top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-26

Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/

4 years ago

632 upvotes – 267 comments

You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

https://bearbin.net/blog/2021/adblock-your-city

4 years ago

568 upvotes – 606 comments

Ten Years of Logging My Life

https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life

4 years ago

452 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine

https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl

4 years ago

441 upvotes – 199 comments

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/

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 176 comments

CPM MagnaCut

https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 108 comments

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/

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 560 comments

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

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 75 comments

DIY Off-Grid Solar Power

https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 222 comments

Heroes of Might and Magic

https://www.filfre.net/2021/12/heroes-of-might-and-magic/

4 years ago

310 upvotes – 129 comments

The Container Throttling Problem

https://danluu.com/cgroup-throttling/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 87 comments

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/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 177 comments

Papers We Love

https://paperswelove.org/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 49 comments

The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/car-rental-shortage-covid/621068/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 500 comments

The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/soundmap.htm

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 127 comments

How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps

https://htmx.org/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 128 comments

A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process

https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 155 comments

Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes

https://andycallaghan.com/posts/deploy-a-gmail-like-email-server-in-30-minutes/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 179 comments

The Importance of Price Signals

https://www.lynalden.com/price-signals/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 152 comments

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/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 91 comments

Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM

https://reverse.put.as/2021/12/17/knock-knock-whos-there/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691811

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

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/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 145 comments

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

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 131 comments

OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto

https://osmand.net/blog#androidauto

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 41 comments

Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router

https://olegkutkov.me/2021/12/25/analysis-and-reverse-engineering-of-the-original-starlink-router/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 50 comments

Raytracing diamonds

https://11011110.github.io/blog/2021/12/23/raytracing-diamonds.html

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments

Mico: A PDM to USB Microphone Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040

https://electronut.in//mico/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1471555718746558466

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692160

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 84 comments

Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/getting-started-qgis-postgresql-postgis/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 9 comments

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/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 85 comments

I found (and fixed) a vulnerability in Python

https://tldr.engineering/how-i-found-and-fixed-a-vulnerability-in-python/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)

https://lowendmac.com/2001/using-beos-on-a-power-mac/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694739

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 186 comments

The carpetbagger’s guide to home ownership

https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/investors-and-affordable-housing

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 230 comments

A capability-safe language would have minimized the Log4j vulnerability

https://justinpombrio.net/2021/12/26/preventing-log4j-with-capabilities.html

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 152 comments

Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined

https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/20/mary-somerville/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

Tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1474985481737625606

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

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/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688332

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

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

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 109 comments

Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?

http://isitsnowinginpdx.com/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 121 comments

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

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 461 comments

A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08623

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

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/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 50 comments

Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

https://github.com/TekWizely/bingo

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

Wordle

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme

https://github.com/cyphar/paperback

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

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/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments
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