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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Proctorio's Anti-Cheating Software Exposes Students to Hackers
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Share Your Results of 2021
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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On Generative Algorithms (2016)
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Show HN: JWEB (a modern implementation of the CWEB Literate Programming system)
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Yamaha RA-100 Rotating Speaker Organ Amp
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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WIP: Hacking the Nokia Fastmile (T-Mobile's 5G Gateway)
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Cat meow sounds visualized with auto-correlation function
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Frame.work laptop now accepting pre-orders from UK, Germany and France
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Decoding DART
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The $900B Cash Pile Inflating Startup Valuations
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Is Wikipedia running out of money?
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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George Saunders: what writers do when they write (2017)
36 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The Attack on Rooftop Solar Power in California Is Beyond Stupid
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Show HN: I've made a Figma plugin that converts design to HTML with TailwindCSS
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Tiny primate may join the ranks of the world’s model organisms
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Is This Parenting or Scrum?
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's real (2009)
36 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Reflections on a Year with HomeKit
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Linux 5.16 Has a Nice Performance Gift for AMD Ryzen Laptops
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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George Orwell Outside the Whale
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Bros., Lecce: We Eat at the Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Google Play banned my highly rated app with no real justification
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies
36 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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LastPass to become independent company
36 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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BuzzFeed to go public, after shareholders approve SPAC deal
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Telegram is anything but secure; even Facebook is safer, says Signal founder
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Ask HN: What’s the Most Outrageous Belief You’re Confident Is True?
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Instagram Bans BLM
35 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Robert W Malone account suspended on Twitter
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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I found that college fails to live up to being “The Great Equalizer”
35 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Chromecast volume controls are disabled on Android 12 due to a ‘legal issue’
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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You Don't Own Web3
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Genghis Khan’s death: An unsolvable riddle or simply a pandemic disease?
35 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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x86, X64 Instruction Latency, Memory Latency and Cpuid Dumps
35 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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The riddle of Japan's dramatic drop in Covid numbers
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
35 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when you hover over it
35 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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PinePhone Malware Surprises Users, Raises Questions
35 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Show HN: Metaheads, a search engine for Facebook comments in the US
35 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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A 1,300 sq/ft house in Sunnyvale, Calif. has sold for $823,000 over asking
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Ask HN: What if you hate web development?
35 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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OnlyFans ghostwriters, who say their job includes catfishing paying fans
35 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Disrupting the Glupteba Operation
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Diacritical Marks in Unicode
35 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Launching Eye of the Temple – this was my experience
35 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Celebrating 20 Years of Cube: An in-depth interview with Aardappel
35 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by the Fuel
35 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade voice activity detector
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Other sites like HN?
35 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
35 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Better.com CEO blasts laid-off employees, accusing them of ‘stealing’
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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We Can Finally Do Away with the Accursed Beep-Beep of Heavy Machines
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years
35 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Widget Driven Development
35 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of Covid-19
35 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Google sets a new record, shuts down a service after only three months
35 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Quebec shuts down schools, bars, gyms and more
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc
35 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Opacity Precision
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Does anyone else get sick when their vacation starts?
35 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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China shows its true colours – and they're not pretty
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Self-made EL segment displays
35 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Depression may be a unique state of consciousness
34 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Man explodes his Tesla car with 30 kg dynamite after told repairs is expensive
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Attacking Natural Language Processing Systems with Adversarial Examples
34 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
34 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Invoking C Code from Golang
34 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Soup, Sleep and Shiba Inu
34 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Christmas is the busy season for ham sniffers
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3k instead of $300k
34 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2021
34 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: Unikraft Cloud Platform: Unikernels-as-a-Service
34 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Living violinmakers score a win over Stradivari in double-blind test
34 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [video]
34 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Microsoft Edge may be sending search information to Microsoft
34 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Bit Test and Reset vs. Compilers
34 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Oregon reports first 3 cases of drug-resistant 'superbug' fungus Candida auris
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging
34 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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SaaS Pricing Manifesto
34 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Oklahoma lawmaker introduces book-banning bill with $10k-a-day penalty
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Richard Rogers has died
34 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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The Right to Remain Silent: A New Answer to an Old Question (2012) [video]
34 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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A state syncing framework based on Vuex and rollback netcode
34 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19
34 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Automated Time Series Processing and Forecasting
34 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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How to Stand Out with Your Job Application as a Junior Software Developer
34 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Soft Serve – Self-hostable Git server for the command line
34 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Crime, Punishment, and Chesa Boudin
34 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Beanstalk: A Decentralized Credit Based Stablecoin Protocol
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The Black Sky Event
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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SpaceX turned Apple employee speaks out about sexual harassment at space company
34 points • comment • dec 14, 2021