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Hacker News (Nov 2021)

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

    90 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

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

    90 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

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

    90 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  4. Node-RED: How an open-source tool is establishing itself in Industrial IoT

    89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  5. Neo-Andean Architecture in The Highest City in the World

    89 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  6. Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops

    89 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  7. Decaying but beloved, Tokyo’s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future

    89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  8. Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2014)

    89 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  9. Simula One – office-focused, standalone VR headset based on the Linux Desktop

    89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  10. SpaceX shut down part of Dishy's API

    89 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  11. Toyota Children's Web Site (1995)

    89 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  12. Vivian's TV Head Costume

    89 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  13. Why are cross-country train tickets in EU still so complex?

    89 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  14. Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers

    89 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  15. Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around

    89 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  16. Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl

    88 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  17. The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3

    88 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  18. San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis

    88 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  19. Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric

    88 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  20. Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth's Global Warming

    88 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  21. 0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family

    88 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  22. Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction

    88 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  23. How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)

    88 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  24. Contract for Sale of Soul

    88 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  25. City View Center – A shopping center built on toxic land (2020)

    88 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  26. Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)

    88 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  27. Godot Engine – Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

    88 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  28. Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?

    88 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  29. Transcrypt – Python in the Browser

    87 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  30. Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

    87 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  31. Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility

    87 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  32. Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models

    87 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  33. Jack on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter

    87 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  34. MuditaOS And Mudita Center are now fully Open Source

    87 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  35. Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day

    87 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  36. Nullc: Fast C-like programming language with advanced features

    86 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  37. Duff’s Device in 2021

    86 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  38. Bridge spiders build webs that double as acoustic arrays

    86 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  39. When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

    86 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  40. $200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here

    86 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  41. Elements may have been forged on Earth, as well as in space

    86 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  42. Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

    86 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  43. MLAT order from Luxembourg for Signal user data

    86 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  44. Making a game to memorize facts about every country

    86 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  45. The history of Flash games in China

    86 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  46. Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

    85 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  47. Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes life meaningful" poll

    85 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  48. AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications

    85 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  49. Why NFTs are bad: the long version

    85 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  50. Knapsack algorithm in PostgreSQL source code

    85 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  51. Expanding our private information policy to include media

    85 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  52. A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]

    85 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  53. Energy, and How to Get It

    85 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  54. Ephemeral Postgres Databases

    85 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  55. Git techniques

    85 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  56. Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

    85 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  57. Netflix released a horror movie written by a bot and it's spectacular

    85 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  58. Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds

    85 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  59. I write a parenting advice column (or how I became famous in my neighborhood)

    84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  60. Seattle residents launch Approval Voting initiative for representative elections [pdf]

    84 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  61. A quantum walk down Wall Street

    84 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  62. Async Python is not faster (2020)

    84 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  63. Doing Fraud on Securities Fraud

    84 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  64. Ask HN: Career progression vs. meaningful/appealing products?

    84 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  65. Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization

    84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  66. Welcome to C# 10

    84 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  67. Why Python needs to be paused during profiling – but Ruby doesn't always

    84 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  68. The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console

    84 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  69. A small scheme VM, compiler, and REPL in 4k

    84 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  70. Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?

    84 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  71. Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature

    84 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  72. WWWBrowser – a Haskell web browser (2019)

    84 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  73. On the future of Akka and Lightbend

    84 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  74. Art Bell Back in Time

    84 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  75. Types of Parser Combinators

    84 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  76. Capturing and Archiving MiniDV Tapes on macOS

    84 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  77. Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts

    83 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  78. Show HN: Grapic – Real whiteboards online using AR

    83 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  79. Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

    83 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  80. App is getting 500 server error. Cant connect

    83 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  81. The Pentagon’s view of climate change and the risks of state collapse

    83 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  82. The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!

    82 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  83. DBS Bank outage well into its second day with no meaningful update from DBD

    82 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  84. Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages

    82 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  85. Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News?

    82 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  86. On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

    82 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  87. Dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time

    82 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  88. Born to be cool: The life and music of Chet Baker

    82 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  89. Pretty inline symbolic mathematics in Org-mode

    82 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  90. Faster software through register based calling

    82 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  91. Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day

    82 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  92. Alan Kay at UCLA (2016) [video]

    82 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  93. Go Where No Drone Has Gone Before

    82 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  94. Billionaire defends windowless dorm rooms for California students

    82 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  95. Falsehoods programmers believe about names – with examples (2018)

    82 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  96. Kubernetes Cluster API v1.0, Production Ready

    81 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  97. Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter

    81 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  98. Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web

    81 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  99. 3MF file format and why it’s great (2019)

    81 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  100. The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)

    81 points • comment • nov 16, 2021