826
440
Overly analytical guide to escorting
https://knowingless.com/2021/10/19/becoming-a-whorelord-the-overly-analytical-guide-to-escorting/
4 years ago
744
448
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
635
187
Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycled-batteries-good-as-newly-mined
577
816
Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
https://store.google.com/category/phones?hl=en-US
525
296
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/pages/why-i-hate-frameworks.html
487
386
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
311
$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing
https://hindenburgresearch.com/tether/
376
41
Three hours to save Integral spacecraft
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Three_hours_to_save_Integral
349
68
Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/function-pipelines-building-functional-programming-into-postgresql-using-custom-operators/
347
115
Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
340
52
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
https://toc.cryptobook.us/
306
103
Five things we still don’t know about water
https://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water
300
178
Nim 1.6
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/19/version-160-released.html
295
86
Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population
https://therecord.media/hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population/
290
145
Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money
289
133
I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest”
https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1449856639331340289
283
107
Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Oct/17
267
92
New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-switch-1000x-faster-transistors
244
474
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
243
61
Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/
233
75
How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
https://www.mikealche.com/product-development/an-underdog-guide-to-creating-alternative-in-markets
213
210
David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021
https://www.commentary.org/articles/david-zucker/wokeness_destroys-comedy/
128
Math Foundations from Scratch
https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/math.html
203
89
Cue: A new language for data validation
https://cuelang.org/
197
Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/drone-operator-will-try-rescue-dogs-spanish-volcano-2021-10-19/
194
163
The day my script killed 10k phones in South America
https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/the-day-i/
64
32 Bit Real Estate
https://fly.io/blog/32-bit-real-estate/
186
Redis Anti-Patterns
https://developer.redis.com/howtos/antipatterns/
182
47
Google de-indexes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice
https://www.wheelsjoint.com/google-deletes-3000-articles-over-bogus-dmca-notice/
172
129
Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple
166
117
How to get back into a hacked Facebook account
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/hacked-social-media-account/
159
23
The SaaS Metrics That Matter
https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-metrics-that-matter
157
Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)
https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the_new_macbook_pro/
156
112
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)
https://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html
338
Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/16/is-the-world-economy-entering-a-wage-price-spiral
45
Spork: Peer-to-peer socket magic in the air
https://spork.sh/
155
78
Penguin is no longer the owner of the copyright to The Tao of Pooh
https://www.benjaminhoffauthor.com/
180
A proposal for adding a pipe operator to JavaScript
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
82
Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2021/10/19/single-sign-on-what-we-learned-during-our-identity-alpha/
144
26
Show HN: Datree (YC W20): Prevent K8s misconfigurations from reaching production
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28918850
139
126
Android 12
https://www.android.com/android-12/
123
You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html
130
39
A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)
https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/
55
Version Control for Structure Editing
https://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1570
142
Facebook Settles with U.S. Gov over Improperly Reserving Jobs for Immigrants
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-settles-with-u-s-government-over-improperly-reserving-jobs-for-immigrants-11634662305
125
Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
https://pixelevent.withgoogle.com/
121
302
Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-05/urban-design-why-can-t-we-build-nice-neighborhoods-anymore
136
Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection)
https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/print-dependency-injection/
105
132
The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
https://phoenixtrap.com/2021/10/19/the-reports-of-perls-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/
104
173
Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began
https://www.the74million.org/article/naep-long-term-unprecedented-performance-drop-american-13-year-olds/
101
51
How the brain navigates cities
https://news.mit.edu/2021/how-brain-navigates-cities-1018
99
Star's strange path around black hole proves Einstein right (2020)
https://www.science.org/content/article/star-s-strange-path-around-black-hole-proves-einstein-right-again
90
Big Ball of Mud (1999)
http://laputan.org/mud/mud.html
87
54
Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/143
31
Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
https://github.com/ironsmile/euterpe
85
40
Polishing Cloth
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM6F3AM/A/polishing-cloth
76
91
94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universes-galaxies-unreachable/
50
Cognitive Warfare Project
https://www.innovationhub-act.org/content/cw-documents
72
Female author Mola revealed to be three men at €1m prize ceremony
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/woman-who-won-spanish-literary-prize-turns-out-be-three-men-1284927
5
Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity
https://lukasz.langa.pl/f15a8851-af26-4e94-a4b1-c146c57c9d20/
71
84
Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/10/01/the-victorian-gas-lamps-that-sold-cups-of-hot-coffee/
69
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped over 50% Since 1973, Paper Finds (2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-problem.html
3
SFC files lawsuit against Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html?s=03
66
33
What does Google think minimum wage is?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/what-does-google-think-the-minimum-wage-is/