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Hacker News (Nov 2021)
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“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
3178 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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I resigned from Twitter
1687 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
1593 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
1514 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
1431 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
1343 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
1305 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Apple announces Self Service Repair
1240 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
1171 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
1115 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
1111 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
1107 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
1100 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
1063 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
1061 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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3D printed mirror array
1045 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
1040 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Thank you, GitHub
1037 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
959 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
954 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
900 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
877 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
870 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Rust Moderation Team Resigns
857 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
855 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Curves and Surfaces
853 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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An oral history of Bank Python
850 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
841 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Microsoft calls Firefox’s browser workaround “improper,” will block it
835 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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HashiCorp – S1
827 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
803 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
795 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
793 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
782 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
776 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Fingerprints can be hacked
773 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
764 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
762 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Individuals Matter
757 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
751 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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4x Smaller, 50x Faster
749 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
720 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Advent of Code 2021
714 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Why is Excalidraw so good?
714 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
691 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Lesser-known Postgres features
687 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
687 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
682 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
680 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
678 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
671 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
656 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
653 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
652 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
649 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
634 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
630 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
624 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
617 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
615 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
605 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Business Essentials
594 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
589 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
588 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries
587 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet
585 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas
582 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Books that changed my career as a software engineer
580 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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How credit cards make money
580 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
580 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation
578 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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The gradual extinction of softness
577 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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AWS Private 5G
574 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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ProctorU is dystopian spyware
573 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Restic – Backups Done Right
562 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
559 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX
558 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems
555 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
555 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
554 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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I hate password rules
551 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Crypto Wash Trading
551 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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The World's Deadliest Thing
549 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
544 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Tiny
543 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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The Stroad
538 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
537 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
535 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
532 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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How my genius roommate changed my perspective
530 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Don’t be spooky
530 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
526 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Don’t do interviews, do discussions
525 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
523 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
519 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Useful sed scripts and patterns
519 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Things I learned from building a production database
518 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
514 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
506 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
506 points • comment • nov 24, 2021