top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-12-29

FAA investigating controversial crash video

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-crash-video-sparks-online-backlash/

4 years ago

540 upvotes – 414 comments

Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong

https://reason.com/2021/12/29/facebook-masks-false-information-science-feedback-wrong-covid/

4 years ago

494 upvotes – 682 comments

Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

https://github.com/susam/emfy

4 years ago

454 upvotes – 160 comments

You can't copy code with memcpy

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211229-00/?p=106061

4 years ago

423 upvotes – 147 comments

GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95644#c4

4 years ago

393 upvotes – 170 comments

Consider SQLite

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

4 years ago

362 upvotes – 267 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720803

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 338 comments

Tetr.io

https://tetr.io/

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 131 comments

Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default

https://ariadne.space/2021/12/29/glibc-is-still-not-y2038-compliant-by-default/

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 226 comments

A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/EmailCriticalInfrastructure

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 253 comments
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