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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Fast CSV Processing with SIMD

    153 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  2. Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period

    153 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  3. The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)

    153 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  4. A molten salt storage solution using sodium hydroxide

    153 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  5. Insects are more sensitive than they seem

    153 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  6. Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)

    153 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  7. Literacy in the United States

    152 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  8. Most advice is pretty bad

    152 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  9. The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks

    152 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  10. The Economist tracks excess deaths

    152 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  11. Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

    152 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  12. All hyped up for Hypercard: further adventures with an Apple legacy format

    151 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  13. My worst tech interview experience

    151 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  14. Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  15. Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

    151 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  16. Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas

    151 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  17. Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years

    151 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  18. The year in math and computer science

    151 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  19. We Fund Public Interest Tech

    151 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  20. Construction of radio equipment in a Japanese PoW camp

    151 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  21. All Horses Are the Same Color

    151 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  22. Devon calls victory in 27-year war on termites

    151 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  23. How to handle difficult clients

    151 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  24. Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM

    151 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  25. Right-to-Left Styling 101

    151 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  26. Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?

    150 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  27. Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs

    150 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  28. Building Remote Teams for Startups

    150 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  29. NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft

    150 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  30. Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö

    149 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  31. Goodbye Brave

    149 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  32. Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic

    149 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  33. Pybaobab – Python implementation of visualization technique for decision trees

    149 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  34. Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked

    149 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  35. Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)

    149 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  36. Browse the web like its 1999

    149 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  37. RISC-V Int. Ratifies 15 New Specs, Opening Up New RISC-V Design Possibilities

    149 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  38. Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy

    149 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  39. Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test

    149 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  40. Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues

    149 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  41. PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet

    148 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  42. Wholesale prices measure rises 9.6% in Nov from year ago, fastest pace on record

    148 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  43. How Y Combinator Changed the World

    148 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  44. The Great Bifurcation

    148 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  45. Show HN: Overpass – a self-hosted video live streaming app

    148 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  46. Unix Admin Horror Story Summary (1992)

    148 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  47. General relativity passes a range of precise tests set by pair of extreme stars

    148 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  48. Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams

    147 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  49. Mu: A Human-Scale Computer

    147 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  50. To reduce student suicides by hanging to fans, institute in India removes fans

    147 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  51. Avoiding Internet Centralization

    147 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism

    147 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  53. SuperH

    147 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?

    146 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  55. BlackHole Audio Driver

    146 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  56. Framer Motion 3D

    146 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  57. I have a brain injury [video]

    146 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  58. Analog Devices Expands over 1000 Linux Device Drivers to Support Development

    146 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  59. Writing embedded firmware using Rust

    146 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  60. William Cook has died

    146 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  61. Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon

    145 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  62. The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness

    145 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  63. The Futurama Theorem

    145 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  64. Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

    145 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  65. Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed

    145 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  66. Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)

    145 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  67. “With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2”

    145 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  68. Web3 Is Bullshit

    145 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  69. World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor

    144 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  70. Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (1995)

    144 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  71. JWST Launch NASA Livestream

    144 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  72. Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations?

    144 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  73. The Deadlock Empire

    144 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  74. Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)

    144 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  75. How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in Rural Indiana

    143 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  76. It’s cheaper to stop emitting now than to pull carbon from the air later

    143 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  77. Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

    143 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  78. Women force change at Indian iPhone plant

    143 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  79. Some thoughts on writing

    143 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  80. Ansiwave BBS, a modern BBS with ANSI art and MIDI music

    143 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  81. Scamp CPU: A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system

    143 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  82. Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

    143 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  83. Changes in Dutch streets throughout the years (photo album)

    143 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  84. The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare

    143 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  85. MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon

    142 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  86. Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases?

    142 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  87. Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles

    142 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  88. AWS Console is returning HTTP 500 errors

    142 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  89. After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is near

    142 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  90. Show HN: SyncedStore CRDT – build multiplayer collaborative apps for React / Vue

    142 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  91. Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with worms at iPhone plant

    142 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  92. IRS: Stolen property must be reported as income on taxes

    142 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  93. Mushroom leather and how it is made (2020)

    142 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  94. WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL

    142 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  95. Features of a dream programming language

    142 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  96. State of Valhalla

    141 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  97. Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make deliveries

    141 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  98. Firefox Profilemaker

    141 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  99. Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

    141 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  100. Threepp: A C++17 Port of Three.js

    141 points • comment • dec 04, 2021