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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer?
73 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortality in older adults
73 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Plan Ahead for Phase Out of 3G Cellular Networks and Service
73 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Ask HN: Does the Easel programming language still exist?
73 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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A mental model for decentralization
73 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh
73 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Google Chrome Zero Day CVE-2021-4102, Use after free in V8
73 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Unloved by generations of soldiers, the MRE finds a fan base
73 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
73 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Stop Whining about Rust Hype – A Pro-Rust Rant
73 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Nvidia EditGAN: Image Editing with Full Control from Sketches
72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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When MVPs Hurt
72 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Graph of the “no smell” complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon
72 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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The only Christmas tradition I care about is Sweden’s arson goat
72 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Monitoring 27kw Generac Generator with Raspberry Pi and Multimode Fiber
72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Scaling Tacit Knowledge
72 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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VLISP: A Verified Implementation of Scheme (1993) [pdf]
72 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Norway, Nov to Dec 2021
72 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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The Church of the Clocked Screws (2019)
72 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Microcode Research Team
72 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lithuania – sources
72 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law
72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Big cars are killing Americans
72 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Generic GPU Kernels
72 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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First Dual-Channel IDE?
72 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Caterwaul: A JavaScript-to-JavaScript Compiler
71 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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The longest train journey – in 2021
71 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Consuming Articles Offline
71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
71 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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When do people learn languages? (2002)
71 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good
71 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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The messy future of social media
71 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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A neat approximation algorithm
71 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Swift Roadmap for performance predictability: ARC improvements and ownership
71 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is everyone so fake on LinkedIn?
71 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Microplastics in food and drink may be fueling a dramatic rise in bowel diseases
71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence
71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Trisquel GNU/Linux
71 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
71 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England
70 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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What's it like to star in a flop?
70 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Charles Babbage – Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
70 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Connecting the iDOTs (2020)
70 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux
70 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Show HN: Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics
70 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Introduction to Modern Prolog
70 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing
70 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Trump social media group raises $1B from undisclosed investors
70 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Cash Glut in Eurozone Drives Dollar Demand
70 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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React: The Perils of Rehydration
70 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Metrics-driven product development is hard
70 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools
69 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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An Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years
69 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb
69 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Digital Painting with Real Brushes: Light Strokes for iPad
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
69 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Web Push Notifications in WebKit
69 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Type-Safe Printf for C
69 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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New York City to require employers to list minimum and maximum salaries
69 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?
69 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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After 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers
69 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (2003)
69 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (2017)
69 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods
69 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Show HN: A place for feedback on PCB designs
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Which programming language or compiler is faster
69 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Reverse-engineering a Roku to control background lights
69 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)
69 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Speedcabling (2008)
69 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Loop Fission
69 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm
68 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect
68 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Cyberattack on one of Norway’s largest media companies shuts down presses
68 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Amazon threatened driver’s job for leaving route during tornado
68 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Mastering Bash and Terminal (2017)
68 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Where is the AWS outage post-mortem?
68 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Miller – tool for querying, shaping, reformatting data in CSV, TSV, and JSON
68 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Parallel Logic Programming: A Sequel
68 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis
68 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Every Schubert Song, Ranked: Listening to 40 hours of Lieder
68 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Stop Facebook
68 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?
68 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Godot Engine receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs
67 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Fixing a performance problem in Elm using Html.Lazy
67 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The rule to making your own game is that there are no rules
67 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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What Makes sRGB a Special Color Space?
67 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Music now in the public domain from first January, 2022
67 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Alexa tells girl to put coin in plug socket
67 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything?
67 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Using ephemeral Onion Services for quick NAT traversal
67 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder into Century-Old Problem
67 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Jumping the Air Gap: 15 Years of Nation-State Effort [pdf]
67 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts
67 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Open-Source Psychometrics Project
67 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The Fishback ramjet revisited
67 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Examples of the Log4jAttackSurface exploited in the wild
67 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes
66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Show HN: I built an online programming language
66 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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It is always the DNS
66 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Tragic story – AWS hacked account
66 points • comment • dec 10, 2021