top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-11-05

Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

https://nomdebebe.app/

4 years ago

1077 upvotes – 372 comments

Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizer-s-oral-covid-19-antiviral-cuts-hospitalization-death-by-85-sending-team-barreling-to

4 years ago

872 upvotes – 1128 comments

How credit cards make money

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make-money/

4 years ago

615 upvotes – 430 comments

Helion

https://blog.samaltman.com/helion

4 years ago

514 upvotes – 250 comments

How to Learn Stuff Quickly

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly/#%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F/

4 years ago

401 upvotes – 58 comments

Scrape like the big boys

https://incolumitas.com/2021/11/03/so-you-want-to-scrape-like-the-big-boys/

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 189 comments

Pdfsandwich

http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/

4 years ago

354 upvotes – 63 comments

Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-power-best-climate-change-solution-by-far-global-warming-emissions-cop26-11636056581

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 345 comments

IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach-belgium/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 258 comments

Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

http://web.archive.org/web/20050131033632/http://www.skirsch.com/humor/techarg.htm

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 132 comments

Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 356 comments

Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers

http://100r.co/site/orca.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Coping with cancer in the family

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29120388

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 136 comments

React Aria: A headless UI component library

https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 71 comments

An inside look into the illicit ad industry

https://ariadne.space/2021/11/04/an-inside-look-into-the-illicit-ad-industry/

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 85 comments

University of Florida reverses course, allows professors to testify

https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/11/05/university-of-florida-reverses-course-allows-professors-to-testify-regardless-of-compensation/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 38 comments

We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR

https://plausible.io/blog/bootstrapping-saas

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 68 comments

LXQt 1.0.0

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/1.0.0

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 95 comments

POSSE: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you

https://harrydenley.com/faking-twitter-unfurling/

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 67 comments
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