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Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/commit/04c7143a39a0bb243369e31f3b3b797449468fdb
3 years ago
1193
312
Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682002
872
202
25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29683936
682
158
A New Coefficient of Correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10140
501
70
Ruby 3.1
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/12/25/ruby-3-1-0-released/
487
240
James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM
382
105
Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
https://fakeyou.com
380
485
Steam has been banned in China
https://www.thegamer.com/steam-banned-china-christmas-day/
361
97
What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
https://defector.com/what-the-hell-is-this-company-the-76ers-just-partnered-with/
336
388
“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/
310
64
Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
https://www.righto.com/2021/12/reverse-engineering-tiny-1980s-chip.html
306
676
New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/new-york-city-set-ban-natural-gas-new-buildings-2021-12-15/
285
133
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
https://12ft.io/
269
128
Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools
http://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/
258
50
OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-and-streamlabs-commit-to-long-term-collaboration
250
41
Papers with Code
https://paperswithcode.com/
243
57
A Python Guide for the Ages
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/
242
143
Canada's public health agency admits it tracked mobile devices during lockdown
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-public-health-agency-admits-it-tracked-33-million-mobile-devices-during-lockdown
234
73
Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/engineering-trade-offs-in-automatic-differentiation-from-tensorflow-and-pytorch-to-jax-and-julia/
233
157
Shrooms: What You Need to Know
https://tripsafe.org/shrooms/
229
191
Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685021
216
278
Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
https://timharford.com/2021/12/buy-a-coal-mine-drive-a-gas-guzzler-and-other-uses-of-reverse-logic/
210
68
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/21/bertrand-russell-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech/
205
208
Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/24/locked-out-new-zealanders-outraged-as-visa-scheme-for-rich-foreigners-resumes
188
135
Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reimagined-qa-experience-for-the-aws-community/
179
Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/24/mkdir/
161
The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII
https://www.usna63.org/tradition/sea_stories/Destroyer.html
155
We Fund Public Interest Tech
https://prototypefund.de/en/
147
76
Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Selling_GPL_Software_part_1_lots_of_hurdles.html
146
174
After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is near
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/22/science/after-years-doubts-hopes-grow-that-nuclear-fusion-is-finally-real-could-help-address-climate-change/
144
39
JWST Launch NASA Livestream
142
28
Things I learned writing my first technical book
https://blog.klipse.tech/book/2021/12/19/100-things-I-learned-with-data-oriented-programming.html
141
175
I Lost My Past (2017)
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html
138
93
Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
https://www.thanassis.space/asn1.html
134
130
The cost of cloud
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-cost-of-cloud.html
127
194
The Last Soviet Generation
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/24/the-last-soviet-generation
125
36
Practical Transformer Winding (2010)
https://ludens.cl/Electron/trafos/trafos.html
120
108
Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows
https://github.com/marktext/marktext
115
15
Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962
https://www.righto.com/2021/12/christmas-shopping-ibm-way-computerized.html
112
20
The longest train journey in the world in 2021
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-world/#anchor6
110
44
The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]
https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
94
19
The Pinouts Book by NODE
https://pinouts.org/
85
52
How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX
https://jarbus.net/blog/write-latex-without-latex/
83
The Source of the Nile River: A Mystery That Spanned Three Millennia
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-source-of-the-nile-river-a-mystery-that-spanned-three-millennia
82
No Other Love: Letters from Richard Feynman to His Late Wife, Arline
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/no-other-love-heart-wrenching-letters-from-richard-feynman-to-his-late-wife-arline
80
Thanks to the Chip Shortage, Texas Instruments Is Worth $170 B
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thanks-to-the-chip-shortage-texas-instruments-is-worth-170-billion-11640341805
79
48
Proteins, Proteins Everywhere
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5795
Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29681862
67
55
The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/the-rise-and-rise-of-corrugated-iron
66
1
Where Is Webb?
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685115
63
6
'People amazed I fold paper for a living, then they see it' [video]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-59729022
62
40
The psychological drama of the world chess championship
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-psychological-drama-of-the-world-chess-championship
9
Simple server alerts on a need-to-know basis
https://nbailey.ca/post/simple-alerts/
61
Alexa owners not using it after only two weeks
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-alexa-usage-drop
25
Gigantism is a never-ending temptation
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jumbo-airplane
60
2
Pixor: Real-Time 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds
https://github.com/philip-huang/PIXOR
59
53
Ask HN: What are the single person activities in Christmas and/or New Year?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686927
58
182
Brexit one year on: so how’s it going?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/25/brexit-one-year-on-so-hows-it-going
16
KiCad 6.0.0 Release Announcement
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/
10
We Are Go for Launch
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/25/we-are-go-for-launch/
MEMS Microspeakers Made from Silicon
https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2021/december-2021/mems-microspeakers-for-the-future-of-the-mobile-internet.html
Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data
https://chollinger.com/blog/2021/02/bad-data-and-data-engineering-dissecting-google-play-music-takeout-data-using-beam-go-python-and-sql/
Ask HN: What cutting-edge technology do you use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680957
42
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund: Strengthening Digital Infrastructure+Open Source
https://sovereigntechfund.de/
7
The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for an US of A television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEwbocwYF8
47
17
A Tiny Digital Camera Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials (2017)
https://petapixel.com/2017/04/28/croz-tiny-digital-camera-stripped-bare-essentials/
46
Better SQL JOINs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687134
The Construction of Medieval and Tudor Houses in London (1991) [pdf]
https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/article1_6.pdf
45
13
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2018)
https://zandercutt.com/2018/07/08/people-dont-buy-products-they-buy-better-versions-of-themselves/
4
Persistence, façades and Roslyn’s red-green trees
https://ericlippert.com/2012/06/08/red-green-trees/
Ask HN: Tiny Home for $5k USD?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686799
Telegram is anything but secure; even Facebook is safer, says Signal founder
https://www.phonearena.com/news/telegram-online-privacy-security_id137402
The Decision-Making Pendulum
https://candost.blog/the-decision-making-pendulum/
37
5
Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc
https://github.com/galvez/typejuice
Black Girls Code Founder Suspended in ‘Unfathomable Mess’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-girls-code-founder-and-ceo-kimberly-bryant-suspended-in-unfathomable-mess
India has spent a decade wasting the potential of its young population
https://qz.com/india/2104191/india-has-wasted-the-potential-of-its-large-young-population/
For C programmers that hate C++ (2011)
https://www.thanassis.space/cpp.html
35
8
Rethinking Kandinsky
https://hyperallergic.com/699716/rethinking-kandinsky/