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Hacker News (Nov 2021)

  1. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

    3178 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  2. I resigned from Twitter

    1687 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  3. Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

    1593 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  4. Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

    1514 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  5. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

    1431 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  6. I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

    1343 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  7. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

    1305 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  8. Apple announces Self Service Repair

    1240 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  9. What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

    1171 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  10. Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

    1115 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  11. Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

    1111 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  12. How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home

    1107 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  13. Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

    1100 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  14. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

    1063 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  15. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

    1061 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  16. 3D printed mirror array

    1045 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  17. QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time

    1040 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  18. Thank you, GitHub

    1037 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  19. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

    959 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  20. Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful

    954 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  21. Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time

    900 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  22. The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

    877 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  23. Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

    870 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  24. Rust Moderation Team Resigns

    857 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  25. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

    855 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  26. Curves and Surfaces

    853 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  27. An oral history of Bank Python

    850 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  28. Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

    841 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  29. Microsoft calls Firefox’s browser workaround “improper,” will block it

    835 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  30. HashiCorp – S1

    827 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  31. Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89

    803 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  32. A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

    795 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  33. Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors

    793 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  34. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

    782 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  35. SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

    776 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  36. Fingerprints can be hacked

    773 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  37. Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

    764 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  38. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

    762 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  39. Individuals Matter

    757 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  40. Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

    751 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  41. 4x Smaller, 50x Faster

    749 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  42. Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

    720 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  43. Advent of Code 2021

    714 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  44. Why is Excalidraw so good?

    714 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  45. Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    691 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  46. Lesser-known Postgres features

    687 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  47. Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday

    687 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  48. Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

    682 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  49. Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

    680 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  50. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

    678 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  51. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

    671 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  52. Security issue related to the NPM registry

    656 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  53. Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations

    653 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  54. 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

    652 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  55. Report on Stablecoins [pdf]

    649 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  56. We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem

    634 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  57. Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

    630 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  58. There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

    624 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  59. Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC

    617 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  60. New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance

    615 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  61. Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

    605 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  62. Business Essentials

    594 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  63. OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

    589 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  64. American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent

    588 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  65. Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

    587 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  66. Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet

    585 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  67. Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas

    582 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  68. Books that changed my career as a software engineer

    580 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  69. How credit cards make money

    580 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  70. Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

    580 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  71. How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation

    578 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  72. The gradual extinction of softness

    577 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  73. AWS Private 5G

    574 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  74. ProctorU is dystopian spyware

    573 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  75. Restic – Backups Done Right

    562 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  76. Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s

    559 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  77. Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

    558 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  78. Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems

    555 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  79. Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

    555 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  80. The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

    554 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  81. I hate password rules

    551 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  82. Crypto Wash Trading

    551 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  83. The World's Deadliest Thing

    549 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  84. FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]

    544 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  85. Tiny

    543 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  86. The Stroad

    538 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  87. Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware

    537 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  88. The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

    535 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  89. Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages

    532 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  90. How my genius roommate changed my perspective

    530 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  91. Don’t be spooky

    530 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  92. ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

    526 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  93. Don’t do interviews, do discussions

    525 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  94. Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware

    523 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  95. Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money

    519 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  96. Useful sed scripts and patterns

    519 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  97. Things I learned from building a production database

    518 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  98. YouTube takes down independent court livestreams

    514 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  99. Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops

    506 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  100. Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats

    506 points • comment • nov 24, 2021