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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

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

    115 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

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

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  3. Show HN: I made a free, ad-free and open source tool for sharing private notes

    114 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  4. Notches Gone Wild

    114 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  5. Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans

    114 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  6. Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin

    114 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  7. Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

    114 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  8. Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes

    114 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  9. The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)

    114 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  10. Faster Linux 2.5G Networking with Realtek RTL8125B

    114 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  11. Graviton2 and Graviton3

    114 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  12. Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)

    113 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  13. I found (and fixed) a vulnerability in Python

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  14. Preventing Pool-Party Attacks

    113 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  15. Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)

    113 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  16. Show HN: Earthly v0.6

    113 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  17. Don't spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it

    113 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  18. Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care

    113 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  19. Show HN: Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk

    113 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  20. Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)

    112 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  21. Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic

    112 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  22. NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISS

    112 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  23. Show HN: Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting

    112 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  24. XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH

    112 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  25. Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows

    112 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  26. Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script

    112 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  27. To secure the supply chain, you must properly fund it

    112 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  28. 5 Important Things to Do Before the Market Bubble Bursts

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  29. Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)

    112 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  30. The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

    112 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  31. Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses

    112 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  32. eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple

    112 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  33. 2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick

    111 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  34. The FDA's Restrictive Regulation of Home-Testing Devices (2017)

    111 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  35. Tesla Full Self Driving Beta Causes a Crash

    111 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  36. Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust

    111 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  37. Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS

    111 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  38. Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes

    111 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  39. Show HN: A labelling tool to easily extract and label Wikipedia data

    111 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  40. 0-Day Vulnerability on Log4j

    110 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  41. Music Library and MusicBrainz Picard

    110 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  42. AWS Tools Suck

    110 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  43. NFT Replicas: An app to mint a replica of virtually any NFT

    110 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  44. Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger

    110 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  45. NASA Ogma: generate hard-realtime C runtime monitoring applications

    110 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  46. Incorrectly deleted from Facebook? Getting back on might take connections

    110 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  47. Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities

    109 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  48. Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies

    109 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  49. The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (2013)

    109 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  50. Show HN: Collaborative RSS Reader

    109 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  51. IPv4 Waiting List

    109 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. Super Pyxelate converts images to 8-bit pixel art

    109 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  53. Étoilé on Gnustep

    109 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  54. I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]

    109 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  55. Walking the World: Bucharest

    109 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  56. Data leak of all Albanians 600k+ profiles

    108 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  57. Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week

    108 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  58. The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding the future of AI

    108 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  59. Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser

    108 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  60. Clojure Macros and Metaprogramming

    108 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  61. NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music

    108 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  62. Maryland hasn't updated Covid case data for 15 days due to a security incident

    108 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  63. The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun

    108 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  64. Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

    108 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  65. Synthetic Cartilage (2020)

    107 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  66. Sonic the Hedgehog for Commodore 64/128 + REU

    107 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  67. The longest train journey in the world in 2021

    107 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  68. Protonmail was identified as spam in Gmail

    107 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  69. What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)

    107 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  70. Coaxial Goes to War

    107 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  71. Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system

    107 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  72. NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful

    107 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  73. Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

    107 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  74. The Universal Structure of Storytelling

    106 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  75. Parser Combinators in Haskell

    106 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?

    106 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  77. Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter

    106 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  78. The carpetbagger’s guide to home ownership

    106 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  79. Mind-expanding books

    106 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  80. Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist

    106 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  81. A stochastic method to generate the Sierpinski triangle

    106 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  82. The Great SPAC Scam: SPACs a Great Deal for Sponsors, but Not Others

    106 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  83. Show HN: Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript

    106 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  84. Haystack 1.0 – open-source NLP framework to build NLProc back end applications

    106 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  85. A key inflation measure rose to a 39-year high last month

    106 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  86. A library for audio feature extraction, regression, classification, segmentation

    105 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  87. Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?

    105 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  88. Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure

    105 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  89. Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?

    105 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  90. CEPL: A lispy and REPL-friendly Common Lisp library for working with OpenGL

    105 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  91. Pine64 and Radxa's new Pi CM4-compatible boards

    105 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  92. Fakelish – Fake English word generator

    105 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  93. C++ in the Linux Kernel

    105 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  94. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod

    105 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  95. PCB Business Card

    104 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  96. SQL: The difference between WHERE and HAVING

    104 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  97. Mister FPGA: The Future of Game and Computer Emulation

    104 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  98. Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine

    104 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  99. The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  100. Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress

    104 points • comment • dec 11, 2021