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1.

Facebook-owned sites are down (facebook.com)

629 points by nabeards 2021-10-04 | 315 comments

2.

M1 Pro and M1 Max (www.apple.com)

266 points by 0xedb 2021-10-18 | 161 comments

3.

The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks (www.cnbc.com)

198 points by batmaniam 2021-10-18 | 181 comments

4.

Facebook is back up (facebook.com)

187 points by adtac 2021-10-04 | 189 comments

5.

Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy (www.npr.org)

186 points by mmastrac 2021-10-05 | 158 comments

6.

PostgreSQL 14 Released (www.postgresql.org)

177 points by jkatz05 2021-09-30 | 24 comments

7.

MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch (www.apple.com)

169 points by 0xedb 2021-10-18 | 123 comments

8.

Many Believe It's Time to Do Away with Lawmakers Making Stock Trades (www.npr.org)

159 points by DocFeind 2021-09-24 | 73 comments

9.

Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return (www.economist.com)

145 points by sidcool 2021-10-07 | 131 comments

10.

Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors (www.theverge.com)

141 points by emdashcomma 2021-10-18 | 84 comments

11.

Statement from Mark Zuckerberg (www.facebook.com)

139 points by jaredwiener 2021-10-06 | 205 comments

12.

Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon (sfconservancy.org)

139 points by riffic 2021-10-22 | 193 comments

13.

California tried to save the nation from tax filing – then Intuit stepped in (www.latimes.com)

137 points by dv_dt 2021-10-21 | 59 comments

14.

Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way (news.ycombinator.com)

134 points by jacquesm 2021-10-13 | 32 comments

15.

Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform (www.theverge.com)

132 points by astlouis44 2021-10-15 | 82 comments

16.

Masked Email from Fastmail and 1Password (www.fastmail.com)

130 points by davidbarker 2021-09-28 | 67 comments

17.

Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video (plopdown.video)

127 points by spaceribs 2021-10-17 | 61 comments

18.

John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset (arstechnica.com)

122 points by JaimeThompson 2021-10-22 | 31 comments

19.

A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model (twitter.com)

119 points by dustintrex 2021-09-30 | 43 comments

20.

Image Sharing. No Bullshit (imgz.org)

113 points by vyrotek 2021-09-27 | 86 comments

21.

EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug (curia.europa.eu)

111 points by aleclm 2021-10-09 | 16 comments

22.

Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31 (developer.apple.com)

108 points by ezhik_ 2021-10-06 | 37 comments

23.

Moderna won't share vaccine recipe. WHO has hired African startup to crack it (www.npr.org)

107 points by rolph 2021-10-20 | 70 comments

24.

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

106 points by jgrahamc 2021-10-04 | 12 comments

25.

RIP Jörg Schilling (minnie.tuhs.org)

102 points by stargrave 2021-10-11 | 8 comments

26.

Back to EU (adambird.com)

100 points by mhw 2021-10-13 | 46 comments

27.

Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension (www.techspot.com)

98 points by mmastrac 2021-10-08 | 13 comments

28.

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation (mux.com)

98 points by mmcclure 2021-09-28 | 12 comments

29.

Clean environment could become U.N. human right. Not so fast, say U.S., Britain (www.reuters.com)

97 points by croes 2021-10-06 | 48 comments

30.

The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than the Entire Middle Class (www.zerohedge.com)

97 points by 1cvmask 2021-10-11 | 33 comments

31.

Nuclear Power in France (www.world-nuclear.org)

92 points by vanilla-almond 2021-10-12 | 67 comments

32.

Congratulations, Mini, You Made the Stupidest Turn Signals Ever (jalopnik.com)

91 points by colinprince 2021-09-26 | 58 comments

33.

Faster Python with Guido van Rossum (www.softwareatscale.dev)

90 points by WithinReason 2021-10-07 | 45 comments

34.

Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition (github.com)

89 points by 0des 2021-10-09 | 13 comments

35.

Highschool student hacks entire districts IoT network for Rickroll senior prank (whitehoodhacker.net)

88 points by revicon 2021-10-12 | 15 comments

36.

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow (stackoverflow.com)

87 points by w-m 2021-09-24 | 10 comments

37.

OVH is down along with its status page (status.ovh.com)

87 points by rgun 2021-10-13 | 33 comments

38.

Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques (ottawacitizen.com)

87 points by doat 2021-09-28 | 30 comments

39.

Fastmail currently down/under attack (www.fastmailstatus.com)

86 points by linux2647 2021-10-22 | 2 comments

40.

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content (www.washingtonpost.com)

84 points by danso 2021-09-29 | 127 comments

41.

Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting? (web.archive.org)

83 points by spudlyo 2021-10-14 | 12 comments

42.

First model released by BigScience outperforms GPT-3 while being 16x smaller (huggingface.co)

80 points by julien_c 2021-10-18 | 18 comments

43.

My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit (www.motherjones.com)

79 points by posharma 2021-09-28 | 9 comments

44.

When users never use the features they asked for (web.eecs.utk.edu)

79 points by jermaustin1 2021-09-29 | 6 comments

45.

Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel (academic.oup.com)

77 points by johntfella 2021-10-14 | 83 comments

46.

Personal Information of More Than 1.5B Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum (www.privacyaffairs.com)

77 points by comprev 2021-10-04 | 5 comments

47.

Facebook.com Is Listed for Sale (uniregistry.com)

77 points by 6d6b73 2021-10-04 | 21 comments

48.

Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure and Adware Free (torrentfreak.com)

76 points by CTOSian 2021-10-12 | 18 comments

49.

Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views.” from its CoC (github.com)

75 points by morpunkee 2021-10-01 | 51 comments

50.

House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week (www.marijuanamoment.net)

75 points by jdmark 2021-09-24 | 29 comments

51.

PinePhone Pro Announced (www.pine64.org)

73 points by abawany 2021-10-15 | 22 comments

52.

New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers (www.reuters.com)

73 points by dev_tty01 2021-10-04 | 134 comments

53.

Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online (www.euractiv.com)

73 points by ericdanielski 2021-10-13 | 24 comments

54.

Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro 2022 (2016) (blog.pinboard.in)

70 points by kome 2021-10-19 | 30 comments

55.

Vikings were in North America in 1021, latest research shows (www.nature.com)

70 points by bcaulfield 2021-10-20 | 22 comments

56.

How We Made Bracket Pair Colorization 10,000x Faster (code.visualstudio.com)

70 points by feross 2021-09-29 | 22 comments

57.

Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer (www.simplethread.com)

69 points by D_Guidi 2021-10-08 | 18 comments

58.

Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

69 points by DemiGuru 2021-10-13 | 15 comments

59.

Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism (www.economist.com)

69 points by boramalper 2021-09-26 | 8 comments

60.

Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely (www.seattletimes.com)

68 points by chickenpotpie 2021-10-11 | 17 comments

61.

The latest campus cancellation is different (www.theatlantic.com)

68 points by killittosaveit 2021-10-10 | 49 comments

62.

U.S. inflation rate rises to 13-year high of 5.4% (www.cbc.ca)

66 points by awnird 2021-10-13 | 45 comments

63.

The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time (www.theregister.com)

66 points by samizdis 2021-10-12 | 23 comments

64.

Oculus will allow sideloading and rooting to avoid e-waste (twitter.com)

65 points by cunidev 2021-09-28 | 19 comments

65.

Eleven reasons to switch from Windows to Linux (www.lpi.org)

64 points by jlpcsl 2021-10-22 | 66 comments

66.

Putting a DELL XPS laptop in a bag voids its warranty (www.dell.com)

64 points by bestouff 2021-09-24 | 39 comments

67.

Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? (www.taloflow.ai)

63 points by cloudfalcon 2021-10-06 | 17 comments

68.

The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation” (stallman.org)

61 points by leephillips 2021-10-03 | 20 comments

69.

New airpods with spatial audio (www.apple.com)

61 points by mr_o47 2021-10-18 | 16 comments

70.

What It's Like to Spend 40-50 Hours in VR Every Week (blog.immersed.team)

61 points by eflowers 2021-09-28 | 20 comments

71.

Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, Minus the Egress Fees (blog.cloudflare.com)

60 points by geostyx 2021-09-28 | 10 comments

72.

Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score (browser.geekbench.com)

60 points by mv9 2021-10-20 | 34 comments

73.

Polishing Cloth (www.apple.com)

60 points by itsme-alan 2021-10-19 | 19 comments

74.

Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP (visionzeroreporting.com)

60 points by chiefofgxbxl 2021-10-12 | 10 comments

75.

“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer” (www.reddit.com)

59 points by kossTKR 2021-10-07 | 48 comments

76.

We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers (blog.sentry.io)

59 points by bentlegen 2021-10-21 | 12 comments

77.

Hindenburg Research Announces $1M Bounty for Details on Tether’s Backing (hindenburgresearch.com)

59 points by ilamont 2021-10-19 | 7 comments

78.

Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com)

59 points by oconnor663 2021-10-19 | 7 comments

79.

Airbnb removes 80 percent of ads in Amsterdam after registration obligation (www.ruetir.com)

59 points by clydethefrog 2021-10-18 | 79 comments

80.

Are Software Engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? (floverfelt.org)

57 points by floverfelt 2021-09-30 | 53 comments

81.

Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues (discourse.mozilla.org)

56 points by gilrain 2021-09-25 | 12 comments

82.

Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat (www.callofduty.com)

55 points by notbaab 2021-10-13 | 78 comments

83.

Crews Are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Pay, Food or a Way Home (www.wsj.com)

55 points by bryan0 2021-10-08 | 25 comments

84.

YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute (twitter.com)

55 points by thereare5lights 2021-09-30 | 18 comments

85.

Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops (asia.nikkei.com)

55 points by jonbaer 2021-10-02 | 43 comments

86.

3D Printing Sex Toys (www.billieruben.info)

53 points by app4soft 2021-10-10 | 32 comments

87.

ScummVM 2.5.0 “Twenty years ago today ” brings tons of new games to play (www.scummvm.org)

53 points by galapago 2021-10-09 | 4 comments

88.

Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse (www.theverge.com)

53 points by Tomte 2021-10-13 | 45 comments

89.

Apple announces “Report a scam or fraud” App Store option (developer.apple.com)

53 points by keleftheriou 2021-10-06 | 16 comments

90.

What is ClickHouse how it compares to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time series (blog.timescale.com)

53 points by LoriP 2021-10-21 | 12 comments

91.

Stripe Press (press.stripe.com)

52 points by Brajeshwar 2021-10-05 | 18 comments

92.

Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill (www.advantaira.com)

52 points by mmd45 2021-10-07 | 46 comments

93.

Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable (sapienjournal.org)

52 points by hheikinh 2021-10-10 | 20 comments

94.

Thousands of deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980 (www.npr.org)

52 points by EastOfTruth 2021-10-01 | 0 comments

95.

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

51 points by PretzelFisch 2021-09-27 | 24 comments

96.

Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years (www.reuters.com)

51 points by nreece 2021-09-28 | 10 comments

97.

FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews (www.ftc.gov)

51 points by walterbell 2021-10-14 | 20 comments

98.

Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums – again (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

50 points by weare138 2021-10-10 | 6 comments

99.

Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain (www.reuters.com)

50 points by underscore_ku 2021-09-27 | 64 comments

100.

After 2hrs sunscreen that includes zinc oxide loses effectiveness, becomes toxic (phys.org)

50 points by XzetaU8 2021-10-14 | 41 comments

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