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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement

    380 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  2. Instagram Is Facebook Now

    379 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  3. WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95

    379 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  4. Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”

    379 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  5. (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

    377 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  6. Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

    374 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  7. GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”

    373 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  8. Webb placed on top of Ariane 5

    373 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  9. Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

    371 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  10. Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

    371 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  11. Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer

    370 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  12. Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?

    369 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  13. Quaternions

    369 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  14. How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

    369 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  15. CPM MagnaCut

    368 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  16. The state of external retina displays

    367 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  17. How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

    366 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  18. Steam has been banned in China

    366 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  19. Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers

    364 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  20. Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew

    360 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  21. Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company

    358 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  22. Fredrik Lundh has died

    357 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  23. Defrag Like It's 1993

    357 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  24. Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

    356 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  25. Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

    356 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  26. Stack Graphs

    356 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  27. Why don't you accept donations?

    356 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  28. Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology

    355 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  29. Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90

    355 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  30. Player of Games

    355 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  31. How to run a small social network site for your friends

    354 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  32. Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

    354 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  33. Learn accounting for free

    353 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  34. Chess.com vs. Lichess

    351 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  35. Companies that had successful pivots

    349 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  36. Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?

    349 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  37. What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?

    349 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  38. Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups

    349 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  39. Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title

    348 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  40. European alternatives for digital products

    348 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  41. Japan's Paper Culture

    346 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  42. The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe

    346 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  43. E.O. Wilson has died

    346 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  44. Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car

    344 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  45. Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021

    343 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  46. Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's

    339 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  47. Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls

    338 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  48. PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022

    337 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  49. Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers

    336 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  50. Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

    336 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  51. My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer

    335 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  52. Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year

    334 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  53. Smartbolts

    334 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  54. Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads

    334 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  55. Opt Out of Cynicism

    332 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  56. Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)

    331 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  57. A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)

    330 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  58. Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant

    330 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

    329 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  60. How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]

    328 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  61. An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

    326 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  62. macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

    325 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  63. How to write idempotent Bash scripts (2019)

    324 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  64. Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy

    323 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  65. The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

    323 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  66. Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities

    323 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  67. YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

    321 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  68. “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)

    321 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  69. Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

    321 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  70. Consider SQLite

    319 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  71. Supabase open sourced their dashboard

    319 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  72. RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit

    319 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  73. Tetr.io

    319 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  74. Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript

    318 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  75. A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado

    316 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  76. Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar

    315 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  77. GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment

    314 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  78. How to use dig

    314 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  79. Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed

    314 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  80. The Google home page is 500K

    314 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  81. Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default

    314 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  82. How to rest well

    314 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  83. Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?

    313 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  84. Never Use Black (2012)

    313 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  85. Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

    312 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  86. DeepMind’s new AI with a memory outperforms algorithms 25 times its size

    312 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  87. Code Review as a Service

    311 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  88. Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

    310 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  89. U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam

    309 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  90. A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet

    307 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  91. What will enter the public domain in 2022

    307 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  92. Number of journalists in jail reaches global high

    306 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  93. Zig 0.9.0

    305 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  94. Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes

    305 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  95. Databases in 2021: A Year in Review

    304 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  96. How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?

    304 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  97. Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It

    304 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  98. Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment

    303 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  99. An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine

    302 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  100. Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search

    302 points • comment • dec 23, 2021