863
614
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286
4 years ago
669
646
Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-shutters-lending-by-vc-backed-fintech-for-violating-agency-order/
664
57
How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
https://dragonman225.js.org/curved-arrows.html
522
405
Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/20/technology/china-facebook-twitter-influence-manipulation.html
465
656
Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
https://paulefou.com/blog/tinder-permaban
452
120
Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M
https://www.skillsoft.com/press-releases/skillsoft-to-acquire-codecademy-a-leading-platform-for-learning-high-demand-technical-skills-creating-a-worldwide-community-of-more-than-85-million-learners
409
224
(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
http://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia
340
256
Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
https://positive.security/blog/ms-teams-1-feature-4-vulns
324
132
DeepMind’s new AI with a memory outperforms algorithms 25 times its size
https://singularityhub.com/2021/12/20/biggers-not-always-better-deepminds-new-language-ai-is-small-but-mighty/
322
295
Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
https://hothardware.com/news/linux-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-steam-stats-prove-it
311
457
Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-is-closing-half-of-its-reactors-at-worst-possible-time-1.1698757
301
112
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/
280
154
FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
https://topikettunen.com/blog/freebsd-jails-for-fun-and-profit/
273
255
Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html
272
489
South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus-cases/
269
167
Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
https://www.zdnet.com/article/now-duckduckgo-is-building-its-own-desktop-browser/
266
134
Woe be unto you for using a WebSocket
http://www.adama-lang.org/blog/woe-of-websocket/
253
183
Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/21/california-earthquake-early-warning-system
251
106
This Year in Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-special-2021/
233
151
Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird
90
Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/golang-118-minor-features/
222
294
Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study
https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/?update
217
140
Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-banned-but-everywhere/
198
51
Our recent server issues
https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/our-recent-server-issues/FdKHVehW
193
228
“Zero fucks given” in other languages
https://twitter.com/AdamCSharp/status/1473035981511180291
192
130
Generics facilitators in Go
https://rakyll.org/generics-facilititators/
177
75
Myths about the brain
https://nautil.us/issue/111/spotlight/that-is-not-how-your-brain-works
176
25
Websocketd – It's like CGI, twenty years later, for WebSockets
http://websocketd.com/
175
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04160-4
56
Heroku Is Currently Down
https://dashboard.heroku.com/login
174
93
Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-poland-hacking-warsaw-8b52e16d1af60f9c324cf9f5099b687e
169
67
The Swiss wanderer who found the soul of 1950s Japan
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/dec/22/swiss-wanderer-soul-of-japan-werner-bischof
168
The Io Language
https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html
160
IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-imf-10-countries-simulate-cyber-attack-on-global-financial-system
165
184
Technology Behind the Lilium Jet
https://lilium.com/newsroom-detail/technology-behind-the-lilium-jet
163
66
Sherver: Bash lightweight web server
https://github.com/remileduc/sherver
157
21
Construction of radio equipment in a Japanese PoW camp
https://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/CHiDE/Oral_History_of_Defence_Electronics/r_g_wells.htm
146
139
US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-returns-154-million-in-bitcoins-stolen-by-sony-employee/
142
281
English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
http://antirez.com/news/61
138
342
Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/news/ontario-court-declares-that-the-ontario-math-proficiency-test-is-unconstitutional/
133
131
Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion
https://restofworld.org/2021/how-shein-beat-amazon-and-reinvented-fast-fashion/
Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-holds-its-own-against-low-cost-arm-nas
6
Intuitive Advanced Cryptography [pdf]
https://github.com/cryptosubtlety/intuitive-advanced-cryptography/blob/master/advancedcrypto.pdf
129
77
Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w
124
LG’s new 16:18 monitor
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848957/lg-dualup-32-inch-4k-ultra-fine-monitors-announced-specs
117
68
Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-his-secrets-100744801/
115
30
Parser Combinators in Haskell
https://serokell.io/blog/parser-combinators-in-haskell
107
UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track quantum position
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/our-department/employment/canada-research-chair-tier-2-assistant-professor-tenure-track-position-computer-science-quantum
111
Isolating Xwayland in a VM
https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/10/30/xwayland/
110
48
Tirana Prosecution to Investigate Alleged Data Leak of More than 630k Albanians
https://exit.al/en/2021/12/22/tirana-prosecution-to-investigate-alleged-data-leak-of-more-than-630000-albanian-citizens/
105
125
Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data
https://balkaninsight.com/2021/12/22/albanian-prosecutors-probe-huge-suspected-leak-of-personal-data/
103
101
The Dreamcast Legacy
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/22/the-dreamcast-legacy/
Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS
https://vadosware.io/post/everything-ive-seen-on-optimizing-postgres-on-zfs-on-linux/
99
88
Ask HN: Working with large code base for the first time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645433
10
Show HN: Two uBlock Origin rules to improve your Twitch experience
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652489
97
61
Linux Ate My RAM
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
11
The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/the-secret-uganda-deal-that-has-brought-nso-to-the-brink-of-collapse/?comments=1
35
AWS Account Takeover via Log4Shell
https://www.gigasheet.co/post/aws-account-takeover-via-log4shell
87
72
I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
https://www.robfitz.com/c/living/i-did-a-mixergy-interview-so-bad-they-didn-t-even-release-it-on-making-sense-of-our-own-stories
83
47
Founder of Black Girls Code has been ousted as head of the nonprofit
https://www.businessinsider.com/black-girls-code-founder-kimberly-bryant-board-dispute-2021-12
82
11-week Kellogg’s strike to end after multi-year agreement reached
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/11-week-kelloggs-strike-end-after-multi-year-agreement-reached/25R67UQLN5FKDEKUQHDLZDWS2E/
80
FDA authorizes first antiviral pill for Covid, Paxlovid
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/22/1066761436/fda-authorizes-1st-antiviral-pill-for-covid
78
5
Godot Engine receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-receiving-new-grant-meta-reality-labs
Introduction to Modern Prolog
https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog
8
Snapshotting memory to scrape encrypted network requests
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/heap-snapshot-scraping?ref=hn2
33
Miller – tool for querying, shaping, reformatting data in CSV, TSV, and JSON
https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
76
Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme
https://www.ft.com/content/83a14261-598d-4601-87fc-5dde528b33d0
74
24
Show HN: Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics
https://www.jigdev.com
55
Study: Omicron 40-45% less likely than Delta to lead to 1+ day hospitalisation
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-50-severity-omicron/
43
American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
https://www.wsj.com/articles/worker-burnout-resignations-pandemic-stress--11640099198
64
0
Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens
https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-language-models-by-retrieving-from-trillions-of-tokens