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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  2. A thread about a smash and grab I witnessed today at Brannan and Embarcadero

    5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  3. Alzheimer's: The heretical and hopeful role of infection

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  4. Environmentalists argue Peter Thiel’s NZ lodge will destroy lake landscape

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  5. Show HN: Vibes.art Generative Art on Ethereum

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  6. Transparent Engine Cylinder – How an Engine Works in 4K Slow Motion

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  7. Open Source Streaming In-Memory Graph Database

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  8. Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolut

    5 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  9. Tesla's Sentry Mode now offers drivers a live view of their car

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  10. What It’s Like to Drive a Groundbreaking Electric Car from 1908

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  11. Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  12. I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop

    5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  13. MS's .NET Foundation under fire, resigning board member questions its role

    5 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  14. Smart CSS solutions for common UI challenges

    5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  15. We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage

    5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  16. Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble (2020)

    5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  17. “Making Webapps Collaborative with Composable CRDTs” by M. Weidner and H. Miller

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  18. When Safe Proved Risky:Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  19. I Still ‘Lisp’ (and You Should Too)

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  20. Facebook can’t keep its head in the sand

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  21. HN 10 Years Ago

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  22. Spoofing someone in Slack is terrifyingly easy

    5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  23. New app places caregivers under digital surveillance

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  24. Are Political Freedoms a Fluke?

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  25. The pandemic could be leading to a golden age for unions

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  26. Hertz Orders 100k Teslas in Rental-Market Shake-Up

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  27. Did Vikings and their stowaway mice beat Portugal to the Azores?

    5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  28. Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees (2019)

    5 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  29. Social Security payments to rise nearly 6% in 2022; largest hike since 1982

    5 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  30. A new way to be mad: healthy people seeking amputations (2000)

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  31. Ask HN: Anybody enabled IOMMU on AWS metal servers?

    5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  32. What It's Like Inside the US Processing Center Welcoming Thousands of Afghans

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  33. U.S. Border Authorities Failed to Prepare for Influx of Migrants

    5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  34. California will require large retailers to provide gender neutral toy sections

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  35. German supermarkets are allowed to lock out unvaccinated people

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  36. Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7B acquisition

    5 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  37. When bullish finance stories are not what they appear

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  38. Bits Related to Alpine Security Initiatives in September

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  39. Crypto and Fiat Currencies

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  40. ‘We don’t need to buy more stuff’: the people who kit out their homes for free

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  41. Ivermectin: How False science created a Covid miracle drug

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  42. Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to Connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  43. Ask HN: Why did Quora fail so bad?

    5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  44. Samsung To Mass Produce 2nm Chips in 2025

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  45. Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  46. A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches

    5 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  47. China's Robotaxis Hit the Road

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  48. Yes, You Can Put Out a Burning Gas Well with a Nuclear Bomb

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  49. The hidden ways the ultra rich pass wealth to their heirs tax free

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  50. Applications to Running Barefoot or in Minimal Footwear

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  51. Newsom proposes $3.2B in EV investment as part of economic recovery package

    5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  52. Middle-class Americans face retirement insecurity, analysis finds

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  53. Brave Search Uses Click Data in Search Ranking Algorithm

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  54. The Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic

    5 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  55. Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  56. Will the “Social Media Bad” trend die out like the “Video Games Violent” trend?

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  57. The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?

    5 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  58. Bonnette à Réseau Pour Spectroscopie

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  59. The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  60. Google halves its revenue share of in-app subscriptions on the Play store

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  61. Fermiac / Monte Carlo Trolley

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  62. 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  63. Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  64. Encryption Security Architecture – Cryptomator

    5 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  65. Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  66. Scientists look beyond the individual brain to study the collective mind

    5 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  67. Covid-19 can damage cerebral small vessels and cause neurological symptoms

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  68. Signs of first planet found outside our galaxy

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  69. Bergamot: Client-Side Machine Translation in Firefox

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  70. Why Right-Wing Extremists Love the Unabomber

    5 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  71. Telstra, Australian gov’t combine funds for $2.1bn purchase of Digicel

    5 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  72. US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  73. Why Merck’s Celebrated Covid Pill Could Be Riskier Than People Think

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  74. Social media’s ‘queer tax’ is exhausting, unfair, and unavoidable

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  75. How chemical companies avoid paying for pollution

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  76. People Don't Understand NFTs

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  77. Sci-fi anthology 'AI 2041' presents hopeful realities of artificial intelligence

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  78. PayPal Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Pinterest in $45B Deal

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  79. What I learned from trying Linux Desktop as a WSL user

    5 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  80. Full WireGuard Setup with OpenBSD

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  81. Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider–now they’re fired

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  82. We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society

    5 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  83. The Christians who mock wokeness for a living

    5 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  84. Dancing Mania

    5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  85. An Overview of the Singularity Project – Microsoft's Experimental OS [pdf]

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  86. Dropbox Acquires Command E

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  87. Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked

    5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  88. Ursula K Le Guin prize for fiction to launch in 2022

    5 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  89. China preparing for possible war with Taiwan

    5 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  90. Remembering the Astronaut Who Smuggled a Sandwich into Space

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  91. Quickly and Easily Install Nextcloud

    5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  92. RPCS3 now able boot all PS3 games

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  93. Ransomware gang says it targeted National Rifle Association

    5 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  94. China Is Probably the Most Overvalued Property Market in the World

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  95. Putting Judge to the Test

    5 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  96. Conjectures on the Kuramoto–Sevashinsky Equation

    5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  97. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  98. How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?

    5 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  99. NeRF: Training Drones in Neural Radiance Environments

    5 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  100. Seeding Accounts for Kindergartners and Hoping to Grow College Graduates

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2021