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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Germany: Data retention to be abolished

    261 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  2. Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

    261 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  3. Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp

    260 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  4. NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

    260 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  5. An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper

    260 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  6. /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system

    260 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  7. How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught

    259 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  8. Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour

    258 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  9. Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?

    258 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  10. Why Retaining Walls Collapse

    258 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  11. uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS

    258 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  12. China issues new encryption import control

    257 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  13. Bugs are evolving to eat plastic

    257 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  14. Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder

    257 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  15. The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme

    256 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  16. Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser

    255 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  17. “Open source” is not broken

    255 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  18. Woe be unto you for using a WebSocket

    254 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  19. Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools

    254 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  20. Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects

    254 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  21. Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?

    254 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  22. Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users

    253 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  23. Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback

    252 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  24. Making Websites Small

    252 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  25. Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

    252 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  26. Ask HN: How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?

    252 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  27. The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation

    252 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  28. OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration

    252 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  29. A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research

    252 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  30. Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”

    251 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  31. Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019)

    251 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  32. How Audio Fingerprinting Works

    251 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  33. I bought those AR cycling glasses that were on HN last month

    251 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  34. Testing the strength of different wood species

    251 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  35. Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement

    250 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  36. Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)

    250 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  37. Swift Playgrounds 4

    250 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  38. Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon

    250 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  39. The Container Throttling Problem

    248 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  40. Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’

    248 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  41. In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns

    248 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  42. 20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’

    248 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  43. Kropotkin escapes from prison

    248 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  44. Be curious, not judgmental

    248 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  45. Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning

    247 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  46. Lazydocker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker

    247 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  47. Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15

    246 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  48. The Best Things and Stuff of 2021

    246 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  49. Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system

    246 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  50. Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

    245 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  51. Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match

    245 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  52. Up all night with a Twitch millionaire

    245 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  53. Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips

    245 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  54. Scala at scale at Databricks

    245 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  55. Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in

    245 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  56. A Farewell to LWN

    245 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  57. Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

    244 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  58. 37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet

    244 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  59. Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering

    243 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  60. To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension

    243 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  61. Papers with Code

    242 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  62. Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams

    242 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  63. A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life

    242 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  64. Square is now called Block

    242 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  65. Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020)

    242 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  66. Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS

    241 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  67. Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)

    241 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  68. All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022

    241 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  69. Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts

    241 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  70. Is the big tech era ending?

    241 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  71. Tesla Light Show xLights Guide

    240 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  72. Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life

    240 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  73. Papers We Love

    240 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  74. Lead poisoning among US children

    240 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  75. Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway

    239 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  76. An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts

    239 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  77. How I Build

    238 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  78. Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone

    238 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  79. Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux

    237 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  80. Toddlers are harsh judges of moral character

    237 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  81. PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads

    237 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  82. Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur

    236 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  83. This Year in Matrix

    236 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  84. The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

    235 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  85. Whatever happened to Flickr?

    235 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  86. Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providers

    235 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  87. FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)

    235 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  88. I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works

    235 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  89. LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes

    235 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  90. Why Web3?

    234 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  91. Canada's public health agency admits it tracked mobile devices during lockdown

    234 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  92. Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel

    234 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  93. Coreutils Rewritten in Rust

    233 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  94. eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars

    233 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  95. A Python Guide for the Ages

    233 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  96. The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.

    233 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  97. Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence

    232 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  98. Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?

    232 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  99. Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]

    232 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  100. No Easter Eggs in Curl

    231 points • comment • dec 06, 2021