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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Against Translation

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  2. Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules [pdf]

    60 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  3. Study: Omicron 40-45% less likely than Delta to lead to 1+ day hospitalisation

    60 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  4. How new Linux users can increase their odds of success

    60 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  5. Portable software is more complex than you think

    60 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

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

    60 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  7. Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists (2017) [video]

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  8. New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors

    60 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  9. Ask HN: Where are you finding freelance/fractional work?

    60 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  10. The Economics of Pinball (2009)

    60 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  11. Simple server alerts on a need-to-know basis

    60 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  12. US foreign policy is driven mostly by short-term politics, not coherent strategy

    60 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  13. FPGA Advent Calendar

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  14. Global economic inequality: what matters most is where you are

    60 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

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

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  16. English Teenager Finds Bronze Age Ax Using a Metal Detector

    59 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  17. Kubernetes 1.23 Released

    59 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  18. A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments

    59 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  19. On subversion and dissolution of opposition movements

    59 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  20. The death of feature engineering is greatly exaggerated

    59 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  21. Formal Requirements Elicitation Tool

    59 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  22. Global Sequencer

    59 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  23. It's Increasingly Obvious Apple's 'Do Not Track' Button Is Privacy Theater

    59 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  24. Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners

    59 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  25. Plato's Dashboards

    59 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  26. Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?

    59 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  27. How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom

    59 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  28. Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

    59 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  29. Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta

    59 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  30. The empathy gap, or why good-seeming ideas fail

    59 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  31. The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

    59 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  32. Denmark experimented on orphan children on behalf of the CIA

    59 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  33. The Mirrortable

    59 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  34. “UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay

    59 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  35. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

    59 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  36. Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That for You

    59 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  37. U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics

    59 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  38. 'People amazed I fold paper for a living, then they see it' [video]

    59 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  39. Learn Django Web Framework

    59 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  40. What does 2022 have in store for cybersecurity and cloud security specialists?

    59 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  41. Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished

    58 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  42. Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)

    58 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  43. Kanazawa’s Empty Spaces

    58 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  44. A beginner’s guide to identifying birdsong

    58 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  45. What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? (2017)

    58 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  46. Stephen Sondheim on How to Do a Crossword Puzzle (1968)

    58 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  47. Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age

    58 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  48. The Data Classes Decorator

    58 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  49. CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

    58 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  50. Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? (2020)

    58 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  51. A terminal multiplexer with full gesture support built on WebRTC

    58 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  52. Doctor Web discovered vulnerabilities in children’s smart watches

    58 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  53. Personal data should be auto-delete after a few months by default (2018)

    58 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  54. Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence

    58 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  55. 'Metaverse' was her Instagram handle. It disappeared last month

    58 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  56. Shardz

    58 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  57. Experimenting with brain-computer interfaces in JavaScript

    58 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  58. Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairman says

    58 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  59. How Not to Learn Rust

    58 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  60. Crypto lobbying is going ballistic

    58 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  61. The Great British Reading List

    57 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  62. Unwanted Corkpull

    57 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  63. Become a Signal Sustainer

    57 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  64. Alexa owners not using it after only two weeks

    57 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  65. Tesla Owner Blows Up Car After Discovering Cost to Fix Battery

    57 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  66. Rule-Based Expert Systems (1984)

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  67. Practicing Programming (2005)

    57 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  68. The psychological drama of the world chess championship

    57 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  69. Google Apps Script for Gmail to filter and sort email from Gitlab

    57 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  70. Goodbye Gas Fees

    57 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  71. When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions

    57 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  72. The Surprising Cost of Protocol Conformances in Swift

    57 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  73. NSO Pegasus was used by Polish gov against opposition during 2019 elections

    57 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  74. NixOS 21.11 Has Been Released

    57 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  75. ‘Lord of the Rings’ at 20: Why It Was One of Hollywood’s Riskiest Projects Ever

    57 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  76. CDC Updates, Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period

    57 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  77. Ask HN: Good programming streamers / content creators?

    57 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  78. Cloud infrastructure should be immutable

    57 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  79. Turandot and the Deep Indo-European Roots of “Daughter” (2020)

    57 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  80. Beginner's Guide to the Flow Notes Method

    57 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  81. Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens

    57 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  82. Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history

    57 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  83. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

    57 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  84. Opposition to High Density Development

    56 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  85. Russia: Some ISPs are blocking Tor

    56 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  86. Pixor: Real-Time 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds

    56 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  87. An Incan nobleman contested Spanish history

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  88. “New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)

    56 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  89. Ask HN: How to get the attention of a human at Meta/FB?

    56 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  90. Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  91. Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

    56 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  92. Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005)

    56 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  93. Calculate but don’t shut up

    56 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  94. Deduction Mechanics in Games

    56 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  95. Woke Up to an NFT of Myself

    56 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  96. American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond

    56 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  97. Show HN: Give the disappointment of an NFT-gift without having to buy one

    56 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  98. Reduce your website’s environmental impact with a carbon budget

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  99. Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2022?

    56 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  100. It's now officially illegal in Ontario for your boss to bug you after-hours

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2021