1665
1058
Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29581125
4 years ago
1230
445
Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
https://arnoldgalovics.com/microservices-in-production/
941
639
From Node to Ruby on Rails
https://nikodunk.com/a-node-js-developer-discovers-rails/
738
162
Tqdm (Python)
https://tqdm.github.io/
715
545
Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/
605
507
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
541
787
Reddit files to go public
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/reddit-files-us-ipo-2021-12-16/
539
98
There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
https://there.oughta.be/a/wifi-game-boy-cartridge
506
53
PNG Parser Differential
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/widgets/pngdiff/
437
131
Rails 7 Released
https://rubyonrails.org/2021/12/15/Rails-7-fulfilling-a-vision
362
268
Defrag Like It's 1993
https://defrag.shiplift.dev/
310
342
Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-scam-revenues/
293
120
Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/12/13/carmen-ortiz-has-blood-on-her-hands/
291
410
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
277
400
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
272
108
Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29582686
271
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
148
Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
https://vitalyparnas.com/guides/pass/
238
124
Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python
https://www.pola.rs/
224
158
GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
https://openai.com/api/
215
251
Trying Out Generics in Go
https://markphelps.me/posts/trying-out-generics-in-go/
210
48
QEMU 6.2
https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.2
206
78
Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1064628654/facebook-bans-surveillance-firms-that-spied-on-50000-people
203
31
National Park Typeface (2019)
https://nationalparktypeface.com/
187
95
Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29574027
173
51
Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetherington has died
https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/16/psygnosis-co-founder-ian-hetherington-has-died-15780365/
168
292
Power imbalances and sex
https://knowingless.com/2016/08/21/power-imbalances-and-sex/
159
135
To reduce student suicides by hanging to fans, institute in India removes fans
https://www.deccanherald.com/city/students-say-iisc-removing-fans-to-prevent-suicides-1061221.html
155
84
World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor
https://www.yourworldoftext.com/
152
114
Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07978
167
NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ny-man-pleads-guilty-in-20-million-sim-swap-theft/
151
32
General relativity passes a range of precise tests set by pair of extreme stars
https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2021/12
61
Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
147
Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/12/launching-version-13-0-of-wolfram-language-mathematica/
145
How I learned to stop worrying and push to master
https://thenable.io/push-to-master/
144
44
Awkward: Nested, jagged, differentiable, mixed type, GPU-enabled, JIT'd NumPy
https://awkward-array.org/quickstart.html
56
Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes
https://tlnotes.com/
142
52
Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v42RaYL28ZA
40
Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/using-ai-to-animate-childrens-drawings/
141
45
We need your beginner’s mind
https://www.joshcanhelp.com/we-need-your-beginners-mind/
133
55
What's New in ClickHouse 21.12
https://clickhouse.com/blog/en/2021/clickhouse-v21.12-released/
132
41
Isn't she just Misunderstood? The Casio Loopy
https://nicole.express/2021/going-loopy-for-a-casio.html
127
76
Why 'Long Rituals' Matter
https://longtermist.substack.com/p/why-long-rituals-matter
123
138
No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34869788/
118
169
What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?
https://twitter.com/_brohrer_/status/1471112859400687627
112
146
Incorrectly deleted from Facebook? Getting back on might take connections
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907310/facebook-account-deletion-ai-content-moderation-failure
111
64
Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac
https://www.fadel.io/batteries
110
190
I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]
http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/spring01/cs635/readingSmalltalk.pdf
102
6
The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-Design [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HgShra-KnY
71
ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit
https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/
99
125
What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-understand-20211216/
89
Leveraging SIMD: Splitting CSV Files at 3Gb/S
https://blog.tinybird.co/2021/12/14/simd/
87
26
TypeScript for Pythonistas
https://medium.com/@Pilot-EPD-Blog/typescript-for-pythonistas-f90bbb297f0a
85
96
Google Sues Glupteba botnet [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/1_Complaint.pdf
79
86
Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortality in older adults
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glab334/6444397
77
37
Hugging Face Acquires Gradio
https://gradio.app/joining-huggingface/
74
4
Court Tells Cops That of Course Framing People for Crimes Is a Rights Violation
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211127/09130348011/court-tells-cops-who-got-man-wrongly-imprisoned-25-years-that-course-framing-people-crimes-is-rights-violation.shtml
73
Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-will-not-honor-retroactive-full-self-driving-pricing-model-y/
20
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder into Century-Old Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/oxford-mathematician-advances-century-old-combinatorics-problem-20211215/