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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]
104 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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PCB Business Card
104 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?
104 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Turkey's Financial Crisis
104 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Show HN: Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations
103 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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CP/M Source Code
103 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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YouTube is testing people now?
103 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The rise and decline of thinking over feeling
103 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017)
103 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data
103 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Pegasus vs. Predator
103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?
103 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Plenoxels
103 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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The trees that miss the mammoths (2011)
103 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
103 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
102 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
102 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Rusty Typestates – Starting Out
102 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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On Hubris and Humility
102 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH
102 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
102 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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The science of visual data communication: what works
102 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)
102 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Isolating Xwayland in a VM
102 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB
102 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model
102 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Zig: Drop MinGW-w64
102 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Tesla bows to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving
102 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS
102 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Death by Coconut
102 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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MicroWeb DOS web browser – for 8088 systems
101 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Interview with Hansen Hsu, engineer at Apple during transition from OS 9 to OS X
101 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)
101 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
101 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned
101 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking
101 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Web Workers API
101 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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The Dreamcast Legacy
101 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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“It Started as a Joke”: On the Design of Idle Games (2019)
100 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
100 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS
100 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Forth BBS 2 (1985)
100 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
100 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
99 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Signal Identification Guide
99 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Work/life balance should be difficult
99 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
99 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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A Civil War cartoonist created the modern image of Santa Claus (2018)
99 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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The Ambiguity of Real Work
99 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety
99 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Step Away from Stack Overflow
99 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
99 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Keanu Reeves Thinks NFTs Are a Joke
99 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Authoring a SIMD enhanced WASM library with Rust
99 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception
98 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Evervault
98 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?
98 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
98 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit
98 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-Design [video]
98 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Twitter acquires Quill
97 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0
97 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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AWS Ground Station
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked
97 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Plasmic – A headless page builder
97 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?
97 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Introduction to WebAssembly Components
97 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Pfizer’s Covid-19 Pill is 89% Effective in Phase 2/3 Study
97 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Faster remainders when divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide
97 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Advent of Code Surveys: Results
97 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Peer-to-Peer NAT64 Network
97 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Lua's Development Style (2008)
97 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral
97 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends
97 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard
96 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig
96 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)
96 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Show HN: Moos.app – Interactive animated experiences for the web
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters
96 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins
96 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate 'killer robots'
96 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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What children lose when their brains develop too fast
96 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
96 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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New Log4j2 vulnerability
96 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
96 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Color Vision Simulation
96 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material
96 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts
95 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS
95 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
95 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Show HN: Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse
95 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined
95 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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The Great Offline
95 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The Third Web
95 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?
95 points • comment • dec 18, 2021