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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. No Easter Eggs in Curl

    231 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  2. Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)

    231 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  3. Hertz customers arrested, jailed and held at gunpoint after false theft reports

    230 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  4. Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python

    230 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  5. Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

    230 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  6. Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)

    230 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  7. The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated

    229 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  8. Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”

    229 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  9. BetrFS: an in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage

    229 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  10. Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI

    228 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  11. Approx. 24 hours ago, Tether printed 1B $USDT out of thin air

    228 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  12. Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird

    228 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  13. Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants

    228 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  14. FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement

    228 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  15. A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website

    228 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  16. Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

    227 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  17. Learn X in Y Minutes

    227 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  18. When HDMI 2.1 isn't HDMI 2.1 – the confusing world of the standard

    227 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  19. Using the wrong dictionary (2014)

    227 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  20. Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

    227 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  21. Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers

    226 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  22. Julia 1.7 Highlights

    226 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  23. Shrooms: What You Need to Know

    225 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  24. GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy

    225 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  25. Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go

    225 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  26. There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

    224 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  27. Show HN: I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search'

    224 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  28. Valve actively supporting Godot to make the engine work well on the Steam Deck

    223 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  29. Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

    223 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  30. Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion

    223 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  31. Saying goodbye to an old friend

    223 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  32. Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

    223 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  33. Two custom React hooks

    223 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  34. What does a Principal Software Engineer do?

    223 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  35. Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150M

    223 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  36. A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

    222 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  37. The Fraud Supply Chain

    221 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  38. Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker

    221 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  39. Whitehead and Russell’s Principia rewritten in Coq

    221 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  40. Gigablast Search Engine

    221 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  41. Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain

    221 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  42. Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made

    221 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  43. Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

    221 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  44. DNS doesn't “propagate”

    221 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  45. America is running on fumes

    220 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  46. I lasted three minutes at Amazon

    220 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  47. A Guide to Twitter

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  48. Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

    219 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  49. Grindr €6.5M fined for not collecting users’ valid consent for sharing data

    219 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  50. Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook

    219 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  51. Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens

    218 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  52. Three Minor Features in Go 1.18

    217 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  53. Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps

    217 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  54. Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia

    217 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  55. PDP-11 Booting

    217 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  56. T-Mobile Actively Censoring Certain URLs [video]

    217 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

    216 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  58. Tinyssh

    216 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  59. John Madden has died

    216 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  60. Jam – Self-Hosted Clubhouse

    216 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  61. Joan Didion has died

    216 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  62. MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua

    216 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  63. GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta

    215 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  64. Keep a Changelog

    215 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  65. Why Not Rust? (2020)

    215 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  66. Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

    214 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  67. What happens to developers who never go into management?

    214 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  68. Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study

    214 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  69. Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

    214 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  70. The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)

    213 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  71. How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps

    213 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  72. Wargames can help you to learn and practice security concepts through games

    213 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  73. Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December

    213 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  74. Fun with File Formats

    213 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  75. The 40th anniversary edition of Codex Seraphinianus

    213 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  76. How to write a simple JIT compiler

    212 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  77. immudb – world’s fastest immutable database, built on a zero trust model

    212 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  78. Internet Movie Firearms Database

    212 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  79. Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

    212 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  80. No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)

    212 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  81. Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics

    212 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  82. Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?

    211 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  83. Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021

    211 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  84. Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic

    211 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  85. There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

    210 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  86. Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public

    210 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  87. How the GNU coreutils are tested

    209 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  88. UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back)

    209 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  89. Apple Open Source

    209 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  90. GitHub taking down tools allowing defenders to reproduce the Log4j vulnerability

    208 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  91. Judge tosses $4.5B deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims

    208 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  92. Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art

    208 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  93. USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables

    208 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  94. FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox

    208 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  95. Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991

    207 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  96. The QOI File Format Specification

    207 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  97. In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°

    206 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  98. JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release

    206 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  99. Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel

    205 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  100. Ordering movie credits with graph theory

    205 points • comment • dec 21, 2021