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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Listen to CDs
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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The State of External Retina Displays, [Almost] 2022 Edition
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Who Saw the Collapse of the USSR Coming?
11 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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James Webb telescope: Sun shield deployment is critical
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers with ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos
11 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Smart Contract Bug Results in $31M Loss
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Comcast reduced “working latency” 90% by deploying AQM during Covid
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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CNN declares “end of the Internet as we know it” after net neutrality vote
11 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Stop Writing Reusable React Components
11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit (2016)
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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A Legendary Redesign of Helvetica, Reborn After 30 Years
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Doctors Gave Her a Choice: Let Covid-19 Kill Her Child, or Amputate His Limbs
11 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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LastPass says no passwords compromised in latest security scare
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Unsure If Fine-Tuning Shots for Omicron Is Worthwhile
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel
11 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Almost Always Add Swap Space
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Validating JSON Input in Rust Web Services
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Journals Blocking 'Offensive' Publications
11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Ask HN: Best online resources for starting a business in 2022?
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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China deleted 106 apps from stores, including a top cultural discussion platform
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Did a former ‘New York Times’ reporter exploit musicians for his personal gain?
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Richard Dawkins: “What I say in biology has become pretty much orthodoxy”
11 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Tor 0day: Snowflake
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report 'should all be prosecuted'
11 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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I make millions buying up abandoned shipping containers and selling its content
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: Plasmic – visual builder that can drag-and-drop your React components
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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LibreLogo: Programming Environment in LibreOffice
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Charlie Chaplin – Final Speech from the Great Dictator
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Guy pays $400k to have his $2.6m house moved 7 blocks in San Francisco
11 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Web2 vs. Web3
11 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Chicago Principles
11 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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‘It's misinformation at worst.’ Weak health studies can do more harm than good
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Research is a self-correcting process, but that fact is often lost on the public
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Winds break 100mph outside Boulder, Colorado as fires spread
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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EU draft rules for gig workers target Uber, Deliveroo, online platforms
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Criminals have stolen nearly $100b in Covid relief funds, Secret Service says
10 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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How Long Do Disk Drives Last?
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Princeton team disables long-targeted gene behind spread of major cancers
10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Cloudflare security responded to Log4j 2 vulnerability
10 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
10 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Netherlands to ban live boiling of lobsters, crabs
10 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Czech Cubism
10 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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James Webb Space Telescope launch scheduled 22 December
10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Adam Hinkley (Of Hotline Connect, KDX)
10 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Omicron: We're Getting (Some) Answers
10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the planet in peril
10 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Bone-Eating Worms and Other Surprises from Dumping Alligators in the Sea
10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Dozens of banks push users to voice-based phone authentication, inspite of risks
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Why Are We Pouring Money into a Black Box?
10 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Can’t Find a Rolex or Patek Philippe? Blame the Reddit Crowd
10 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers
10 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Harry M. Reid, a Power in the Senate, Dies at 82
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg
10 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Tell HN: Google tells users with telephony issues to rollback and factory rest
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you gotten a 2nd full-time remote job since the start of lockdown?
10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Microsoft notifies customers of Azure bug that exposed their source code
10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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The [Nautilus] icon view is dead, long live the icon view
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Takedown notices threaten online thrift shops as business is exploding
10 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Vaccine Makers Funneled Undisclosed Cash to Democrats and Republicans in 2020
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Program Emacs in Python
10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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65% of Americans support monthly $2k Covid stimulus payments, new poll shows
10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Novi Wallet rolls out for WhatsApp in the US
10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Nature’s 10: Ten People Who Helped Shape Science in 2021
10 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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In 2022 the Fed will buy $60B in bonds per month and do up to 3 rate hikes
10 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Is decentralized password/private key recovery possible?
10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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LLVM from a Go Perspective
10 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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About 75% of the 800k Americans who died of Covid-19 were over 65 years old
10 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Apple AirTags Being Used by Thieves to Steal Cars in York Region
10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched: Now Comes the Hard Part
10 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II (2011)
10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Tell HN: Marketing companies are gaming IMDB reviews
10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Tesla told France there was no sign of technical fault in Paris big crash
10 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Rapid Progression of Angioimmunoblastic T Cell Lymphoma Following mRNA Vaccine
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform
10 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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DGEL: A WebGPU Engine
10 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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TikTok about AI that explains code in plain English
10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Amazon Killed the Name Alexa
10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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The inner lives of cats: what cats think about happiness and humans
10 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Earth is getting a black box to record the downfall of civilization
10 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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FDA intransigence prevents distribution of effective rapid tests
10 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Ask HN: Why do such things like smartphone apps even exist if we have web pages?
10 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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France tightens Covid rules, makes masks mandatory outdoors in Paris
10 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring Wireless Chips In-House
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech
10 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The first octopus farm – should it go ahead?
10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The Story of the IBM Model M4 Family
10 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones
10 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Tesla applies to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors
10 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Secrecy Creep
10 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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The Appeal of Artists Who Won Fame After Death
10 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Computers Doing the Right Thing
10 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Ask HN: Why are there so few single-letter command line utilities / tools?
10 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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'Anti-5G' necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Show HN: StoryChopsticks: Children learn Chinese online with their own stories
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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A Field Guide for the Modern Embedded Engineer
10 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Line length revisited: following the research
10 points • comment • dec 04, 2021