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Hacker News (Oct 2021)

  1. Create and share images of your source code

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  2. Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard

    167 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  3. Global Climate Report – September 2021

    167 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  4. Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]

    167 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  5. Common Lisp

    167 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  6. Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production

    167 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  7. FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

    166 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  8. Android 12 is live in AOSP

    166 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  9. Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge

    166 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  10. Dune: A Shell by the Beach

    166 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  11. Brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed patient

    166 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  12. Attorney General orders unregistered crypto lending platforms to exit NY

    166 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  13. .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role

    166 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  14. USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on Oct. 2

    165 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  15. Explaining Ruby Fibers

    165 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  16. Building on soil in Big Sandy: Regenerative organic farming in rural Montana

    165 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  17. Chilling Effects

    165 points • comment • oct 22, 2021

  18. People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago

    165 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  19. Goodnight Dune (2011)

    165 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  20. The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS

    165 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  21. Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning

    165 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  22. We need new data books, so we published one

    164 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  23. Sand won’t save you this time (2008)

    164 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  24. Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions

    164 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  25. PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes

    164 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  26. Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status

    164 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  27. A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning

    164 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  28. Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife using NSO Pegasus spyware, high court judge finds

    163 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  29. On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality

    163 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  30. California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

    163 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  31. Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

    163 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  32. The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community

    163 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  33. Scribe – An alternative front-end to Medium

    163 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  34. Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action

    163 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  35. “looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

    163 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  36. Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph

    163 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  37. OpenTelemetry

    163 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  38. Swift Distributed Actors

    162 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  39. Rivian S-1

    162 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  40. Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins

    162 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  41. The danger of hidden functional roles

    162 points • comment • oct 23, 2021

  42. New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease

    162 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  43. Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

    162 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  44. The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb

    161 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  45. Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway

    161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  46. Pro rata is a bad term for founders

    161 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  47. There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data

    161 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  48. DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight

    161 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  49. Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)

    161 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  50. China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

    161 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  51. What a solid made of electrons looks like

    161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  52. Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

    161 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  53. U.S. government owes over $100M for TSA's patent infringement

    161 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  54. Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres

    160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  55. Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts

    160 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  56. Why are our brains shrinking?

    160 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  57. How to get back into a hacked Facebook account

    160 points • comment • oct 19, 2021

  58. Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC

    160 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  59. Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute

    160 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  60. Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps

    160 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  61. International Mail Service Suspensions

    160 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  62. Why I built my own static site generator

    160 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  63. Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable

    159 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  64. M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime

    159 points • comment • oct 10, 2021

  65. A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux

    159 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  66. China proposes prohibiting private investment in news service sector

    159 points • comment • oct 09, 2021

  67. Sinclair TV stations disrupted across the US in apparent ransomware attack

    159 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  68. Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka

    159 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  69. Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study

    159 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  70. Functional Algorithms, Verified

    159 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  71. First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020)

    159 points • comment • oct 14, 2021

  72. Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy

    158 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  73. Hugo Themes ranked by GitHub Stars

    158 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  74. HelloSystem

    158 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  75. SRE Doesn’t Scale

    158 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  76. The road to OCaml 5.0

    158 points • comment • oct 07, 2021

  77. 2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience

    157 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  78. Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

    157 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  79. Detailed thoughts on the State of the .NET Foundation

    157 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  80. Mac SE/30 Odyssey

    157 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  81. Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem

    156 points • comment • oct 25, 2021

  82. Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2

    156 points • comment • oct 12, 2021

  83. People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors

    156 points • comment • oct 21, 2021

  84. NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)

    156 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  85. Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefited Google

    155 points • comment • oct 29, 2021

  86. New wave of strikes will test worker power

    155 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  87. Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

    155 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  88. EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid

    155 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  89. Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

    154 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  90. Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances

    154 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  91. Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021

    154 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  92. Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems [pdf]

    154 points • comment • oct 04, 2021

  93. Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based data processing pipeline

    154 points • comment • oct 18, 2021

  94. Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

    154 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  95. Turmoil at Bezos' Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office

    153 points • comment • oct 03, 2021

  96. Paxos automatically determined safe and secure

    153 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  97. BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer

    153 points • comment • oct 02, 2021

  98. OK Lenovo, we need to talk

    153 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  99. Open Simulator

    153 points • comment • oct 16, 2021

  100. Tools to Explore BGP

    153 points • comment • oct 05, 2021