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Hacker News (Dec 2021)
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No Easter Eggs in Curl
231 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)
231 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Hertz customers arrested, jailed and held at gunpoint after false theft reports
230 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python
230 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
230 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
230 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated
229 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”
229 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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BetrFS: an in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage
229 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI
228 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Approx. 24 hours ago, Tether printed 1B $USDT out of thin air
228 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
228 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
228 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement
228 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
228 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?
227 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Learn X in Y Minutes
227 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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When HDMI 2.1 isn't HDMI 2.1 – the confusing world of the standard
227 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Using the wrong dictionary (2014)
227 points • comment • dec 30, 2021
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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
227 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers
226 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Julia 1.7 Highlights
226 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Shrooms: What You Need to Know
225 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy
225 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
225 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
224 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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Show HN: I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search'
224 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Valve actively supporting Godot to make the engine work well on the Steam Deck
223 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
223 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion
223 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Saying goodbye to an old friend
223 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more
223 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Two custom React hooks
223 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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What does a Principal Software Engineer do?
223 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150M
223 points • comment • dec 05, 2021
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A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech
222 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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The Fraud Supply Chain
221 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
221 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Whitehead and Russell’s Principia rewritten in Coq
221 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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Gigablast Search Engine
221 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
221 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
221 points • comment • dec 03, 2021
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Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
221 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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DNS doesn't “propagate”
221 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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America is running on fumes
220 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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I lasted three minutes at Amazon
220 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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A Guide to Twitter
220 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC
219 points • comment • dec 01, 2021
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Grindr €6.5M fined for not collecting users’ valid consent for sharing data
219 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook
219 points • comment • dec 07, 2021
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Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
218 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
217 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
217 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
217 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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PDP-11 Booting
217 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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T-Mobile Actively Censoring Certain URLs [video]
217 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?
216 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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Tinyssh
216 points • comment • dec 23, 2021
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John Madden has died
216 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Jam – Self-Hosted Clubhouse
216 points • comment • dec 09, 2021
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Joan Didion has died
216 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua
216 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
215 points • comment • dec 16, 2021
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Keep a Changelog
215 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Why Not Rust? (2020)
215 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
214 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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What happens to developers who never go into management?
214 points • comment • dec 11, 2021
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Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study
214 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures
214 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)
213 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps
213 points • comment • dec 26, 2021
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Wargames can help you to learn and practice security concepts through games
213 points • comment • dec 29, 2021
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Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December
213 points • comment • dec 24, 2021
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Fun with File Formats
213 points • comment • dec 14, 2021
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The 40th anniversary edition of Codex Seraphinianus
213 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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How to write a simple JIT compiler
212 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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immudb – world’s fastest immutable database, built on a zero trust model
212 points • comment • dec 27, 2021
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Internet Movie Firearms Database
212 points • comment • dec 21, 2021
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Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere
212 points • comment • dec 22, 2021
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No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
212 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics
212 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?
211 points • comment • dec 31, 2021
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Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021
211 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
211 points • comment • dec 25, 2021
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There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
210 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public
210 points • comment • dec 02, 2021
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
209 points • comment • dec 06, 2021
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UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back)
209 points • comment • dec 18, 2021
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Apple Open Source
209 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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GitHub taking down tools allowing defenders to reproduce the Log4j vulnerability
208 points • comment • dec 13, 2021
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Judge tosses $4.5B deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims
208 points • comment • dec 17, 2021
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Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
208 points • comment • dec 28, 2021
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USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables
208 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox
208 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991
207 points • comment • dec 19, 2021
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The QOI File Format Specification
207 points • comment • dec 20, 2021
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In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°
206 points • comment • dec 04, 2021
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JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release
206 points • comment • dec 15, 2021
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Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel
205 points • comment • dec 08, 2021
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Ordering movie credits with graph theory
205 points • comment • dec 21, 2021