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Hacker News (Dec 2021)

  1. Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't

    169 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  2. The future of Python build systems and Gentoo

    169 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  3. The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by US troops

    168 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  4. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble

    168 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  5. Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library

    168 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  6. NeXTSpirit: high-res NeXTSTEP Icons for macOS

    168 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  7. Stanford requires booster shots for all students

    168 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  8. Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers

    168 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  9. Show HN: A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target

    168 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  10. Amazon agreed to allow only five-star reviews for Xi’s book in China

    167 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  11. Avy Can Do Anything

    167 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  12. Why battery costs have plunged since 2010

    167 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  13. The Invention of Chinese

    167 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  14. Sending SMS Messages Through the ISS (2020)

    167 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  15. Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

    167 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  16. DIY Mail

    167 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  17. Show HN: Fourier Transform Visualized via WebGL

    167 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  18. Gopher – A 280B parameter language model

    167 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  19. Imagor: A fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go

    167 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  20. Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer

    166 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  21. Plant Root System Drawings

    166 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  22. Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday

    166 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  23. Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified

    166 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  24. CSS Zen Garden: A demonstration of what can be achieved through CSS-based design

    166 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  25. How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs

    165 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  26. Websocketd – It's like CGI, twenty years later, for WebSockets

    165 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  27. Vivaldi Browser 5.0

    165 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  28. Excel World Championship Finals

    165 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  29. Analogue Pocket Hate Story

    165 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  30. The Swiss wanderer who found the soul of 1950s Japan

    165 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  31. The Evolutions of Lambdas in C++14, C++17 and C++20

    165 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  32. OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

    165 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  33. Who is the most accurate world chess champion?

    165 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  34. Facts don’t change our minds (2018)

    164 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  35. Perl Turns 34 Today

    164 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  36. Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will

    164 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  37. Superhighway84 – a Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion system

    164 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  38. Realtime Postgres Row Level Security

    164 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  39. IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system

    164 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  40. The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077

    164 points • comment • dec 11, 2021

  41. Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?

    164 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  42. Safest mushrooms to forage and eat

    163 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  43. How to make any immutable data structure distributed

    163 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  44. DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase

    163 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  45. Repulsive Surfaces

    163 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  46. The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

    162 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  47. Sublime Clojure

    162 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?

    162 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  49. Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control

    162 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  50. Kryptology: Coinbase’s Open Source Cryptography Library

    162 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  51. Eurorack CPU

    161 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  52. Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning

    161 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  53. AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps

    161 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  54. Why can’t you design noise in frequency space?

    161 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  55. I Rewrote WinUI to WPF

    160 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  56. Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement

    160 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  57. System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems

    160 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  58. Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

    160 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  59. Technology Behind the Lilium Jet

    160 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  60. Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese

    159 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  61. The Io Language

    159 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  62. The Amazon Empire Strikes Back

    159 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  63. Street Fighter II, the World Warrier

    159 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  64. Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much

    159 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  65. Why Zulip will stand the test of time

    159 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  66. Show HN: We open sourced our new Mac developer setup script

    159 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  67. The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII

    159 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  68. How SQLite Is Tested

    159 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  69. Cornell McRay T'Racing

    159 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  70. About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1

    158 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  71. Show HN: Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves

    158 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  72. Erich's Packing Center

    158 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  73. Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed of thought

    158 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  74. Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B

    157 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  75. Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

    157 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  76. An underrated idea: the priority view

    156 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  77. Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project

    156 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  78. Sherver: Bash lightweight web server

    156 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  79. Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size

    156 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  80. ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing

    156 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  81. Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time

    156 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  82. Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

    156 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  83. About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated

    156 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  84. Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos

    155 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  85. JPMorgan hit with $200M in fines for letting employees use WhatsApp

    155 points • comment • dec 18, 2021

  86. Xsnow

    155 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  87. What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining

    155 points • comment • dec 13, 2021

  88. Privacy.com Reissuing All Cards

    155 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  89. War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)

    154 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  90. Kubernetes at Home with K3s

    154 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  91. Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

    154 points • comment • dec 01, 2021

  92. Three Ways of Generating Terrain with Erosion Features

    154 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  93. Monoio – A thread-per-core Rust async runtime with io_uring

    154 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  94. Predict civilization collapse with Python and World3 model

    154 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  95. How Secure Boot Works on M1 Series Macs

    154 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  96. Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)

    153 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  97. Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period

    153 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  98. Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”

    153 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  99. Where is the CRDT for syntax trees

    153 points • comment • dec 03, 2021

  100. Insects are more sensitive than they seem

    153 points • comment • dec 10, 2021