top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-19

Overly analytical guide to escorting

https://knowingless.com/2021/10/19/becoming-a-whorelord-the-overly-analytical-guide-to-escorting/

4 years ago

The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047303559/fda-hearing-aid-prescription-over-the-counter

4 years ago

Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined

https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycled-batteries-good-as-newly-mined

4 years ago

Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

https://store.google.com/category/phones?hl=en-US

4 years ago

Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/pages/why-i-hate-frameworks.html

4 years ago

Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executive-convicted-receiving-bribes-and-kickbacks-companies-contracting

4 years ago

$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing

https://hindenburgresearch.com/tether/

4 years ago

Three hours to save Integral spacecraft

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Three_hours_to_save_Integral

4 years ago

Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/function-pipelines-building-functional-programming-into-postgresql-using-custom-operators/

4 years ago

Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

4 years ago

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

https://toc.cryptobook.us/

4 years ago

Five things we still don’t know about water

https://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water

4 years ago

Nim 1.6

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/19/version-160-released.html

4 years ago

Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population

https://therecord.media/hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population/

4 years ago

Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money

https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money

4 years ago

I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest”

https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1449856639331340289

4 years ago

Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Oct/17

4 years ago

New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-switch-1000x-faster-transistors

4 years ago

High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045463623/high-schoolers-are-training-to-drive-18-wheelers-amid-a-shortage-of-truck-driver

4 years ago

Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/

4 years ago