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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

    2235 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  2. AWS us-east-1 outage

    1641 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  3. Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

    1612 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  4. Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

    1562 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  5. I started a paper website business

    1493 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  6. TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

    1488 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  7. 100 years of whatever this will be

    1380 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  8. Pixel prevented me from calling 911

    1337 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  9. Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

    1294 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  10. Log4j RCE Found

    1269 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  11. This website has 81% battery power remaining

    1221 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  12. Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

    1213 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  13. “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

    1188 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  14. Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

    1186 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  15. Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

    1142 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  16. Wish HN: Happy Holidays

    1133 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  17. U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

    1086 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  18. CT scans of AirPods evolution

    1075 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  19. A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

    973 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  20. Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

    965 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  21. Mess with DNS

    943 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  22. From Node to Ruby on Rails

    932 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  23. This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem

    928 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  24. Apple broke up with me

    923 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  25. Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'

    889 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  26. Prince of Persia in JavaScript

    876 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  27. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

    870 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  28. 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

    854 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  29. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

    851 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  30. Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

    851 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  31. President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

    844 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  32. Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

    838 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  33. Plans you're not supposed to talk about

    838 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  34. Blender 3.0

    834 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  35. Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

    830 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  36. Tailwind CSS v3.0

    826 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  37. Tokio Console

    784 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  38. YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

    761 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  39. uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

    755 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  40. The gift of it's your problem now

    728 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  41. Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

    723 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  42. Tqdm (Python)

    723 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  43. Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

    720 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  44. iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

    720 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  45. FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

    715 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  46. Advent of Code 2021

    713 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  47. Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

    709 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  48. Show HN: Emoji to Scale

    707 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  49. Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published

    694 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  50. Townscaper Running in the Browser

    690 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  51. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

    683 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  52. Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

    679 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  53. A New Coefficient of Correlation

    674 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  54. Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp

    661 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  55. We will be retiring Alexa.com

    655 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  56. Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

    652 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  57. Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart

    651 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  58. Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

    649 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  59. Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules

    644 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  60. How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes

    642 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  61. Supersonic Trebuchet

    637 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  62. Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

    628 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  63. Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable

    621 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  64. Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

    604 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  65. Leaving MySQL

    603 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  66. Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers

    602 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  67. WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”

    600 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  68. Entire website in a single HTML file

    597 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  69. A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop

    597 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  70. Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping

    593 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  71. Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

    591 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  72. Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

    590 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  73. Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

    588 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  74. Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

    586 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  75. Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

    579 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  76. Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

    574 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  77. Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

    570 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  78. All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

    566 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  79. YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

    563 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  80. Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

    557 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  81. You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

    549 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  82. An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone

    549 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  83. Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

    547 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  84. Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests

    542 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  85. Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work

    542 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  86. Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand

    539 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  87. Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube

    536 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  88. TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics

    535 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  89. Rust support in the Linux kernel

    534 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  90. Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place

    532 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  91. There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge

    530 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  92. FAA investigating controversial crash video

    528 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  93. Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China

    528 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  94. Reddit files to go public

    527 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  95. Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

    526 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  96. Apple Helps Asahi Linux

    526 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  97. HTTP Toolkit

    525 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  98. Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

    524 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  99. Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

    521 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  100. Issues with Cloudflare Images

    521 points • comment • dec 07, 2021