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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Every Programmer Should Know

    43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  2. A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays

    43 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  3. Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution

    43 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  4. Show HN: t2md – convert Trello to markdown folders on disk, fast

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  5. Bitburner: An open-source programming-based incremental game

    43 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  6. Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees

    43 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  7. Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors)

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  8. Time formatting and storage bugs

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  9. Alexandra Elbakyan speaks about how Sci-Hub came to be

    43 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  10. Show HN: Interpretable Text Classification and Clustering in the Browser

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  11. Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50k-year-old social network across Africa

    43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  12. AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon

    43 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  13. $30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  14. S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin

    43 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  15. Guided by plant voices

    43 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  16. Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  17. Starship: Cross-shell prompt written in Rust

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  18. The Pinouts Book

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  19. Stablecoins to face new restrictions in Japan

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  20. Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

    43 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  21. Is Haskell a good choice for software security?

    43 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  22. Conversation-Based Pricing

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  23. The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for an US of A television

    43 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  24. To Craunch the Marmoset (2016)

    43 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  25. The Background for CAR and CDR

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  26. Crimes of Fashion: Clothes in early modern England

    43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  27. The Mechanical King

    43 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  28. Income Inequality Is Big, Wealth Inequality Is 100 Times Bigger

    43 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  29. Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter

    42 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  30. Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer

    42 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  31. The Year in Physics

    42 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  32. Writing a self-modifying x86 factorial program

    42 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  33. Mantic Markets – user-created prediction markets

    42 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  34. Great Inheritors: How 3 Families Shielded Fortunes from Taxes for Generations

    42 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  35. Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?

    42 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  36. Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil

    42 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  37. Human image synthesis from reflected radio waves

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  38. How severe are Omicron Infections?

    42 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  39. Apache Log4j vulnerability shows the importance of SBOMs of running apps

    42 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  40. Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges

    42 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  41. Problematic Employers in Tech

    42 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  42. A review of ontologies for describing scholarly and scientific documents (2014) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  43. Servefolder.dev

    42 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  44. Is Our Society Manufacturing Depressed People?

    42 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  45. Yale’s continuing retreat from academic freedom

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  46. Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

    42 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  47. World Login Errors and Resolutions

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Do you still use Clubhouse app?

    42 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Do you feel you are able to be yourself in your job?

    42 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  50. Ask HN: Has anyone else been ghosted by Cloudflare?

    42 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  51. A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers

    42 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    42 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  53. Young's Lattice

    42 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  54. Counterfactual Theory of Value

    41 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  55. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2021)

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  56. Startup valued at $7B gets flack as CEO lays off hundreds over Zoom

    41 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  57. Ouroboros: Distributed System for Packetized Network Communications

    41 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  58. Tilt and Turn: Three-in-One Window for Security, Breezes and Egress

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  59. The best Linux phones you can buy right now

    41 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  60. Former Employees Allege Tesla Faked Original Full Self-Driving Video

    41 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  61. The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  62. Kentucky candle factory bosses threatened to fire workers who fled tornado

    41 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  63. Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron

    41 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  64. Ask HN: What are some high quality coding tutorial sites?

    41 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  65. Nike Acquires NFT Startup

    41 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  66. Cubic Bézier: From Math to Motion

    41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  67. Ask HN: What is your favorite book for learning statistics?

    41 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  68. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to do boring tasks?

    41 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  69. Beware of a New Amazon Token Crypto Scam

    41 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  70. Ask HN: If not fresh out of college, what did you do to join a FAANG?

    41 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  71. YouTube reveals millions of videos get hit with incorrect copyright claims

    41 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  72. FDA Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail

    41 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  73. Mastodon Recap 2021

    41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  74. Remove an Omnivore's Statue? Debate Ensues over the Legacy of Factory Farming

    41 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  75. Dyson loses fight for $198M compensation over EU energy labelling rules

    41 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  76. My troubles with MP3s

    41 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  77. The Three Types of Development

    41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  78. Better SQL JOINs

    41 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  79. Convert LaTeX notation to ready to be embedded Markdown

    41 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  80. People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2018)

    41 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  81. Being Funny (2014)

    41 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  82. Ask HN: What is this user doing?

    40 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  83. Ask HN: What are some must read books?

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  84. Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Definitive source for real estate statistics?

    40 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  86. Ask HN: Hacker News, but for Finance?

    40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  87. Shopify modular monolith scaled to 30 TB per minute during Cyber Monday

    40 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  88. Unbuffered I/O Can Make Your Rust Programs Much Slower

    40 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  89. Ask HN: What should founders do to protect against inflation?

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  90. Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication (1971)

    40 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  91. NGS – Next Generation Shell

    40 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  92. Do not use Digital Ocean for production

    40 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  93. Contexts and Capabilities in Rust

    40 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  94. An Efficiency Comparison of Latex vs. Word (2014)

    40 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  95. The state of Washington pays multimillion dollar salaries to college coaches

    40 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  96. Germany Electricity Prices Hit Record €431 per MWh

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  97. New Zealand passes bill to allow denser, more affordable housing

    40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  98. Aaron Swartz: How to Save the World, Part 1

    40 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  99. PDP-10 Emulator in JavaScript

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  100. The most powerful people in crypto

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021