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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Bird populations declining fast across North America

    301 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  2. Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules

    300 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  3. Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?

    300 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  4. New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers

    300 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  5. Heroes of Might and Magic

    299 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  6. Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?

    299 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  7. Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples

    299 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  8. “Risc V greatly underperforms”

    298 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  9. There's never been a better time to build websites

    298 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  10. The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

    298 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  11. Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel

    298 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  12. How do you fix a stroad?

    297 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  13. Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]

    297 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  14. Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer

    297 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  15. DIY Off-Grid Solar Power

    296 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  16. Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers

    295 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  17. 3 lines of code shouldn't take all day

    295 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  18. Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

    294 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  19. New York City bans natural gas in new buildings

    294 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  20. Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year

    293 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  21. Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)

    293 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  22. DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

    293 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  23. Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud

    292 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  24. Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early

    292 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  25. Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

    292 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  26. The "five whys" productivity technique

    289 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  27. Why is my Rust build so slow?

    289 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  28. Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

    288 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  29. Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance

    288 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  30. Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent

    287 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  31. Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)

    286 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  32. My progress in porting Wine

    285 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  33. Decoding James Webb Space Telescope

    285 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  34. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

    285 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  35. BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops

    285 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  36. Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code

    284 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  37. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

    283 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  38. Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

    283 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  39. “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

    283 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  40. The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications

    282 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  41. Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not

    282 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  42. HyperNeRF

    282 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  43. Old CSS, New CSS (2020)

    281 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  44. Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide

    281 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  45. “Open source” is broken

    279 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  46. Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)

    279 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  47. Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

    279 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  48. Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

    278 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  49. Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis

    278 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  50. The Modern Guide to OAuth

    277 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  51. Miniature 3456 LED Cube

    276 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  52. Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps

    276 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  53. Web3 is going just great

    276 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  54. Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals

    276 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  55. Firefox's Optimized Zip Format

    275 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  56. Non-Fungible Olive Gardens

    275 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  57. Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week

    274 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  58. Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

    274 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  59. Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand

    274 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  60. Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn

    274 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  61. Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software

    273 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  62. Kintsugi – Art of Repair

    273 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  63. Thousands of coma patients may be conscious

    273 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  64. Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online

    273 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  65. Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services

    272 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  66. Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription

    272 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  67. JavaScript for Impatient Programmers

    272 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  68. Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (2013)

    271 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  69. Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

    271 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  70. The CIA and the Media (1977)

    271 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  71. Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town

    271 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  72. An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter

    271 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  73. Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?

    270 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  74. Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine

    270 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  75. Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public

    270 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  76. FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)

    270 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  77. If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling

    269 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  78. EU Commission to open source software

    269 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  79. Common Jobs in a Medieval City

    268 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  80. India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman

    268 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  81. Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers

    267 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  82. Darebee – A database of workouts

    267 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  83. DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)

    267 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  84. You Can't Buy Integration

    267 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  85. Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough

    266 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  86. Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS

    266 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  87. Move myself to inactive

    266 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  88. Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL

    266 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  89. CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020)

    265 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  90. Is Web3 anything?

    265 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  91. Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

    264 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  92. Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS

    264 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  93. South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

    263 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  94. Ask HN: Advice about aging parents

    263 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  95. Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS

    262 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  96. AWS down again?

    262 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  97. Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale

    262 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  98. Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022

    262 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  99. The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video]

    262 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  100. Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager

    262 points • comment • dec 16, 2021