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Hacker News (Nov 2021)

  1. How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda

    179 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  2. An intro to finding things in Linux

    178 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  3. Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages

    178 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  4. OAuth with Cloudflare workers on a statically generated site

    178 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  5. The Tinkerbell Griftopia

    178 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  6. Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air

    177 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  7. Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect

    177 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  8. Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer

    177 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  9. Open-source automated insulin delivery system given approval by team of experts

    177 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  10. IRCv3 Spec round-up

    177 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  11. Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures

    177 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  12. Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production

    176 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  13. Winamp

    176 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  14. REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward

    176 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  15. The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019)

    175 points • comment • nov 24, 2021

  16. Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems

    175 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  17. Software company SAP: World-leading through intellectual property theft?

    175 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  18. Pilot Says Too Many Jumpers Outside Led to King Air Spin

    175 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  19. Divorce does funny things

    175 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  20. Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up

    175 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  21. Ask HN: Any indications Copilot scans your local files?

    175 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  22. Right-to-Repair causes Subaru to disable telematics in Massachusetts

    175 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  23. U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon

    175 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  24. Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011)

    175 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  25. AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

    174 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  26. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001)

    174 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  27. Adversarial image attacks are no joke

    173 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  28. Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on

    173 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  29. Minimum Viable Secure Product

    172 points • comment • nov 03, 2021

  30. Underdog no more, a deaf football team takes California by storm

    172 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  31. Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer

    172 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  32. An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation

    172 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  33. Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released

    172 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  34. Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t

    172 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  35. Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

    171 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  36. Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries

    171 points • comment • nov 06, 2021

  37. Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

    171 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  38. Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

    171 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  39. DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers

    171 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  40. How to Read “Gilgamesh” (2019)

    171 points • comment • nov 02, 2021

  41. Don't soften feedback

    171 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  42. Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement

    171 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  43. Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS

    170 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  44. Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API

    170 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  45. Visual Git

    170 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  46. A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine

    170 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  47. Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday

    170 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  48. The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis

    170 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  49. Nona – A German Search Engine

    170 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  50. Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

    169 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  51. October had the biggest U.S. inflation surge in more than 30 years

    168 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  52. Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (2011)

    168 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  53. AWS Graviton 3 Instances

    168 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  54. Seagate Creates an NVMe Hard Disk Drive

    168 points • comment • nov 13, 2021

  55. SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web

    168 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  56. Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini

    168 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  57. Disney’s Influence on U.S. Copyright Law

    168 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  58. Abstract Clojure

    168 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  59. Show HN: Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises

    167 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  60. Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator

    167 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  61. Journal of Functional Programming moving to open access

    167 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  62. The good things in the current age in tech

    167 points • comment • nov 11, 2021

  63. Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation

    167 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  64. Chinese athlete accuses former top Communist Party official of sexual assault

    167 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  65. McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

    167 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  66. Overdue library book returned more than 110 years later

    166 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  67. Nov 16 GCP Load Balancing Incident Report

    166 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  68. I was terrified of an eyeball injection

    166 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  69. Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]

    166 points • comment • nov 21, 2021

  70. Townscaper’s Rendering Style in WebGL

    166 points • comment • nov 01, 2021

  71. Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead

    166 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  72. Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript

    165 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  73. Love seems like a high priority

    165 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  74. Insurers run from ransomware cover as losses mount

    165 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  75. New differential fuzzing tool reveals novel HTTP request smuggling techniques

    165 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  76. ES modules are terrible

    165 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  77. TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false

    164 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  78. Arm Joins the Rust Foundation

    164 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  79. B.1.1.529

    164 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  80. The Frenchman who pioneered the modern mercenary industry

    164 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  81. What it's like to ride 900 km in a day

    164 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  82. Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2

    164 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  83. Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking

    164 points • comment • nov 20, 2021

  84. Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation

    163 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  85. Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?

    163 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  86. GoDaddy Breach Widens

    163 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  87. Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom storefronts

    163 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  88. Vulnerabilities in chips in 37% of smartphones

    163 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  89. $ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install

    163 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  90. An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

    163 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  91. Show HN: Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Browser via x86 to WASM JIT

    163 points • comment • nov 22, 2021

  92. Jim Warren has died

    162 points • comment • nov 25, 2021

  93. Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?

    162 points • comment • nov 18, 2021

  94. Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019)

    161 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  95. Show HN: Life Simulation Written in Rust

    161 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  96. Image file formats that didn’t make it

    161 points • comment • nov 10, 2021

  97. Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

    161 points • comment • nov 30, 2021

  98. Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

    160 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  99. AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

    160 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

  100. Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

    160 points • comment • nov 02, 2021