The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2021
We track 1,341 stories from November 2021, averaging 254 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 216,267 comments, 161 per story on average.
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“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
niemanlab.org · spzx · 17 Nov 2021
3.2k pts
861 comments
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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
danrocks · 30 Nov 2021
1.7k pts
655 comments
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3
I resigned from Twitter
twitter.com · ryzvonusef · 29 Nov 2021
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
mooreds.com · gk1 · 8 Nov 2021
1.6k pts
671 comments
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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
support.google.com · minimaxir · 10 Nov 2021
1.4k pts
1.5k comments
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Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
batsov.com · gmemstr · 29 Nov 2021
1.4k pts
651 comments
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I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
twitter.com · dario_satu · 11 Nov 2021
1.4k pts
804 comments
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Apple announces Self Service Repair
apple.com · todsacerdoti · 17 Nov 2021
1.3k pts
431 comments
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What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
scribe.rip · mperham · 7 Nov 2021
1.2k pts
377 comments
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Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
youtube.com · raldi · 2 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
513 comments
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Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
idw-online.de · endymi0n · 26 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
97 comments
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Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
apple.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
449 comments
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
crystalverse.com · kdavis · 17 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
180 comments
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Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
nomdebebe.app · hamaluik · 5 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
372 comments
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QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
phoboslab.org · Ragnarork · 24 Nov 2021
1.1k pts
293 comments
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Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
apps.apple.com · bananabat · 9 Nov 2021
985 pts
252 comments
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Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
dynomight.net · dynm · 25 Nov 2021
971 pts
336 comments
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Rust Moderation Team Resigns
github.com · hasheddan · 22 Nov 2021
914 pts
838 comments
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Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
twitter.com · leodriesch · 11 Nov 2021
907 pts
542 comments
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The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
hackaday.com · zdw · 14 Nov 2021
899 pts
303 comments
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24
Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
vertiwalk.com · hliyan · 20 Nov 2021
886 pts
180 comments
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25
Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
theverge.com · Vinnl · 17 Nov 2021
885 pts
571 comments
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26
Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 12 Nov 2021
876 pts
615 comments
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Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
fiercebiotech.com · jeremylevy · 5 Nov 2021
872 pts
1.1k comments
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An oral history of Bank Python
calpaterson.com · todsacerdoti · 4 Nov 2021
864 pts
325 comments
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A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
rachelbythebay.com · zdw · 7 Nov 2021
842 pts
450 comments
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Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
dl.acm.org · Nirali_Feige · 18 Nov 2021
812 pts
224 comments
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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
brown.edu · adharmad · 2 Nov 2021
811 pts
315 comments
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Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
mofosyne · 8 Nov 2021
805 pts
192 comments
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
blog.danslimmon.com · jabo · 2 Nov 2021
804 pts
230 comments
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36
Fingerprints can be hacked
blog.kraken.com · SerCe · 22 Nov 2021
792 pts
315 comments
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Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
yanmaani.github.io · alg0rith · 28 Nov 2021
786 pts
796 comments
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SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
media.handmade-seattle.com · awesomekling · 18 Nov 2021
786 pts
180 comments
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Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
reuters.com · julosflb · 9 Nov 2021
784 pts
637 comments
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40
Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
macworld.com · miles · 7 Nov 2021
782 pts
727 comments
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Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
itchyjunk · 30 Nov 2021
755 pts
494 comments
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Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
astralcodexten.substack.com · 4monthsaway · 17 Nov 2021
735 pts
755 comments
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47
Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
blog.jetbrains.com · bmc7505 · 29 Nov 2021
718 pts
414 comments
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48
Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
reactionwheel.net · tosh · 23 Nov 2021
718 pts
326 comments
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90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
bbc.com · belter · 25 Nov 2021
709 pts
225 comments
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Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
browserflow.app · namuorg · 17 Nov 2021
707 pts
209 comments
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51
Lesser-known Postgres features
hakibenita.com · CRConrad · 9 Nov 2021
702 pts
166 comments
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Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
ponymessenger.com · dmitryminkovsky · 19 Nov 2021
693 pts
238 comments
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
github.blog · ManuelKiessling · 16 Nov 2021
667 pts
281 comments
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Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
comsec.ethz.ch · buran77 · 15 Nov 2021
662 pts
309 comments
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Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
home.treasury.gov · TheAlchemist · 1 Nov 2021
654 pts
663 comments
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56
We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
heap.io · kmdupree · 9 Nov 2021
654 pts
311 comments
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57
There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
kelownanow.com · actually_a_dog · 16 Nov 2021
641 pts
449 comments
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58
Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
agwa.name · h1x · 13 Nov 2021
637 pts
320 comments
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New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
reclaimyourface.eu · giuliomagnifico · 25 Nov 2021
637 pts
188 comments
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Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
gist.githubusercontent.com · vitplister · 23 Nov 2021
633 pts
168 comments
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