top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-17

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80

3 years ago

1599 upvotes – 644 comments

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

https://twitter.com/Naaackers/status/1471494415306788870

3 years ago

1545 upvotes – 498 comments

President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_aa3e67de-5de9-11ec-9246-af6384980cbb.html

3 years ago

867 upvotes – 964 comments

Tokio Console

https://tokio.rs/blog/2021-12-announcing-tokio-console

3 years ago

788 upvotes – 118 comments

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html

3 years ago

620 upvotes – 809 comments

Apple Helps Asahi Linux

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994

3 years ago

540 upvotes – 174 comments

CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/

3 years ago

485 upvotes – 333 comments

Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)

https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

3 years ago

468 upvotes – 200 comments

I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8

3 years ago

434 upvotes – 229 comments

Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews

https://fullstackeconomics.com/amazon-isnt-doing-enough-to-stop-bait-and-switch-reviews/

3 years ago

429 upvotes – 226 comments

Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588054

3 years ago

408 upvotes – 485 comments

Kinesis Advantage 360

https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/

3 years ago

394 upvotes – 329 comments

Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)

http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html

3 years ago

387 upvotes – 209 comments

YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17

3 years ago

339 upvotes – 106 comments

Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executive-sentenced-30-months-bribes-and-kickbacks-netflix-vendors

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 236 comments

Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software

https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/ambiguous-png-packer

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 101 comments

Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022

https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12159&Mode=0

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 147 comments

Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/world/exomars-water-mars-grand-canyon-scn/index.html

3 years ago

259 upvotes – 113 comments

Testing the strength of different wood species

https://woodgears.ca/wood_strength/

3 years ago

256 upvotes – 77 comments

The Web3 Fraud

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 362 comments
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