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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Charter Spectrum Threatens to Ruin Potential Customers over Debt They Don't Owe

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  2. Filibuster: Service-Level Fault Injection Testing: Part 1, Corpus

    6 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  3. Show HN: Practice speaking any language for free

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  4. Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions

    6 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  5. The Storyteller On the writer W.G. Sebald

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  6. Study unveils the quantum nature between photons and free electrons

    6 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  7. Facebook plans to break out its VR, AR business

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  8. Elijah Wood says a Lord Of The Rings orc design was based on Harvey Weinstein

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  9. TIC-80: A FOSS fantasy computer for making, playing, and sharing tiny games

    6 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  10. Senior Developers in Eastern Europe Walk into a Bar

    6 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  11. Ask HN: Do you offer a lower price for your product in developing countries?

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  12. Threema for Desktop

    6 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  13. How the world’s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience

    6 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  14. Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve (2018)

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  15. Andrew Yang leaves democratic party

    6 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  16. The Brazen Strategy Behind China Tech’s Growth

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  17. Titanium dioxide: E171 no longer considered safe when used as a food additive

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  18. US productivity growth is negative and economists aren’t sure why

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  19. Python 3.10: Cool New Features for You to Try

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  20. The hacker who spent a year reclaiming his face from Clearview AI

    6 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  21. Anonymity No More? Age Checks Come to the Web

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  22. Nano-5.9 Is Released

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  23. Better Operator Precedence

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  24. Microsoft’s 5 guiding principles for decentralized identities

    6 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  25. How Long Will It Take for the Chip Shortage to Ease?

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  26. CDC study: Vaccination offers better protection than previous Covid-19 infection

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  27. Facebook's Meta mission was laid out in a 2018 paper on The Metaverse

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

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

    6 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  29. You can now ask Google to scrub images of minors from its search results

    6 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  30. As Afghanistan Sinks into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive

    6 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  31. What Happened When Facebook Became Boomerbook

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  32. FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  33. Gb/S Programmable Packet Parsing on a Single FPGA [pdf]

    6 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  34. Ask HN: What Server Powers 8.8.8.8?

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  35. Linus Torvalds on Community, Rust and Linux’s Longevity

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  36. 95% of top Python packages on PyPI distribute wheels

    6 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  37. Vikings lived in North America by at least the year 1021

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  38. Twitch Leak Included Emails, Passwords in Clear Text: Researcher

    6 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  39. Letter of Resignation from Harvard Pre-Med Program

    6 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  40. IndexNow – initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  41. North Vancouver to Be First City Heated by Bitcoin

    6 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  42. If China Invades Taiwan, Taipei Plans to Throw a Thousand Tanks at the Beachhead

    6 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  43. Henrietta Lacks' family sues biotech firm for use of 'stolen' cells

    6 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  44. The Dawn of Cybernetic Civilization

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  45. Three-minute call from ransomware gang published

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  46. Tesla takes over HP’s campus in California despite moving HQ out of state

    6 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  47. Disinformation guru “Hacker X” names his employer: NaturalNews.com

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  48. San Francisco’s bohemian boat dwellers fight for their way of life

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  49. Is Genetics “Dark”?

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  50. Good News Your Willpower Isn't Limited–Don’t Believe the “Ego Depletion” Theory

    6 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  51. Apple explains why it hasn’t added a touchscreen or Face ID to the Mac

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  52. Plants can prepare for insect attack sequence

    6 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  53. Electronic tongue to analyze fish freshness (2008) [pdf]

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  54. Zendesk to Acquire Momentive and Its Iconic SurveyMonkey Platform

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  55. Universities are turning into ideology mills

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  56. Windows 11 System Requirements

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  57. The public’s one account for government

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  58. Rare Party resolution sets Xi’s power, and leaves China’s succession unclear

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  59. The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  60. Webinar on building storefronts with Next.js and open-source Spree Commerce

    5 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  61. Democratizing the Metaverse: One Vision of an Accessible Future for AR and VR

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  62. Cash-Rich Tech Companies Are Remaking Post-Pandemic Manhattan

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  63. Alan Kay – Vannevar Bush Symposium 1995 [YouTube]

    5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  64. Bitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalists

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  65. CEO doesn't care about your CSS strategy, as long as you use Tailwind

    5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  66. Do Compostable Plastics Compost?

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Why isn't all the land south of the St. Lawrence River part of the USA?

    5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  68. Physics Experiment Reveals Formation of a New State of Matter

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  69. Canadians can’t travel to Canada without a smartphone

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  70. Will Apple be the last US tech giant left in China?

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  71. An update about Lucy’s telemetry

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  72. Deepfaking Genitalia into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  73. Practical Front End Philosophy

    5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  74. Cryptopunk Sold for 530M

    5 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  75. Delta rolling out facial recognition technology in terminals at Atlanta airport

    5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  76. Ask HN: How do I find a mentor outside my company about software web programming

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  77. Rich Harris Coined the Term “FauxSS”: Fake OSS

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  78. Google’s Tensor Chip Is Slower Than Apple’s A12, an SoC That Is 3 Years Old Now

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  79. What’s the Least Bad Way to Cool the Planet?

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  80. An open hardware, extensible 65c02 based computer

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  81. Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera takes photos through thousands of straws (2020)

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  82. “Whoops I Rewrote It in Rust” by Brian Martin [video]

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  83. Housing supply and demand in one screenshot

    5 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  84. The Lost Sanskrit Treasures of Tibet (2017)

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  85. Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  86. Do not design around third-party tools unless it breaks the Web

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  87. Fed to Release Paper Exploring Launch of Digital Dollar

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  88. How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  89. Play snake on my Twitter banner

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  90. Dragos raises $200M to protect industrial customers from cyberattacks

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  91. Memory lanes: Google’s map of our lives

    5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  92. Ivermectin: False science created a Covid 'miracle' drug

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  93. How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn (2016) [video]

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  94. United States issues its first passport with ‘X’ gender marker

    5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  95. ZX Spectrum Basic Challenges

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  96. New model leveraging flu data generates accurate prediction of Covid-19 spread

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  97. The forbidden erotica of ancient Pompeii

    5 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  98. Archibald winner was devastated by men telling her she painted 'the wrong way'

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  99. Spiders are much smarter than you think

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  100. Singapore health ministry pulls chatbot over inappropriate answers

    5 points • comment • oct 06, 2021