540
414
FAA investigating controversial crash video
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-crash-video-sparks-online-backlash/
4 years ago
494
682
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/
454
160
Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
https://github.com/susam/emfy
423
147
You can't copy code with memcpy
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211229-00/?p=106061
393
170
GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95644#c4
362
267
Consider SQLite
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
331
338
Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720803
131
Tetr.io
https://tetr.io/
325
226
Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
https://ariadne.space/2021/12/29/glibc-is-still-not-y2038-compliant-by-default/
316
253
A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/EmailCriticalInfrastructure
301
123
Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
https://www.reforge.com/blog/technical-decision-making
297
84
Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go
https://a9.io/voiceliner/
263
122
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
https://spectrum.ieee.org/warehouse-robot
252
282
Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020)
https://soccermatics.medium.com/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-biggest-scientific-bluffs-of-our-time-de47c82601ad
244
678
Why Web3?
https://avc.com/2021/12/why-web3/
225
83
John Madden has died
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/12/28/john-madden-football-legend-dies-at-85/
220
26
Wargames can help you to learn and practice security concepts through games
https://overthewire.org/wargames/
209
169
Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1476294133975240712
206
106
The software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/27/dont-push-that-button-exploring-the-software-that-flies-spacex-starships/
200
159
The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, generates first power
https://orsted.com/en/media/newsroom/news/2021/12/20211220460511
194
132
Report to Congress: Robocalls and Transmission of Misleading Caller ID
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-submits-traced-act-annual-report-2021-congress
183
32
Learn Python ASTs, by building your own linter
https://sadh.life/post/ast/
164
Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-california/
179
99
DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase
https://en.brinkwire.com/technology/duckduckgos-daily-search-queries-have-surpassed-100-million-with-a-47-increase-expected-in-2021/
174
230
Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/03/Tech-Will-Not-Save-Us-Shrinking-Consumption-Will/
166
207
54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
162
110
How Secure Boot Works on M1 Series Macs
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/12/29/how-secure-boot-works-on-m1-series-macs/
161
23
Three Ways of Generating Terrain with Erosion Features
https://github.com/dandrino/terrain-erosion-3-ways
156
9
The year in math and computer science
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-math-and-computer-science-20211223/
155
IRS: Stolen property must be reported as income on taxes
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article256887637.html
145
60
Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible
https://www.walloftext.art/
144
63
This Year in Embedded Rust
https://blog.rust-embedded.org/this-year-in-embedded-rust-2021/
142
Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business
https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/microsoft-buys-xandr-atts-advanced-advertising-business
139
115
Railway lines once connected the Middle East
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/railway-lines-once-connected-the-middle-east
138
168
Ketamine therapy is going mainstream
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/ketamine-therapy-is-going-mainstream-are-we-ready
137
Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hong-kong-police-arrest-6-current-or-former-staff-online-media-outlet-2021-12-28/
135
101
NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/
130
114
Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/amazons-alexa-told-a-child-to-do-a-potentially-lethal-challenge.html
128
104
Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html
127
39
Implant.ARM.iLOBleed.a
https://threats.amnpardaz.com/en/2021/12/28/implant-arm-ilobleed-a/
108
35
LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
https://hayesall.com/blog/latex-automata/
256
A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-school-district-banned-my-book/
98
8
When Wikileaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive/409
97
Ask HN: Has remote work made you move to a new location or consider it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29724108
94
46
You Can't Win
https://kylepoyar.substack.com/p/you-cant-win
19
Go CheckLocks Analyzer
https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/tools/checklocks
90
India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electricity goal
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/india-achieves-2030-target-of-40-non-fossil-based-electricity-goal-heres-how-liberalized-fdi-green-energy-initiatives-helped/88558467
89
Will Citroen manage to re-invent the wheel?
https://medium.com/@tkdynation/will-citroen-manage-to-reinvent-the-wheel-b74a07c056ce
88
Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204
87
75
Tell HN: Canada Posts systems to be down for 6 hours of “unplanned maintenance”
https://status.canadapost.ca/
85
125
Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..]
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-28/apple-aims-to-prevent-defections-to-meta-with-180-000-bonuses-for-top-talent
118
Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729822
31
Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript
https://www.wisdomgeek.com/development/web-development/javascript/using-groupby-on-an-array-of-objects-in-javascript/
78
Ask HN: What are some good Rust code samples?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29723455
65
Electronic warfare history of the Battle of the Bulge
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1475994609549557761
12
Pre-scheme: A Scheme dialect for systems programming (1997) [pdf]
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.3.4031&rep=rep1&type=pdf
21
How Sber Built ruDALL-E
https://serokell.io/blog/how-sber-built-rudall-e
77
How to talk about autism respectfully
https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/how-to-talk-about-autism-respectfully-84
14
Bass – Lisp dialect for scripting the infrastructure beneath your project
https://bass-lang.org/index.html
3
VLISP: A Verified Implementation of Scheme (1993) [pdf]
http://mirror.informatimago.com/scheme/repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/vlisp-lasc/vlisp.pdf
73
30
The bizarre Monowheel seen through vintage photographs
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/monowheel-historical-photos/
11
NSO Pegasus was used by Polish gov against opposition during 2019 elections
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-opposition-politician-accuses-government-phone-hack-krzysztof-brejza/
69
US foreign policy is driven mostly by short-term politics, not coherent strategy
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/new-book-public-choice-theory-and
67
After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/we-encrypted-web-2021-year-review
66
Canon Confirms We’ve Seen Its Last Flagship DSLR
https://petapixel.com/2021/12/28/canon-confirms-weve-seen-its-last-flagship-dslr/
62
58
Ask HN: How do you force yourself to do boring tasks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725668
55
Unwanted Corkpull
https://reallifemag.com/unwanted-corkpull/
34
What does 2022 have in store for cybersecurity and cloud security specialists?
https://cast.ai/blog/what-does-2022-have-in-store-for-cybersecurity-and-cloud-security-specialists/
