780
556
Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
https://onemileatatime.com/news/emirates-terrifying-boeing-777-flight-washington/
4 years ago
711
358
Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/rt91z6/exchange_2019_antimalware_bad_update/
611
317
Don't Waste the Good Days
https://seths.blog/2021/12/dont-waste-the-good-days/
524
334
Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022
https://joeldare.com/why-im-using-http-basic-auth-in-2022.html
424
506
Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759115
388
238
2021 Letter
https://danwang.co/2021-letter/
386
393
Intellectual Loneliness
https://perell.com/note/intellectual-loneliness/
369
56
All of Wittgenstein is now public domain
https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php?title=Project:All_texts
349
428
EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-drafts-plan-label-gas-nuclear-investments-green-2022-01-01/
328
147
How Dwarf Fortress is built
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/31/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/
315
111
Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall
https://safing.io/portmaster/
314
213
Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests
https://www.science.org/content/article/nuclear-fallout-showing-us-honey-decades-after-bomb-tests
293
437
Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/12/07/the-big-city-that-is-also-pleasant-to-live-in
270
44
Hacker Laws
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws
269
71
Go Fuzzing
https://tip.golang.org/doc/fuzz/
265
134
Ask HN: How do you take care of yourself?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29754211
256
41
Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
247
126
Finding your home in game graphics programming
http://alextardif.com/LearningGraphics.html
198
46
Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29758396
171
497
Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/national/workers-unvaccinated-against-covid-19-who-lose-jobs-ineligible-for-ei-benefits-federal-employment-minister-says
165
338
Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?
https://blog.libove.org/posts/are-crypto-currencies-to-blame-for-high-gpu-prices/
162
54
Ask HN: Favorite/Classic HN threads of all time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759993
159
90
Winnie the Pooh to Enter the Public Domain in 2022
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/winnie-the-pooh-enter-public-domain-2022/
156
Log4jscanner
https://github.com/google/log4jscanner
152
Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era
https://blog.codinghorror.com/updating-the-single-most-influential-book-of-the-basic-era/
148
237
Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++
https://izzys.casa/2021/12/wrapping-up-2021/
144
TikTok trend that makes teens believe they have serious mental disorders
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/experts-troubled-tiktok-trend-teens-believing-mental-disorders-81964649
68
Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html
137
92
New Temperature Records for the UK
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2022/new-years-day
135
35
A persistent denial of service vulnerability affecting iOS
https://trevorspiniolas.com/doorlock/doorlock.html
128
33
Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Useless Inventions
https://www.equilibriumfans.com/chindogu-japanese-art-of-useless-inventions/
29
Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain
https://blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/welcoming-recorded-music-to-the-public-domain/
125
39
Illusion of the Year 2021
http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2021/
123
21
Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74314-3
121
52
Turboencabulator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
113
48
Giving Haiku Beta 3 a try
https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/giving-haiku-os-beta-3-a-try
5
50 Years of Text Games: The End of a Journey
https://if50.substack.com/p/the-end-of-a-journey
105
4
Winnie-the-Pooh and more works enter the public domain
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/31/1069434896/winnie-the-pooh-and-more-works-will-enter-the-public-domain-tomorrow
103
118
Vim9 Script Feature-Complete
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/2XYAoPL2sqg
100
65
Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test
https://www.colorblindnesstest.org/farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-test/
98
114
Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022
https://www.windowscentral.com/tired-windows-its-time-give-linux-try
143
Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)
http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html
96
154
Writing New System Software
https://borud.no/notes/2021/system-software/
94
Do we need a link step?
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/12/do-we-really-need-link-step.html
24
Using the SQLite-over-HTTP “hack” to make back end-less, offline-friendly apps
https://ansiwave.net/blog/sqlite-over-http.html
42
Speeding up my Advent of Code solution with Dijkstra's Algorithm
https://blog.siraben.dev/2021/12/28/aoc-speedup.html
93
Airbus Beluga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga
91
10
Blender – Top Committers 2021
https://www.blender.org/development/top-30-committers-2021/
89
11
Starlink works great until the cats find out that it gives off heat
https://twitter.com/Tippen22/status/1476985855981993984
86
37
A Comparison of Rust and Zig
https://expandingman.gitlab.io/tvu-compare/
85
Ask HN: Is HN becoming more an existential crisis echo chamber?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29757049
83
20
Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android
https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android
82
34
Update on Linux hibernation support when lockdown is enabled
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58077.html
80
GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
https://github.com/kaustubh-karkare/glados
76
55
End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/end-of-the-line-finally-coming-for-blackberry-devices/
75
Ask HN: Do we need an easier Git?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756272
72
Will Digital Technologies Kill the Nation State?
https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/6d8419afd863449ea76dcdcb4bf45a10?2
66
The Dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative
http://garytaubes.com/the-dissolution-of-the-nutrition-science-initiative/
Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756204
63
9
Twitter bans account highlighting Nancy Pelosi stock trades
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-bans-nancy-pelosi-stock-tracker/
62
New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/new-york-is-using-race-to-determine
Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests