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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture

    80 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  2. Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia's Proprietary Driver

    79 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  3. Awesome Hacker News – A collection of Hacker News apps, libraries, resources

    79 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  4. Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008)

    79 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  5. Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript

    79 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  6. Codesandbox open sources their execution enviornment: Sandpack

    79 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  7. 2,700-year-old leather armor proves technology transfer happened in antiquity

    79 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  8. See brands' supply chain linkages that are contributing to Amazon deforestation

    79 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  9. Cancelled by his college

    79 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  10. Luerl – An Implementation of Lua in Erlang

    79 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  11. Pre-commit: framework for managing/maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

    79 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  12. Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study (2020)

    78 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  13. Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?

    78 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  14. Twitter’s heads of engineering and design will leave in a company shake-up

    78 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  15. Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (2013)

    78 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  16. Cardstacker Bryan Berg

    78 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  17. About 2 months ago I went to review a product I bought from Amazon

    78 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  18. List of 4,248 open source programming languages

    78 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  19. Show HN: WanderApp – Cast Harry Potter Spells with gyroscope data

    78 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  20. MacKenzie Scott is giving away more money, faster, than anyone has before

    78 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  21. Web-Based Vulkan GLSL Ray Tracing Emulator

    78 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  22. What are Attackers after on IoT Devices?

    78 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  23. Advent of Code 2021 in pure TensorFlow – day 1

    78 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  24. Ask HN: Why do so many developers seem hostile to their users these days?

    78 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  25. Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow

    78 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  26. No More Stories

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  27. Py2cr: A Python3 to Crystal Translator

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  28. What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  29. JuNest – The lightweight Arch based distro that runs upon any Linux distribution

    77 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  30. Stephen Wolfram – re:Clojure Keynote [video]

    77 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  31. Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront their peers

    77 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  32. Scientific American does an hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist

    77 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  33. Designing a New PRNG

    77 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  34. Dive into Ethereum signatures with Raku language

    77 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  35. 11-week Kellogg’s strike to end after multi-year agreement reached

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  36. Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

    77 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  37. 90% of Everything Is Crap

    77 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  38. Diagon – Interactive ASCII art diagram generators

    77 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  39. E-Shotgun

    77 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  40. Understanding Fast-Math

    77 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  41. Forest data for 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020

    77 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  42. PostgreSQL's Missing DateDiff Function

    77 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  43. Barreleye fish

    76 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  44. Moo Card Player

    76 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  45. Ice shelf holding back keystone Antarctic glacier within years of failure

    76 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  46. Show HN: Play Zork with your friends via SSH

    76 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  47. The Effects of Major Retailers Raising Their Minimum Wages

    76 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  48. Thanks to the Chip Shortage, Texas Instruments Is Worth $170 B

    76 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  49. NCC Group’s Cryptopals Guided Tour

    76 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  50. SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI

    76 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  51. Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

    76 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over safety issues

    76 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  53. Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

    76 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  54. Stacking Up AMD MI200 versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines

    76 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  55. Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  56. Electronic warfare history of the Battle of the Bulge

    76 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  57. Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02

    76 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  58. The Problem with Ponzis

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  59. YouTube Censor North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park [Update: Video Available Now]

    76 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  60. A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015)

    76 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  61. The Joule-Thomson Effect and Models We Know

    76 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  62. Proteins, Proteins Everywhere

    76 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  63. Deserializing JSON Fast (2020)

    75 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  64. Hugging Face Acquires Gradio

    75 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  65. Optimizing the kernel to saturate a 100Gbps link (2017)

    75 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  66. Founder of Black Girls Code has been ousted as head of the nonprofit

    75 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  67. Pre-scheme: A Scheme dialect for systems programming (1997) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  68. 80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux

    75 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  69. StarFive Dubhe 64-bit RISC-V core to be found in 12nm, 2 GHz processors

    75 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  70. FrameWork laptop is Tom's favorite laptop of the year—and completely unexpected

    75 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  71. Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021

    75 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  72. Snapshotting memory to scrape encrypted network requests

    75 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  73. Bob Dole Has Died

    75 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  74. How Sber Built ruDALL-E

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  75. How the KGB Caught America's 'Volkswagen Spy'

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  76. Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  77. Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (1996)

    75 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  78. The Dead Sea of West Texas

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  80. Common shell script mistakes (2008)

    75 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  81. Fact-Checking CSIRO’s Communications about the Trustworthy Systems Group

    75 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  82. A new cycle-stepped Z80 emulator

    75 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  83. Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..]

    74 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  84. The Haskell School of Music (2012) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  85. Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the Moon

    74 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  86. Drugs, secrets and the circling hyenas

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  87. Help Is This Arabic?

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  88. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]

    74 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  89. Gaming on Wayland

    74 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  90. The Open Cap Table Coalition

    74 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  91. Generation of advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations

    74 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  92. Proof of Steak

    74 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  93. FDA authorizes first antiviral pill for Covid, Paxlovid

    74 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  94. For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange

    74 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  95. A Man from the Future – John von Neumann’s nuclear vision

    73 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  96. Container-to-Container Communication

    73 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  97. Bass – Lisp dialect for scripting the infrastructure beneath your project

    73 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  98. Ask HN: Does the Easel programming language still exist?

    73 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  99. Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortality in older adults

    73 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  100. Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules

    73 points • comment • dec 11, 2021