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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
141 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make deliveries
141 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Drop-In Replacement for Memcached
140 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)
140 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Learning with Not Enough Data: Semi-Supervised Learning
140 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light
140 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee
140 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack)
140 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods
140 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Fashion, art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition
140 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM
140 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials
140 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Faster Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
140 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business
140 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
140 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Awkward: Nested, jagged, differentiable, mixed type, GPU-enabled, JIT'd NumPy
140 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Firefox 95 Released
139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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This Year in Embedded Rust
139 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Thread Safety in C++ and Rust
139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell
139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Why do antibiotics exist?
138 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics
138 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes
138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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How I learned to stop worrying and push to master
138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology
138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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We check our node_modules folder into source control
138 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)
138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application
138 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Cache Poisoning at Scale
138 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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The RNA World Hypothesis
137 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
137 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
137 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist
137 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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I Lost My Past (2017)
137 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
137 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible
136 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
136 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
136 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)
136 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
136 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
136 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
136 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Public Staircases
136 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative
136 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
136 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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$45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency
136 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?
135 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Digging into Linux namespaces – part 1
135 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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KiCad 6.0.0
135 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The team that powers VLC (2019)
135 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?
134 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use
134 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)
134 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Things I learned writing my first technical book
134 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs
133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones
133 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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RNA Takes Over
133 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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We need your beginner’s mind
133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)
133 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings
133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++
133 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
133 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables
133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations
133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
133 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident
133 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Railway lines once connected the Middle East
133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust [video]
133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets
132 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
132 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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What's New in ClickHouse 21.12
132 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Three Ways to Debug Code in Elixir
132 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card
132 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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The cost of cloud
132 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Compiling code into silicon
131 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
131 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10
131 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Wolfram Cloud
131 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ketamine therapy is going mainstream
131 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams
131 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
131 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred
131 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword
131 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse
131 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
130 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages
130 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Windows 10 RCE: The exploit is in the link
130 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto
130 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion
130 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Video of Tesla on Autopilot Crashing into Stopped Truck at 75mph
130 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Femtolisp – A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
130 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Isn't she just Misunderstood? The Casio Loopy
130 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Wind whipped fires raging through Boulder County
130 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay
130 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
129 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Okta Outage
129 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix
129 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Inverting PhotoDNA
129 points • comment • dec 20, 2021