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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Every Programmer Should Know
43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays
43 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution
43 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Show HN: t2md – convert Trello to markdown folders on disk, fast
43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Bitburner: An open-source programming-based incremental game
43 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees
43 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors)
43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Time formatting and storage bugs
43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Alexandra Elbakyan speaks about how Sci-Hub came to be
43 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Show HN: Interpretable Text Classification and Clustering in the Browser
43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50k-year-old social network across Africa
43 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon
43 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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$30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions
43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin
43 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Guided by plant voices
43 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?
43 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Starship: Cross-shell prompt written in Rust
43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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The Pinouts Book
43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Stablecoins to face new restrictions in Japan
43 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training
43 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Is Haskell a good choice for software security?
43 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Conversation-Based Pricing
43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for an US of A television
43 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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To Craunch the Marmoset (2016)
43 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The Background for CAR and CDR
43 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Crimes of Fashion: Clothes in early modern England
43 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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The Mechanical King
43 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Income Inequality Is Big, Wealth Inequality Is 100 Times Bigger
43 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter
42 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer
42 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The Year in Physics
42 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Writing a self-modifying x86 factorial program
42 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Mantic Markets – user-created prediction markets
42 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Great Inheritors: How 3 Families Shielded Fortunes from Taxes for Generations
42 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?
42 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil
42 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Human image synthesis from reflected radio waves
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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How severe are Omicron Infections?
42 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Apache Log4j vulnerability shows the importance of SBOMs of running apps
42 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges
42 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Problematic Employers in Tech
42 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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A review of ontologies for describing scholarly and scientific documents (2014) [pdf]
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Servefolder.dev
42 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Is Our Society Manufacturing Depressed People?
42 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Yale’s continuing retreat from academic freedom
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron
42 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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World Login Errors and Resolutions
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you still use Clubhouse app?
42 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you feel you are able to be yourself in your job?
42 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Ask HN: Has anyone else been ghosted by Cloudflare?
42 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers
42 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
42 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Young's Lattice
42 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Counterfactual Theory of Value
41 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2021)
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Startup valued at $7B gets flack as CEO lays off hundreds over Zoom
41 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Ouroboros: Distributed System for Packetized Network Communications
41 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Tilt and Turn: Three-in-One Window for Security, Breezes and Egress
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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The best Linux phones you can buy right now
41 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Former Employees Allege Tesla Faked Original Full Self-Driving Video
41 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
41 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Kentucky candle factory bosses threatened to fire workers who fled tornado
41 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron
41 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some high quality coding tutorial sites?
41 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Nike Acquires NFT Startup
41 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Cubic Bézier: From Math to Motion
41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your favorite book for learning statistics?
41 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you force yourself to do boring tasks?
41 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Beware of a New Amazon Token Crypto Scam
41 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Ask HN: If not fresh out of college, what did you do to join a FAANG?
41 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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YouTube reveals millions of videos get hit with incorrect copyright claims
41 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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FDA Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail
41 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Mastodon Recap 2021
41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Remove an Omnivore's Statue? Debate Ensues over the Legacy of Factory Farming
41 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Dyson loses fight for $198M compensation over EU energy labelling rules
41 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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My troubles with MP3s
41 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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The Three Types of Development
41 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Better SQL JOINs
41 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Convert LaTeX notation to ready to be embedded Markdown
41 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2018)
41 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Being Funny (2014)
41 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Ask HN: What is this user doing?
40 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some must read books?
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Definitive source for real estate statistics?
40 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Hacker News, but for Finance?
40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Shopify modular monolith scaled to 30 TB per minute during Cyber Monday
40 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Unbuffered I/O Can Make Your Rust Programs Much Slower
40 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What should founders do to protect against inflation?
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication (1971)
40 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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NGS – Next Generation Shell
40 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Do not use Digital Ocean for production
40 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Contexts and Capabilities in Rust
40 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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An Efficiency Comparison of Latex vs. Word (2014)
40 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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The state of Washington pays multimillion dollar salaries to college coaches
40 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Germany Electricity Prices Hit Record €431 per MWh
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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New Zealand passes bill to allow denser, more affordable housing
40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Aaron Swartz: How to Save the World, Part 1
40 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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PDP-10 Emulator in JavaScript
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The most powerful people in crypto
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2021