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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. German police start measuring distances between people with folding rulers

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  2. Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

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

    14 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  4. Baseline pupil size is related to cognitive ability – ScienceDirect

    14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  5. Unruly Passengers Will Lose TSA PreCheck, Officials Say

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  6. Life is too short to be miserable

    14 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  7. Ask HN: Anyone interested in an offline version of Stack Overflow?

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  8. Pfizer pushes back FDA submission for pediatric Covid vaccine

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  9. America’s Lost Boys and Me

    14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  10. The first octopus farm – should it go ahead?

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  11. How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico (2017)

    14 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  12. How I Demolished My Life

    14 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  13. Cryptocurrencies: A Necessary Scam?

    14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  14. Oysters Are Helping to Filter NYC Waterways

    14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  15. MiniTorch: DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  16. Wireshark for macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon) is now available

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  17. Dell's easy-to-repair Luna Concept laptop aims to reduce waste, carbon emissions

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  18. Is freeing everyone from the Matrix a good idea

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  19. I Don't Understand NFTs

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  20. China files complaint to UN about near collisions with Starlink satellites [pdf]

    14 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  21. Investigations show pathophysiological alterations from Covid vaccines

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  22. The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find

    14 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  23. Dissecting Performance of Production QUIC [pdf]

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  24. Why the hell is supabase using Auth0 for its auth?

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  25. Ask HN: Why dont operating systems make sounds anymore

    14 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  26. Using WebScript

    14 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  27. Wine 7.0-rc1 is now available

    14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  28. Ask HN: Are there algorithms down ranking YouTube videos by words said in them?

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  29. Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  30. Minecraft CPU with Branch Prediction

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  31. Ask HN: Email saying my Amazon Route53 domains will be transferred?

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  32. The Filing Cabinet: a vertical history of information

    14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  33. New UK law means online racist abusers could face 10-year bans from football

    14 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  34. FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  35. Dodge Is Cancelling the Hemi V8

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  36. We’re blaming the wrong things for San Francisco retail theft

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  37. James Webb Orbit

    14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  38. Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  39. Open-Source board for converting Jetson nano to Brain-computer interface

    14 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  40. The Sopranos: Endings and Non-Endings

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  41. CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors with New Adaptive Tech

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  42. Headed for a 6th mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink

    14 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  43. How to analyse and aggregate data from DynamoDB (2020)

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  44. Our neighbor was hit by a self-driving car: sanfrancisco

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  45. Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  46. A Response to Economics as Gauge Theory

    14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  47. All companies can implement the four-day workweek. Here’s how

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  48. A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  49. Don’t Overdose on VC: Lessons from 166 Startup IPOs

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  50. Show HN: KatLang – Language for Calculations

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  51. Cancel Mainstream Media

    14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Qubes OS or just separate VMs for separating work and private files?

    14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  53. Woman with signal blocked-TV loses appeal contesting her obligation to pay NHK

    14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  54. People keep stealing my art and making NFTs.

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  55. Meat packers' profit margins jumped 300% during pandemic

    14 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  56. Charter Funds Group to Try and Kill Small Maine Town's Plan for Better Broadband

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  57. What’s Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy

    14 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  58. Google News without Covid or Lack Thereof

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  59. Why 1,320 Therapists Are Worried About Mental Health in America

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  60. Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?

    14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  61. Facebook Says Fact Checks Might Not Actually Be Factual

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  62. How Coinbase Thinks about the Metaverse

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  63. Ask HN: How to manage a large static HTML site?

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  64. Using PostgreSQL and SQL to Randomly Sample Data

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  65. DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size

    14 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  66. Beijing unleashed a propaganda campaign to redefine democracy

    14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  67. DTable a new distributed table implementation in Julia using Dagger.jl

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  68. Car break-ins on the rise across the Bay Area; how some are 'risking it all'

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  69. Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  70. Stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31M in digital coin

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  71. 5-dimensional analogue of Rubik's cube

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  72. A trebuchet can be supersonic

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  73. Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  74. MythTV: An Open Source Digital Video Recorder

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  75. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  76. US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee

    14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  77. Librem 5's lead time for new orders: 52 weeks

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  78. Show HN: Cycle Labs – Testing software after it gets deployed to production

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  79. Gravatar Data Breach

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  80. PostgREST on Fargate – 500QPS for $20/mo

    14 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  81. Ireland frets as criticism over Big Tech links goes mainstream

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  82. One Year of Writing Fault

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  83. Algebra of the Standard Model

    14 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  84. Ask HN: What Are My Options?

    14 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  85. Let's Encrypt Service Disruption

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  86. The evidence that Reddit user MaxwellHill is Ghislaine Maxwell

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  87. Apple won’t be required to make changes ordered in Epic ruling during appeal

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  88. Making Engineering Team Communication Clearer, Faster, Better

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  89. Messari Report Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]

    14 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  90. Lessons in trust from us-east-1

    14 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  91. Tell HN: GitHub is experiencing an undeclared outage

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  92. The Indian state of Kerala has a communist government and India's highest HDI

    14 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  93. Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What to Do When You Lose Your Account?

    13 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  94. Klein Bottles – 4D Toys Version 1.7

    13 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  95. Show HN: Piou – Build beautiful command-line interfaces with type validation

    13 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  96. Ask HN: What might the world look like 100 years from now?

    13 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  97. Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child

    13 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  98. Intel plans to take self-driving car unit public in the U.S. in mid-2022

    13 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  99. Computational modeling revives 19th century theory of grass leaf formation

    13 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  100. Crypto Rich Are Moving to Puerto Rico, World’s New Luxury Tax Haven

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2021