top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-16

Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29581125

4 years ago

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

https://arnoldgalovics.com/microservices-in-production/

4 years ago

From Node to Ruby on Rails

https://nikodunk.com/a-node-js-developer-discovers-rails/

4 years ago

Tqdm (Python)

https://tqdm.github.io/

4 years ago

Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/

4 years ago

Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pelosi-defends-lawmakers-and-their-spouses-trading-stocks-we-are-a-free-market-economy-01639606786

4 years ago

Reddit files to go public

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/reddit-files-us-ipo-2021-12-16/

4 years ago

There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge

https://there.oughta.be/a/wifi-game-boy-cartridge

4 years ago

PNG Parser Differential

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/widgets/pngdiff/

4 years ago

Rails 7 Released

https://rubyonrails.org/2021/12/15/Rails-7-fulfilling-a-vision

4 years ago

Defrag Like It's 1993

https://defrag.shiplift.dev/

4 years ago

Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-scam-revenues/

4 years ago

Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)

https://mattbruenig.com/2021/12/13/carmen-ortiz-has-blood-on-her-hands/

4 years ago

Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine

https://www.znak.com/2021-12-16/rostovskiy_sud_opublikoval_prigovor_s_podtverzhdeniem_prisutstviya_voennyh_rf_v_donbasse

4 years ago

India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman

https://www.science.org/content/article/india-defuses-its-population-bomb-fertility-falls-two-children-woman

4 years ago

Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29582686

4 years ago

Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Log4j+2.15.0+and+previously+suggested+mitigations+may+not+be+enough/28134

4 years ago

Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager

https://vitalyparnas.com/guides/pass/

4 years ago

Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python

https://www.pola.rs/

4 years ago

GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta

https://openai.com/api/

4 years ago