The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2021

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Facebook-owned sites were down facebook.com · nabeards · 4 Oct 2021

2.6k pts 1.3k comments

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IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district whitehoodhacker.net · revicon · 12 Oct 2021

1.9k pts 383 comments

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Willingness to look stupid danluu.com · ZephyrBlu · 21 Oct 2021

1.9k pts 777 comments

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MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch apple.com · 0xedb · 18 Oct 2021

1.7k pts 2.1k comments

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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer simplethread.com · D_Guidi · 8 Oct 2021

1.6k pts 722 comments

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Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension techspot.com · mmastrac · 8 Oct 2021

1.5k pts 583 comments

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Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal twitter.com · ColinWright · 24 Oct 2021

1.4k pts 405 comments

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Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich theguardian.com · pseudolus · 3 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 594 comments

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Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website missouriindependent.com · davidw · 14 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 678 comments

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Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux old.reddit.com · otreblan · 24 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 255 comments

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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California signal.org · Sami_Lehtinen · 29 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 580 comments

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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked videogameschronicle.com · cvak · 6 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 581 comments

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55 GiB/s FizzBuzz codegolf.stackexchange.com · luu · 28 Oct 2021

1.3k pts 255 comments

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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 4 Oct 2021

1.2k pts 260 comments

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This word does not exist thisworddoesnotexist.com · adrian_mrd · 26 Oct 2021

1.2k pts 413 comments

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Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs npr.org · sizzle · 5 Oct 2021

1.1k pts 692 comments

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Facebook Renames to Meta about.facebook.com · TiredOfLife · 28 Oct 2021

1.1k pts 1.1k comments

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NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts citizenlab.ca · giuliomagnifico · 24 Oct 2021

1.1k pts 310 comments

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Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors apple.com · emdashcomma · 18 Oct 2021

1.1k pts 983 comments

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The metaverse is bullshit outline.com · Stevvo · 30 Oct 2021

1k pts 747 comments

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Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31 developer.apple.com · ezhik_ · 6 Oct 2021

1k pts 498 comments

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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink bleepingcomputer.com · LordAtlas · 16 Oct 2021

970 pts 470 comments

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EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug curia.europa.eu · aleclm · 9 Oct 2021

938 pts 224 comments

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Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics axisofordinary.substack.com · raviparikh · 5 Oct 2021

936 pts 323 comments

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Open Source Tractor opensourceecology.dozuki.com · vincent_s · 11 Oct 2021

887 pts 204 comments

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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations news.cornell.edu · aww_dang · 16 Oct 2021

881 pts 598 comments

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A viable solution for Python concurrency lwn.net · zorgmonkey · 15 Oct 2021

841 pts 358 comments

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I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own codeamigo.dev · plondon514 · 28 Oct 2021

832 pts 250 comments

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Overly analytical guide to escorting knowingless.com · exolymph · 19 Oct 2021

826 pts 440 comments

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Apple Joins Blender Development Fund blender.org · dagmx · 14 Oct 2021

826 pts 280 comments

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The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon vice.com · arkadiyt · 25 Oct 2021

818 pts 265 comments

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NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites every.to · dtjb · 1 Oct 2021

817 pts 658 comments

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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset arstechnica.com · JaimeThompson · 22 Oct 2021

817 pts 304 comments

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Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices github.com · detaro · 14 Oct 2021

816 pts 382 comments

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RSS is wonderful quakkels.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Oct 2021

812 pts 281 comments

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Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy theregister.com · webmaven · 23 Oct 2021

808 pts 246 comments

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Vscode.dev code.visualstudio.com · connor4312 · 20 Oct 2021

803 pts 259 comments

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A patent troll backs off sparkfun.com · zdw · 26 Oct 2021

799 pts 208 comments

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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go swyx.io · pimterry · 18 Oct 2021

797 pts 286 comments

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Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details dailymail.co.uk · ColinWright · 25 Oct 2021

752 pts 312 comments

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Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions support.mozilla.org · mikro2nd · 7 Oct 2021

748 pts 690 comments

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The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription npr.org · cf100clunk · 19 Oct 2021

744 pts 448 comments

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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser brave.com · skellertor · 20 Oct 2021

738 pts 534 comments

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An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion twitter.com · choppaface · 23 Oct 2021

737 pts 349 comments

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What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? twitter.com · CalChris · 28 Oct 2021

735 pts 657 comments

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I keep making things out of checkboxes bryanbraun.com · vortex_ape · 11 Oct 2021

725 pts 111 comments

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New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012 ifixit.com · tailspin2019 · 27 Oct 2021

718 pts 613 comments

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Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com · pg_bot · 24 Oct 2021

718 pts 258 comments

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Phrack Issue 70 phrack.org · bugmen0t · 5 Oct 2021

717 pts 110 comments

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Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane noaa.gov · duck · 1 Oct 2021

711 pts 174 comments

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Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf] scss.tcd.ie · giuliomagnifico · 11 Oct 2021

700 pts 367 comments

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Beyond Smart paulgraham.com · razin · 21 Oct 2021

695 pts 432 comments

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Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return economist.com · sidcool · 7 Oct 2021

685 pts 578 comments

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E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi github.com · edward · 3 Oct 2021

685 pts 165 comments

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It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news greendude29 · 9 Oct 2021

682 pts 282 comments

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Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler esbuild.github.io · taitems · 14 Oct 2021

679 pts 281 comments

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Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan asia.nikkei.com · thedday · 11 Oct 2021

679 pts 216 comments

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Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations twitter.com · yblu · 23 Oct 2021

678 pts 485 comments

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Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office cric-code.pankajtanwar.in · the2ndfloorguy · 25 Oct 2021

674 pts 209 comments

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Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? adamkochanowicz · 22 Oct 2021

666 pts 787 comments