Hacker News on 31 October 2021

• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
• Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
• It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
• CT Scan of a Pumpkin
• How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
• Get started making music
• Bash functions are better than I thought
• Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
• A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system
• A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure