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October 2021 Archive
91.
The naughty username checking system used by Twitch (ghostbin.com)
565 points by PrincessJess on Oct 6, 2021 | 337 comments
92.
Roger Hui has died (jsoftware.com)
563 points by z0a on Oct 17, 2021 | 44 comments
93.
HN 15 Years ago (news.ycombinator.com)
558 points by tough on Oct 9, 2021 | 148 comments
94.
Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked (kotaku.com)
556 points by goldenzun on Oct 6, 2021 | 298 comments
95.
Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party (forwardparty.com)
555 points by nipponese on Oct 5, 2021 | 605 comments
96.
We analyzed 425k favicons (iconmap.io)
550 points by gurgeous on Oct 20, 2021 | 128 comments
97.
Nomad vs. Kubernetes (nomadproject.io)
547 points by capableweb on Oct 15, 2021 | 361 comments
98.
Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs' (decrypt.co)
547 points by beambot on Oct 26, 2021 | 298 comments
99.
Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program (syncthing.net)
545 points by tambourine_man on Oct 14, 2021 | 230 comments
100.
Understanding Python through its builtins (sadh.life)
544 points by tusharsadhwani on Oct 10, 2021 | 173 comments
101.
Open Source Tax Software (ctskennerton.github.io)
543 points by aidangrimshaw on Oct 5, 2021 | 257 comments
102.
Jörg Schilling has died (minnie.tuhs.org)
542 points by stargrave on Oct 11, 2021 | 94 comments
103.
GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim (github.com)
540 points by orph on Oct 27, 2021 | 431 comments
104.
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player (twitter.com)
531 points by fortran77 on Oct 30, 2021 | 205 comments
105.
Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place (element.io)
530 points by mcjiggerlog on Oct 26, 2021 | 403 comments
106.
Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum (privacyaffairs.com)
527 points by comprev on Oct 4, 2021 | 144 comments
107.
It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is (pluralistic.net)
526 points by jensgk on Oct 31, 2021 | 267 comments
108.
Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy (npr.org)
525 points by mmastrac on Oct 5, 2021 | 688 comments
109.
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (fredrikholmqvist.com)
525 points by zkldi on Oct 19, 2021 | 296 comments
110.
Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab (imperial.ac.uk)
524 points by elorant on Oct 12, 2021 | 475 comments
111.
Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules (nytimes.com)
521 points by visitednews on Oct 23, 2021 | 250 comments
112.
China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization (wikimediafoundation.org)
520 points by hardmaru on Oct 10, 2021 | 280 comments
113.
How does apt render its fancy progress bar? (mdk.fr)
516 points by julienpalard on Oct 13, 2021 | 158 comments
114.
RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 (ijmacd.github.io)
514 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Oct 24, 2021 | 172 comments
115.
Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching (theswaddle.com)
512 points by amrrs on Oct 27, 2021 | 298 comments
116.
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video] (twitter.com)
512 points by tehnub on Oct 22, 2021 | 132 comments
117.
First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years (hopkinsmedicine.org)
512 points by infodocket on Oct 18, 2021 | 116 comments
118.
Coinbase Breach Notification (oag.ca.gov)
511 points by sunils34 on Oct 1, 2021 | 271 comments
119.
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview (owlpal.substack.com)
511 points by curiousowl on Oct 20, 2021 | 248 comments
120.
Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting? (web.archive.org)
511 points by spudlyo on Oct 14, 2021 | 114 comments