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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

1323

2

“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

1199

3

Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

1190

4

Wish HN: Happy Holidays

1139

5

Prince of Persia in JavaScript

885

6

25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

869

7

The gift of it's your problem now

728

8

iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

720

9

A New Coefficient of Correlation

678

10

Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

663

Top Ask HN

1

How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

869

2

What's the best book you read in 2021?

513

3

What is your spiritual practice?

389

4

Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

352

5

Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

328

6

How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

265

7

Good Python projects to read for modern Python?

236

8

Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?

228

9

Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?

220

10

How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?

188

Top Show HN

1

I'm building a non-profit search engine

440

2

Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

293

3

A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go

239

4

I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible

140

5

Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk

116

6

Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations

105

7

Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse

104

8

We built an app for reading articles saved for later

104

9

MLConsole – web app to train ML models, for free and client-side

85

10

Give the disappointment of an NFT-gift without having to buy one

77

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

549

2

Whatever happened to Flickr?

240

3

France's Jean Zay supercomputer now has an integrated photonic coprocessor

208

4

Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars

203

5

Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything else

186

6

FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps

185

7

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

162

8

Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size

159

9

It’s cheaper to stop emitting now than to pull carbon from the air later

153

10

Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery

93

News [?]

1

Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong

485

2

Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90

367

3

E.O. Wilson has died

352

4

New York City bans natural gas in new buildings

304

5

The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated

239

6

A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website

236

7

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

232

8

Joan Didion has died

217

9

Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes

204

10

Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future

203

Scientific publications [?]

1

A New Coefficient of Correlation

678

2

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

260

3

A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages

90

4

Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]

88

5

Gigantism is a never-ending temptation

61

6

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

48

7

Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

35

8

Bad characters: imperceptible Natural Language Processing attacks [pdf]

33

9

Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials

33

10

The mystery of the small dimensionless number with a big effect

33

Dev Blogs [?]

1

You can't copy code with memcpy

419

2

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

396

3

The software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships

206

4

Best practices for writing code comments

192

5

LuaTeX Comes of Age (2017)

131

6

How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow

101

7

Systemd 250 Released

88

8

Improving the quality of publicly trusted intermediate CA certificates

86

9

Linux 5.16 Has a Nice Performance Gift for AMD Ryzen Laptops

43

10

Tuning Your Code’s Performance for Apple silicon

20

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

201

2

Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay

150

3

Malware Could Use SSD Over-Provisioning to Bypass Security Measures

94

4

After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere

67

5

Intel Sells SSD Business and Fab to Sk Hynix, New 'Solidigm' Subsidiary Planned

33

6

Russian-Made Elbrus CPUs Fail Trials, 'A Completely Unacceptable Platform'

22

7

CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors with New Adaptive Tech

20

8

EFF: 2021 Year in Review

20

9

Mico Is a USB Microphone Based on a Pi Pico

19

10

Apple reportedly hires Meta’s communications lead ahead of headst launch in 2022

12

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS

188

2

AWS Ground Station

99

3

A fork() in the road – fork was a mistake [pdf]

27

4

FreeRTOS adds support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

13

5

Amazon Astro: Household Robot

8

6

Statement from AWS regarding recent support role incident

6

7

AWSSupportServiceRolePolicy – inadvertently included S3:GetObject permissions

4

8

Challenges with Distributed Systems

2

9

AWSSupportServiceRolePolicy Informational Update

2

10

Round 2 post-quantum TLS is now supported in AWS KMS

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

449

2

The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

307

3

Table Oriented Programming (2002)

126

4

Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement

61

5

What Animals Think of Death

55

6

The sweet sea monster of Portuguese Christmas

39

7

Brazillian businessman built a giant perpetual engine

29

8

The Flaw of Averages (2002)

19

9

Algorithms and Automatic Computing Machines (1963)

17

10

The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94

17

Science News [?]

1

An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine

314

2

What’s entering the public domain on January 1

188

3

‘Hard’ skills from PhDs remain relevant beyond academia

178

4

Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

163

5

The year in math and computer science

154

6

Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters

101

7

Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization

94

8

Proteins, Proteins Everywhere

78

9

Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart

61

10

Supermassive Black Hole Eruption Near Earth Spanning 16 Times Full Moon

58

Social [?]

1

iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

720

2

Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

638

3

All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

578

4

Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster

502

5

James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]

486

6

There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

237

7

Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number

207

8

JWST Launch NASA Livestream

144

9

Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay

132

10

This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes

122

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

1323

2

Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

572

3

Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

444

4

437

5

DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)

272

6

Tesla Light Show xLights Guide

242

7

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

225

8

Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills

196

9

Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

190

10

SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN

186

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of games that Buddha would not play

192

2

The Beverly Clock

177

3

54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level

165

4

London Beer Flood of 1814

91

5

Time formatting and storage bugs

45

6

32

7

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming

32

8

Kon Tiki Expedition

26

9

McNamara Fallacy

23

10

17

Blogs [?]

1

The Container Throttling Problem

254

2

Game engines as an art form

193

3

Will Citroen manage to re-invent the wheel?

88

4

Experimenting with brain-computer interfaces in JavaScript

58

5

Web3: The ‘access layer’, decentralized exchanges, and geopolitical implications

26

6

Is Kubernetes Betamax?

17

7

Completely Truthful Answers to Lady Engineer Questions (2015)

13

8

History of T (2001)

10

9

Structuring an F# Project with SQL Type Provider on CI

8

10

I’m the “SpaceX intern” who said Satoshi is Elon Musk. There's more to the story

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

A long explanation to Python decorators

3

Substack [?]

1

The Sucker Complex

216

2

Turkey's Financial Crisis

116

3

Walking the World: Bucharest

112

4

NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful

108

5

92

6

US foreign policy is driven mostly by short-term politics, not coherent strategy

68

7

Statistical Imaginaries: An ode to responsible data science

49

8

The Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980

37

9

The Liberty of Local Bullies (2011)

25

10

Thoughts on Lex Fridman's Interview with Pfizer CEO

23