782
841
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
4 years ago
554
76
Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_sheets/index.html
523
202
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
280
Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
https://www.revyuh.com/news/software/developers/twitters-founder-admits-that-shutting-down-the-api-was-worst-thing-we-did-it-affected-users-and-developers/
450
81
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
https://github.com/wader/fq
129
AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1473705669517791253
438
131
SpeedCrunch
http://speedcrunch.org/
427
89
Krita 5.0
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/
399
442
Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-china-apologises-over-xinjiang-supplier-statement-2021-12-23/
338
213
An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
https://josimarfootball.com/the-interview-that-disappeared/
330
168
Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12/21/watching-a-lecture-twice-at-double-speed-can-benefit-learning-better-than-watching-it-once-at-normal-speed/
322
117
Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search
https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1474135677419859981
316
189
Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3160670/apache-log4j-bug-chinas-industry-ministry-pulls-support-alibaba-cloud
282
114
Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
269
118
/tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
https://www.tatatap.com/
262
273
Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43636/toyota-reviewing-key-fob-remote-start-subscription-plan-after-massive-blowback
257
133
Be curious, not judgmental
http://www.shubhro.com/2021/12/20/be-curious-not-judgmental/
252
85
A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
https://github.com/woodrush/lisp-in-life
28
A Farewell to LWN
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/879072/24151294abe770de/
249
100
PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
https://portableapps.com/news/2021-12-22--portableapps.com-hits-1-billion-portable-apps-downloaded
229
90
Tinyssh
https://tinyssh.org
225
135
Saying goodbye to an old friend
https://ar.al/2021/12/16/saying-goodbye-to-an-old-friend/
224
240
Grindr €6.5M fined for not collecting users’ valid consent for sharing data
https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Datatilsynet_(Norway)_-_20/02136-18
215
223
Best practices can slow your application down
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/22/best-practices-can-slow-your-application-down/
211
367
Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009)
https://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723&w=2
208
228
Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas message
https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-bans-mp-mark-strahls-christmas-message/
94
Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012)
http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/lua-good-different-bad-and-ugly-parts
201
187
That's My Ape - A blockchain-free chain of custody tool
https://thatsmyape.com/
200
103
QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression
https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi
193
Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
192
123
Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29662859
180
68
FreeFileSync: Open-Source File Synchronization and Backup
https://freefilesync.org/
175
381
How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs
https://overemployed.com/set-low-expectations-at-your-two-remote-jobs/
171
43
Cornell McRay T'Racing
https://github.com/h3r2tic/cornell-mcray
163
38
Street Fighter II, the World Warrier
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/index.html
161
88
Most advice is pretty bad
https://atis.substack.com/p/most-advice-is-pretty-bad
256
A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09365
152
92
PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/
113
State of Valhalla
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/01-background
151
5
Cache Poisoning at Scale
https://youst.in/posts/cache-poisoning-at-scale/
137
50
Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++
https://github.com/seven1m/natalie
132
This page is designed to last (2019)
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
73
AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/22/aws_outage/
128
289
NFT Replicas: An app to mint a replica of virtually any NFT
https://nftreplicas.net
121
69
Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12451007/
109
32
On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/02/01/on-elf-2
Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01098
104
110
Step Away from Stack Overflow
https://elisabethirgens.github.io/notes/2021/12/step-away/
36
Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends
https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
99
U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts
https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/us-sec-rejects-valkyrie-kryptoin-bitcoin-trusts-2021-12-23/
95
26
Show HN: Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible Python package management
https://github.com/pathbird/poetry-kernel
105
Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013)
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-profitless-business-model-narrative
87
The Clean Language
https://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean
86
1
The J1 Forth CPU
https://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html
27
What are Attackers after on IoT Devices?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10974
80
The roots of the National Cancer Act
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/23/1058107864/50-years-ago-nixon-gave-the-u-s-a-christmas-gift-it-launched-the-war-on-cancer
Graph of the “no smell” complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon
https://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/1473509106187223043
I Died on Monday Night
https://cherp.medium.com/i-died-on-monday-night-708d0d2f8806
21
Swift Roadmap for performance predictability: ARC improvements and ownership
https://forums.swift.org/t/a-roadmap-for-improving-swift-performance-predictability-arc-improvements-and-ownership-control/54206