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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

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

    273 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  2. Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated

    273 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  3. Update about the October 4th outage

    272 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  4. Orion is a new WebKit-based browser for Mac

    272 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  5. Word-Aligned Bloom Filters

    272 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  6. Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud

    272 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  7. Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)

    271 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  8. A Git Implementation in Awk

    271 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  9. How to train large deep learning models as a startup

    270 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  10. Clinical trial shows that the use of Vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality

    270 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  11. The big alcohol study that didn't happen

    270 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  12. All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected

    270 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  13. Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable

    269 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  14. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users

    268 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  15. Firefox 93

    268 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  16. And you will know us by the company we keep

    268 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  17. How to help a programming student get unstuck

    267 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  18. FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas

    267 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  19. The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money

    267 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  20. Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together

    267 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  21. Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11

    267 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  22. Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation

    266 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  23. The new dot com bubble is online advertising (2019)

    266 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  24. The State of Web Scraping in 2021

    266 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  25. Scryer Prolog: A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust

    264 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  26. Implementing Hash Tables in C

    264 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  27. New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors

    264 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  28. Hexing the Technical Interview (2017)

    264 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  29. Celebrating Steve

    264 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  30. We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

    263 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  31. Hacking YouTube with a MP4

    262 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  32. Facebook is back up

    261 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  33. How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage

    261 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  34. Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week

    261 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  35. Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS

    260 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  36. Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation

    260 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  37. Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

    260 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  38. Kape Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, Zenmate, and VPN “Review” Sites

    260 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  39. The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space

    259 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  40. Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers

    259 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  41. You can't tell people anything (2004)

    259 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  42. Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work

    258 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  43. Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time

    258 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  44. Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend

    257 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  45. Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography

    257 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  46. Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots

    255 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  47. Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war

    255 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  48. Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications

    255 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  49. Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store

    254 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  50. Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool

    253 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  51. Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies

    253 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  52. OpenWorm

    253 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  53. Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?

    253 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  54. FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store

    253 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  55. Expectations for generics in Go 1.18

    252 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  56. The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)

    252 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  57. I couldn't debug the code because of my name

    252 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  58. OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

    252 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  59. Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable

    250 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  60. Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance

    249 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  61. Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect

    249 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  62. How we built a serverless SQL database

    249 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  63. Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer

    249 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  64. Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower

    249 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  65. The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet

    248 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  66. Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)

    247 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  67. Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

    247 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  68. Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge

    246 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  69. An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain

    246 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  70. Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips

    246 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  71. A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems

    246 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  72. Ubuntu 21.10

    245 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  73. Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data

    245 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  74. World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO

    245 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  75. Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux

    244 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  76. SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies

    244 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  77. Always Do Extra

    244 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  78. Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)

    244 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  79. ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer

    244 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  80. SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review

    244 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  81. Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

    244 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  82. The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it

    243 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  83. Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross

    243 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  84. Awesome-loginless: internet services that don't require registrations

    243 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  85. Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

    242 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  86. My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs

    242 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  87. Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy

    242 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  88. Show HN: Use your iPhone's camera to see any photo on your wall

    241 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  89. Goto (2007)

    241 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  90. Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use

    241 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  91. High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers

    241 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  92. Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data

    241 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  93. Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar over Instagram’s Effect on Teens

    241 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  94. Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air

    240 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  95. Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture

    240 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  96. Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors

    240 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  97. Xterm.js

    240 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  98. Nuclear Power in France

    240 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  99. My Emotions as a CEO

    240 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  100. XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM

    239 points • comment • oct 08, 2021