top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-26

This word does not exist

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

4 years ago

1184 upvotes – 413 comments

A patent troll backs off

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3970

4 years ago

799 upvotes – 208 comments

Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'

https://decrypt.co/84277/snowden-slams-sam-altman-worldcoin-eyeball-scan-for-crypto

4 years ago

547 upvotes – 298 comments

Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

https://element.io/blog/element-one-all-of-matrix-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram-in-one-place/

4 years ago

530 upvotes – 403 comments

Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

https://flowingdata.com/2021/05/26/jobs-that-marry-together/

4 years ago

471 upvotes – 426 comments

Next.js 12

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 283 comments

Privacy Is a Human Right

https://blog.torproject.org/privacy-is-a-human-right

4 years ago

426 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

https://cooklang.org/

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 146 comments

Offline-First Database Comparison

https://github.com/pubkey/client-side-databases

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 155 comments

GitHub stale bot considered harmful

https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 163 comments

Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wind-solar-power-rural-ontario-1.6224159

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 388 comments

Apple Is Normalising Surveillance

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-surveillance-technology

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 223 comments

Where have all the insects gone?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/where-have-all-the-insects-gone-e-o-wilson-silent-earth

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 287 comments

A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM-only race condition

https://github.com/stong/how-to-exploit-a-double-free

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 134 comments

How we built a serverless SQL database

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-cockroachdb-serverless/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 117 comments

SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 262 comments

Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross

https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 98 comments

Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.html

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 85 comments

Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo

https://gaganpreet.in/posts/duckduckgo-wikivoyage/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 83 comments

Rust on Espressif chips

https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 69 comments
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