863
614
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286
3 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
254
Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html
272
488
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
182
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
158
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
185
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
10
Show HN: Two uBlock Origin rules to improve your Twitch experience
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652489
88
Ask HN: Working with large code base for the first time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645433
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
8
Snapshotting memory to scrape encrypted network requests
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/heap-snapshot-scraping?ref=hn2
Introduction to Modern Prolog
https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog
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
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
19
Plato's Dashboards
https://ferd.ca/plato-s-dashboards.html
137
What Problem Blockchains Solve
https://solutionspace.blog/2021/12/21/what-problem-blockchains-actually-solve/
60
28
Tell HN: Edge collects all search history, even on Google/DDG
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645127
How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids
59
How IPFS is broken
https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html
Woke Up to an NFT of Myself
https://nivenly.com/lib/2021-12-22-nft/
Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/earths-magnetic-field-illuminates-biblical-history/21806831
22
Rocky Mountain Basic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_BASIC
54
13
Ultorg: A General-Purpose User Interface for Relational Databases (2020) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGzJ8F9rC1s
50
15
Every Programmer Should Know
https://github.com/mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know
Implementing Marching Squares
http://jacobzelko.com/marching-squares/
What is RF monitor-mode and why does it matter?
https://badfi.com/blog/2021/8/8/what-is-rf-monitor-mode-and-why-does-it-matter
3
Ancient DNA reveals the world’s oldest family tree
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/11/neolithicfamilytree/
18
NCSA creates Sony PlayStation2 cluster (2003)
https://ncsa30.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/ncsa-creates-sony-playstation2-cluster/
44
Want to reverse aging? Try reversing graying, first
https://trevorklee.com/want-to-reverse-aging-try-reversing-graying-first/
Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50k-year-old social network across Africa
https://www.shh.mpg.de/2080930/beads-social-network-africa
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Effective Against All Covid, SARS Variants
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/
40
Ask HN: Does anyone else get sick when their vacation starts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29644949
42
98
mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron
https://med.papers.bar/paper/abf2d6a45d0411ec905035ac8856fc87
7
Current 0-day vulnerability on FreePBX
https://community.freepbx.org/t/0-day-freepbx-exploit/80092
12
The Prisoner-Run Radio Station That’s Reaching Men on Death Row
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/20/the-prison-radio-station-that-s-reaching-men-on-death-row
36
Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication (1971)
https://archive.org/details/kaplan-ed.-extraterrestrial-civilizations-problems-of-interstellar-communication
39
Show HN: Metaheads, a search engine for Facebook comments in the US
https://metaheads.xyz
38
20
DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-browser-pc-mac-beta-privacy-default-settings
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says
https://www.spytalk.co/p/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-is-almost
Porsche Working on Synthetic Fuel to Make ICE Cars as Clean as EVs
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35577611/porsche-synthetic-efuel-clean-emissions-testing/
1
FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of Covid-19
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-oral-antiviral-treatment-covid-19
37
4
I live in a zero-Covid world
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/12/20/i-live-in-a-zero-covid-world
Omicron infections appear no less severe than Delta; Covid-19 lowers sperm count
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-infections-appear-no-less-severe-than-delta-covid-19-lowers-sperm-count-2021-12-20/
Bit Test and Reset vs. Compilers
http://0x80.pl/notesen/2021-12-22-test-and-clear-bit.html
113
We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It
https://www.governing.com/community/were-a-suburban-nation-we-need-to-get-used-to-it
31
James Webb Space Telescope Launch Postponed
https://scitechdaily.com/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-postponed-heres-why-and-the-new-launch-date/
Can we reverse engineer transformer models into human-understandable programs?
https://transformer-circuits.pub/
32
2
The wax engraving print-making process (1999)
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v18/bp18-13.html
Counting website visitors is hard
https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2021/12/21/counting-website-visitors-is-hard
Christmas under the Puritans (1960)
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/christmas-under-puritans
Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship
https://lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view/2089
Journalist sues Twitter after ban for saying vaccine doesn't stop transmission
https://reclaimthenet.org/journalist-alex-berenson-sues-twitter/
29
WASM Internals Part 1
https://a-j.gitbook.io/wasm-experimentation/wasm-internals-1
Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf]
https://www.bu.edu/cas/files/2011/12/Science-article-Active-Learning.pdf
One reason for the homicide crisis: Young people in pain
https://theundefeated.com/features/one-reason-for-the-homicide-crisis-young-people-in-pain/
27
FDA won't approve fluvoxamine for Covid because there's no drug company sponsor
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-fda-has-punted-decisions-about
Series of preclinical studies supports the Army’s pan-coronavirus vaccine
https://www.army.mil/article/252890/series_of_preclinical_studies_supports_the_armys_pan_coronavirus_vaccine_development_strategy
Ask HN: Selling a SaaS Service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648162
24
The Death of John Berryman (1996)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39466
TikTok overtook Google as the most visited website in 2021
https://qz.com/2105400/tiktok-overtook-google-as-the-most-popular-website-in-2021/
23
ModularGrid: Database and Planner for Modular Synthesizers
https://www.modulargrid.net/
Shipwrecks, Stolen Jewels, Skull-Blasting Are Some of This Year’s Best Mysteries
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/2021-year-in-mysteries
YouTube channel terminated without prior warning or strikes, outrageous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29649343
Canada's Public Health Agency confidentially tracked 33M mobile devices
https://torontosun.com/news/national/feds-admit-tracking-33-million-mobile-phone-devices-during-lockdowns
Harvard Professor Charles Lieber Found Guilty of Lying About China Ties
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/12/22/lieber-verdict-day6/
Look at Your Fish (2016)
http://thecresset.org/2016/Easter/Crawford_E16.html