1599
644
Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
4 years ago
1545
498
TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
https://twitter.com/Naaackers/status/1471494415306788870
867
964
President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_aa3e67de-5de9-11ec-9246-af6384980cbb.html
788
118
Tokio Console
https://tokio.rs/blog/2021-12-announcing-tokio-console
620
809
Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html
540
174
Apple Helps Asahi Linux
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994
485
333
CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/
468
200
Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
434
229
I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8
429
226
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/
408
Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588054
394
329
Kinesis Advantage 360
https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/
387
209
Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html
339
106
YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17
301
236
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
276
101
Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software
https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/ambiguous-png-packer
266
147
Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022
https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12159&Mode=0
259
113
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
256
77
Testing the strength of different wood species
https://woodgears.ca/wood_strength/
238
362
The Web3 Fraud
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
237
42
Valve actively supporting Godot to make the engine work well on the Steam Deck
https://wccftech.com/steam-deck-wont-have-any-exclusive-games-valve-confirms/
225
Two custom React hooks
https://blog.molecule.dev/the-only-custom-react-hooks-we-use/
224
63
Judge tosses $4.5B deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims
https://www.reuters.com/business/judge-tosses-deal-shielding-purdues-sackler-family-opioid-claims-2021-12-17/
221
280
The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
http://www.yared.com/2021/12/the-entire-bay-area-has-become-large.html
219
31
Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
https://nolanlawson.com/2021/12/17/introducing-fuite-a-tool-for-finding-memory-leaks-in-web-apps/
216
There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
https://www.zdnet.com/article/employee-surveillance-is-on-the-rise-privacy-campaigners-are-worried-for-us-all/
206
187
Google Drive could soon start locking your files
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-drive-could-soon-start-locking-your-personal-files
203
157
Nim 1.6.2
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/12/17/version-162-released.html
190
Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/16/harvard-test-optional-college-admissions/
180
44
Newly identified hormone may be a critical driver of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/newly-identified-hormone-may-be-a-critical-driver-of-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes/
179
83
JPMorgan Admits to Widespread Recordkeeping Failures, Agrees to Pay $125M
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-262
168
85
Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement
https://www.axios.com/purdue-pharma-opioids-settlement-ruling-5d56f27b-eebe-4d6e-a1ac-7915d45f8795.html
167
98
The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)
http://bofh.bjash.com/
166
80
Why Zulip will stand the test of time
https://blog.zulip.com/2021/12/17/why-zulip-will-stand-the-test-of-time/
154
28
Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
https://arhamjain.com/2021/11/22/nim-simple-chat.html
146
56
“With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2”
https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1470870852422053890
144
Fashion, art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0731
141
6
Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/12/16/tomoya-ikeda-macintosh-artist/
138
18
Public Staircases
https://tinyletter.com/HenryGrabar/letters/highway-expansion-electric-vehicle-charging-prison-dorm
127
109
Design evolution of the Windows control panel
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/all-windows-control-panels
20
Why start a new database conference?
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-start-a-new-database-conference/
126
164
Quadratic voting: A mathematical method that could offer a fairer way to vote
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/the-mathematical-method-that-could-offer-a-fairer-way-to-vote
125
30
ItsDangerous
https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/index.html
124
58
The rise and fall of rationality in language
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2107848118
120
51
Notches Gone Wild
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2021/12/notches-gone-wild/
119
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)
https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/
72
AWS Tools Suck
https://www.cyclic.sh/posts/aws-tools-suck
117
64
Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat
https://www.science.org/content/article/melting-glaciers-may-produce-thousands-kilometers-new-salmon-habitat
116
13
Show HN: A labelling tool to easily extract and label Wikipedia data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595512
114
74
Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script
https://airbyte.io/blog/etl-framework-vs-etl-script
112
Pegasus vs. Predator
https://citizenlab.ca/2021/12/pegasus-vs-predator-dissidents-doubly-infected-iphone-reveals-cytrox-mercenary-spyware/
108
Evervault
https://evervault.com/
55
Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage
105
148
California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/12/californias-av-testing-rules-apply-teslas-fsd
The Third Web
https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
103
8
Authoring a SIMD enhanced WASM library with Rust
https://nickb.dev/blog/authoring-a-simd-enhanced-wasm-library-with-rust
12
Forth BBS 2 (1985)
https://github.com/RickCarlino/fbbs2
100
59
Introduction to WebAssembly Components
https://radu-matei.com/blog/intro-wasm-components/
97
I'm getting tired of modern meme culture
https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/im-getting-tired-of-modern-meme-culture.3884/
95
84
Remix: On Rails
https://marbiano.dev/into-remix/on-rails
93
15
Fortification, Part IV: French Guns and Italian Lines
https://acoup.blog/2021/12/17/collections-fortification-part-iv-french-guns-and-italian-lines/
88
Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/modelling-suggests-rapid-spread-omicron-england/
86
A Tour of Curve25519 in Erlang [pdf]
https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/A_Tour_of_Curve25519_in_Erlang-1.pdf
4D Toys: Klein Bottles
https://marctenbosch.com/news/2021/12/4d-toys-version-1-7-klein-bottles/
22
The Joule-Thomson Effect and Models We Know
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/joule-thomson
68
No More Stories
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2021/12/no-more-stories.html
79
27
Amazon threatened driver’s job for leaving route during tornado
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43562/amazon-threatened-drivers-job-for-leaving-route-during-tornado
32
China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lithuania – sources
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/exclusive-china-asks-germanys-continental-cut-out-lithuania-sources-2021-12-17/
78
No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (2003)
https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
The Phrase “No Evidence” Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Communication
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a-red-flag