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Top of Month - Dec 2021

1. Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
   (20 Dec 2021 | 2244 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
   (16 Dec 2021 | 1665 points | Comments)

3. AWS us-east-1 outage
   (7 Dec 2021 | 1658 points | Comments)

4. Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
   (17 Dec 2021 | 1599 points | Comments)

5. TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
   (17 Dec 2021 | 1545 points | Comments)

6. I started a paper website business
   (14 Dec 2021 | 1511 points | Comments)

7. 100 years of whatever this will be
   (2 Dec 2021 | 1475 points | Comments)

8. Log4j RCE Found
   (9 Dec 2021 | 1385 points | Comments)

9. Pixel prevented me from calling 911
   (9 Dec 2021 | 1384 points | Comments)

10. Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
    (25 Dec 2021 | 1326 points | Comments)

11. Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
    (16 Dec 2021 | 1230 points | Comments)

12. This website has 81% battery power remaining
    (12 Dec 2021 | 1225 points | Comments)

13. “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
    (28 Dec 2021 | 1222 points | Comments)

14. Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
    (8 Dec 2021 | 1209 points | Comments)

15. Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
    (25 Dec 2021 | 1193 points | Comments)

16. Wish HN: Happy Holidays
    (24 Dec 2021 | 1139 points | Comments)

17. CT scans of AirPods evolution
    (6 Dec 2021 | 1094 points | Comments)

18. U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
    (3 Dec 2021 | 1093 points | Comments)

19. A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
    (15 Dec 2021 | 1005 points | Comments)

20. Apple broke up with me
    (5 Dec 2021 | 985 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
    (6 Dec 2021 | 979 points | Comments)

22. Mess with DNS
    (15 Dec 2021 | 958 points | Comments)

23. From Node to Ruby on Rails
    (16 Dec 2021 | 941 points | Comments)

24. This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
    (1 Dec 2021 | 938 points | Comments)

25. Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
    (3 Dec 2021 | 899 points | Comments)

26. Prince of Persia in JavaScript
    (28 Dec 2021 | 887 points | Comments)

27. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
    (15 Dec 2021 | 879 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
    (27 Dec 2021 | 877 points | Comments)

29. Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start
    (13 Dec 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

30. 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
    (25 Dec 2021 | 872 points | Comments)

31. President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
    (17 Dec 2021 | 867 points | Comments)

32. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
    (22 Dec 2021 | 863 points | Comments)

33. Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
    (2 Dec 2021 | 860 points | Comments)

34. Blender 3.0
    (3 Dec 2021 | 848 points | Comments)

35. Plans you're not supposed to talk about
    (14 Dec 2021 | 846 points | Comments)

36. Tailwind CSS v3.0
    (9 Dec 2021 | 841 points | Comments)

37. YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
    (3 Dec 2021 | 807 points | Comments)

38. Tokio Console
    (17 Dec 2021 | 788 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
    (23 Dec 2021 | 782 points | Comments)

40. uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
    (14 Dec 2021 | 769 points | Comments)

41. Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
    (18 Dec 2021 | 760 points | Comments)

42. The gift of it's your problem now
    (30 Dec 2021 | 756 points | Comments)

43. Tqdm (Python)
    (16 Dec 2021 | 738 points | Comments)

44. Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
    (10 Dec 2021 | 737 points | Comments)

45. iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
    (30 Dec 2021 | 732 points | Comments)

46. Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
    (14 Dec 2021 | 726 points | Comments)

47. Advent of Code 2021
    (1 Dec 2021 | 725 points | Comments)

48. FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
    (2 Dec 2021 | 722 points | Comments)

49. Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
    (9 Dec 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

50. Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
    (16 Dec 2021 | 715 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: Emoji to Scale
    (3 Dec 2021 | 713 points | Comments)

52. Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
    (10 Dec 2021 | 702 points | Comments)

53. Townscaper Running in the Browser
    (1 Dec 2021 | 701 points | Comments)

54. Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
    (15 Dec 2021 | 698 points | Comments)

55. A New Coefficient of Correlation
    (25 Dec 2021 | 682 points | Comments)

56. Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp
    (22 Dec 2021 | 669 points | Comments)

57. We will be retiring Alexa.com
    (8 Dec 2021 | 667 points | Comments)

58. How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
    (22 Dec 2021 | 664 points | Comments)

59. Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
    (24 Dec 2021 | 664 points | Comments)

60. Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
    (3 Dec 2021 | 663 points | Comments)

61. Supersonic Trebuchet
    (1 Dec 2021 | 650 points | Comments)

62. Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
    (28 Dec 2021 | 644 points | Comments)

63. YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
    (6 Dec 2021 | 639 points | Comments)

64. Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
    (10 Dec 2021 | 638 points | Comments)

65. Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
    (26 Dec 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

66. Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
    (27 Dec 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

67. Leaving MySQL
    (6 Dec 2021 | 626 points | Comments)

68. WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
    (6 Dec 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

69. Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
    (17 Dec 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

70. A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
    (31 Dec 2021 | 617 points | Comments)

71. Entire website in a single HTML file
    (24 Dec 2021 | 615 points | Comments)

72. Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers
    (21 Dec 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

73. Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
    (30 Dec 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

74. Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
    (28 Dec 2021 | 606 points | Comments)

75. Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
    (5 Dec 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

76. Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
    (16 Dec 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
    (13 Dec 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

78. Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
    (14 Dec 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

79. Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
    (19 Dec 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
    (1 Dec 2021 | 594 points | Comments)

81. Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
    (19 Dec 2021 | 583 points | Comments)

82. All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
    (24 Dec 2021 | 580 points | Comments)

83. Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
    (28 Dec 2021 | 580 points | Comments)

84. Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
    (27 Dec 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

85. PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3
    (11 Dec 2021 | 571 points | Comments)

86. You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
    (26 Dec 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

87. Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
    (27 Dec 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

88. Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes
    (5 Dec 2021 | 563 points | Comments)

89. An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
    (19 Dec 2021 | 562 points | Comments)

90. LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
    (28 Dec 2021 | 559 points | Comments)

91. Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
    (6 Dec 2021 | 556 points | Comments)

92. Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
    (23 Dec 2021 | 554 points | Comments)

93. Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place
    (11 Dec 2021 | 553 points | Comments)

94. Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
    (1 Dec 2021 | 552 points | Comments)

95. TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics
    (20 Dec 2021 | 551 points | Comments)

96. Rust support in the Linux kernel
    (8 Dec 2021 | 550 points | Comments)

97. Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
    (11 Dec 2021 | 547 points | Comments)

98. Reddit files to go public
    (16 Dec 2021 | 541 points | Comments)

99. Apple Helps Asahi Linux
    (17 Dec 2021 | 540 points | Comments)

100. FAA investigating controversial crash video
     (29 Dec 2021 | 540 points | Comments)