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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Uno Platform 4

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

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

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  3. An Incan nobleman contested Spanish history

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  4. minisign

    56 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  5. “Microsoft Edge will collect and use data from your web searches”

    56 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  6. T-Mobile says it blocked 21B scam calls this year

    56 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

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

    56 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  8. Using deep learning to predict the olfactory properties of molecules (2019)

    55 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  9. Billionaire Jeff Green leaves Mormon church, donates $600K to LGBTQ organization

    55 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  10. Libmobi: C library for handling eBook formats

    55 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  11. Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender

    55 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  12. Show HN: I'm writing a free, illustrated textbook for system design interviews

    55 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  13. Apple's Tim Cook signed $275B deal with Chinese officials to placate China

    55 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  14. Firefox 95 might be the most secure web browser on the market

    55 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  15. NeoPixel Christmas Tree Lights Controlled by a Raspberry Pi

    55 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  16. Apple CCP $275B deal included Maps changes for disputed islands

    55 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  17. Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction

    55 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  18. The magical miniature worlds of terrariums

    55 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  19. For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping

    55 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  20. GraphpostgresQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL

    55 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  21. What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream

    55 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  22. A brief history of code search at GitHub

    55 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  23. I didn't say that. In fact, no one seems to have, according to Google

    55 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  24. Chiselstore: an embeddable, distributed SQLite for Rust

    55 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  25. Supermassive Black Hole Eruption Near Earth Spanning 16 Times Full Moon

    55 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  26. We Are Go for Launch

    55 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  27. Data seems to indicate omicron milder, more transmissible, hospitalizations low

    54 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  28. As an investor, why is crypto so hard to value?

    54 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  29. Adult Literacy in the United States (2019)

    54 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  30. Omicron Update, Dec 2

    54 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  31. Endgame

    54 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  32. Fixing the Logitech MX Ergo Trackball Mouse Buttons

    54 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  33. Async I/O for Dummies (2018)

    54 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  34. Better, cheaper, more abundant random numbers

    54 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  35. Computer-designed organisms

    54 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  36. Dutch Consumer Watchdog forces Apple to allow alternate payments for dating apps

    54 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  37. RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j, a popular Java logging package

    54 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  38. Building an OpenTable Bot

    54 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  39. Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers

    54 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  40. Do we really need undefined behavior?

    54 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  41. One Reason Typeclasses Are Useful

    54 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  42. Fitness trackers 20 years from now

    54 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  43. Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement

    54 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  44. A Conversation with E.O. Wilson

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  45. Why punish a scientist for defending science?

    54 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  46. Icon Programming Language – A brief introduction (1993)

    53 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  47. A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  48. Vibration API

    53 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  49. Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  50. Where Is Webb?

    53 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  51. ‘Your profit fuelled genocide’: Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  52. For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  53. What Problem Blockchains Solve

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  54. Smiley Lore :-) (2002)

    53 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  55. Making sounds using SDL and visualizing them on a simulated oscilloscope

    53 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  56. Show HN: PiTheremin

    53 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  57. Portal 2 crashes if you have 128 cores, due to 15 year old assumptions

    53 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  58. A rogues’ gallery of monster-sized gas giants

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  59. A Search for Analogs of Boyajian's Star: A Second List of Candidates

    53 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  60. Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  61. The satirical Non-Fungible Olive Gardens sold more than $130k in volume

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  62. Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?

    53 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  63. Hertz allegedly falsely reported cars as stolen, customers were jailed

    53 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  64. A Discussion of Oberon

    53 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  65. I built a web app inspired by the 4 Disciplines of Execution for goal completion

    53 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  66. How Germany became Europe's cargo bike hub

    53 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  67. Open cores, ISAs, etc.: what is open about them?

    53 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  68. Tesla Recalls over 475,000 U.S. Cars on Camera, Trunk Issues

    53 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  69. A no-reload HTML/CSS/JS playground with instant editor / output sync

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  70. Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation

    53 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  71. AWS SDK for Rust enters developer preview

    52 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  72. FDA says abortion pills can be sent by mail

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  73. Ask HN: What are the single person activities in Christmas and/or New Year?

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  74. A home theater layout tool in Purecript

    52 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  75. MEMS Microspeakers Made from Silicon

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  76. A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command (2020)

    52 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  77. Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide

    52 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  78. Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  79. The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed

    52 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  80. Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?

    52 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  81. ‘Silicon Saxony’ aims to be EU chipmaking hub

    52 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  82. Serialized roaring bitmaps in Golang

    52 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  83. Suspension of the 15-minute wait for vaccination with mRNA vaccine for Covid-19

    52 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  84. Ask HN: Please Give Me Advice

    52 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  85. Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes

    52 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  86. Launch HN: Demigod (YC S19) – Build compounding habits with a dedicated coach

    52 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  87. Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  88. Show HN: Tzintl.js – International Date-Time Conversion

    52 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  89. Check your Coinbase account, my balance is 600M

    52 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  90. Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  91. A Minimalist Guide to SQLite (2017)

    52 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  92. How to train your decision-making AIs

    52 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  93. Ultorg: A General-Purpose User Interface for Relational Databases (2020) [video]

    51 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  94. The APA No Longer Represents Good Science or Clinical Practice

    51 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  95. Tell HN: Google deleted my developer account

    51 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  96. Ask HN: Favorite Thing Built to Last?

    51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  97. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

    51 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  98. Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System (2020)

    51 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  99. Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?

    51 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  100. Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119M

    51 points • comment • dec 07, 2021