The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2021

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Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps google.com · edge17 · 20 Dec 2021

2.2k pts 373 comments

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Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do? ConfessionTime · 16 Dec 2021

1.7k pts 1.1k comments

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AWS us-east-1 outage status.aws.amazon.com · judge2020 · 7 Dec 2021

1.7k pts 957 comments

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Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg bmj.com · DrHilarius · 17 Dec 2021

1.6k pts 644 comments

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TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS twitter.com · cwaffles · 17 Dec 2021

1.5k pts 498 comments

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I started a paper website business daily.tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 14 Dec 2021

1.5k pts 257 comments

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100 years of whatever this will be apenwarr.ca · mumblemumble · 2 Dec 2021

1.5k pts 896 comments

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Log4j RCE Found lunasec.io · usmannk · 9 Dec 2021

1.4k pts 503 comments

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Pixel prevented me from calling 911 old.reddit.com · sohkamyung · 9 Dec 2021

1.4k pts 654 comments

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Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed] github.com · mkdirp · 25 Dec 2021

1.3k pts 538 comments

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Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend arnoldgalovics.com · galovics · 16 Dec 2021

1.2k pts 445 comments

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This website has 81% battery power remaining solar.lowtechmagazine.com · behnamoh · 12 Dec 2021

1.2k pts 351 comments

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“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs paulbutler.org · paulgb · 28 Dec 2021

1.2k pts 670 comments

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Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016 macrumors.com · baybal2 · 8 Dec 2021

1.2k pts 707 comments

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Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas Jaruzel · 25 Dec 2021

1.2k pts 313 comments

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Wish HN: Happy Holidays artsandculture.google.com · rcarmo · 24 Dec 2021

1.1k pts 252 comments

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CT scans of AirPods evolution scanofthemonth.com · vitruvius · 6 Dec 2021

1.1k pts 334 comments

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U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware reuters.com · amadeuspagel · 3 Dec 2021

1.1k pts 592 comments

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A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · arkadiyt · 15 Dec 2021

1k pts 341 comments

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Apple broke up with me merecivilian.com · MereCivilian · 5 Dec 2021

985 pts 682 comments

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Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia modernwiki.app · sjdz · 6 Dec 2021

979 pts 409 comments

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Mess with DNS jvns.ca · im2nguyen · 15 Dec 2021

958 pts 87 comments

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From Node to Ruby on Rails nikodunk.com · mokkol · 16 Dec 2021

941 pts 639 comments

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This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · trulyrandom · 1 Dec 2021

938 pts 481 comments

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Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' tutanota.com · Audiophilip · 3 Dec 2021

899 pts 285 comments

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Prince of Persia in JavaScript princejs.com · colinprince · 28 Dec 2021

887 pts 225 comments

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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again thadjo · 15 Dec 2021

879 pts 468 comments

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Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked? gregsadetsky · 27 Dec 2021

877 pts 515 comments

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Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start arstechnica.com · slobotron · 13 Dec 2021

876 pts 716 comments

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25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work sandworm101 · 25 Dec 2021

872 pts 202 comments

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President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment purdueexponent.org · h2odragon · 17 Dec 2021

867 pts 964 comments

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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again riknox · 22 Dec 2021

863 pts 614 comments

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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers sprocketfox.io · ghuntley · 2 Dec 2021

860 pts 419 comments

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Blender 3.0 blender.org · marcodiego · 3 Dec 2021

848 pts 248 comments

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Plans you're not supposed to talk about dynomight.net · dynm · 14 Dec 2021

846 pts 635 comments

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Tailwind CSS v3.0 tailwindcss.com · pspeter3 · 9 Dec 2021

841 pts 428 comments

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YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count youtube.com · jafitc · 3 Dec 2021

807 pts 565 comments

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Tokio Console tokio.rs · hasheddan · 17 Dec 2021

788 pts 118 comments

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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell folli · 23 Dec 2021

782 pts 841 comments

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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results github.com · nothrowaways · 14 Dec 2021

769 pts 294 comments

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Internet addiction and the habit of book reading benwajdi.com · shankarro · 18 Dec 2021

760 pts 370 comments

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The gift of it's your problem now apenwarr.ca · Tomte · 30 Dec 2021

756 pts 293 comments

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Tqdm (Python) tqdm.github.io · manjana · 16 Dec 2021

738 pts 162 comments

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Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works livescience.com · ohiovr · 10 Dec 2021

737 pts 238 comments

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iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo twitter.com · davidbarker · 30 Dec 2021

732 pts 454 comments

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Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any' github.com · brosciencecode · 14 Dec 2021

726 pts 459 comments

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Advent of Code 2021 adventofcode.com · ducharmdev · 1 Dec 2021

725 pts 264 comments

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FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger ftc.gov · badwolf · 2 Dec 2021

722 pts 398 comments

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Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening eff.org · dredmorbius · 9 Dec 2021

718 pts 375 comments

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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround howtogeek.com · beezle · 16 Dec 2021

715 pts 545 comments

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Show HN: Emoji to Scale javier.xyz · javierbyte · 3 Dec 2021

713 pts 124 comments

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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules bbc.com · goodcanadian · 10 Dec 2021

702 pts 717 comments

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Townscaper Running in the Browser oskarstalberg.com · krstffr · 1 Dec 2021

701 pts 97 comments

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Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published lunasec.io · freeqaz · 15 Dec 2021

698 pts 278 comments

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A New Coefficient of Correlation arxiv.org · malshe · 25 Dec 2021

682 pts 158 comments

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Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp consumerfinance.gov · boeingUH60 · 22 Dec 2021

669 pts 646 comments

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We will be retiring Alexa.com support.alexa.com · dlackty · 8 Dec 2021

667 pts 241 comments

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Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one utcc.utoronto.ca · throw0101a · 24 Dec 2021

664 pts 510 comments

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How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes dragonman225.js.org · alex_stoddard · 22 Dec 2021

664 pts 57 comments

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Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart brickset.com · brycehalley · 3 Dec 2021

663 pts 399 comments