifiers

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  87. Popular NPM library hijacked to install password-stealers, miners

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  88. Caltech’s Leo Flying Biped Can Skateboard and Slackline

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  89. Anthem: Honeywell’s Cloud-Native Cockpit System

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  90. Xt_sslpin: TLS Cert Pinning with Netfilter

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  91. The Worst Thing on Earth

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  92. Army Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Advanced Augmented Reality Goggle Program

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  93. What Is Self-Awareness?

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  94. Ask HN: 2022 Good Developer Conferences/Events?

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  95. Aukus: French president says Australian PM lied over submarine deal

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  96. Show HN: Battle of Flags – Browser-Based Multiplayer RTS

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  97. Hacker Attacker: The Full-Time Job No One Prepares You For

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  98. In-N-Out blasts S.F. over shutdown: 'We refuse to become the vaccination police'

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  99. Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  100. They don’t make ‘em like they used to

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2021