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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

    518 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  2. Professional maintainers: a wake-up call

    515 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  3. The Big DevOps Misunderstanding

    514 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  4. Test your product on a crappy laptop

    514 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  5. Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

    512 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  6. Against 3x Speed

    505 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  7. Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)

    504 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  8. Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

    503 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  9. Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

    500 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  10. Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

    498 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  11. Improving GitHub Code Search

    498 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  12. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)

    495 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  13. Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster

    495 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  14. Marketing is scary for a solo developer

    489 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  15. Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

    489 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  16. PNG Parser Differential

    489 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  17. PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

    488 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  18. Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”

    483 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  19. Ruby 3.1

    482 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  20. The Matrix Is Unreal

    482 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  21. Apache Guacamole

    478 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  22. Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh

    478 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  23. One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again

    476 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  24. Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

    475 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  25. You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting

    474 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  26. CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

    474 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  27. Groups never admit failure

    474 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  28. Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server

    473 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  29. How a Kalman filter works, in pictures

    472 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  30. James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]

    471 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  31. Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong

    469 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  32. Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

    466 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  33. Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

    465 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  34. Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

    464 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  35. “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

    464 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  36. Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?

    459 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  37. Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

    459 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  38. Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf

    456 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  39. Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)

    449 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  40. Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth

    446 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  41. HashiCorp IPO today

    446 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  42. Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M

    443 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  43. AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change

    442 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  44. Django 4.0

    441 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  45. “Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously

    441 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  46. Ten Years of Logging My Life

    441 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  47. Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

    439 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  48. Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

    439 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  49. My parents collect cans for a living

    439 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  50. Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech

    438 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  51. Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?

    433 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  52. Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

    431 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  53. Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM

    431 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  54. SpeedCrunch

    431 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  55. Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine

    430 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  56. Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

    429 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  57. NASA returns Hubble to full science operations

    425 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  58. The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’ from new law

    425 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  59. Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech

    424 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  60. HTTP/3 Is Fast

    422 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  61. Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published

    422 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  62. ADHD Accommodations Guide

    419 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  63. Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

    418 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  64. You can't copy code with memcpy

    416 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  65. Misbrands

    415 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  66. Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

    414 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  67. Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews

    412 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  68. Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL

    412 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  69. Masayuki Uemura has died

    411 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  70. I was part of a human subject research study without my consent

    411 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  71. ADSL works over wet string (2017)

    410 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  72. All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

    410 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  73. Adventures of putting 16 GB RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (2019)

    409 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  74. Deno Joins TC39

    409 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  75. Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

    408 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  76. Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

    407 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  77. Web3? I have my DAOts

    406 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  78. My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns

    406 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  79. Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

    406 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  80. Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc

    402 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  81. Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app

    399 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  82. Krita 5.0

    398 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  83. Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

    397 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  84. I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

    397 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?

    396 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  86. Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

    394 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  87. Rails 7 Released

    393 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  88. Lessons from my PhD

    390 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  89. Pico CSS Framework

    389 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  90. Kinesis Advantage 360

    389 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  91. Defensive CSS

    389 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  92. Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

    385 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

    384 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  94. "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

    383 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  95. Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

    382 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  96. PR to Merge Multicore OCaml

    381 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  97. Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?

    381 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  98. Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET

    381 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  99. Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds

    381 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  100. Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement

    380 points • comment • dec 23, 2021