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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Airborne DNA used to detect insect species in breakthrough for ecologists

    5 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  2. The Mirage of Knowledge (2018)

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  3. A man who made Germans admit complicity in the Holocaust

    5 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  4. Going from Coder to Slack Engineer

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  5. NASA Testing Space-to-Earth Optical Communications

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  6. Did a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Deceive Hundreds of Musicians?

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  7. Covid Policy Analysis

    5 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  8. Rocket scientists and brain surgeons are NO smarter than you are, study claims

    5 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  9. Obituary for Ned Seeman, Inventor of DNA Nanotech

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  10. Twitter acquires Quill, a would-be Slack rival; team will work on DMs

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  11. The hardware behind my old mail filtering server

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  12. Ask HN: Is this weird folder name indication of attempted log4shell attack?

    5 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  13. 'I thought I was going to die': British man bitten 26 times by roving otters

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  14. Covid vaccination: Aspiration recommended before injecting vaccine [video]

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  15. Ask HN: Not getting into tech even if I have a tech-related degree?

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  16. Ask HN: Are quantum-ready co’s peddling snake oil?

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  17. The Mirrortable

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  18. Immune imprinting causes varied patterns of protection against Covid-19 variants

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  19. A Mathematical Duel in 16th Century Venice

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  20. What is the best resource for learning to lead a software team?

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  21. Scholar Sets Off Gastronomic False Alarm (2001)

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  22. Eng Managers, start setting expectations, it works like magic if done right

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  23. Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  24. Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to a 13-year-old wrecked his career (2008)

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  25. Big Tech braces for breakups as UK opens new era of enforcement

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  26. Py-MADCAD 0.10

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  27. Cracking the Spotify Code

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  28. SpaceX Starlink satellites twice came too close, China tells UN chief

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  29. Bitcoin is solving one of the largest and most important issues of our time

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  30. How We Used eBPF to Build Programmable Packet Filtering in Magic Firewall

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  31. The PS4 9.00 Jailbreak

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  32. Is cryptocurrency an alternative to remittances or an additive factor?

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  33. Omicron has unique insertion mutation of putative viral/human genomic origin

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  34. SpaceX Wins More NASA Flights as Boeing Starliner Stumbles

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  35. Photographing Apollo 8's Orbit Toward the Moon

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  36. Schools across US respond to vague shooting threat circulating on TikTok

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  37. The Politics of Blasphemy and Lynching

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  38. Can China's Quantum Radar Detect Any Submarine?

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  39. Epistemology

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  40. The red color of Mars is only inches deep

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  41. RTX2010: A Radiation-Hardened Stack-Based CPU For Spaceflight

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  42. Ask HN: How do you inspect JSON logs?

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  43. Large Roman fort built by Caligula discovered near Amsterdam

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  44. The only hedge against inflation is quality

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  45. Teenage engineering computer–1 build guide

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  46. Programming: Exact Instructions for PB&J Sandwich – Josh Darnit (2017) [video]

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  47. The Omicron Situation

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  48. An American Secession? It’s Not That Far-Fetched

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  49. A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  50. Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  51. Covid-19 Post-Acute Sequelae Among Adults: 12 Month Mortality Risk

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  52. Google reportedly says employees defying vaccine policy will lose their jobs

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  53. Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  54. Boeing and Airbus warn US over 5G safety concerns

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  55. Epic vs. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  56. End of Year Pay Report 2021

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  57. After AWS outage, Larry Ellison says Oracle’s cloud ‘never ever goes down’

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  58. Audapolis: An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Have you seen any Web3 products with broad adoption?

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  60. Ask HN: How do I report vulnerabilities and bugs?

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  61. A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  62. Carmaker’s $23B Plan to Keep You Paying Long After You’ve Bought Your Car

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  63. Static-get: Portable binaries for Linux

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  64. How we dispose of worn-out car tires

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  65. Open-source FDTD software for electromagnetic simulations

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  66. Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  67. What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  68. Ask HN: What is the best database to use for a self-hosted GIS application?

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  69. Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn Xbox games into iPhone apps

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  70. AWS Re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  71. Free Software

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  72. Review: ‘Bitcoin Widow,’ by Jennifer Robertson (QuadrigaCX)

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  73. ATtiny555 Replaces 555 Timers with a Microcontroller That Simulates 555s

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  74. Will Containers Replace Virtual Machines?

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  75. Blood or saliva THC levels found to be poor sign of driving impairment

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  76. We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  77. Finnish man blows up his Tesla Model S with 30kg dynamite

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  78. Dutch say 14 air passengers from S. Africa with Omicron were vaccinated

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  79. Visual Studio Code November 2021

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  80. How to earn $1.5M in revenue from a JavaScript component

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  81. Former Ubiquiti employee charged with hacking, extorting company

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Is it possible to use AI to program a synthesiser to mimic a sound?

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  83. Maths researchers hail breakthrough in applications of artificial intelligence

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  84. Tesla test drivers believe they’re on a mission to make driving safer for all

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  85. Arducam Unveils Low-Cost 16MP Autofocus Camera Module for the Raspberry Pi

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  86. Virtual Femto Photography

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  87. Ask HN: Anyone have arthritis in their fingers? How to keep working with it?

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  88. Ask HN: How to formalise an ad-hoc maintenance arrangement

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  89. Evaluating Syntactic Abilities of Language Models

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  90. Bitcoin Mining Is Reshaping the Energy Sector and No One Is Talking About It

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  91. Who Reads Time?

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  92. Paywalls Everywhere? Get to the Goodies with These Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  93. On the Artist/Craftsman Divide

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  94. Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  95. Ask HN: Rejecting client work at last minute

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  96. YouTube Processes 4M ContentID Claims a Day, Transparency Report Reveals

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  97. Ask HN: Which came first? OpenStep on PPC? Or the MacOS UI on a NeXT derived OS?

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  98. Activist Teachers Recruit Kids

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  99. Healthsea: An end-to-end spaCy pipeline for exploring health supplement effects

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  100. Microsoft Vancouver leaking website credentials via overlooked DS_STORE file

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2021