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1. Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux (usebottles.com)
604 points by sph on Dec 19, 2021 | 237 comments
2. An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone (techsparx.com)
562 points by authed on Dec 19, 2021 | 271 comments
3. Test your product on a crappy laptop (css-tricks.com)
527 points by dredmorbius on Dec 19, 2021 | 307 comments
4. The Big DevOps Misunderstanding (wolfoliver.medium.com)
529 points by WolfOliver on Dec 19, 2021 | 314 comments
5. I was part of a human subject research study without my consent (christine.website)
434 points by snowytrees on Dec 19, 2021 | 365 comments
6. Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China (economist.com)
583 points by baylearn on Dec 19, 2021 | 673 comments
7. Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
423 points by __all__ on Dec 19, 2021 | 321 comments
8. Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls (exa.website)
355 points by gilad on Dec 18, 2021 | 149 comments
9. The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare (liebertpub.com)
148 points by beefman on Dec 19, 2021 | 147 comments
10. Wingman for Haskell (haskellwingman.dev)
181 points by dunefox on Dec 18, 2021 | 45 comments
11. Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization (github.com/nerdsinspace)
208 points by cyber_kinetist on Dec 19, 2021 | 80 comments
12. Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
425 points by aristofun on Dec 19, 2021 | 500 comments
13. Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
121 points by jkuria on Dec 19, 2021 | 98 comments
14. Move myself to inactive (github.com/ytdl-org)
278 points by SturgeonsLaw on Dec 19, 2021 | 140 comments
15. Why Not Rust? (2020) (matklad.github.io)
235 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 269 comments
16. Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking (linkingmanifesto.org)
106 points by 1123581321 on Dec 18, 2021 | 20 comments
17. Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years (micahlerner.com)
159 points by mlerner on Dec 19, 2021 | 64 comments
18. Thread Safety in C++ and Rust (reverberate.org)
147 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 18, 2021 | 72 comments
19. Writing embedded firmware using Rust (anyleaf.org)
151 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 19, 2021 | 67 comments
20. Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust (anyleaf.org)
87 points by the__alchemist on Dec 19, 2021 | 51 comments
21. Connecting the iDOTs (2020) (hackerfactor.com)
72 points by ErikCorry on Dec 19, 2021 | 36 comments
22. C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat (jcs.org)
135 points by tobr on Dec 18, 2021 | 34 comments
23. SciRate: An open source website to browse, save, and comment ArXiv articles (scirate.com)
93 points by physicsgraph on Dec 19, 2021 | 17 comments
24. Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar (twitter.com/sega__jeanasis)
335 points by kaycebasques on Dec 19, 2021 | 361 comments
25. Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf] (medrxiv.org)
269 points by kevin_hu on Dec 19, 2021 | 313 comments
26. 4D Toys: Klein Bottles (marctenbosch.com)
86 points by xfennec on Dec 17, 2021 | 13 comments
27. A Search for Analogs of Boyajian's Star: A Second List of Candidates (arxiv.org)
57 points by choxi on Dec 19, 2021 | 16 comments
28. Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf] (sriramk.com)
85 points by tosh on Dec 18, 2021 | 63 comments
29. Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users (smitop.com)
38 points by smitop on Dec 16, 2021 | 31 comments
30. Self-Organizing Teams (vadimkravcenko.com)
88 points by bndr on Dec 18, 2021 | 50 comments

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