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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment?

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  2. Guy Who Claims He Invented Bitcoin Loses $100M in Court, Calls It a Win

    18 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  3. Who Invented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  4. Mico Is a USB Microphone Based on a Pi Pico

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  5. Miami is banking on cryptocurrency and New York wants in

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  6. Canada's Public Health Agency confidentially tracked 33M mobile devices

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  7. Oracle to Buy Cerner for $28B

    18 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  8. Ask HN: How to convince big tech team that tests and code quality matter?

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  9. When the largest English newspaper in Spain steals your photo

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  10. Nature does not use propellers. So why do people?

    18 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  11. No One Belonged Here (1974)

    18 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  12. JWST Countdown

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  13. They Publicized Prosecutors’ Misconduct. The Blowback Was Swift

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  14. Darktable 3.8: Winter Release 2021

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  15. Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  16. 1989 General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones: Motorola Envoy’s Smart Desktop

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  17. Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  18. Ask HN: How is your experience with a mechanical keyboard?

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  19. The Media’s Betrayal of the Poor

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  20. What Is Wrong with Physicians?

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  21. Ships carrying natural gas head for Europe as prices surge to new high

    18 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  22. Show HN: Dataherald (YC W21) – Tableau with ready-to-use data

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  23. Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes – The Story Behind the Running Hearts

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  24. U.S. Became 'Arrogant' After USSR Collapsed, Gorbachev Says 30 Years Later

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  25. Ask HN: Where to begin learning how to generate procedural worlds?

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  26. Facebook claims its ‘fact-checks’ are ‘opinion’

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  27. A bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused a 911 call to fail

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  28. 3Blue1Brown Q&A

    18 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  29. There Is No Such Thing as a “Legal Name”

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  30. Watch Your Step(ping): Atoms Breaking Apart

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  31. You Can’t Optimize for Rest

    18 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  32. My CMS Is the iOS Notes App

    18 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  33. AWS misfires once more, just days after a failure

    18 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  34. How Wrong Is Veritasium? A Lamp and Power Line Story [video]

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  35. Dr. Alina Chan doubles down on Covid-19 Wuhan lab origin theory

    18 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  36. Visualizing the 94T world economy in one chart

    18 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  37. Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing [2020]

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  38. Reasons to read the original works of great thinkers

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  39. Jack Dorsey and the Unlikely Revolutionaries Who Want to Reboot the Internet

    18 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  40. New-Age Bullshit Generator

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  41. Linking to distrowatch.com from Facebook is a community violation

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  42. A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  43. How much energy do countries consume when we take offshoring into account?

    18 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  44. Surprises from Dumping Alligators in the Sea

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  45. Tinder co-founders win $441m after valuation dispute with Match

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  46. Ask HN: How has exercise changed your outlook on life?

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  47. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  48. The A500 Mini

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  49. Brian Eno on NFTs and Automatism

    18 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  50. The Hardware Lottery

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  51. Nix – A One Pager

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  52. The business phrasebook: A short guide to what your colleagues mean

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  53. Signature Schemes: Theory and Practice [video]

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  54. MIT Has Predicted That Society Will Collapse in 2040 [video]

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  55. Google Calendar Down

    18 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  56. EFF: 2021 Year in Review

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  57. Someone is hacking receipt printers with 'antiwork' messages

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  58. Baby it's cold inside, especially for women in offices

    17 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  59. Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a privacy nightmare

    17 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  60. Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  61. Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  62. The copyright industry wants everything filtered as it is uploaded

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  63. SimulaVR Update: Technical Overview

    17 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  64. Uber deactivated some transgenders' accounts for 'fraudulent' photos

    17 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  65. $1B CEO offers MDMA, shrooms to execs, applicants. Refers to Asian as Ting Ting

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  66. Event filtering lessons from inside AWS

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Does anyone know what’s happening at GitHub?

    17 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  68. UK court rules in favor of US in appeal to extradite Julian Assange

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  69. Nobel Peace Prize: Maria Ressa attacks social media 'toxic sludge'

    17 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  70. The 'NULL' License Plate (2019)

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  71. Lithuania’s Goods Barred from Entering Chinese Ports

    17 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  72. Peanutize Me – A recovered version of the Peanuts Movie character creator

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  73. Can we have a Christmas lights in HackerNew bar?

    17 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  74. Paul Thomas Anderson on What Makes a Movie Great

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  75. Tesla Model 3 fleet suspended by major Paris taxi firm after fatal accident

    17 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  76. Rothko at the Inauguration: A story of America in three scams

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  77. Seven part series to help people learning x86-64 Assembly Language

    17 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  78. Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Chrome

    17 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  79. Pyth project could open up decentralized trading and lending, supporters say

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  80. Apple II Composite Artifact Color - NTSC, PAL and Filters

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  81. China-Lithuania tension: German firms may have to shut factories in Baltic state

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  82. Playing Doom within Minecraft thanks to the Log4j exploit

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  83. Ask HN: Security Cameras Inside Houses?

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  84. Olaus' Carta Marina

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  85. Pattern Matching in TypeScript

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  86. The Goldbeater, the Cow and the Airship (2006)

    17 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  87. Eptstein's video catalogue was previously cataloged by FBI and Returned to him

    17 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  88. It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  89. Mess with DNS

    17 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  90. DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Establish a Right to Record Police Officers

    17 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  91. The New Irrelevance of Intelligence

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  92. The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  93. Tip: Time-Proportional Instruction Profiling [pdf]

    17 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  94. What Is Modern Slavery?

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  95. Little Switzerlands: Alpine Kitsch in England

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  96. Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter

    17 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  97. Why Inkjet Photo Printers Are So Bad

    17 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  98. The Future of Work Is Not Corporate – It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  99. More Than You Wanted to Know About Webb’s Mid-Course Corrections

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  100. Go 1.18 Beta 1 is released

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2021