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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. How to talk about autism respectfully

    66 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

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

    66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  3. A project to bring back the northern white rhino from the edge of extinction

    66 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  4. Nearly 3/4 of the World’s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance

    66 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  5. Show HN: Tact – A simple chat app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS

    66 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  6. Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper

    66 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  7. The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning

    66 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  8. The Politics of Wine in 18th-century England

    66 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  9. Docopt

    66 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  10. Tragic story – AWS hacked account

    66 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  11. San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures

    66 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  12. Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  13. Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies

    65 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  14. Cal 9 1752

    65 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  15. The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron

    65 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  16. UniFi Network Application 6.5.54

    65 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  17. The U.S. Air Force Has Doubts About the F-35

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  18. Queue Despair: Ordering and Poison Messages

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  19. Ask HN: What are some good Rust code samples?

    65 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  20. New record levels of private aviation flights

    65 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  21. Researchers find a treatable indicator of blood clotting in Covid patients

    65 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  22. Robin Hanson Discusses the Karnataka Health Insurance Experiment

    65 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  23. Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club

    65 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  24. Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  25. The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work

    65 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  26. The quest to trap carbon in stone

    65 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  27. Please rename aux.py

    65 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  28. All Placebos are not created equal

    65 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  29. Automerge: a new foundation for collaboration software [video]

    64 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  30. New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities

    64 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  31. Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

    64 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  32. At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed

    64 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  33. Louis Wain: An artist who changed how we think about cats

    64 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  34. Richard Feynman – Session IV (1966)

    64 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  35. Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less (2020)

    64 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  36. Borderless Media Consumption: Geoblocking Reform

    64 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  37. Alien Mathematics

    64 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  38. Do large language models understand us?

    64 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  39. S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases

    64 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  40. Oldest family tree created using DNA

    64 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  41. Teletext Archive – open repository for teletext recoverers

    64 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  42. Why the demographic transition is speeding up

    64 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  43. Ask HN: Is there a “wall of shame” for ISPs that don't respect DNS TTLs?

    64 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  44. Pgmigrate: Write migrations using plain SQL

    63 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  45. Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop

    63 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  46. After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere

    63 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  47. Dungeons and Dragons Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art

    63 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  48. Sshell: Serverless Shell

    63 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  49. Logout4Shell

    63 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  50. UK’s largest flow battery energised

    63 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  51. UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track quantum position

    63 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?

    63 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  53. Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired

    63 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  54. Bitcoin’s ‘One Percent’ Controls Lion’s Share of the Cryptocurrency’s Wealth

    63 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  55. Learning how to ride a bike

    63 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  56. But what about the bus factor?

    63 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  57. The debate about nuclear power and climate change

    63 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  58. The Omicron Question

    63 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  59. Alpha Fold promises to revolutionize biochemistry

    63 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  60. Paper Airplane Designs

    63 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  61. Court Tells Cops That of Course Framing People for Crimes Is a Rights Violation

    63 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  62. San Francisco Mayor Declares State of Emergency to Fight City’s ‘Nasty Streets’

    63 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  63. NewLimit: a company built to extend human healthspan

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  64. Tcl library for Go-style concurrency based on Communicating Sequential Processes

    62 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  65. Space Weather Live

    62 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  66. LibreQoS: QoS for ISPs

    62 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  67. Show HN: Lexiscore – a nutritional label for food for thought

    62 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  68. Mathematical Notation, Past and Future (2000)

    62 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  69. Canon Confirms We’ve Seen Its Last Flagship DSLR

    62 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  70. Legal Drafting and Computer Programming

    62 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  71. "Log4j trigger in my signature so I can see logging copies of my mail"

    62 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  72. Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (2013)

    62 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  73. Ask Hacker News Weekly

    62 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  74. Apple Employee Blows Whistle on Illegal Spying and Toxic Working Conditions

    62 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  75. The vagaries of 1990s 32-bit Windows networking

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  76. The Phrase “No Evidence” Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Communication

    62 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  77. Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark

    62 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  78. Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets

    62 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  79. A Binary Musical Instrument

    62 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  80. Catching Lightning in a Bottle

    62 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  81. What I told the students of Princeton

    62 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  82. Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data

    61 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  83. Wordle

    61 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  84. Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Covid-19 Vaccination in US Vaccine Safety Datalink [pdf]

    61 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  85. New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life

    61 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  86. Introducing the Arc Institute

    61 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  87. Partial functions and total functions

    61 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  88. Revolutionaries at the Workplace

    61 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  89. Coming to Agreement, a logic puzzle for Oxford admissions interviews

    61 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  90. Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart

    61 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  91. C++ Compile Time Parser Generator

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  92. Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017)

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  93. Tether created $1,5B Worth of USDT Out of Thin Air in the Last 24h

    61 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  94. AWS (Honest) Service Health Dashboard

    61 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  95. Collection of Unix ASCII Games

    61 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  96. FAA Shows ‘Sample NOTAMs’ for Possible 5G Restrictions

    60 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  97. Gigantism is a never-ending temptation

    60 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  98. Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf web applications

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  99. Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud

    60 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  100. Mechanical Computer – Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

    60 points • comment • dec 07, 2021