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Top of Month - Oct 2021

1. Facebook-owned sites were down
   (4 Oct 2021 | 2589 points | Comments)

2. IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
   (12 Oct 2021 | 1912 points | Comments)

3. Willingness to look stupid
   (21 Oct 2021 | 1859 points | Comments)

4. MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
   (18 Oct 2021 | 1657 points | Comments)

5. Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
   (8 Oct 2021 | 1605 points | Comments)

6. Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
   (8 Oct 2021 | 1513 points | Comments)

7. Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
   (24 Oct 2021 | 1417 points | Comments)

8. Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
   (3 Oct 2021 | 1312 points | Comments)

9. Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
   (14 Oct 2021 | 1300 points | Comments)

10. Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
    (24 Oct 2021 | 1292 points | Comments)

11. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
    (29 Oct 2021 | 1286 points | Comments)

12. Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
    (6 Oct 2021 | 1271 points | Comments)

13. 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
    (28 Oct 2021 | 1260 points | Comments)

14. Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
    (4 Oct 2021 | 1226 points | Comments)

15. This word does not exist
    (26 Oct 2021 | 1184 points | Comments)

16. Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
    (5 Oct 2021 | 1143 points | Comments)

17. Facebook Renames to Meta
    (28 Oct 2021 | 1089 points | Comments)

18. NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
    (24 Oct 2021 | 1062 points | Comments)

19. Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
    (18 Oct 2021 | 1052 points | Comments)

20. The metaverse is bullshit
    (30 Oct 2021 | 1031 points | Comments)

21. Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
    (6 Oct 2021 | 1010 points | Comments)

22. Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
    (16 Oct 2021 | 970 points | Comments)

23. EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
    (9 Oct 2021 | 938 points | Comments)

24. Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
    (5 Oct 2021 | 936 points | Comments)

25. Open Source Tractor
    (11 Oct 2021 | 887 points | Comments)

26. Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
    (16 Oct 2021 | 881 points | Comments)

27. A viable solution for Python concurrency
    (15 Oct 2021 | 841 points | Comments)

28. I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
    (28 Oct 2021 | 832 points | Comments)

29. Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
    (14 Oct 2021 | 826 points | Comments)

30. Overly analytical guide to escorting
    (19 Oct 2021 | 826 points | Comments)

31. The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
    (25 Oct 2021 | 818 points | Comments)

32. NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites
    (1 Oct 2021 | 817 points | Comments)

33. John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
    (22 Oct 2021 | 817 points | Comments)

34. Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
    (14 Oct 2021 | 816 points | Comments)

35. RSS is wonderful
    (23 Oct 2021 | 812 points | Comments)

36. Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
    (23 Oct 2021 | 808 points | Comments)

37. Vscode.dev
    (20 Oct 2021 | 803 points | Comments)

38. A patent troll backs off
    (26 Oct 2021 | 799 points | Comments)

39. AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
    (18 Oct 2021 | 797 points | Comments)

40. Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
    (25 Oct 2021 | 752 points | Comments)

41. Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
    (7 Oct 2021 | 748 points | Comments)

42. The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
    (19 Oct 2021 | 744 points | Comments)

43. Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
    (20 Oct 2021 | 738 points | Comments)

44. An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
    (23 Oct 2021 | 737 points | Comments)

45. What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
    (28 Oct 2021 | 735 points | Comments)

46. I keep making things out of checkboxes
    (11 Oct 2021 | 725 points | Comments)

47. Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]
    (24 Oct 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

48. New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012
    (27 Oct 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

49. Phrack Issue 70
    (5 Oct 2021 | 717 points | Comments)

50. Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
    (1 Oct 2021 | 711 points | Comments)

51. Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
    (11 Oct 2021 | 700 points | Comments)

52. Beyond Smart
    (21 Oct 2021 | 695 points | Comments)

53. E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
    (3 Oct 2021 | 685 points | Comments)

54. Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
    (7 Oct 2021 | 685 points | Comments)

55. It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
    (9 Oct 2021 | 682 points | Comments)

56. Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
    (11 Oct 2021 | 679 points | Comments)

57. Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
    (14 Oct 2021 | 679 points | Comments)

58. Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
    (23 Oct 2021 | 678 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
    (25 Oct 2021 | 674 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
    (22 Oct 2021 | 666 points | Comments)

61. Moths in slow motion [video]
    (7 Oct 2021 | 661 points | Comments)

62. Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
    (22 Oct 2021 | 658 points | Comments)

63. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
    (20 Oct 2021 | 655 points | Comments)

64. Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
    (24 Oct 2021 | 653 points | Comments)

65. Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
    (15 Oct 2021 | 651 points | Comments)

66. Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
    (12 Oct 2021 | 650 points | Comments)

67. Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker
    (24 Oct 2021 | 650 points | Comments)

68. How to permanently delete your Facebook account
    (6 Oct 2021 | 648 points | Comments)

69. WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
    (25 Oct 2021 | 636 points | Comments)

70. Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
    (19 Oct 2021 | 635 points | Comments)

71. Gitlab from YC to IPO
    (14 Oct 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

72. Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
    (31 Oct 2021 | 630 points | Comments)

73. Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
    (17 Oct 2021 | 624 points | Comments)

74. It takes a PhD to develop that
    (4 Oct 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

75. Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
    (5 Oct 2021 | 621 points | Comments)

76. Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less
    (7 Oct 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

77. Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
    (17 Oct 2021 | 615 points | Comments)

78. The Financial Times’ 404 page
    (24 Oct 2021 | 609 points | Comments)

79. Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
    (4 Oct 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

80. Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
    (13 Oct 2021 | 600 points | Comments)

81. Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
    (12 Oct 2021 | 598 points | Comments)

82. Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
    (11 Oct 2021 | 593 points | Comments)

83. Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
    (29 Oct 2021 | 593 points | Comments)

84. Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
    (22 Oct 2021 | 592 points | Comments)

85. Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
    (13 Oct 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

86. Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
    (31 Oct 2021 | 586 points | Comments)

87. What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
    (4 Oct 2021 | 584 points | Comments)

88. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks
    (21 Oct 2021 | 578 points | Comments)

89. Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
    (19 Oct 2021 | 577 points | Comments)

90. Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
    (4 Oct 2021 | 571 points | Comments)

91. The naughty username checking system used by Twitch
    (6 Oct 2021 | 565 points | Comments)

92. Roger Hui has died
    (17 Oct 2021 | 563 points | Comments)

93. HN 15 Years ago
    (9 Oct 2021 | 558 points | Comments)

94. Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
    (6 Oct 2021 | 556 points | Comments)

95. Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
    (5 Oct 2021 | 555 points | Comments)

96. We analyzed 425k favicons
    (20 Oct 2021 | 550 points | Comments)

97. Nomad vs. Kubernetes
    (15 Oct 2021 | 547 points | Comments)

98. Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'
    (26 Oct 2021 | 547 points | Comments)

99. Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
    (14 Oct 2021 | 545 points | Comments)

100. Understanding Python through its builtins
     (10 Oct 2021 | 544 points | Comments)