top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-24

Wish HN: Happy Holidays

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=e30.

4 years ago

1139 upvotes – 252 comments

Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EmailServersNoLongerPractical

4 years ago

664 upvotes – 510 comments

Entire website in a single HTML file

https://css-tricks.com/a-whole-website-in-a-single-html-file/

4 years ago

615 upvotes – 314 comments

All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025

4 years ago

580 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668228

4 years ago

515 upvotes – 631 comments

ADHD Accommodations Guide

https://adhdatwork.add.org/adhd-accommodation-guide/

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 349 comments

Misbrands

https://github.com/mkrl/misbrands

4 years ago

438 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673707

4 years ago

352 upvotes – 277 comments

Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)

https://eox.at/2021/08/average-colors-of-the-world/

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 70 comments

The Google home page is 500K

https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2F

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 250 comments

JavaScript for Impatient Programmers

https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/toc.html

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 103 comments

Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects

https://www.rubick.com/milestones-not-projects/

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 89 comments

Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone

https://downdetector.in/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 156 comments

Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life

https://www.brian.jp/2021/12/24/exiled-from-the-metaverse-before-it-even-started-the-dangers-of-relying-on-facebook/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 187 comments

Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams

https://penrose.ink/siggraph20.html

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel

https://unum.cloud/post/2021-12-21-macbook/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 214 comments

Tesla Light Show xLights Guide

https://github.com/teslamotors/light-show

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 108 comments

LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes

https://latex-cookbook.net/

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 103 comments

A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/17/bob-innes-rent-a-hitman-assassin-services-website

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 90 comments

Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5045331/this-georgia-teacher-read-the-fine-print-and-won-13k-1.5045342

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 171 comments

Joan Didion has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 52 comments

The Sucker Complex

https://itsjoeco.substack.com/p/the-sucker-complex

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 230 comments

Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 181 comments

Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 35 comments

Best practices for writing code comments

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/23/best-practices-for-writing-code-comments/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 188 comments

Japanese university finds Alzheimer's drug effective in treating ALS in mice

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/12/f4b3d06d9d0a-breaking-news-japans-yamagata-univ-says-it-has-found-drug-effective-in-treating-als.html

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 60 comments

Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal

https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 197 comments

CSS Zen Garden: A demonstration of what can be achieved through CSS-based design

http://www.csszengarden.com/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 78 comments

Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't

https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_spin/index.html

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 27 comments

Plant Root System Drawings

https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 16 comments

Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01089-8

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 266 comments

Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

https://gavinhoward.com/2021/12/is-it-even-worth-working-on-foss-anymore/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 277 comments

Building Remote Teams for Startups

https://vadimkravcenko.com/en/how-to-build-remote-teams-properly/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 88 comments

Ansiwave BBS, a modern BBS with ANSI art and MIDI music

https://ansiwave.net/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 74 comments

Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 111 comments

Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic

https://www.cinia.fi/en/blog/blog/cinias-subsea-cable-to-connect-asia-europe-and-north-america-through-the-arctic-in-2025

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 64 comments

KiCad 6.0.0

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/6.0.0

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases?

https://slate.com/business/2021/12/staircases-floor-plan-twitter-housing-apartments.html

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 300 comments

Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1474275566572347393

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 13 comments

Control as Liability

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/05/09/control_as_liability.html

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 48 comments

Internet Sacred Text Archive

https://sacred-texts.com/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

Turkey's Financial Crisis

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-63-turkeys-financial-crisis

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 196 comments

Walking the World: Bucharest

https://intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-bucharest

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

YouTube is testing people now?

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/rioyyj/youtube_is_testing_people_now_what_is_the_point/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla bows to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/23/tesla-vehicles-video-games-driving

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 122 comments

Advent of Code Surveys: Results

https://jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-code-surveys/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

The leader who's standing up to China

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 118 comments

Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

https://blog.matthewdmiller.net/introduction-to-the-sam-text-editor

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

How the Jesuits Charted the World

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/jesuit/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple's App Store broke competition laws, Dutch watchdog says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apples-app-store-broke-competition-laws-dutch-watchdog-says-2021-12-24/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675397

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 201 comments

London Beer Flood of 1814

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674609

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

Systemd 250 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/879739/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 197 comments

Russian court fines Alphabet's Google 7.2 bln roubles

https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian-court-fines-alphabets-google-72-bln-roubles-2021-12-24/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Sensor Network Technology in Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments
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