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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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Germany: Data retention to be abolished
261 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
261 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp
260 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever
260 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper
260 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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/tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
260 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
259 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
258 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
258 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Why Retaining Walls Collapse
258 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS
258 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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China issues new encryption import control
257 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Bugs are evolving to eat plastic
257 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
257 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme
256 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
255 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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“Open source” is not broken
255 points • comment • dec 12, 2021
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Woe be unto you for using a WebSocket
254 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools
254 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
254 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
254 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users
253 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback
252 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Making Websites Small
252 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?
252 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Ask HN: How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?
252 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation
252 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
252 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
252 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”
251 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019)
251 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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How Audio Fingerprinting Works
251 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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I bought those AR cycling glasses that were on HN last month
251 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Testing the strength of different wood species
251 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement
250 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)
250 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Swift Playgrounds 4
250 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon
250 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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The Container Throttling Problem
248 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’
248 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns
248 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’
248 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Kropotkin escapes from prison
248 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Be curious, not judgmental
248 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning
247 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Lazydocker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker
247 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
246 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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The Best Things and Stuff of 2021
246 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
246 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
245 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match
245 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
245 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips
245 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Scala at scale at Databricks
245 points • comment • dec 10, 2021
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Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in
245 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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A Farewell to LWN
245 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
244 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
244 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering
243 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension
243 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Papers with Code
242 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
242 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
242 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Square is now called Block
242 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020)
242 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS
241 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)
241 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022
241 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts
241 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Is the big tech era ending?
241 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Tesla Light Show xLights Guide
240 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life
240 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Papers We Love
240 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Lead poisoning among US children
240 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway
239 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts
239 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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How I Build
238 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone
238 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux
237 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Toddlers are harsh judges of moral character
237 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
237 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur
236 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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This Year in Matrix
236 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
235 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Whatever happened to Flickr?
235 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providers
235 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
235 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works
235 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes
235 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Why Web3?
234 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Canada's public health agency admits it tracked mobile devices during lockdown
234 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
234 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Coreutils Rewritten in Rust
233 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
233 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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A Python Guide for the Ages
233 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.
233 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence
232 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?
232 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]
232 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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No Easter Eggs in Curl
231 points • comment • dec 06, 2021