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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live

    239 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  2. XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM

    239 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  3. Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack

    238 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  4. NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised

    237 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  5. Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS

    237 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  6. Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level

    237 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  7. Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube

    237 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  8. So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?

    237 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  9. Meta

    236 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  10. Framework: Solving for Silicon Shortages

    236 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  11. Using load shedding to avoid overload

    235 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  12. Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations

    235 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  13. Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle

    235 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  14. How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?

    234 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  15. Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

    234 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  16. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)

    234 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  17. Truths about video game stories

    234 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  18. Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs

    233 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  19. Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (2019)

    233 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  20. Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo

    232 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  21. OVH is down along with its status page

    232 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  22. Plan 9 Desktop Guide

    232 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  23. Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes

    231 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  24. Kairos

    231 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  25. Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels

    231 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  26. Tinysheet

    231 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  27. 3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective

    231 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  28. Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter

    231 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  29. How I motivate myself to write

    231 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  30. Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived?

    230 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  31. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

    230 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  32. I made my own garum

    229 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  33. Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel

    229 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  34. Repeat Yourself, a Lot

    227 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  35. Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]

    227 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  36. Signal for Help

    226 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  37. DuckDuckGo as a TTY

    226 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  38. Rust on Espressif chips

    226 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  39. FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US

    226 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  40. Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published

    226 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  41. Half a Million South Korean Workers Prepare to Walk Off Jobs in General Strike

    225 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  42. The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

    225 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  43. An underwater mystery on Canada's coast

    224 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  44. How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder

    224 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  45. What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?

    224 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  46. Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users

    224 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  47. Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

    223 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  48. Roblox has been down for over 24 hours

    223 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  49. Open source is coming to financial services

    223 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  50. My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post

    223 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  51. iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things

    222 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  52. Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads

    222 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  53. A talk with Walter Bright about Empire

    221 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  54. Simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise

    221 points • comment • oct 20, 2021

  55. EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board

    221 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  56. Self-parking Car in 500 Lines of Code

    221 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  57. Show HN: Low-latency jamming over the internet

    221 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  58. What I wish I knew when learning F#

    221 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  59. Worst Case

    220 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  60. Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

    220 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  61. How Time Series Databases Work, and Where They Don’t

    220 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  62. Sketch Machine

    220 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  63. Startup Ideas

    219 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  64. Ligne Claire

    219 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  65. AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (2017)

    218 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  66. Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV

    218 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  67. Parcel v2

    218 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  68. Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

    217 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  69. Child suicides in Japan hit record high

    217 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  70. “Dune” (The Movie), Annotated

    216 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  71. Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

    216 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  72. Container security best practices: Ultimate guide

    216 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  73. $1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge

    216 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  74. A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean reached the Southern California coast

    215 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  75. Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language

    215 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  76. Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece

    215 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  77. Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

    215 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  78. Nios V – Intel's RISC-V Processor

    215 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  79. Shaded Relief Maps in Blender

    214 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  80. The F.S.O. Safer could spill a million barrels of crude at any moment

    214 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  81. Facebook chooses profits over people

    214 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  82. The human tendency to over-water plants

    213 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  83. Gunship “Tech Noir” Breakdown

    213 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  84. Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust

    213 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  85. Faster Python with Guido van Rossum

    212 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  86. T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks

    212 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  87. France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon

    212 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  88. Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung

    211 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  89. OpenBSD: How it all started

    211 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  90. Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

    211 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  91. Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software

    211 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  92. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

    211 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  93. The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (2017) [video]

    210 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  94. The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than the Entire Middle Class

    210 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  95. The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids

    210 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  96. Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand

    210 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  97. Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal

    209 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  98. Ethereum Services Are Centralized

    209 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  99. Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (2015)

    209 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  100. Companies that use Lisp extensively

    209 points • comment • oct 11, 2021