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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area

    141 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

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

    141 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  3. Drop-In Replacement for Memcached

    140 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  4. You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)

    140 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  5. Learning with Not Enough Data: Semi-Supervised Learning

    140 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  6. Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light

    140 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  7. US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee

    140 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  8. Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack)

    140 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  9. Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods

    140 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  10. Fashion, art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition

    140 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  11. Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM

    140 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  12. Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials

    140 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  13. Faster Gitlab CI/CD pipelines

    140 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  14. Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

    140 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  15. On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World

    140 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  16. Awkward: Nested, jagged, differentiable, mixed type, GPU-enabled, JIT'd NumPy

    140 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  17. Firefox 95 Released

    139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  18. This Year in Embedded Rust

    139 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  19. Thread Safety in C++ and Rust

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  20. Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk

    139 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  21. Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  22. Why do antibiotics exist?

    138 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  23. Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  24. Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics

    138 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  25. Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes

    138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  26. How I learned to stop worrying and push to master

    138 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  27. Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  28. We check our node_modules folder into source control

    138 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  29. Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  30. Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application

    138 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  31. Cache Poisoning at Scale

    138 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  32. The RNA World Hypothesis

    137 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  33. Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade

    137 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  34. Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

    137 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  35. Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist

    137 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  36. I Lost My Past (2017)

    137 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  37. Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

    137 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  38. Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible

    136 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  39. Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health

    136 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  40. Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

    136 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  41. Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)

    136 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  42. Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)

    136 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  43. Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]

    136 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  44. Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

    136 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  45. Public Staircases

    136 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  46. FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative

    136 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

    136 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  48. $45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency

    136 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  49. Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?

    135 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  50. Digging into Linux namespaces – part 1

    135 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  51. KiCad 6.0.0

    135 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  52. The team that powers VLC (2019)

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  53. Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?

    134 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  54. There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use

    134 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  55. Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)

    134 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  56. Things I learned writing my first technical book

    134 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  57. Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  58. Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones

    133 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  59. RNA Takes Over

    133 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  60. We need your beginner’s mind

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  61. Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)

    133 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  62. Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  63. Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++

    133 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  64. Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]

    133 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  65. Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables

    133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  66. NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations

    133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  67. English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

    133 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  68. California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident

    133 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  69. Railway lines once connected the Middle East

    133 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  70. On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust [video]

    133 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  71. 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets

    132 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  72. DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots

    132 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  73. What's New in ClickHouse 21.12

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  74. Three Ways to Debug Code in Elixir

    132 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  75. Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card

    132 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  76. The cost of cloud

    132 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  77. Compiling code into silicon

    131 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  78. Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay

    131 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  79. Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10

    131 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  80. Wolfram Cloud

    131 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  81. Ketamine therapy is going mainstream

    131 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  82. Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams

    131 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  83. AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before

    131 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  84. Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred

    131 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  85. Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword

    131 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  86. Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

    131 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  87. Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images

    130 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  88. Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages

    130 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  89. Windows 10 RCE: The exploit is in the link

    130 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  90. OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto

    130 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  91. Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion

    130 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  92. Video of Tesla on Autopilot Crashing into Stopped Truck at 75mph

    130 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  93. Femtolisp – A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

    130 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  94. Isn't she just Misunderstood? The Casio Loopy

    130 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  95. Wind whipped fires raging through Boulder County

    130 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  96. NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay

    130 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  97. Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional

    129 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  98. Okta Outage

    129 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  99. Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix

    129 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  100. Inverting PhotoDNA

    129 points • comment • dec 20, 2021