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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018)
29 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Musk, Others Sell Stock at Historic Levels as Market Soars, Tax Changes Loom
29 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Betty White Dies at 99
29 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says
29 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Ramp-Tao: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online Graph Data Store
29 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Hacker steals Sydney man's life savings after simjacking
28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Launch HN: Preflight (YC W19) – Better automated testing for web apps
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Arkansas waitress fired after getting $4,400 tip
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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eBPF-Powered Cilium Service Mesh
28 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Apple workers staging Walkout December 24th
28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same
28 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things
28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I Using CT
28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is free on GOG today
28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Manhattan judge orders someone released from Rikers for 8th Amendment violation
28 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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LG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling
28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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US Foreign Policy: A Big, Dumb Machine
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is tech UX so bad in general?
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (2019)
28 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Journalist sues Twitter after ban for saying vaccine doesn't stop transmission
28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice?
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Squid Game Smuggler Has Been Sentenced to Death in North Korea
28 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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My Career of Treating Patients Has Ended
28 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Tempera’s pleasing properties is how egg yolk interacts with pigment
28 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web
28 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf]
28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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A 8-year effort finds that much cancer research can’t be replicated
28 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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What is Web3? Interview with Gavin Wood, who coined the term in 2014
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
28 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’ (2011)
28 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library
28 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Poll: Over half of Ukrainians will actively resist Russian invasion
28 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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A Cloud-Like On-Prem Load Balancer for Kubernetes?
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Why aren't thousands of gigabytes of abusive images removed from the web?
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Any better alternatives to Google Workspace for a family of five
28 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Online Dating Game à la 2048
28 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials
28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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A tracking device made by Apple is showing up in suspected crimes
28 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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The wax engraving print-making process (1999)
28 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Rules of Program Behavior
28 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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How to Build $1M
28 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Court Dumps Texas's Social Media Moderation Law as Clearly Unconstitutional
28 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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I created Traddit, a Reddit client that cuts through FUD and eliminates FOMO
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Burned-Out Forests Are Not Re-Growing
28 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Vectorizing Ragged Arrays
28 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012)
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
27 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Follow-up on the moderation issue – Inside Rust Blog
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Apple launches AirTags detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne sees Covid-19 outbreak with 132 cases
27 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Eon: Extensible Object Notation
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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DuckDuckGo Working on Privacy-Focused Desktop Browser for Mac
27 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship
27 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Does Apple's upcoming $3T Market Cap encourage or scare You?
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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France shuts down nuclear plants – gas and power prices shatter records
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Unmaking a Murderer
27 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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NYT obtains internal TikTok document describing recommendation algorithm
27 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Show HN: Hoppscotch (Postman alternative) now support Team Collaboration
27 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Young Dems more likely to despise the other party
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Why are Google sites so slow on Firefox?
27 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you stay active while working from home?
27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot – Unite.ai
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Don't Fuck with Big Sugar
27 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Tracking If Congressional Aides Violate Stock Act Is Nearly Impossible
27 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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California governor to create Texas-like law to ban assault weapons
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Apple is about to become the first $3T company
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Brazillian businessman built a giant perpetual engine
27 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you been in a team that did “daily standups” asynchronously?
27 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The first YouTube Client for m68k Amiga
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Fibers under the magnifying glass [pdf]
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes
27 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Gettext lessons learned after 2 years of developing a European platform
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Someone downloaded 80k Winamp skins and is now selling them as NFTs
27 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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How to Start a Movement – Strange Experiences in Marketing
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Becoming a Religion of the Book: Scripture Before the Bible
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Scientists find a way to ‘catapult’ rockets into space like ‘slingshots’
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods
27 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Ask HN: What should I do now as a middle aged developer feeling like a loser?
27 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Activision-Blizzard employees detail alleged abuse, say breast milk was stolen
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
27 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Apple deleted films from my AppleTV and now forces to watch them through Disney+
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Anthony Bourdain's private Reddit account
27 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Darktable 3.8.0 Released
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Google Nukes Ad-Blockers–Manifest V3 Is Coming
26 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Show HN: OpenIndoor visualization of OSM indoor data
26 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans
26 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it me or are we entering an ARM era?
26 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination
26 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Linux on modern, post 2018 Chromebooks with all drivers working
26 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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“Imagine If Doctors Relied on Google as Much as Programmers Do”
26 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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WASM Internals Part 1
26 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Docker Hub Registry is down
26 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Show HN: It's possible to do infinite scroll without JavaScript
26 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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New Zealand to ban smoking completely under radical plan
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works
26 points • comment • dec 03, 2021