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1. Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations (cornell.edu)
881 points by aww_dang on Oct 16, 2021 | 598 comments
2. Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink (bleepingcomputer.com)
970 points by LordAtlas on Oct 16, 2021 | 470 comments
3. Git Command Explorer (gitexplorer.com)
289 points by MakisH on Oct 16, 2021 | 91 comments
4. Wearable Microphone Jamming (uchicago.edu)
360 points by graderjs on Oct 16, 2021 | 123 comments
5. Implementing Hash Tables in C (andreinc.net)
268 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 16, 2021 | 159 comments
6. Roguelike Celebration 2021 (roguelike.club)
203 points by Kinrany on Oct 16, 2021 | 46 comments
7. Genode – Sculpt Operating System 21.10 (genode.org)
92 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 16, 2021 | 12 comments
8. How to Safely Think in Systems (lethain.com)
188 points by kiyanwang on Oct 16, 2021 | 36 comments
9. Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform (github.com/kanidm)
180 points by haveyaseen on Oct 16, 2021 | 53 comments
10. Amazon Corretto JDK (amazon.com)
143 points by gjvc on Oct 16, 2021 | 83 comments
11. Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
300 points by godDLL on Oct 14, 2021 | 719 comments
12. Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning (nccgroup.com)
169 points by Hard_Space on Oct 16, 2021 | 95 comments
13. 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001) (gamedeveloper.com)
196 points by larsiusprime on Oct 16, 2021 | 72 comments
14. Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes (theguardian.com)
242 points by ClumsyPilot on Oct 16, 2021 | 149 comments
15. Functional Algorithms, Verified (functional-algorithms-verified.org)
167 points by haskellandchill on Oct 15, 2021 | 43 comments
16. VirtualMEC – a free 3D CAD for MECCANO (virtualmec.com)
60 points by app4soft on Oct 16, 2021 | 11 comments
17. The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video] (youtube.com)
192 points by DamnInteresting on Oct 15, 2021 | 109 comments
18. Minias – A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning (github.com/andrewchambers)
99 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 16, 2021 | 15 comments
19. Show HN: Add a command-line interface to any C++ program (github.com/empirical-soft)
119 points by chrisaycock on Oct 16, 2021 | 40 comments
20. Show HN: Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo (stormah.com)
79 points by dschroer on Oct 16, 2021 | 30 comments
21. Scaling Indexing and Search – Algolia New Search Architecture (highscalability.com)
79 points by yarapavan on Oct 12, 2021 | 22 comments
22. Circle: C++ Automation Language (circle-lang.org)
113 points by pjmlp on Oct 16, 2021 | 24 comments
23. A generic VHDL touch controller – add capacitive buttons to any FPGA (github.com/stnolting)
77 points by _quarks_ on Oct 16, 2021 | 17 comments
24. Explore the most detailed map of the universe – EPFL Longread (epfl.ch)
75 points by rbanffy on Oct 15, 2021 | 6 comments
25. Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program (medium.com/zendesk-engineering)
129 points by xerxes901 on Oct 15, 2021 | 46 comments
26. NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018) (rousette.org.uk)
168 points by behnamoh on Oct 16, 2021 | 121 comments
27. Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 (theregister.com)
154 points by upofadown on Oct 16, 2021 | 98 comments
28. From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth: The Idea of Queenship in Tenth-Century England (jhiblog.org)
69 points by benbreen on Oct 15, 2021 | 26 comments
29. Gotify/server: A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time (github.com/gotify)
132 points by rohithkp on Oct 16, 2021 | 29 comments
30. The Math Behind “Spot It” (smithsonianmag.com)
68 points by bobbiechen on Oct 14, 2021 | 21 comments

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