top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-05

Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant

4 years ago

1143 upvotes – 692 comments

Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuitive-facts-in

4 years ago

936 upvotes – 323 comments

Phrack Issue 70

http://phrack.org/issues/70/1.html

4 years ago

717 upvotes – 110 comments

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111

4 years ago

621 upvotes – 318 comments

Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party

https://www.forwardparty.com

4 years ago

555 upvotes – 605 comments

Open Source Tax Software

http://ctskennerton.github.io/2021/08/30/open-source-tax-software/

4 years ago

543 upvotes – 257 comments

Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043207218/whistleblower-to-congress-facebook-products-harm-children-and-weaken-democracy

4 years ago

525 upvotes – 688 comments

Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

https://chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/

4 years ago

506 upvotes – 89 comments

Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

https://asahilinux.org/2021/10/progress-report-september-2021/

4 years ago

474 upvotes – 186 comments

More details about the October 4 outage

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/

4 years ago

473 upvotes – 286 comments

It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1445424833181925376

4 years ago

448 upvotes – 214 comments

Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-93/

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 275 comments

My Logging Best Practices (2020)

https://tuhrig.de/my-logging-best-practices/

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 153 comments

Stripe Press

https://press.stripe.com/

4 years ago

357 upvotes – 92 comments

PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees

4 years ago

337 upvotes – 243 comments

Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou

https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1445118812659933187

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 123 comments

Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

https://www.reuters.com/technology/telegram-founder-says-over-70-mln-new-users-joined-during-facebook-outage-2021-10-05/

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 149 comments

New York Public Library ends all late fees

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043412502/library-fees-eliminated-new-york

4 years ago

300 upvotes – 244 comments

Is 40 the New 60?

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/10/03/is-40-the-new-60.html

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 356 comments

Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud

https://www.rowy.io

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 91 comments
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