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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Security firm Blumira discovers major new Log4j attack vector
22 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code
22 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Omicron variant found in nearly one-third of U.S. states
22 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start into a Subscription Service
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs
22 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson in Central Asia, 1886-1887 (2019)
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Stochastic Bisection in Git
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Best place to purchase (used) technical books that's not Amazon?
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. called journalist a “hacker”
22 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Apple and Google Asked to Remove ‘Play to Earn’ Games in South Korea
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Atlas of Poetic Zoology
22 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Jack Dorsey’s Square is changing its name to Block
22 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1M people every year, study says
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash (2017)
22 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Border Agency Accused of Tracking U.S. Journalists with Tech Meant for Terrorist
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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CISA Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) Vulnerability Guidance
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Phone Utility on VAX/VMS
22 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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A fork() in the road – fork was a mistake [pdf]
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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IBM Telum Processor: the next-gen microprocessor for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Toxicity Dataset
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Google removed my app due to Apple Music login
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Setting up a GNU Guile project with Autotools
21 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Floating point numbers, and why they suck
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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UAE Moves to 4.5 Day Work Weeks Starting January 1
21 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Tell HN: Microsoft 365 domain name hell
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied
21 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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They Died from Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value Be Accurately Assessed
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Anker’s four-port 120W power brick is built for the USB-C warrior
21 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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The FDA has authorized AstraZeneca's monoclonal antibody treatment
21 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Ask HN: What JS framework/library would you use for lightweight frontend work
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Apple closes all New York City stores to shoppers as Covid-19 cases rise
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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When a web PKI certificate won't cut it
21 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg lays off 15% of employees [video]
21 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Ex-YC startup employee: Most of my equity was in the form of refreshers
21 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Someone cloned GitHub, not sure why
21 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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S.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 developer quickly cancels NFT plans after fan outcry
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Jami Major Release
21 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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One reason for the homicide crisis: Young people in pain
21 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Eye strain with new MacBook Air M1
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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China's property distress sours steel sector in warning sign for economy
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Are paradigm shifting breakthroughs rarer or is it a bias in my eyes?
21 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Covid threatens the Brain – from blood-clots to infected Neurons
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Why does the stock market look like this while the world is falling apart?
21 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Farewell, University of California – By Aaron Kheriaty, MD
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Uni-Ball Develops the First Paper Pen Refill
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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China Ordered Amazon to Delete Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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JingPad Review: A Linux Tablet with Potential, but Rough Edges
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Twitter Is About to Get Way Worse
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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F1: Mercedes appeals Verstappen's win, contest safety car procedure in last lap
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Blockchain success stories that did need to be decentralised?
21 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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General and Scalable Parallelization for Neural Networks
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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The Threats to Computing Science (1984)
21 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Stop Telling Me Trust-Fund Kids Are Financial Wizards
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Despite EU court rulings, Facebook says US is safe to receive Europeans’ data
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Man Creates Traffic Jams by Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones in a Trailer
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ask HN: eBay alternatives for computers, embedded components, and tools
21 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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The speed limit is America’s most broken law. Why can’t we fix it?
21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Window to the World
21 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Sugar additive trehalose may lead to Clostridium difficile colitis (2018)
21 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Editing Richard Feynman’s physics lectures to book form
21 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Harry Reid Has Died
21 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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‘Enemy combatant’ held at Guantánamo petitions for release because war is over
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Toolbox: Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
21 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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An Unintended Solution for Includer’s Revenge / Counter (hxp 2021)
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Turks Flee to Gold, Bitcoin, and Foreign Currency as Government Devalues Lira
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Do large language models understand us?
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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TikTok overtook Google as the most visited website in 2021
21 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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FDA makes abortion pills permanently available through mail and telehealth
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?
21 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Blender 3.1 alpha: initial support for GPU-accelerated Cycles rendering on M1
21 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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How to Reject Job Offers from Google
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized portraits
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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KDE Wants to Fix Every Linus Tech Tips Complaint
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Argus: Debugging Performance Issues with Annotated Causal Tracing
21 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Ring-billed gulls found able to pass the string-pull test
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Apple is TSMC's #1 customer and they account for 25% of their revenue
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Is Web 3.0 just crypto or something more?
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Show HN: EveryoneDraw – An infinite collaborative drawing canvas
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
20 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules
20 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Head of the South African Medical Association says Omicron brings “mild illness”
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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The insane tech job market of 2021 in Ukraine
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Webrise
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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"Teachers (and parents) will say goodbye to public schools“ in 2022?
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Function Pointer Cast Handling in Pyodide
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Lispworks 8.0 Released with Support for Apple Silicon
20 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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My Worry for America
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster ethics, engagement in science
20 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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The Container Throttling Problem
20 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Look at Your Fish (2016)
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Soundify: Matching sound effects to video
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Plague Legends
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Should Windows Transition to Linux?
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Capital One to pay $190M settlement in data breach linked to Seattle woman
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2021