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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Listen to CDs

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  2. The State of External Retina Displays, [Almost] 2022 Edition

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  3. Who Saw the Collapse of the USSR Coming?

    11 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  4. James Webb telescope: Sun shield deployment is critical

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  5. Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers with ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos

    11 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  6. Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  7. Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  8. Smart Contract Bug Results in $31M Loss

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  9. Comcast reduced “working latency” 90% by deploying AQM during Covid

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  10. CNN declares “end of the Internet as we know it” after net neutrality vote

    11 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  11. Stop Writing Reusable React Components

    11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  12. The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit (2016)

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  13. A Legendary Redesign of Helvetica, Reborn After 30 Years

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  14. Doctors Gave Her a Choice: Let Covid-19 Kill Her Child, or Amputate His Limbs

    11 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  15. LastPass says no passwords compromised in latest security scare

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  16. Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Unsure If Fine-Tuning Shots for Omicron Is Worthwhile

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  17. Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel

    11 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  18. Almost Always Add Swap Space

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  19. Validating JSON Input in Rust Web Services

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  20. Journals Blocking 'Offensive' Publications

    11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  21. Ask HN: Best online resources for starting a business in 2022?

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  22. China deleted 106 apps from stores, including a top cultural discussion platform

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  23. Did a former ‘New York Times’ reporter exploit musicians for his personal gain?

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  24. Richard Dawkins: “What I say in biology has become pretty much orthodoxy”

    11 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  25. Tor 0day: Snowflake

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  26. Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report 'should all be prosecuted'

    11 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  27. I make millions buying up abandoned shipping containers and selling its content

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  28. Show HN: Plasmic – visual builder that can drag-and-drop your React components

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  29. LibreLogo: Programming Environment in LibreOffice

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  30. Charlie Chaplin – Final Speech from the Great Dictator

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  31. Guy pays $400k to have his $2.6m house moved 7 blocks in San Francisco

    11 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  32. Web2 vs. Web3

    11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  33. Chicago Principles

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  34. ‘It's misinformation at worst.’ Weak health studies can do more harm than good

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  35. Research is a self-correcting process, but that fact is often lost on the public

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  36. Winds break 100mph outside Boulder, Colorado as fires spread

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  37. EU draft rules for gig workers target Uber, Deliveroo, online platforms

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  38. Criminals have stolen nearly $100b in Covid relief funds, Secret Service says

    10 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  39. How Long Do Disk Drives Last?

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  40. Princeton team disables long-targeted gene behind spread of major cancers

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  41. Cloudflare security responded to Log4j 2 vulnerability

    10 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  42. NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  43. Netherlands to ban live boiling of lobsters, crabs

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  44. Czech Cubism

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  45. James Webb Space Telescope launch scheduled 22 December

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Adam Hinkley (Of Hotline Connect, KDX)

    10 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  47. Omicron: We're Getting (Some) Answers

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  48. Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the planet in peril

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  49. Bone-Eating Worms and Other Surprises from Dumping Alligators in the Sea

    10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  50. Dozens of banks push users to voice-based phone authentication, inspite of risks

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  51. Why Are We Pouring Money into a Black Box?

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  52. Can’t Find a Rolex or Patek Philippe? Blame the Reddit Crowd

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  53. RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers

    10 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  54. NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  55. Harry M. Reid, a Power in the Senate, Dies at 82

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  56. Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg

    10 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  57. Tell HN: Google tells users with telephony issues to rollback and factory rest

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Have you gotten a 2nd full-time remote job since the start of lockdown?

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  59. Microsoft notifies customers of Azure bug that exposed their source code

    10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  60. The [Nautilus] icon view is dead, long live the icon view

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  61. Takedown notices threaten online thrift shops as business is exploding

    10 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  62. Vaccine Makers Funneled Undisclosed Cash to Democrats and Republicans in 2020

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  63. Program Emacs in Python

    10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  64. 65% of Americans support monthly $2k Covid stimulus payments, new poll shows

    10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  65. Novi Wallet rolls out for WhatsApp in the US

    10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  66. Nature’s 10: Ten People Who Helped Shape Science in 2021

    10 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  67. In 2022 the Fed will buy $60B in bonds per month and do up to 3 rate hikes

    10 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  68. Ask HN: Is decentralized password/private key recovery possible?

    10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  69. LLVM from a Go Perspective

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  70. About 75% of the 800k Americans who died of Covid-19 were over 65 years old

    10 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  71. Apple AirTags Being Used by Thieves to Steal Cars in York Region

    10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  72. The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched: Now Comes the Hard Part

    10 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  73. Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II (2011)

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  74. Tell HN: Marketing companies are gaming IMDB reviews

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  75. Tesla told France there was no sign of technical fault in Paris big crash

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  76. Rapid Progression of Angioimmunoblastic T Cell Lymphoma Following mRNA Vaccine

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  77. Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform

    10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  78. DGEL: A WebGPU Engine

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  79. TikTok about AI that explains code in plain English

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  80. Amazon Killed the Name Alexa

    10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  81. The inner lives of cats: what cats think about happiness and humans

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  82. Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  83. Earth is getting a black box to record the downfall of civilization

    10 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  84. FDA intransigence prevents distribution of effective rapid tests

    10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Why do such things like smartphone apps even exist if we have web pages?

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  86. France tightens Covid rules, makes masks mandatory outdoors in Paris

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  87. Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring Wireless Chips In-House

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  88. Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech

    10 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

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

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  90. The Story of the IBM Model M4 Family

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  91. Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones

    10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  92. Tesla applies to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  93. Secrecy Creep

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  94. The Appeal of Artists Who Won Fame After Death

    10 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  95. Computers Doing the Right Thing

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  96. Ask HN: Why are there so few single-letter command line utilities / tools?

    10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  97. 'Anti-5G' necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  98. Show HN: StoryChopsticks: Children learn Chinese online with their own stories

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  99. A Field Guide for the Modern Embedded Engineer

    10 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  100. Line length revisited: following the research

    10 points • comment • dec 04, 2021