782
837
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
3 years ago
554
76
Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_sheets/index.html
523
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/
201
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
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
441
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
116
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
227
Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas message
https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-bans-mp-mark-strahls-christmas-message/
202
94
Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012)
http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/lua-good-different-bad-and-ugly-parts
188
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
256
A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09365
88
Most advice is pretty bad
https://atis.substack.com/p/most-advice-is-pretty-bad
152
113
State of Valhalla
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/01-background
92
PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/
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
Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01098
32
On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/02/01/on-elf-2
104
35
Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends
https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
110
Step Away from Stack Overflow
https://elisabethirgens.github.io/notes/2021/12/step-away/
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
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
I Died on Monday Night
https://cherp.medium.com/i-died-on-monday-night-708d0d2f8806
36
Graph of the “no smell” complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon
https://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/1473509106187223043
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
70
23
Ask HN: Good programming streamers / content creators?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666539
66
New record levels of private aviation flights
https://www.sherpareport.com/aircraft/record-levels-private-aviation.html
61
75
A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can
https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/
60
15
Kanazawa’s Empty Spaces
https://placesjournal.org/article/kanazawas-empty-spaces/
The satirical Non-Fungible Olive Gardens sold more than $130k in volume
https://opensea.io/collection/non-fungible-olive-gardens?tab=activity
72
How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom
https://zapier.com/blog/automatically-close-the-launch-meeting-zoom-tab/
59
34
Billionaire Jeff Green leaves Mormon church, donates $600K to LGBTQ organization
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/jeff-green-mormon-church/index.html
10
minisign
https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign
55
18
Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-021-00107-1
54
6
A rogues’ gallery of monster-sized gas giants
https://nautil.us/blog/we-discovered-a-rogues-gallery-of-monster_sized-gas-giants
52
My negative views on Rust
https://chrisdone.com/posts/rust/
49
Cray-1 Digital Archeology (2011)
https://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/
53
Fundamental physical theory is being replaced with a pseudo-science
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12604
48
16
Promise of Analog AI Feeds Neural Net Hardware Pipeline
https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-devices-for-analog-ai
47
127
Ask HN: Did you deliberatively develop any new hobby in recent years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29662464
37
Beware of a New Amazon Token Crypto Scam
https://blog.avast.com/beware-of-a-new-amazon-token-crypto-scam
12
Jack Dorsey’s hot Web3 takes are apparently too much for Andreessen to handle
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/22/22850558/jack-pmarca-a16z-web3-block-twitter
42
Google Play banned my highly rated app with no real justification
https://medium.com/@jimmyff/google-play-banned-my-highly-rated-app-with-no-real-justification-827e734df748
41
9
Microsoft Edge may be sending search information to Microsoft
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/12/22/microsoft-edge-send-search-results/
WIP: Hacking the Nokia Fastmile (T-Mobile's 5G Gateway)
https://eddiez.me/hacking-the-nokia-fastmile/
40
64
Democratic Domestic Product
https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2020/02/26/democratic-domestic-product/
39
The Exclusive License to Make Money from the Community Contributions
https://jungu.me/post/time-to-review-the-open-source-cla/
Show HN: Embed your source code in PNG files
https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource
Moxie on Telegram Encryption
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768
11
Tesla is under federal investigation for letting drivers play video games
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/tech/tesla-safety-probe-drivers-play-video-games/index.html
Jack Dorsey Blocked on Twitter by Marc Andreessen After Web3 Comments
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/jack-dorsey-blocked-by-marc-andreessen-on-twitter-after-web3-comments.html
3
Python 3.6 has reached nominal End Of Life
https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
4
A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
https://afinecaseforpencils.com/post/671200714515726336/tom-gauld
22
LG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/lgs-1618-ultra-tall-monitor-means-less-scrolling/
33
Show HN: HTML/CSS Photo Sheet
https://cadars.github.io/photosheet/
Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices and profits
https://www.businessinsider.com/corporations-using-inflation-as-excuse-to-reap-fatter-profits-reich-2021-11
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34022372/
Robert Graves in the Great War (2018)
https://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/war-experiences/robert-graves/
Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web
https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/
31
Dynamic XMPP Domains in MongooseIM
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/dynamic-xmpp-domains-in-mongooseim/
8
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is free on GOG today
https://www.gog.com/game/i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream
30
0
The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (2015)
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-alchemy-of-madness.html
29
Unmaking a Murderer
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/march-2022/unmaking-a-murderer/
2
Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59738542
27
Hundreds of Salvadorans claim money is vanishing from Bitcoin accounts
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302383-hundreds-of-salvadorans-claim-money-is-vanishing-from-bitcoin-accounts/
Reddit's antiwork sub and the online movement to end work
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vwjw/inside-the-online-movement-to-end-work-antiwork-sub-reddit
Beyond RISC – The Post-RISC Architecture (1996)
https://cse.msu.edu/~enbody/postrisc/postrisc2.htm
Zeratool: Automatic Exploit Generation
https://github.com/ChrisTheCoolHut/Zeratool