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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Bird populations declining fast across North America
301 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules
300 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?
300 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
300 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Heroes of Might and Magic
299 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
299 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples
299 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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“Risc V greatly underperforms”
298 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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There's never been a better time to build websites
298 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
298 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel
298 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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How do you fix a stroad?
297 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]
297 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer
297 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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DIY Off-Grid Solar Power
296 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers
295 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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3 lines of code shouldn't take all day
295 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
294 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
294 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
293 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)
293 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
293 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud
292 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
292 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
292 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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The "five whys" productivity technique
289 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Why is my Rust build so slow?
289 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors
288 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance
288 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent
287 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)
286 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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My progress in porting Wine
285 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
285 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
285 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
285 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
284 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
283 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go
283 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
283 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications
282 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not
282 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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HyperNeRF
282 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
281 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide
281 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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“Open source” is broken
279 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)
279 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
279 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time
278 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
278 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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The Modern Guide to OAuth
277 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Miniature 3456 LED Cube
276 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
276 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Web3 is going just great
276 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals
276 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Firefox's Optimized Zip Format
275 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
275 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
274 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox
274 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
274 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn
274 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software
273 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Kintsugi – Art of Repair
273 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Thousands of coma patients may be conscious
273 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
273 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services
272 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription
272 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
272 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (2013)
271 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)
271 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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The CIA and the Media (1977)
271 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
271 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
271 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?
270 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine
270 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public
270 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
270 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
269 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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EU Commission to open source software
269 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Common Jobs in a Medieval City
268 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
268 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers
267 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Darebee – A database of workouts
267 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
267 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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You Can't Buy Integration
267 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough
266 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
266 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Move myself to inactive
266 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
266 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020)
265 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Is Web3 anything?
265 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
264 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
264 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew
263 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Advice about aging parents
263 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS
262 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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AWS down again?
262 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale
262 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022
262 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video]
262 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
262 points • comment • dec 16, 2021