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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer?

    73 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

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

    73 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  3. Plan Ahead for Phase Out of 3G Cellular Networks and Service

    73 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

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

    73 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  5. A mental model for decentralization

    73 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  6. Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh

    73 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  7. Google Chrome Zero Day CVE-2021-4102, Use after free in V8

    73 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  8. Unloved by generations of soldiers, the MRE finds a fan base

    73 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  9. Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use

    73 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  10. Stop Whining about Rust Hype – A Pro-Rust Rant

    73 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  11. Nvidia EditGAN: Image Editing with Full Control from Sketches

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  12. When MVPs Hurt

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  13. Graph of the “no smell” complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon

    72 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  14. The only Christmas tradition I care about is Sweden’s arson goat

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  15. Monitoring 27kw Generac Generator with Raspberry Pi and Multimode Fiber

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  16. Scaling Tacit Knowledge

    72 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  17. VLISP: A Verified Implementation of Scheme (1993) [pdf]

    72 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  18. Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Norway, Nov to Dec 2021

    72 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  19. The Church of the Clocked Screws (2019)

    72 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  20. Microcode Research Team

    72 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  21. China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lithuania – sources

    72 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  22. AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  23. Big cars are killing Americans

    72 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  24. Generic GPU Kernels

    72 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  25. First Dual-Channel IDE?

    72 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  26. Caterwaul: A JavaScript-to-JavaScript Compiler

    71 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  27. The longest train journey – in 2021

    71 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  28. Consuming Articles Offline

    71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  29. The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)

    71 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  30. When do people learn languages? (2002)

    71 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  31. Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good

    71 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  32. The messy future of social media

    71 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  33. A neat approximation algorithm

    71 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  34. Swift Roadmap for performance predictability: ARC improvements and ownership

    71 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  35. Ask HN: Why is everyone so fake on LinkedIn?

    71 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  36. Microplastics in food and drink may be fueling a dramatic rise in bowel diseases

    71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  37. Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence

    71 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  38. Trisquel GNU/Linux

    71 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  39. Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme

    71 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  40. An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England

    70 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  41. What's it like to star in a flop?

    70 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  42. Charles Babbage – Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    70 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  43. Connecting the iDOTs (2020)

    70 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  44. Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux

    70 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  45. Show HN: Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  46. Introduction to Modern Prolog

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  47. Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing

    70 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  48. Trump social media group raises $1B from undisclosed investors

    70 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  49. Cash Glut in Eurozone Drives Dollar Demand

    70 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  50. React: The Perils of Rehydration

    70 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  51. Metrics-driven product development is hard

    70 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  52. Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools

    69 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  53. An Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years

    69 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  54. A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb

    69 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  55. Digital Painting with Real Brushes: Light Strokes for iPad

    69 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

    69 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  57. Web Push Notifications in WebKit

    69 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  58. Type-Safe Printf for C

    69 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  59. New York City to require employers to list minimum and maximum salaries

    69 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  60. Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?

    69 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  61. After 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers

    69 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  62. No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (2003)

    69 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  63. A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (2017)

    69 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  64. DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods

    69 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  65. Show HN: A place for feedback on PCB designs

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  66. Which programming language or compiler is faster

    69 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  67. Reverse-engineering a Roku to control background lights

    69 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  68. Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)

    69 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  69. Speedcabling (2008)

    69 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  70. Loop Fission

    69 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  71. Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm

    68 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  72. Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  73. Cyberattack on one of Norway’s largest media companies shuts down presses

    68 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  74. Amazon threatened driver’s job for leaving route during tornado

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  75. Mastering Bash and Terminal (2017)

    68 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Where is the AWS outage post-mortem?

    68 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  77. Miller – tool for querying, shaping, reformatting data in CSV, TSV, and JSON

    68 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  78. Parallel Logic Programming: A Sequel

    68 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  79. How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis

    68 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  80. Every Schubert Song, Ranked: Listening to 40 hours of Lieder

    68 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  81. Stop Facebook

    68 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  82. Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

    68 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  83. Godot Engine receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs

    67 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  84. Fixing a performance problem in Elm using Html.Lazy

    67 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  85. The rule to making your own game is that there are no rules

    67 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  86. What Makes sRGB a Special Color Space?

    67 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  87. Music now in the public domain from first January, 2022

    67 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  88. Alexa tells girl to put coin in plug socket

    67 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything?

    67 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  90. Using ephemeral Onion Services for quick NAT traversal

    67 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  91. Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder into Century-Old Problem

    67 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  92. Jumping the Air Gap: 15 Years of Nation-State Effort [pdf]

    67 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  93. Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

    67 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  94. Open-Source Psychometrics Project

    67 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  95. The Fishback ramjet revisited

    67 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  96. Examples of the Log4jAttackSurface exploited in the wild

    67 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  97. Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes

    66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  98. Show HN: I built an online programming language

    66 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  99. It is always the DNS

    66 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  100. Tragic story – AWS hacked account

    66 points • comment • dec 10, 2021