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Hacker News (Nov 2021)

  1. Helion

    502 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  2. .plan

    501 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  3. The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

    499 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  4. Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

    498 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  5. Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures

    498 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  6. DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

    497 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  7. Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships

    494 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  8. Wolves make roadways safer

    493 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  9. Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case

    491 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  10. New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

    486 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  11. Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

    482 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  12. Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)

    478 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  13. People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency

    477 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  14. Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)

    476 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  15. ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

    474 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  16. Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

    470 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  17. Email from FBI Looks Odd

    468 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  18. Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop

    468 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  19. Winamp source code leak

    467 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  20. .NET 6 Released

    466 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  21. Timeline of the Human Condition

    460 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  22. Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop

    459 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  23. Our self imposed scarcity of nice places

    458 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  24. Finishing my first game while working full-time

    454 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  25. macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good

    453 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  26. Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts

    452 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  27. Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

    445 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  28. Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

    442 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  29. 10 years of whatever this has been

    441 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  30. Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

    441 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  31. Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

    439 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  32. Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional

    437 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  33. Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed

    433 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  34. Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy

    433 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  35. Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)

    431 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  36. Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections

    430 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  37. Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses

    430 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  38. Tell HN: GitHub is down again

    429 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  39. The fish shell is amazing

    429 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  40. Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

    428 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  41. MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative

    423 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  42. Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

    423 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  43. The Joy of Cryptography

    422 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  44. Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website

    422 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  45. Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

    421 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  46. Backblaze IPO

    420 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

    414 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  48. US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

    413 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  49. Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos

    411 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  50. U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

    409 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  51. EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]

    407 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  52. German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

    406 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  53. New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800

    403 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  54. My Emacs Lisp book is finished

    402 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  55. Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due

    401 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  56. Every pricing page should have GIFs

    400 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  57. Error 404 (Not Found)

    399 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

    397 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  59. Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

    397 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  60. Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)

    395 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  61. The American prison system’s war on reading

    395 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  62. How to programmatically find out if computer is on

    394 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  63. Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox

    394 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  64. Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

    393 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  65. Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations

    392 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  66. As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

    391 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  67. “This project will only take 2 hours”

    389 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  68. How to Learn Stuff Quickly

    389 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  69. Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

    388 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  70. Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

    388 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  71. Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

    387 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  72. iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer

    386 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  73. Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

    385 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  74. Playstation 5 root keys obtained

    383 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  75. U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy

    383 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  76. How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

    383 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  77. Batteries included with Emacs (2020)

    380 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  78. It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere

    376 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  79. JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains

    376 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  80. My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours

    375 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  81. ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

    375 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  82. The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people

    374 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  83. M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM

    373 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  84. Experts from a world that no longer exists

    372 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  85. Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

    371 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  86. Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate

    370 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  87. Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours

    370 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  88. Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    370 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  89. The Max Headroom Incident

    369 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  90. The internet is held together with spit and baling wire

    367 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  91. Spiders are much smarter than you think

    367 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  92. University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case

    366 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  93. Bank transfers as a payment method

    366 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  94. Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop

    365 points • comment • nov 12, 2021

  95. XMPP, a comeback story

    365 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  96. Flatpak Is Not the Future

    365 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  97. How to build a low-tech website? (2018)

    365 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  98. AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives

    365 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  99. Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store

    365 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  100. An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

    365 points • comment • nov 02, 2021