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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
2235 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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AWS us-east-1 outage
1641 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
1612 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
1562 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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I started a paper website business
1493 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
1488 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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100 years of whatever this will be
1380 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Pixel prevented me from calling 911
1337 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
1294 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Log4j RCE Found
1269 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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This website has 81% battery power remaining
1221 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
1213 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
1188 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
1186 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
1142 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Wish HN: Happy Holidays
1133 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
1086 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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CT scans of AirPods evolution
1075 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
973 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
965 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Mess with DNS
943 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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From Node to Ruby on Rails
932 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
928 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Apple broke up with me
923 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
889 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Prince of Persia in JavaScript
876 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
870 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
854 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
851 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start
851 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
844 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
838 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Plans you're not supposed to talk about
838 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Blender 3.0
834 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
830 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Tailwind CSS v3.0
826 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Tokio Console
784 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
761 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
755 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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The gift of it's your problem now
728 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
723 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Tqdm (Python)
723 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
720 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
720 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
715 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Advent of Code 2021
713 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
709 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Show HN: Emoji to Scale
707 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
694 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Townscaper Running in the Browser
690 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
683 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
679 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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A New Coefficient of Correlation
674 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp
661 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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We will be retiring Alexa.com
655 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
652 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
651 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
649 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
644 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
642 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Supersonic Trebuchet
637 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
628 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
621 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
604 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Leaving MySQL
603 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers
602 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
600 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Entire website in a single HTML file
597 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
597 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
593 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
591 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
590 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
588 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
586 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
579 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
574 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
570 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
566 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
563 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
557 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
549 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
549 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes
547 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
542 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
542 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
539 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
536 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics
535 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Rust support in the Linux kernel
534 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place
532 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
530 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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FAA investigating controversial crash video
528 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
528 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Reddit files to go public
527 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
526 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Apple Helps Asahi Linux
526 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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HTTP Toolkit
525 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
524 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
521 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Issues with Cloudflare Images
521 points • comment • dec 07, 2021