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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
380 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Instagram Is Facebook Now
379 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
379 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
379 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
377 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
374 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”
373 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Webb placed on top of Ariane 5
373 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
371 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
371 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
370 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?
369 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Quaternions
369 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
369 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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CPM MagnaCut
368 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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The state of external retina displays
367 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
366 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Steam has been banned in China
366 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
364 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
360 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company
358 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Fredrik Lundh has died
357 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Defrag Like It's 1993
357 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags
356 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
356 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Stack Graphs
356 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Why don't you accept donations?
356 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology
355 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90
355 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Player of Games
355 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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How to run a small social network site for your friends
354 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser
354 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Learn accounting for free
353 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
351 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Companies that had successful pivots
349 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
349 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
349 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups
349 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title
348 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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European alternatives for digital products
348 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Japan's Paper Culture
346 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
346 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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E.O. Wilson has died
346 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car
344 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
343 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's
339 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
338 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022
337 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers
336 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
336 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
335 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year
334 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Smartbolts
334 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads
334 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Opt Out of Cynicism
332 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)
331 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
330 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
330 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
329 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]
328 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
326 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
325 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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How to write idempotent Bash scripts (2019)
324 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy
323 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
323 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
323 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021
321 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
321 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?
321 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Consider SQLite
319 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Supabase open sourced their dashboard
319 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit
319 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Tetr.io
319 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
318 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado
316 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar
315 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment
314 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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How to use dig
314 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed
314 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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The Google home page is 500K
314 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
314 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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How to rest well
314 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?
313 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Never Use Black (2012)
313 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
312 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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DeepMind’s new AI with a memory outperforms algorithms 25 times its size
312 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Code Review as a Service
311 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
310 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam
309 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
307 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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What will enter the public domain in 2022
307 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
306 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Zig 0.9.0
305 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
305 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
304 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
304 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
304 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
303 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine
302 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search
302 points • comment • dec 23, 2021