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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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mRNA vaccines highly effective at preventing death, less at preventing infection
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Across the U.S., Retail Theft Rises to ‘A Whole New Level’
16 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Pfizer booster’s ability to prevent symptomatic Covid wanes within weeks
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it
16 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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I'm an American Airlines Pilot – Here's Why There's a Shortage
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Show HN: A Microkernel OS for Armv8
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Quill is joining Twitter… and all data is being deleted in 4 days
16 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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TinkerOS: A Fork of TempleOS
16 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Show HN: Statetrace – Annotated Audit Trail for Postgres and MySQL
16 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Group of Monkeys Kill over 250 Dogs for 'Revenge' in Indian Town
16 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Website that generates a Spotify playlist from the words of a sentence
16 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Rivian R1T Successfully Tows 2,700 Miles Cross Country: Report
16 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day
15 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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New Microsoft Tools for Analyzing Android, Linux, Chromium Browser Performance
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Selling a SaaS Service
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Silicon Fortress – The Battle for Taiwan
15 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U (Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen2) Linux Performance
15 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Saudi Human Rights Activist, Represented by EFF, Sues Spyware Maker DarkMatter
15 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Join the Fediverse
15 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Advent of code 2021 has started
15 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Scraper for Y Combinator Directory
15 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Cryptocurrency: How $YEAR pulled the rug in under 6 hours
15 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Harvard Professor Charles Lieber Found Guilty of Lying About China Ties
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Pyongyang (Restaurant Chain)
15 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Microplastics found to be harmful to human cells
15 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Fatal lab explosion in China highlights wider safety fears
15 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Writing Effective Integration Tests for Asynchronous Workloads
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
15 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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How to build my own information feed / front page?
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Wing resumes drone deliveries in Canberra after raven attacks forced pause
15 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Recommended two-factor authenticator app for personal use?
15 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Overview of Serialization Technologies [pdf]
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Fully Fueled for Launch
15 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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FDA will permanently allow abortion pills by mail. But that's a crime in Texas
15 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Astral Codex ACX Grants Results
15 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Omnicron Post #4
15 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Arch Packages You Might Want to Install
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Dirt-cheap Serverless Flask hosting on AWS
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Slack Outage
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Show HN: Which Icon Is That?
15 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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So called modern web developers are the culprits
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The Problem of Induction (1953)
15 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Energy Efficiency of Modern Codecs
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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How the West invited China to eat its lunch
15 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Is Kubernetes Betamax?
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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FAA says lack of whistleblower protections hindered Blue Origin safety review
15 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Open source package urllib3 raised $15,000 in 2021
15 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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A Plant That Sterilizes Medical Equipment Spews Cancer-Causing Pollution
15 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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At what age is “too old” to work in tech as a software engineer?
15 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Duck Duck Go announces a privacy focused browser for Mac
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Mycroft – The Private and Open Voice Assistant
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Enhance your dev detective powers with Sourcegraph
15 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Inflation surged 6.8%, even more than expected, in November to fastest ra (cont)
15 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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I'm a new supervisor and my direct reports are workaholics
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you sustain mindfulness throughout your day?
15 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022, Software Developers Outlook
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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An Oxford University admissions interview question
15 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Show HN: Programmable “link preview” thumbnails for your website's pages
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The Low Tech Secret Santa
15 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Counting the neurological cost of Covid-19
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Why Cloudflare Bought Zaraz
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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YouTube channel terminated without prior warning or strikes, outrageous
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]
15 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Ask HN: Is working at Amazon worth it?
15 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Verizon Rejecting Twilio Error Message as Violating Carrier Guidelines
15 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: What recent research papers are most interesting in your field?
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Soft Serve: A self-hosted Git server for the command line
15 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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How to Lose Stars on GitHub?
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Customer support outsourcing experiences?
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Psychological Safety
15 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Data-Oriented Programming: A link in the chain of programming paradigms
15 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Show HN: Stixify – Turn unstructured data into structured threat intelligence
15 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Y Combinator Changed the World
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
15 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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China and Russia attack US satellites every day: Space Force general says
15 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Show HN: Raito – Single-File Markdown CMS
15 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Magnetism in Biblical Times
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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New York City, Facing Housing Crisis, Targets Illegal Airbnb Owners
15 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”
15 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Show HN: RemoteLy – Receive curated remote jobs directly in your email
15 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Kubernetes adoption up, serverless down, developer survey says
15 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Epic fantasy enthusiast reads it for the first time
15 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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25 Years Ago, Apple Acquired Next and Brought Back Steve Jobs
15 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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The Invention of Santa Claus: From Thomas Nast to Coca-Cola
15 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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DangerousThings Biohacking Forum
15 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Algorithms and Automatic Computing Machines (1963)
15 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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MicroPython: How to Blink an LED
15 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Sony staffer accused of embezzling $155M while working remotely
15 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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El Salvador President says, ‘It’s game over for dollar, Bitcoin is future’
15 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Orgdown – The Interesting Feedback Phase So Far
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Ask HN: What would make a next-gen search engine?
15 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Alexa is nagging you more because Amazon knows you don’t care about new features
15 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Show HN: I built a tool that detects bad cases of the Log4j vulnerability
15 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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DAOs, a Canon
15 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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OpenML: A Science-Focused, Collaborative Machine Learning Platform
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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QOvery Engine: We lost 3800 stars on GitHub
14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Omicron may not be the final variant, but it may be the final variant of concern
14 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Should I invest time/money in certifications?
14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Star Trek – U.S..S. Enterprise NCC-1701 – Highly Detialed Model Replica
14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021