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Hacker News (Nov 2021)

  1. Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books

    98 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  2. Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities

    98 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  3. Ask HN: What HN threads most influenced your thinking about startups?

    98 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  4. Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529

    98 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  5. A Busy Beaver champion derived from scratch

    98 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  6. An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]

    98 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  7. Mystery of high-performing solar cell materials revealed

    97 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  8. The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)

    97 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  9. Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding

    97 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  10. Analog Devices AD1139

    97 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  11. A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters

    97 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  12. Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?

    97 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  13. Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org (2019)

    97 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  14. A look at power on the new M1 Max

    97 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  15. Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students

    97 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  16. Oil 0.9.4 – User Feedback

    97 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  17. Intel Hardware allows activation of test or debug logic at runtime

    96 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  18. C³: A "cool" route to the Higgs boson and beyond

    96 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  19. Generate Musical Accompaniment with R

    96 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  20. Mandate is hereby stayed pending further action by this court [pdf]

    96 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  21. Games for IBM AS/400

    96 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  22. Skeptical about electric-powered planes

    96 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  23. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy

    96 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  24. ASCII Video Player

    96 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  25. Tiger Global: How to Win

    96 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  26. Zstandard RFC 8878

    96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  27. Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Lambda Based Apps

    96 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  28. Taking digital X-ray shots for cheap

    96 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  29. TPM Sniffing

    96 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  30. India's salesmen face ruin as Ambani targets mom-and-pop stores

    96 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  31. RetroBrew Computers

    96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  32. MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]

    96 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  33. YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video]

    96 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  34. The million-dollar drug (2018)

    96 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  35. Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?

    96 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  36. Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language

    95 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  37. The joy of concurrent logic programming

    95 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  38. Why nuclear fusion yields more energy than fission

    95 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  39. Open Source Ticker Tape

    95 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  40. The Bug in Paxos Made Simple

    95 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  41. A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)

    95 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  42. What happens to used electric car batteries?

    95 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  43. White Collar Holler – Stan Rogers

    95 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  44. The Secret History of ATAPI

    95 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  45. Sonic: A fast JSON serializing and deserializing library

    95 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  46. PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking

    95 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  47. It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code

    95 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  48. Const Generics in Rust

    95 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  49. JSONiq: JSON Query Language

    95 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  50. Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, says Sweden

    94 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  51. Pyheatmagic: Profile and view your Python code as a heat map

    94 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  52. The Personal Analytics of My Life (2012)

    94 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  53. EU lawmakers pass strict new rules affecting big U.S. tech

    94 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  54. A guide to organizing settings in Django

    94 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  55. Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP to Tackle Ethereum’s Sky-High Gas Fees

    94 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  56. Costly Airbus paint flaw goes wider than the Gulf

    94 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  57. Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies

    94 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  58. Scripting languages of the future

    94 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  59. Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? (2002)

    93 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  60. What Is AMD ROCm?

    93 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  61. Web Streams at the Edge

    93 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  62. Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

    93 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  63. Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn

    93 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  64. ProtonMail demanded private user data, because someone wrote about them badly

    93 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  65. Shadow Palette Generator

    93 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  66. Godot Engine receives $100k donation from OP Games

    93 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  67. Implementing secure leaderboards for my game

    93 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  68. Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance

    93 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  69. New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs

    93 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  70. Show HN: WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator

    93 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  71. Current value of the top 30 YC companies is about $575B

    93 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  72. ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst

    93 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  73. The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (2018)

    92 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  74. DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

    92 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  75. The intellectual incoherence of cryptoassets

    92 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  76. Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

    92 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  77. Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis

    92 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  78. DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrastructure bill

    92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  79. Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

    92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  80. A 100LOC C impl of memset, that is faster than glibc's

    92 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  81. The welfare effects of eviction policies

    92 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  82. OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware

    92 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  83. Apple, its control over the iPhone, and the internet

    92 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  84. Do something different for a week

    92 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  85. Haskell IHP framework, from a technical and business perspective

    92 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  86. Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data

    92 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  87. Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to secrecy of U.S. surveillance court

    91 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  88. Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (2015)

    91 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  89. Dam the Bering Strait, use nuclear-powered propellers to melt poles (2020)

    91 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  90. Foundations of Dawn: The Untyped Concatenative Calculus

    91 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  91. Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink

    91 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  92. NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain

    91 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  93. Software development pushes us to get better as people

    90 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  94. Raising a Stink

    90 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  95. The fabulous Flamingo, a motorhome made from an abandoned aircraft

    90 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  96. Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands

    90 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  97. Cellular Automata in F#

    90 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  98. Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

    90 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  99. A Review of “The Man Who Solved the Market”

    90 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  100. Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?

    90 points • comment • nov 22, 2021