top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-31

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop

https://pkolaczk.github.io/server-slower-than-a-laptop/

3 years ago

617 upvotes – 195 comments

Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server

https://cprimozic.net/blog/my-selfhosted-websites-architecture/

3 years ago

511 upvotes – 279 comments

Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026

3 years ago

502 upvotes – 127 comments

How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

https://danpetrov.xyz/programming/2021/12/30/telegram-google-translate.html

3 years ago

392 upvotes – 278 comments

Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

https://boingboing.net/2021/12/30/reporter-likely-to-be-charged-for-using-view-source-feature-on-web-browser.html

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 203 comments

Companies that had successful pivots

https://github.com/fikrikarim/companies-with-successful-pivot

3 years ago

363 upvotes – 219 comments

Smartbolts

http://www.smartbolts.com/

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 144 comments

Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospital-price-public-biden-11640882507

3 years ago

319 upvotes – 224 comments

The Modern Guide to OAuth

https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide-to-oauth/

3 years ago

295 upvotes – 60 comments

My progress in porting Wine

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-in-porting-wine/11741

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 62 comments

Thousands of coma patients may be conscious

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/comas-conscious-communicate/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 86 comments

If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling

https://poets.org/poem/if

3 years ago

282 upvotes – 130 comments

How Audio Fingerprinting Works

https://emysound.com/blog/open-source/2020/06/12/how-audio-fingerprinting-works.html

3 years ago

259 upvotes – 19 comments

Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI

https://twitter.com/_jack_poulson/status/1476936000454680576

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 138 comments

T-Mobile Actively Censoring Certain URLs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-HE6_F3tMg

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 155 comments

Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto-why-bother

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 548 comments

Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29748113

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 157 comments

A Guide to Twitter

https://tasshin.com/blog/a-guide-to-twitter/

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 155 comments

Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-all-news/199687/belgian-scientific-base-in-antarctica-engulfed-by-covid-19-despite-strict-measures

3 years ago

227 upvotes – 275 comments

Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746344

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 290 comments
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