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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Instagram Is Facebook Now
289 points • 230 comments • dec 01, 2021
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Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel
289 points • 58 comments • dec 01, 2021
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Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
288 points • 310 comments • dec 16, 2021
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How to rest well
288 points • 105 comments • dec 02, 2021
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New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
288 points • 384 comments • dec 20, 2021
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DIY Off-Grid Solar Power
287 points • 201 comments • dec 26, 2021
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Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
286 points • 217 comments • dec 07, 2021
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New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
286 points • 608 comments • dec 25, 2021
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Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car
284 points • 226 comments • dec 03, 2021
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The "five whys" productivity technique
284 points • 156 comments • dec 06, 2021
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Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
283 points • 413 comments • dec 22, 2021
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Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers
281 points • 61 comments • dec 05, 2021
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3 lines of code shouldn't take all day
281 points • 193 comments • dec 15, 2021
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How do you fix a stroad?
280 points • 334 comments • dec 09, 2021
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There's never been a better time to build websites
280 points • 293 comments • dec 20, 2021
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My progress in porting Wine
279 points • 59 comments • dec 31, 2021
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Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud
278 points • 171 comments • dec 23, 2021
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Why is my Rust build so slow?
278 points • 196 comments • dec 30, 2021
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
278 points • 112 comments • dec 03, 2021
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The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications
277 points • 109 comments • dec 08, 2021
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
277 points • 107 comments • dec 30, 2021
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HyperNeRF
276 points • 41 comments • dec 27, 2021
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BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
276 points • 309 comments • dec 15, 2021
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The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
275 points • 228 comments • dec 28, 2021
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Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
275 points • 86 comments • dec 27, 2021
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Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)
274 points • 48 comments • dec 27, 2021
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Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors
274 points • 217 comments • dec 17, 2021
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Thousands of coma patients may be conscious
273 points • 81 comments • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox
272 points • 177 comments • dec 21, 2021
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
272 points • 104 comments • dec 22, 2021
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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)
272 points • 191 comments • dec 27, 2021
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Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
270 points • 86 comments • dec 12, 2021
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Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals
270 points • 380 comments • dec 20, 2021
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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
270 points • 125 comments • dec 12, 2021
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The Modern Guide to OAuth
269 points • 57 comments • dec 31, 2021
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Kintsugi – Art of Repair
269 points • 92 comments • dec 13, 2021
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Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance
268 points • 250 comments • dec 09, 2021
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“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
268 points • 215 comments • dec 13, 2021
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The CIA and the Media (1977)
268 points • 142 comments • dec 09, 2021
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Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
268 points • 33 comments • dec 08, 2021
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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
267 points • 116 comments • dec 29, 2021
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Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
267 points • 304 comments • dec 11, 2021
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Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn
267 points • 222 comments • dec 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
266 points • 536 comments • dec 01, 2021
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Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go
265 points • 78 comments • dec 29, 2021
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“Open source” is broken
264 points • 275 comments • dec 11, 2021
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Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
264 points • 257 comments • dec 01, 2021
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An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
264 points • 454 comments • dec 03, 2021
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Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
264 points • 249 comments • dec 22, 2021
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Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription
264 points • 38 comments • dec 18, 2021
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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
264 points • 119 comments • dec 31, 2021
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Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent
264 points • 335 comments • dec 20, 2021
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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)
263 points • 256 comments • dec 01, 2021
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India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
262 points • 373 comments • dec 16, 2021
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Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time
261 points • 147 comments • dec 03, 2021
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JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
261 points • 93 comments • dec 24, 2021
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FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
261 points • 123 comments • dec 22, 2021
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Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not
261 points • 47 comments • dec 02, 2021
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Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
260 points • 237 comments • dec 22, 2021
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AWS down again?
260 points • 195 comments • dec 10, 2021
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CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020)
259 points • 165 comments • dec 06, 2021
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Move myself to inactive
259 points • 120 comments • dec 19, 2021
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Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
259 points • 69 comments • dec 20, 2021
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Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
258 points • 104 comments • dec 21, 2021
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Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public
258 points • 51 comments • dec 18, 2021
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Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)
258 points • 94 comments • dec 16, 2021
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Web3 is going just great
257 points • 214 comments • dec 14, 2021
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Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
257 points • 295 comments • dec 02, 2021
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Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
256 points • 145 comments • dec 16, 2021
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Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
256 points • 66 comments • dec 12, 2021
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Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
256 points • 296 comments • dec 19, 2021
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Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
256 points • 282 comments • dec 21, 2021
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uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS
255 points • 91 comments • dec 06, 2021
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Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
255 points • 106 comments • dec 25, 2021
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Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services
255 points • 106 comments • dec 23, 2021
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Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022
254 points • 137 comments • dec 17, 2021
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Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS
254 points • 132 comments • dec 21, 2021
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Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough
253 points • 93 comments • dec 16, 2021
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Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?
253 points • 271 comments • dec 05, 2021
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Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
253 points • 256 comments • dec 18, 2021
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Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (2013)
253 points • 27 comments • dec 30, 2021
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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
252 points • 312 comments • dec 09, 2021
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Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback
252 points • 232 comments • dec 23, 2021
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Why Retaining Walls Collapse
252 points • 124 comments • dec 07, 2021
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An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper
252 points • 22 comments • dec 18, 2021
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/tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
252 points • 115 comments • dec 23, 2021
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Germany: Data retention to be abolished
251 points • 95 comments • dec 30, 2021
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Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
251 points • 119 comments • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Advice about aging parents
251 points • 215 comments • dec 03, 2021
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OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
250 points • 47 comments • dec 25, 2021
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Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine
250 points • 340 comments • dec 16, 2021
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Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
250 points • 71 comments • dec 08, 2021
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Miniature 3456 LED Cube
250 points • 49 comments • dec 07, 2021
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Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement
249 points • 109 comments • dec 04, 2021
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Common Jobs in a Medieval City
248 points • 168 comments • dec 04, 2021
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Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?
248 points • 229 comments • dec 28, 2021
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“Open source” is not broken
248 points • 213 comments • dec 12, 2021
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Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software
247 points • 95 comments • dec 17, 2021
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Swift Playgrounds 4
247 points • 88 comments • dec 15, 2021
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Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon
247 points • 108 comments • dec 17, 2021