top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-28

“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/

4 years ago

1222 upvotes – 670 comments

Prince of Persia in JavaScript

https://princejs.com/

4 years ago

887 upvotes – 225 comments

Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

https://twitter.com/klivdahl/status/1475220450598924297

4 years ago

644 upvotes – 534 comments

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

4 years ago

606 upvotes – 460 comments

Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

https://github.com/widevinedump

4 years ago

580 upvotes – 251 comments

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised/

4 years ago

559 upvotes – 316 comments

Lessons from my PhD

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/lessonsfrommyphd.html

4 years ago

403 upvotes – 130 comments

Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712023

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 175 comments

Japan's Paper Culture

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Japan-s-Paper-Culture/pt/998

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 152 comments

Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy

https://gobolinux.org/

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 216 comments

The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140906214521/https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 268 comments

How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught

https://fs.blog/how-to-think/

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711622

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 261 comments

Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)

http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 201 comments

How I Build

http://pketh.org/how-i-build.html

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 45 comments

GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy

https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go

https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 119 comments

Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/re-maps-public-service.html

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 217 comments

Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art

https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-12-28-grok-shan-shui.html

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 22 comments

No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514246/are-roman-dodecahedrons-worlds-most-mysterious-artifact

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 207 comments
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