632
267
Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/
3 years ago
568
606
You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
https://bearbin.net/blog/2021/adblock-your-city
452
156
Ten Years of Logging My Life
https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life
441
199
Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine
https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl
398
176
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/24/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/
375
108
CPM MagnaCut
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/
368
559
My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
https://software.rajivprab.com/2021/12/26/my-path-to-financial-independence-as-a-software-engineer/
75
Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/26/archbishop-desmond-tutu-giant-in-fight-against-apartheid-south-africa-dies-at-90
311
222
DIY Off-Grid Solar Power
https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/
310
129
Heroes of Might and Magic
https://www.filfre.net/2021/12/heroes-of-might-and-magic/
255
87
The Container Throttling Problem
https://danluu.com/cgroup-throttling/
251
177
37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
https://www.itu.int/hub/2021/11/facts-and-figures-2021-2-9-billion-people-still-offline/
244
49
Papers We Love
https://paperswelove.org/
240
500
The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/car-rental-shortage-covid/621068/
238
127
The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/soundmap.htm
220
128
How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps
https://htmx.org/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris/
194
155
A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs
192
179
Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes
https://andycallaghan.com/posts/deploy-a-gmail-like-email-server-in-30-minutes/
183
151
The Importance of Price Signals
https://www.lynalden.com/price-signals/
163
91
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-grew-by-46-percent-in-2021/
157
42
Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM
https://reverse.put.as/2021/12/17/knock-knock-whos-there/
147
77
Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691811
137
145
100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets
https://thecryptobasic.com/2021/12/25/hundreds-of-el-salvador-citizens-report-their-bitcoins-are-disappearing-from-stated-owned-chivo-wallet/
135
131
Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/26/1066395049/intimate-portraits-of-a-hospital-covid-unit-from-a-photojournalist-turned-nurse
134
41
OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto
https://osmand.net/blog#androidauto
132
50
Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router
https://olegkutkov.me/2021/12/25/analysis-and-reverse-engineering-of-the-original-starlink-router/
20
Raytracing diamonds
https://11011110.github.io/blog/2021/12/23/raytracing-diamonds.html
130
Mico: A PDM to USB Microphone Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
https://electronut.in//mico/
122
138
This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes
https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1471555718746558466
121
84
Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692160
118
9
Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/getting-started-qgis-postgresql-postgis/
85
Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret
https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-pay-companies-keep-sensitive-patents-secret-nikkei-2021-12-25/
117
24
I found (and fixed) a vulnerability in Python
https://tldr.engineering/how-i-found-and-fixed-a-vulnerability-in-python/
112
Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)
https://lowendmac.com/2001/using-beos-on-a-power-mac/
110
186
Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694739
229
The carpetbagger’s guide to home ownership
https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/investors-and-affordable-housing
99
152
A capability-safe language would have minimized the Log4j vulnerability
https://justinpombrio.net/2021/12/26/preventing-log4j-with-capabilities.html
97
16
Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/20/mary-somerville/
96
1
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/alcohol-consumption-hamster-drunk/621125/
72
Tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1474985481737625606
95
30
Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688332
93
109
Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery
https://gizmodo.com/finnish-man-passes-on-paying-22-600-to-replace-his-tes-1848268874
Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?
http://isitsnowinginpdx.com/
90
460
Why is U.S. labor supply so low?
https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2021/12/16/877f23ba-3510-4001-a2b2-6faa87d94b86.html
10
A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08623
79
Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/26/shawn-vestal-researchers-forecast-a-hard-to-imagin/
78
102
Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)
https://github.com/TekWizely/bingo
76
35
Wordle
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
28
Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
73
Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/californias-groundwater-reserves-arent-recovering-from-recent-droughts/
62
19
Ask Hacker News Weekly
https://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/
12
Practicing Programming (2005)
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming
61
8
Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abd6892
114
FAA Shows ‘Sample NOTAMs’ for Possible 5G Restrictions
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-shows-sample-notams-for-possible-5g-restrictions/
55
5
Show HN: PiTheremin
https://github.com/Mylab6/PiTheremin
53
How to Open a Door (1979) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38
52
36
U.S. Corporations' Repatriation of Offshore Profits: Evidence from 2018
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/us-corporations-repatriation-of-offshore-profits-20190806.htm
How can I learn to work with clients well?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690950
51
Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor (2008)
https://shuttersparks.net/happy-60th-birthday-to-transistor/
James Webb Status Page
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
17
Babies need humans, not screens
https://www.unicef.org/parenting/child-development/babies-screen-time
48
6
Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield
https://lithub.com/read-j-d-salingers-first-short-story-to-feature-holden-caufield/
38
$30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/arts/albrecht-durer-drawing-discovered.html
47
2
Time formatting and storage bugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs
21
Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af9M8llS9JA
0
The Year in Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20211222/
46
22
The Background for CAR and CDR
http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Clojure/origin-of-car-and-cdr.html
43
An Efficiency Comparison of Latex vs. Word (2014)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069
Fast Counting with PostgreSQL and Haskell
https://jezenthomas.com/fast-counting-with-postgresql-and-haskell/
40
Soup, Sleep and Shiba Inu
https://thekcpgroup.com/insights/the-attention-span-soup-sleep-and-shiba-inu
39
Asahi Linux Add Support for the Broadcom FullMAC WiFi Chips Used on Apple T2/M1
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1475128748894990337
Proctorio's Anti-Cheating Software Exposes Students to Hackers
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211219/15171348150/proctorios-anti-cheating-software-exposes-students-to-hackers-say-dutch-education-officials.shtml
A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/
7
Field Linguist's Toolbox
https://software.sil.org/toolbox/
Omicron Is the Beginning of the End
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/omicron-end-of-pandemic/621089/
Self-made EL segment displays
https://hackaday.io/project/183165-self-made-el-segment-displays
34
59
“The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
https://skibinsky.com/the-matrix-resurrections-is-an-excellent-movie/
33
Debugging Unaligned Project Teams
https://www.shubhro.com/2021/12/26/debugging-unaligned-project-teams/
Love that lays the swale in rows (2020)
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8783
Your Next Mac
https://mlajtos.mu/posts/your-next-mac
31
Anti-LaTeX, Pro-Word paper corrections for “sizing and placement of the figures” (2015)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125830&type=printable
Rules of Program Behavior
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3469128
Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/24/child-calling-santa-reached-norad-instead-christmas-eve-was-never-same/
29
3
Show HN: Made a e-4917 emulator with a short tutorial
https://www.maartenhus.nl/blog/fantasy-cpu-emulator-part-1/
14
Ask HN: How to Stay Motivated in the Mornings?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694617
27
Ask HN: What are your new years resolutions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688447