Hacker News on 28 November 2021

• Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
• Books that changed my career as a software engineer
• Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case
• Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote
• Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
• Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
• The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
• Floating point visually explained (2017)
• Why are German numbers backwards?
• Update on Omicron