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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

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

    104 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  2. PCB Business Card

    104 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  3. What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?

    104 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  4. Turkey's Financial Crisis

    104 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  5. California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”

    103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  6. Show HN: Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations

    103 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  7. CP/M Source Code

    103 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  8. YouTube is testing people now?

    103 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  9. The rise and decline of thinking over feeling

    103 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  10. An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017)

    103 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  11. Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data

    103 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  12. Pegasus vs. Predator

    103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  13. Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG

    103 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  14. Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?

    103 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  15. Plenoxels

    103 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  16. The trees that miss the mammoths (2011)

    103 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  17. LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz

    103 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  18. WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

    102 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  19. On ELF, Part 2 (2018)

    102 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  20. Rusty Typestates – Starting Out

    102 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  21. On Hubris and Humility

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  22. NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH

    102 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  23. Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues

    102 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  24. The science of visual data communication: what works

    102 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  25. Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)

    102 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  26. Isolating Xwayland in a VM

    102 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  27. Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  28. Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model

    102 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  29. Zig: Drop MinGW-w64

    102 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  30. Tesla bows to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving

    102 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  31. Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS

    102 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  32. Death by Coconut

    102 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  33. MicroWeb DOS web browser – for 8088 systems

    101 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  34. Interview with Hansen Hsu, engineer at Apple during transition from OS 9 to OS X

    101 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  35. Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)

    101 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  36. Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)

    101 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  37. /R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned

    101 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  38. Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking

    101 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  39. Web Workers API

    101 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  40. The Dreamcast Legacy

    101 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  41. “It Started as a Joke”: On the Design of Idle Games (2019)

    100 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  42. PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview

    100 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  43. Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS

    100 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  44. Forth BBS 2 (1985)

    100 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  45. Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists

    100 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  46. Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

    99 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  47. Signal Identification Guide

    99 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  48. Work/life balance should be difficult

    99 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  49. Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

    99 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  50. A Civil War cartoonist created the modern image of Santa Claus (2018)

    99 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  51. The Ambiguity of Real Work

    99 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  52. An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety

    99 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  53. Step Away from Stack Overflow

    99 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  54. Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

    99 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  55. Keanu Reeves Thinks NFTs Are a Joke

    99 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  56. Authoring a SIMD enhanced WASM library with Rust

    99 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  57. When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception

    98 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  58. Evervault

    98 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?

    98 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  60. How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow

    98 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  61. ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit

    98 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  62. The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-Design [video]

    98 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  63. Twitter acquires Quill

    97 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  64. Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0

    97 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  65. AWS Ground Station

    97 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  66. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  67. Plasmic – A headless page builder

    97 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  68. Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?

    97 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  69. Introduction to WebAssembly Components

    97 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  70. Pfizer’s Covid-19 Pill is 89% Effective in Phase 2/3 Study

    97 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  71. Faster remainders when divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide

    97 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  72. Advent of Code Surveys: Results

    97 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  73. Peer-to-Peer NAT64 Network

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  74. Lua's Development Style (2008)

    97 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  75. An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral

    97 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  76. Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends

    97 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  77. Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard

    96 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  78. Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig

    96 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)

    96 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  80. Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  81. Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  82. Show HN: Moos.app – Interactive animated experiences for the web

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  83. Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  84. Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters

    96 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  85. Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins

    96 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  86. U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate 'killer robots'

    96 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  87. What children lose when their brains develop too fast

    96 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  88. Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?

    96 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  89. New Log4j2 vulnerability

    96 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  90. Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants

    96 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  91. Color Vision Simulation

    96 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  92. Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material

    96 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  93. U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts

    95 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  94. Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS

    95 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  95. DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member

    95 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  96. Show HN: Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse

    95 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  97. Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined

    95 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  98. The Great Offline

    95 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  99. The Third Web

    95 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  100. Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?

    95 points • comment • dec 18, 2021