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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Power imbalances and sex

    129 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  2. LuaTeX Comes of Age (2017)

    129 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  3. Faking a Positive Covid Test

    128 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  4. Unusual login activity was due to bug

    128 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  5. Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from handwritten 1kb binary

    128 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  6. Decap of a tiny chip that plays Christmas songs

    128 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  7. Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made

    128 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  8. Control as Liability

    127 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  9. This page is designed to last (2019)

    127 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  10. Mico: A PDM to USB Microphone Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  11. Why 'Long Rituals' Matter

    127 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  12. Raytracing diamonds

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  13. You can't lure employees back to the office

    126 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  14. Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router

    126 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  15. Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?

    126 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  16. Dear self: we need to talk about social media

    126 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  17. Notes on Writing Web Scrapers

    126 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  18. Category Theory: Lecture Notes and Online Books

    126 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  19. Local man switches to Arch, tells no one [satire]

    126 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  20. Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  21. Why start a new database conference?

    126 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  22. The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 and IPv6

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  23. Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years [video]

    126 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  24. Table Oriented Programming (2002)

    126 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  25. United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

    125 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  26. Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge

    125 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  27. The Scholarly Pursuit of Shrek

    125 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  28. US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste

    125 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  29. C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat

    124 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  30. Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)

    124 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  31. Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file

    124 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  32. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

    124 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  33. ItsDangerous

    124 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  34. Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers

    123 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  35. Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer

    123 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  36. DARPA open sources resources to aid evaluation of adversarial AI defenses

    123 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  37. rC3 Fahrplan – The Chaos Communication Congress 2021 schedule

    123 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  38. Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS

    122 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  39. Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows

    122 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  40. Implant.ARM.iLOBleed.a

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  41. GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  42. WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US

    122 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  43. Nanos: A kernel designed to run only one application in virtualized environment

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  44. Image Kernels

    122 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  45. Design evolution of the Windows control panel

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  46. Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz

    121 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

    121 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  48. Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings

    121 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  49. Internet Sacred Text Archive

    121 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  50. OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)

    121 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  51. Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay

    121 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  52. Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand

    121 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  53. Intuitive Advanced Cryptography [pdf]

    121 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  54. Fixing memory leaks in popular Python libraries

    120 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  55. Practical Transformer Winding (2010)

    120 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  56. Keep the web free, say no to Web3

    120 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  57. Re-thinking electronic mail

    120 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  58. Animated Drawings

    120 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  59. New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021

    120 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  60. Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys

    120 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  61. Block (aka Square, Tidal, CashApp etc)

    120 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  62. AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances

    119 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  63. Three loud climate warning signals

    119 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  64. Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?

    119 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  65. Example Domain

    119 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  66. Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

    119 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  67. Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)

    119 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  68. No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record

    119 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  69. The rise and fall of rationality in language

    118 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  70. Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account

    118 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  71. The Last Soviet Generation

    118 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  72. Quadratic voting: A mathematical method that could offer a fairer way to vote

    118 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  73. Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation

    118 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  74. Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)

    118 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  75. DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack

    118 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  76. LG’s new 16:18 monitor

    118 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  77. War Starts

    117 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  78. Amazon Facility Hit by Tornado

    117 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  79. Once poor, always poor?

    117 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  80. Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider

    117 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  81. The big idea around unikernels

    117 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  82. Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  83. Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

    117 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  84. Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  85. This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  86. Swarm consensus [pdf]

    117 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  87. Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde communities

    117 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  88. 50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021

    116 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  89. CISA Director on Log4j Vulnerability

    116 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  90. Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer To Mythic Goal

    116 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  91. Show HN: Make my screen black

    116 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  92. F# Good and Bad

    116 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  93. Show HN: Python decorator that enables arbitrarily-deep tail/non-tail recursion

    116 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  94. Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion

    115 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  95. Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)

    115 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  96. My Favorite Software Subreddits

    115 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  97. Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat

    115 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  98. Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962

    115 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  99. Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret

    115 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  100. LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2021