top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-01

Report on Stablecoins [pdf]

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf

4 years ago

654 upvotes – 663 comments

Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29073996

4 years ago

614 upvotes – 841 comments

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/trojan-source-bug-threatens-the-security-of-all-code/

4 years ago

494 upvotes – 271 comments

MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative

https://www.mangodb.io/

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 200 comments

Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/26/1048892388/meet-skimpflation-a-reason-inflation-is-worse-than-the-government-says-it-is?ft=nprml&f=1048892388

4 years ago

429 upvotes – 498 comments

Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

https://christianheilmann.com/2021/11/01/developer-tools-secrets-that-shouldnt-be-secrets/

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 104 comments

As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/facebook-wanted-to-hook-6-year-olds-with-new-apps-documents-show/

4 years ago

417 upvotes – 379 comments

EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]

https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/videos/watch/d64e6e10-0ad0-4b37-8813-3f5bc329f03b

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 197 comments

Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29072408

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 397 comments

Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood

https://meta.company/

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067493

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 1007 comments

University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/30/1050817670/university-florida-professors-free-speech-voting-rights

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 450 comments

How to build a low-tech website? (2018)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 216 comments

U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huawei gear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-11-01/u-s-telecoms-are-going-to-start-physically-removing-huawei-gear

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 281 comments

An Update on Our Outage

https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 226 comments

Culture shock

https://siddhesh.substack.com/p/culture-shock

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 251 comments

Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions

https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 198 comments

Man left shocked as his house is 'stolen'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662

4 years ago

318 upvotes – 350 comments

Using a VPN could become a criminal offence under new CFAA interpretation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29065443

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 91 comments

They don't even know the fundamentals

https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/they-dont-even-know-the-fundamentals/

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 316 comments

SoME1 results

https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1-results

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 32 comments

Introducing the layer based SVG engine

https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2021-10-29-layer-based-svg-engine/

4 years ago

281 upvotes – 100 comments

Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides,' experts say

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/11/01/fall-back-daylight-saving-time-health-experts-want-you-know/6174156001/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 322 comments

Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/google_opinion_column/

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 132 comments

Simple product management tricks

https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/20/simple-pm-tricks/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29064692

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 281 comments

The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years

https://www.cato.org/commentary/patriot-act-has-threatened-freedom-20-years

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 78 comments

Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly

https://famicom.party/book/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 27 comments

Intel Extension for Scikit-Learn

https://intel.github.io/scikit-learn-intelex/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

Townscaper’s Rendering Style in WebGL

https://reindernijhoff.net/2021/11/townscapers-rendering-style-in-webgl/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Visual Git

https://visualgit.io/news.html#20211031

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 116 comments

Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1455120966145740802

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 227 comments

Differences with other Lisps

https://clojure.org/reference/lisps

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 103 comments

What 3°C of global warming looks like

https://www.economist.com/films/2021/10/30/this-is-what-3degc-of-global-warming-looks-like

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 246 comments

C++ Coroutines Do Not Spark Joy

https://probablydance.com/2021/10/31/c-coroutines-do-not-spark-joy/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 250 comments

Results from being #1 on Hacker News for 6 hours

https://codeamigo.dev/blog/results-from-hn-1

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 39 comments

Why pine nuts are expensive [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88Cu5SoABg

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 121 comments

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

Chicken Checker – See how often salmonella was found at meat processing plants

https://projects.propublica.org/chicken/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067491

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 233 comments

Improving first impressions on Signal

https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 99 comments

People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-great-mystery-of-the-mind-meet-the-people-who-have-unusual-or-non-existent-inner-voices

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 268 comments

US Series I Savings Bonds Now Yielding 7.12%

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 177 comments

Etaoin Shrdlu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

Two stories about tacit knowledge

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/two-stories-about-tacit-knowledge

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

The Reading Obsession

https://neckar.substack.com/p/the-reading-obsession

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

Faster Mac dev tools with custom allocators

https://eisel.me/devtool-allocators

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

Global Green Up Slows Warming

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146296/global-green-up-slows-warming

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 93 comments

Apple: Ten Years Forward

https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706?gi=665f5d3c344f

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 201 comments

The Personal Analytics of My Life (2012)

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/opinion-wolfram-life-analytics/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Current value of the top 30 YC companies is about $575B

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1455102046902816775

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

C³: A "cool" route to the Higgs boson and beyond

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15800

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

https://www.refurb.me/blog/when-will-the-new-macbook-pro-be-refurbished

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 103 comments

Bridge spiders build webs that double as acoustic arrays

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/spider-uses-its-web-like-a-giant-engineered-ear-69366

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wdc-to-start-shipments-of-20tb-hdd-in-november

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life

https://lostmsu.github.io/life33/?life-full

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

GCC Rust Monthly Report – October 2021

https://thephilbert.io/2021/11/01/gcc-rust-monthly-report-11-october-2021/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Linux 5.15

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/31/203

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074752

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

Jsquery: A PostgreSQL extension for searching nested jsonb objects and arrays

https://github.com/postgrespro/jsquery

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

The simplest of slumbers

https://www.science.org/content/article/if-alive-sleeps-brainless-creatures-shed-light-why-we-slumber

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067492

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 134 comments

Inflationary Hikes

https://fedguy.com/inflationary-hikes/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259391

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Crypto Cities

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/10/31/cities.html

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 49 comments

Launch HN: Promoted (YC W21) - Search and feed ranking for marketplaces

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071609

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (2000)

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/109/TreeListRecursion.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/11/01/trojan-source-invisible-vulnerabilities/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

The data behind New York's increasingly dirty electricity peaks

https://www.stevegattuso.me/2021/10/31/new-york-dirty-electricity-peaks.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 80 comments

Apache Drill: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

https://drill.apache.org/blog/2021/10/30/reports-of-my-death/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/most-covid-19-hospitalizations-due-four-conditions

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 156 comments

Nix 2.4 Released

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-4-released/15822

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments
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