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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Do not use Digital Ocean for production

    40 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

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

    40 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  3. mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron

    40 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  4. Shopify launches NFT minting shopfront (beta)

    40 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

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

    40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

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

    40 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  7. Show HN: No Signup, Yet, Authenticated Posts

    39 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  8. The sweet sea monster of Portuguese Christmas

    39 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  9. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class

    39 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  10. What Whale Barnacles Know

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  11. Ask HN: So who else is getting a pay cut this year?

    39 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  12. Understanding how silver objects tarnish

    39 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  13. Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem

    39 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  14. In simple English, what does it mean for a number to be “transcendental”?

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  15. What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)

    39 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  16. Shared e-bikes and e-scooters are worse for the environment than owned ones

    39 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  17. Dion 2020 IDE Research Demo

    39 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  18. Ask HN: Where are the resources for complex architectures for Node.js?

    39 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  19. Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Majority Must Fight Back

    39 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  20. Honey bees, Varroa mites and unintended consequences

    39 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  21. Should You Use Upper Bound Version Constraints?

    39 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  22. My collection of fun and interesting hacking/coding movies and literature

    39 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  23. Now that I'm out of prison, let's not forget Chevron

    39 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  24. Fast Counting with PostgreSQL and Haskell

    39 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  25. My negative views on Rust

    39 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  26. Copy Protection in Modern Microcontrollers (2001)

    38 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  27. DARPA selects performers to build, test Manta Ray unmanned underwater vehicles

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  28. Log4Shell Update: Full bypass found in log4j 2.15.0, enabling RCE again

    38 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  29. The CIA Is Deep into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals

    38 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  30. Tokamak Energy makes breakthrough in efficient powering of nuclear fusion

    38 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  31. Has anyone else gotten a billion dollar payment from Google Cloud today?

    38 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  32. Asahi Linux Add Support for the Broadcom FullMAC WiFi Chips Used on Apple T2/M1

    38 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  33. Africa's Rising Cities – How Africa will become the center of the world’s future

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  34. Metaphors we learn to program by

    38 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  35. Food is more expensive than it has been in decades

    38 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  36. Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

    38 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  37. Necklaces worn to 'protect' against 5G are radioactive experts warn

    38 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  38. Anne Rice, author of The Vampire Chronicles dies at 80

    38 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  39. Towards an animal model of consciousness based on the platform theory

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  40. Omicron Post #8

    38 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  41. Is Singapore's war on drugs working?

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  42. Amazon's Server Outage Took Down a 'Decentralized' Crypto Exchange

    38 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  43. A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1984) [pdf]

    38 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  44. Success Story: Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (2020)

    38 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  45. Russia attempts to block Tor

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  46. “Elsevier's ”enhanced pdf viewer“ tracks where you click, view, [...]”

    38 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  47. Top subreddit mod accused of extortion

    38 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  48. Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Drone Swarms Off CA Went on for Weeks

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  49. Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana

    38 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  50. Suppressing duplicate requests in web services

    38 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  51. The epidemiological relevance of the Covid-vaccinated population is increasing

    38 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  52. Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban

    38 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  53. San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes

    38 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  54. Jack Dorsey’s hot Web3 takes are apparently too much for Andreessen to handle

    38 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  55. PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are widespread and threaten human health – a strategy

    38 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  56. DoE spent $1.1B to build carbon capture demos

    38 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  57. Long Now Years: Five-Digit Dates and Y10K-Compliance at Home (02013)

    38 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  58. Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  59. How we became weekly

    38 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  60. Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello [Nov 2021]

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  61. The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Cyclical Linked List

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  62. Mark Zuckerberg adds 110 acres to controversial 1,500-acre Hawaii estate

    37 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  63. Ask HN: Tiny Home for $5k USD?

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  64. I Implemented Transformer in Transformer

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  65. Building an Autonomous Generative Art Collection with P5.js

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  66. Ask HN: What cutting-edge technology do you use?

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  67. There's a lot of talk about logs lately, but do you know why we call it a “log”?

    37 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  68. Democratic Domestic Product

    37 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  69. ProxyChains

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  70. Pop_OS 21.10 has landed

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  71. The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business (2017)

    37 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  72. The Decision-Making Pendulum

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  73. Tech debt is not a burden, it's a strategic lever for success

    37 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  74. Philosophers and Other Conjurers

    37 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  75. Show HN: I built my own second brain software tool

    37 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  76. Qubes OS 4.1 RC2

    37 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  77. Sorry I'm late, my car had a 500 error

    37 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  78. Current 0-day vulnerability on FreePBX

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  79. The Prisoner-Run Radio Station That’s Reaching Men on Death Row

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  80. Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Tightly Monitored Isolation

    37 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  81. Field Linguist's Toolbox

    37 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  82. The Possibility of the Impossible

    37 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  83. Teaching Information Security

    37 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  84. Ask HN: Recommended Domain Registrars?

    37 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  85. China removed Lithuania from its customs registry

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  86. Wuhan lab leak 'now the most likely origin of Covid'

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  87. Are there any good companies anymore?

    37 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  88. Tesla’s high-beam assist feature surprised by Swedish moose

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  89. DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  90. Want to reverse aging? Try reversing graying, first

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  91. Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  92. Facebook Comments About Whites, Men and Americans Will Face Less Moderation

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  93. Facebook owner is behind $60M deal for Meta name rights

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  94. The Exclusive License to Make Money from the Community Contributions

    37 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  95. How do you solve a problem like misinformation?

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  96. Why Electric Airplanes Face Such a Tough Haul [video]

    37 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  97. The explosion in stablecoins revives a debate around “free banking”

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  98. Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's real (2009)

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  99. Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]

    36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  100. AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS

    36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021