Go dark
Top HN Stories
[from
Oct 01, 2021
to
Oct 08, 2021
)
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52
Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
1312
2
Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
1271
3
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
1226
4
Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
1143
5
Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
1010
6
Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
936
7
NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites
817
8
Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
748
9
Phrack Issue 70
717
10
Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
711
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (October 2021)
375
2
Is HN having problem keeping up today?
371
3
Why are relational DBs are the standard instead of graph-based DBs?
233
4
Non-tech professionals on HN?
215
5
How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?
123
6
Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)
108
7
Why is Node.js hated so much?
60
8
Do you donate money to open source?
60
9
Are people only smart until they talk about things you know more about?
52
10
Is Hacker News slow today (2021-10-04)?
49
Top Show HN
1
ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
506
2
Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust
223
3
Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
161
4
UI for Apache Kafka
158
5
SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances
157
6
IndiePaper – An easy way to write and sell self-published books
146
7
Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course
141
8
Dependently typed language for proofs that you can implement in one day
138
9
MaryJane – Mjpeg server in 30 lines of async Python
104
10
Work for Performance – Open performance issues on open-source
103
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
407
2
Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms
297
3
Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower
255
4
FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US
231
5
Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software
213
6
Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
180
7
After a decade as Apple’s assistant, Siri still hasn’t figured out the job
146
8
Employees given three months to return to Facebook office
133
9
Downsides to planting trillions of trees
127
10
X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count
120
News [?]
1
Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
1312
2
Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
1143
3
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
685
4
Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less
620
5
Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
525
6
Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?
500
7
European Parliament Calls for a Ban on Facial Recognition
495
8
Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops
402
9
How does the economy work? A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows
392
10
DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users
382
Scientific publications [?]
1
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
621
2
Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers
262
3
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's
133
4
Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
113
5
Unified Shader Programming in C++
106
6
Understanding Shannon's Entropy metric for Information [pdf]
100
7
U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, but Not for Everyone
82
8
Direct detection of dark energy: the XENON1T excess and future prospects
78
9
GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers [pdf]
59
10
Complex Systems: A Physicist's Viewpoint (G. Parisi)
44
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
1226
2
Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
1010
3
What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
584
4
More details about the October 4 outage
473
5
Moving Google toward the mainline
411
6
Update about the October 4th outage
274
7
New “Report a Problem” link on product pages
208
8
Running BGP in large-scale data centers
193
9
The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots
192
10
Things Go needs more than generics
183
Tech blogs [?]
1
The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster and More Efficient
191
2
DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
189
3
Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
112
4
The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing It to 128 Cores per Socket
91
5
Self-driving Citroën Skate carries swappable pods for inner-city travel
61
6
How store anti-theft alarms work: Magnetostriction (2015)
56
7
A Computer in the Game of Life (2020)
45
8
CVE-2021-26333 - Flaw in AMD PSP chipset affects millions of computers
15
9
AMD: Windows 11 Slows CPUs Up to 15%, Patch Coming
12
10
World's biggest clean energy project to power Singapore from Australia
9
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple opens Developer Academy in Detroit to create new career opportunities
39
2
Windows 11 System Requirements
10
3
Microsoft’s 5 guiding principles for decentralized identities
8
4
AWS Service Terms Mentions a Zombie Apocalypse in 42.10
6
5
Apple: Celebrating Steve
4
6
Windows 11 Available for Download
4
7
By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence
3
8
AWS Step Functions Supports 200 Services to Enable Easier Workflow Automation
3
9
Apple Watch Series 7 orders start Friday, October 8
2
10
MongoDB Turns to Lucene for Search
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Moths in slow motion [video]
661
2
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
297
3
Facebook Political Problems
135
4
The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, According to a 10-Year Study (2018)
88
5
Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All over Neolithic Britain
84
6
GitHub Removes GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC Following New Take-Two DMCA Notice
47
7
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress On C. Elgans After 10 Years
42
8
Fierce 'hell heron' dinosaur puts new wrinkles in Spinosaurus origin story
34
9
The Dark Art of Displaying Deep-Sea Fish
33
10
Creatures of the Popol Vuh
29
Science News [?]
1
Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action
176
2
What a solid made of electrons looks like
164
3
Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy
161
4
2450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (2019)
107
5
Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’
100
6
A blank wall can show how many people are in a room and what they’re doing
81
7
In Topology When Are Two Shapes the Same?
75
8
Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
70
9
Intestinal drug shown to boost memory and cognition
65
10
Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of 'Unbreakable' Glass
65
Social [?]
1
How to permanently delete your Facebook account
648
2
Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
602
3
Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers
460
4
It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated
448
5
Statement from Mark Zuckerberg
438
6
Facebook employees badges aren't working, unable to enter buildings
432
7
Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]
346
8
Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou
314
9
Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable
277
10
This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods
205
Github repos and gists [?]
1
E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
685
2
Writing a “bare metal” operating system for Raspberry Pi 4
453
3
Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
383
4
I'm sorry
345
5
Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests
317
6
A Git Implementation in Awk
274
7
Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend
268
8
Shaded Relief Maps in Blender
224
9
Dune: A Shell by the Beach
170
10
Wg-access-server: An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web UI
137
Wikipedia [?]
1
Ligne Claire
222
2
Retired Husband Syndrome
116
3
Firefox Wikipedia Page Contains Recursive Screenshot of Itself
74
4
Daphne Caruana Galizia
19
5
US Gold Reserve Act
15
6
Jomsvikings
9
7
Jevons Paradox
8
8
Dancing Mania
7
9
Mavis Beacon
6
10
1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
6
Blogs [?]
1
Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
499
2
Tools to Explore BGP
168
3
What Happened to Treehouse?
156
4
Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day
57
5
Levels: How We Work Without Meetings
19
6
Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Numerai Outperforms Market Neutral Hedge Funds by 29%
14
7
What Happened to Treehouse?
6
8
Deathstar – Application-level chaos engineering
6
9
Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
6
10
Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity
6
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Calling react components as functions: good practice?
1
2
How best to define a consumer/producer relationship in Java?
1
3
How to hint at number types (ie subclasses of Number), not numbers themselves?
1
Substack [?]
1
Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
936
2
The human tendency to over-water plants
220
3
I Am Suing UCLA
115
4
MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me
109
5
Remembering Huxley's “Brave New World”
85
6
Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging vaccine mandate
79
7
An Honest Look at Urbit
68
8
The Facebook whistleblower is heroic and terribly wrong
67
9
The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real
55
10
Gas-powered leaf blowers: the most polluting machinery still in legal use
47