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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Power imbalances and sex
129 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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LuaTeX Comes of Age (2017)
129 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Faking a Positive Covid Test
128 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Unusual login activity was due to bug
128 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from handwritten 1kb binary
128 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Decap of a tiny chip that plays Christmas songs
128 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
128 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Control as Liability
127 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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This page is designed to last (2019)
127 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Mico: A PDM to USB Microphone Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
127 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Why 'Long Rituals' Matter
127 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Raytracing diamonds
127 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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You can't lure employees back to the office
126 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router
126 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?
126 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Dear self: we need to talk about social media
126 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Notes on Writing Web Scrapers
126 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Category Theory: Lecture Notes and Online Books
126 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Local man switches to Arch, tells no one [satire]
126 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
126 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Why start a new database conference?
126 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 and IPv6
126 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years [video]
126 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Table Oriented Programming (2002)
126 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
125 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge
125 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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The Scholarly Pursuit of Shrek
125 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste
125 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat
124 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)
124 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file
124 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]
124 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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ItsDangerous
124 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers
123 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer
123 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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DARPA open sources resources to aid evaluation of adversarial AI defenses
123 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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rC3 Fahrplan – The Chaos Communication Congress 2021 schedule
123 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS
122 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
122 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Implant.ARM.iLOBleed.a
122 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”
122 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US
122 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Nanos: A kernel designed to run only one application in virtualized environment
122 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Image Kernels
122 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Design evolution of the Windows control panel
122 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
121 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
121 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings
121 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Internet Sacred Text Archive
121 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)
121 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay
121 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand
121 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Intuitive Advanced Cryptography [pdf]
121 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Fixing memory leaks in popular Python libraries
120 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Practical Transformer Winding (2010)
120 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Keep the web free, say no to Web3
120 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Re-thinking electronic mail
120 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Animated Drawings
120 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021
120 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys
120 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Block (aka Square, Tidal, CashApp etc)
120 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances
119 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Three loud climate warning signals
119 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?
119 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Example Domain
119 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs
119 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)
119 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record
119 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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The rise and fall of rationality in language
118 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account
118 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The Last Soviet Generation
118 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Quadratic voting: A mathematical method that could offer a fairer way to vote
118 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation
118 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)
118 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack
118 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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LG’s new 16:18 monitor
118 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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War Starts
117 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Amazon Facility Hit by Tornado
117 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Once poor, always poor?
117 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider
117 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The big idea around unikernels
117 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)
117 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests
117 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Swarm consensus [pdf]
117 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde communities
117 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021
116 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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CISA Director on Log4j Vulnerability
116 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer To Mythic Goal
116 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Show HN: Make my screen black
116 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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F# Good and Bad
116 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Show HN: Python decorator that enables arbitrarily-deep tail/non-tail recursion
116 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion
115 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)
115 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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My Favorite Software Subreddits
115 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat
115 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962
115 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret
115 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups
115 points • comment • dec 04, 2021