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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018)

    29 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  2. Musk, Others Sell Stock at Historic Levels as Market Soars, Tax Changes Loom

    29 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  3. Betty White Dies at 99

    29 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  4. Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says

    29 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  5. Ramp-Tao: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online Graph Data Store

    29 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  6. Hacker steals Sydney man's life savings after simjacking

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  7. Launch HN: Preflight (YC W19) – Better automated testing for web apps

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  8. Arkansas waitress fired after getting $4,400 tip

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  9. eBPF-Powered Cilium Service Mesh

    28 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  10. Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3

    28 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  11. Apple workers staging Walkout December 24th

    28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  12. Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same

    28 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  13. Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things

    28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  14. Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I Using CT

    28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  15. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is free on GOG today

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  16. Manhattan judge orders someone released from Rikers for 8th Amendment violation

    28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  17. LG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  18. US Foreign Policy: A Big, Dumb Machine

    28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Why is tech UX so bad in general?

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  20. Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (2019)

    28 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  21. Journalist sues Twitter after ban for saying vaccine doesn't stop transmission

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  22. Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice?

    28 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  23. Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  24. Squid Game Smuggler Has Been Sentenced to Death in North Korea

    28 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  25. My Career of Treating Patients Has Ended

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  26. Tempera’s pleasing properties is how egg yolk interacts with pigment

    28 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  27. Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  28. Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf]

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  29. A 8-year effort finds that much cancer research can’t be replicated

    28 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  30. What is Web3? Interview with Gavin Wood, who coined the term in 2014

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  31. Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?

    28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  32. Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’ (2011)

    28 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  33. ‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library

    28 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  34. Poll: Over half of Ukrainians will actively resist Russian invasion

    28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  35. A Cloud-Like On-Prem Load Balancer for Kubernetes?

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  36. Why aren't thousands of gigabytes of abusive images removed from the web?

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Any better alternatives to Google Workspace for a family of five

    28 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  38. Online Dating Game à la 2048

    28 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  39. Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials

    28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  40. A tracking device made by Apple is showing up in suspected crimes

    28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  41. The wax engraving print-making process (1999)

    28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  42. Rules of Program Behavior

    28 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  43. The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic

    28 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  44. How to Build $1M

    28 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  45. Court Dumps Texas's Social Media Moderation Law as Clearly Unconstitutional

    28 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  46. I created Traddit, a Reddit client that cuts through FUD and eliminates FOMO

    28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  47. Burned-Out Forests Are Not Re-Growing

    28 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  48. Vectorizing Ragged Arrays

    28 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  49. 1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012)

    27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  50. Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?

    27 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  51. Follow-up on the moderation issue – Inside Rust Blog

    27 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  52. Apple launches AirTags detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  53. SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne sees Covid-19 outbreak with 132 cases

    27 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  54. Eon: Extensible Object Notation

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  55. DuckDuckGo Working on Privacy-Focused Desktop Browser for Mac

    27 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  56. Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship

    27 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Does Apple's upcoming $3T Market Cap encourage or scare You?

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  58. France shuts down nuclear plants – gas and power prices shatter records

    27 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  59. Unmaking a Murderer

    27 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  60. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

    27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  61. NYT obtains internal TikTok document describing recommendation algorithm

    27 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  62. Show HN: Hoppscotch (Postman alternative) now support Team Collaboration

    27 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  63. Young Dems more likely to despise the other party

    27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  64. Ask HN: Why are Google sites so slow on Firefox?

    27 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  65. Ask HN: How do you stay active while working from home?

    27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  66. Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot – Unite.ai

    27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  67. Don't Fuck with Big Sugar

    27 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  68. Tracking If Congressional Aides Violate Stock Act Is Nearly Impossible

    27 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  69. California governor to create Texas-like law to ban assault weapons

    27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  70. Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  71. Apple is about to become the first $3T company

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  72. Brazillian businessman built a giant perpetual engine

    27 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  73. Ask HN: Have you been in a team that did “daily standups” asynchronously?

    27 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  74. The first YouTube Client for m68k Amiga

    27 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  75. Fibers under the magnifying glass [pdf]

    27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  76. Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes

    27 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  77. Gettext lessons learned after 2 years of developing a European platform

    27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  78. Someone downloaded 80k Winamp skins and is now selling them as NFTs

    27 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  79. How to Start a Movement – Strange Experiences in Marketing

    27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  80. Becoming a Religion of the Book: Scripture Before the Bible

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  81. Scientists find a way to ‘catapult’ rockets into space like ‘slingshots’

    27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  82. A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods

    27 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  83. Ask HN: What should I do now as a middle aged developer feeling like a loser?

    27 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  84. Activision-Blizzard employees detail alleged abuse, say breast milk was stolen

    27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  85. Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon

    27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  86. Apple deleted films from my AppleTV and now forces to watch them through Disney+

    27 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  87. Anthony Bourdain's private Reddit account

    27 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  88. Darktable 3.8.0 Released

    26 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  89. Google Nukes Ad-Blockers–Manifest V3 Is Coming

    26 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  90. Show HN: OpenIndoor visualization of OSM indoor data

    26 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  91. Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans

    26 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  92. Ask HN: Is it me or are we entering an ARM era?

    26 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  93. TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination

    26 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  94. Linux on modern, post 2018 Chromebooks with all drivers working

    26 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  95. “Imagine If Doctors Relied on Google as Much as Programmers Do”

    26 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  96. WASM Internals Part 1

    26 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  97. Docker Hub Registry is down

    26 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  98. Show HN: It's possible to do infinite scroll without JavaScript

    26 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  99. New Zealand to ban smoking completely under radical plan

    26 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  100. The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works

    26 points • comment • dec 03, 2021