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Hacker News (Nov 2021)
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Helion
502 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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.plan
501 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark
499 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
498 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures
498 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
497 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
494 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Wolves make roadways safer
493 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case
491 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types
486 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
482 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
478 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
477 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
476 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
474 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
470 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Email from FBI Looks Odd
468 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop
468 points • comment • nov 21, 2021
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Winamp source code leak
467 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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.NET 6 Released
466 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Timeline of the Human Condition
460 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
459 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
458 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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Finishing my first game while working full-time
454 points • comment • nov 04, 2021
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macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
453 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts
452 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store
445 points • comment • nov 11, 2021
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Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
442 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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10 years of whatever this has been
441 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
441 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster
439 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
437 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
433 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
433 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)
431 points • comment • nov 24, 2021
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Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
430 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses
430 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Tell HN: GitHub is down again
429 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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The fish shell is amazing
429 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine
428 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative
423 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?
423 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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The Joy of Cryptography
422 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website
422 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote
421 points • comment • nov 28, 2021
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Backblaze IPO
420 points • comment • nov 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
414 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist
413 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
411 points • comment • nov 13, 2021
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U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
409 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]
407 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
406 points • comment • nov 18, 2021
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New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
403 points • comment • nov 03, 2021
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My Emacs Lisp book is finished
402 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due
401 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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Every pricing page should have GIFs
400 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Error 404 (Not Found)
399 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
397 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is
397 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)
395 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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The American prison system’s war on reading
395 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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How to programmatically find out if computer is on
394 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox
394 points • comment • nov 16, 2021
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Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
393 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations
392 points • comment • nov 19, 2021
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As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
391 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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“This project will only take 2 hours”
389 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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How to Learn Stuff Quickly
389 points • comment • nov 05, 2021
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Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
388 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
388 points • comment • nov 14, 2021
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Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
387 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
386 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
385 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Playstation 5 root keys obtained
383 points • comment • nov 08, 2021
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U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
383 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
383 points • comment • nov 15, 2021
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Batteries included with Emacs (2020)
380 points • comment • nov 25, 2021
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
376 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains
376 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
375 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
375 points • comment • nov 22, 2021
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The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people
374 points • comment • nov 09, 2021
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M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM
373 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Experts from a world that no longer exists
372 points • comment • nov 20, 2021
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Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
371 points • comment • nov 30, 2021
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Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate
370 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
370 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
370 points • comment • nov 29, 2021
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The Max Headroom Incident
369 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
367 points • comment • nov 26, 2021
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Spiders are much smarter than you think
367 points • comment • nov 07, 2021
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University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case
366 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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Bank transfers as a payment method
366 points • comment • nov 27, 2021
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
365 points • comment • nov 12, 2021
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XMPP, a comeback story
365 points • comment • nov 17, 2021
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Flatpak Is Not the Future
365 points • comment • nov 23, 2021
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How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
365 points • comment • nov 01, 2021
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AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives
365 points • comment • nov 06, 2021
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Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store
365 points • comment • nov 10, 2021
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An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software
365 points • comment • nov 02, 2021