The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2021

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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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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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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone mr_o47 · 25 Nov 2021

1.1k pts 224 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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3D printed mirror array github.com · agmm · 11 Nov 2021

1.1k pts 143 comments

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Thank you, GitHub github.blog · todsacerdoti · 3 Nov 2021

1k pts 439 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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Vertiwalk Vertical Walking vertiwalk.com · hliyan · 20 Nov 2021

886 pts 180 comments

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Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge theverge.com · Vinnl · 17 Nov 2021

885 pts 571 comments

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Show HN: Long Range E-Bike jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 12 Nov 2021

876 pts 615 comments

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Curves and Surfaces ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 2 Nov 2021

876 pts 66 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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HashiCorp – S1 sec.gov · mootpt · 4 Nov 2021

839 pts 266 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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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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Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro macworld.com · miles · 7 Nov 2021

782 pts 727 comments

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Individuals Matter danluu.com · benfrederickson · 16 Nov 2021

774 pts 398 comments

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4x Smaller, 50x Faster blog.asciinema.org · pama · 30 Nov 2021

758 pts 200 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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Advent of Code 2021 adventofcode.com · amenghra · 20 Nov 2021

745 pts 197 comments

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Why is Excalidraw so good? offbyone.us · zekenie · 4 Nov 2021

738 pts 267 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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Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains blog.jetbrains.com · bmc7505 · 29 Nov 2021

718 pts 414 comments

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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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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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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem heap.io · kmdupree · 9 Nov 2021

654 pts 311 comments

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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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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