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Top of Month - Nov 2021

1. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
   (17 Nov 2021 | 3192 points | Comments)

2. Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
   (30 Nov 2021 | 1703 points | Comments)

3. I resigned from Twitter
   (29 Nov 2021 | 1692 points | Comments)

4. Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
   (8 Nov 2021 | 1631 points | Comments)

5. Making the dislike count private across YouTube
   (10 Nov 2021 | 1439 points | Comments)

6. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
   (29 Nov 2021 | 1360 points | Comments)

7. I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
   (11 Nov 2021 | 1356 points | Comments)

8. Apple announces Self Service Repair
   (17 Nov 2021 | 1285 points | Comments)

9. What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
   (7 Nov 2021 | 1185 points | Comments)

10. Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
    (2 Nov 2021 | 1130 points | Comments)

11. Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
    (26 Nov 2021 | 1128 points | Comments)

12. Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
    (23 Nov 2021 | 1122 points | Comments)

13. How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
    (17 Nov 2021 | 1119 points | Comments)

14. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
    (25 Nov 2021 | 1098 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
    (5 Nov 2021 | 1077 points | Comments)

16. QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
    (24 Nov 2021 | 1057 points | Comments)

17. 3D printed mirror array
    (11 Nov 2021 | 1056 points | Comments)

18. Thank you, GitHub
    (3 Nov 2021 | 1044 points | Comments)

19. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
    (9 Nov 2021 | 985 points | Comments)

20. Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
    (25 Nov 2021 | 971 points | Comments)

21. Rust Moderation Team Resigns
    (22 Nov 2021 | 914 points | Comments)

22. Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
    (11 Nov 2021 | 907 points | Comments)

23. The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
    (14 Nov 2021 | 899 points | Comments)

24. Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
    (20 Nov 2021 | 886 points | Comments)

25. Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
    (17 Nov 2021 | 885 points | Comments)

26. Curves and Surfaces
    (2 Nov 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
    (12 Nov 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

28. Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
    (5 Nov 2021 | 872 points | Comments)

29. An oral history of Bank Python
    (4 Nov 2021 | 864 points | Comments)

30. A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
    (7 Nov 2021 | 842 points | Comments)

31. HashiCorp – S1
    (4 Nov 2021 | 839 points | Comments)

32. Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
    (18 Nov 2021 | 812 points | Comments)

33. Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
    (2 Nov 2021 | 811 points | Comments)

34. Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
    (8 Nov 2021 | 805 points | Comments)

35. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
    (2 Nov 2021 | 804 points | Comments)

36. Fingerprints can be hacked
    (22 Nov 2021 | 792 points | Comments)

37. SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
    (18 Nov 2021 | 786 points | Comments)

38. Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
    (28 Nov 2021 | 786 points | Comments)

39. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
    (9 Nov 2021 | 784 points | Comments)

40. Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
    (7 Nov 2021 | 782 points | Comments)

41. Individuals Matter
    (16 Nov 2021 | 774 points | Comments)

42. 4x Smaller, 50x Faster
    (30 Nov 2021 | 758 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
    (30 Nov 2021 | 755 points | Comments)

44. Advent of Code 2021
    (20 Nov 2021 | 745 points | Comments)

45. Why is Excalidraw so good?
    (4 Nov 2021 | 738 points | Comments)

46. Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
    (17 Nov 2021 | 735 points | Comments)

47. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
    (23 Nov 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

48. Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
    (29 Nov 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

49. 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
    (25 Nov 2021 | 709 points | Comments)

50. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
    (17 Nov 2021 | 707 points | Comments)

51. Lesser-known Postgres features
    (9 Nov 2021 | 702 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
    (19 Nov 2021 | 693 points | Comments)

53. Security issue related to the NPM registry
    (16 Nov 2021 | 667 points | Comments)

54. Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
    (15 Nov 2021 | 662 points | Comments)

55. Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
    (1 Nov 2021 | 654 points | Comments)

56. We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
    (9 Nov 2021 | 654 points | Comments)

57. There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
    (16 Nov 2021 | 641 points | Comments)

58. Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
    (13 Nov 2021 | 637 points | Comments)

59. New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
    (25 Nov 2021 | 637 points | Comments)

60. Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
    (23 Nov 2021 | 633 points | Comments)

61. Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet
    (8 Nov 2021 | 631 points | Comments)

62. Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
    (21 Nov 2021 | 628 points | Comments)

63. Books that changed my career as a software engineer
    (28 Nov 2021 | 626 points | Comments)

64. How credit cards make money
    (5 Nov 2021 | 615 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
    (1 Nov 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

66. Business Essentials
    (10 Nov 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

67. How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation
    (10 Nov 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

68. ProctorU is dystopian spyware
    (9 Nov 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

69. OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
    (25 Nov 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

70. The gradual extinction of softness
    (10 Nov 2021 | 599 points | Comments)

71. Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries
    (19 Nov 2021 | 599 points | Comments)

72. AWS Private 5G
    (30 Nov 2021 | 591 points | Comments)

73. Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
    (2 Nov 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

74. American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
    (11 Nov 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

75. Tiny
    (29 Nov 2021 | 588 points | Comments)

76. Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas
    (24 Nov 2021 | 587 points | Comments)

77. Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX
    (22 Nov 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

78. Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
    (23 Nov 2021 | 574 points | Comments)

79. The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
    (10 Nov 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

80. Restic – Backups Done Right
    (13 Nov 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

81. Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
    (18 Nov 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

82. Crypto Wash Trading
    (19 Nov 2021 | 572 points | Comments)

83. Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
    (4 Nov 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

84. The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
    (2 Nov 2021 | 567 points | Comments)

85. The World's Deadliest Thing
    (22 Nov 2021 | 566 points | Comments)

86. ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
    (12 Nov 2021 | 565 points | Comments)

87. I hate password rules
    (16 Nov 2021 | 564 points | Comments)

88. FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
    (30 Nov 2021 | 562 points | Comments)

89. Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
    (20 Nov 2021 | 560 points | Comments)

90. Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems
    (30 Nov 2021 | 560 points | Comments)

91. Don’t be spooky
    (6 Nov 2021 | 556 points | Comments)

92. YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
    (15 Nov 2021 | 554 points | Comments)

93. The Stroad
    (21 Nov 2021 | 552 points | Comments)

94. Things I learned from building a production database
    (23 Nov 2021 | 551 points | Comments)

95. Don’t do interviews, do discussions
    (7 Nov 2021 | 550 points | Comments)

96. How my genius roommate changed my perspective
    (9 Nov 2021 | 549 points | Comments)

97. Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
    (8 Nov 2021 | 541 points | Comments)

98. The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark
    (17 Nov 2021 | 541 points | Comments)

99. Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
    (24 Nov 2021 | 538 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
     (19 Nov 2021 | 534 points | Comments)