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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Security firm Blumira discovers major new Log4j attack vector

    22 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  2. Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code

    22 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  3. Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  4. Omicron variant found in nearly one-third of U.S. states

    22 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  5. Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start into a Subscription Service

    22 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  6. Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs

    22 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  7. Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society

    22 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  8. Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson in Central Asia, 1886-1887 (2019)

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  9. Stochastic Bisection in Git

    22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  10. Ask HN: Best place to purchase (used) technical books that's not Amazon?

    22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  11. Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. called journalist a “hacker”

    22 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  12. Apple and Google Asked to Remove ‘Play to Earn’ Games in South Korea

    22 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  13. Atlas of Poetic Zoology

    22 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  14. Jack Dorsey’s Square is changing its name to Block

    22 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  15. Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1M people every year, study says

    22 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  16. Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash (2017)

    22 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  17. Border Agency Accused of Tracking U.S. Journalists with Tech Meant for Terrorist

    22 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  18. CISA Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) Vulnerability Guidance

    22 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  19. Phone Utility on VAX/VMS

    22 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  20. A fork() in the road – fork was a mistake [pdf]

    22 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  21. IBM Telum Processor: the next-gen microprocessor for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  22. New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  23. Toxicity Dataset

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  24. Google removed my app due to Apple Music login

    22 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  25. Setting up a GNU Guile project with Autotools

    21 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  26. Floating point numbers, and why they suck

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  27. UAE Moves to 4.5 Day Work Weeks Starting January 1

    21 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  28. Tell HN: Microsoft 365 domain name hell

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  29. A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied

    21 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  30. They Died from Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started

    21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  31. Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value Be Accurately Assessed

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  32. Anker’s four-port 120W power brick is built for the USB-C warrior

    21 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  33. The FDA has authorized AstraZeneca's monoclonal antibody treatment

    21 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  34. Ask HN: What JS framework/library would you use for lightweight frontend work

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  35. Apple closes all New York City stores to shoppers as Covid-19 cases rise

    21 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  36. When a web PKI certificate won't cut it

    21 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  37. Better.com CEO Vishal Garg lays off 15% of employees [video]

    21 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  38. Ex-YC startup employee: Most of my equity was in the form of refreshers

    21 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  39. Ask HN: Someone cloned GitHub, not sure why

    21 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  40. S.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 developer quickly cancels NFT plans after fan outcry

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  41. Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  42. Jami Major Release

    21 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  43. One reason for the homicide crisis: Young people in pain

    21 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  44. Eye strain with new MacBook Air M1

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  45. China's property distress sours steel sector in warning sign for economy

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Are paradigm shifting breakthroughs rarer or is it a bias in my eyes?

    21 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  47. Covid threatens the Brain – from blood-clots to infected Neurons

    21 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  48. Why does the stock market look like this while the world is falling apart?

    21 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  49. Farewell, University of California – By Aaron Kheriaty, MD

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  50. Uni-Ball Develops the First Paper Pen Refill

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  51. China Ordered Amazon to Delete Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  52. JingPad Review: A Linux Tablet with Potential, but Rough Edges

    21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  53. Twitter Is About to Get Way Worse

    21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  54. F1: Mercedes appeals Verstappen's win, contest safety car procedure in last lap

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  55. Ask HN: Blockchain success stories that did need to be decentralised?

    21 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  56. General and Scalable Parallelization for Neural Networks

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  57. The Threats to Computing Science (1984)

    21 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  58. Stop Telling Me Trust-Fund Kids Are Financial Wizards

    21 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  59. Despite EU court rulings, Facebook says US is safe to receive Europeans’ data

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  60. Man Creates Traffic Jams by Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones in a Trailer

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  61. Ask HN: eBay alternatives for computers, embedded components, and tools

    21 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  62. The speed limit is America’s most broken law. Why can’t we fix it?

    21 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  63. Window to the World

    21 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  64. Sugar additive trehalose may lead to Clostridium difficile colitis (2018)

    21 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  65. Editing Richard Feynman’s physics lectures to book form

    21 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  66. Harry Reid Has Died

    21 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  67. ‘Enemy combatant’ held at Guantánamo petitions for release because war is over

    21 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  68. Toolbox: Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux

    21 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  69. An Unintended Solution for Includer’s Revenge / Counter (hxp 2021)

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  70. Turks Flee to Gold, Bitcoin, and Foreign Currency as Government Devalues Lira

    21 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  71. Do large language models understand us?

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  72. TikTok overtook Google as the most visited website in 2021

    21 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  73. FDA makes abortion pills permanently available through mail and telehealth

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  74. The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?

    21 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  75. Blender 3.1 alpha: initial support for GPU-accelerated Cycles rendering on M1

    21 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  76. How to Reject Job Offers from Google

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  77. Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized portraits

    21 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  78. KDE Wants to Fix Every Linus Tech Tips Complaint

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  79. Argus: Debugging Performance Issues with Annotated Causal Tracing

    21 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  80. Ring-billed gulls found able to pass the string-pull test

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  81. Apple is TSMC's #1 customer and they account for 25% of their revenue

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  82. Is Web 3.0 just crypto or something more?

    20 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  83. Show HN: EveryoneDraw – An infinite collaborative drawing canvas

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  84. Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift

    20 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  85. China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules

    20 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  86. Head of the South African Medical Association says Omicron brings “mild illness”

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  87. The insane tech job market of 2021 in Ukraine

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  88. Webrise

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  89. "Teachers (and parents) will say goodbye to public schools“ in 2022?

    20 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  90. Function Pointer Cast Handling in Pyodide

    20 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  91. Lispworks 8.0 Released with Support for Apple Silicon

    20 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  92. My Worry for America

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  93. Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory

    20 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  94. New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster ethics, engagement in science

    20 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  95. The Container Throttling Problem

    20 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  96. Look at Your Fish (2016)

    20 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  97. Soundify: Matching sound effects to video

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  98. Plague Legends

    20 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  99. Should Windows Transition to Linux?

    20 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  100. Capital One to pay $190M settlement in data breach linked to Seattle woman

    20 points • comment • dec 26, 2021