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1. Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place (crawshaw.io)
553 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 11, 2021 | 393 comments
2. Professional maintainers: a wake-up call (filippo.io)
547 points by FiloSottile on Dec 11, 2021 | 447 comments
3. Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn (ttnews.com)
286 points by mardiyah on Dec 11, 2021 | 248 comments
4. PDP-11 Booting (trmm.net)
221 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Dec 11, 2021 | 69 comments
5. PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3 (reddit.com)
571 points by diplodocusaur on Dec 11, 2021 | 315 comments
6. The Invention of Chinese (historytoday.com)
173 points by Thevet on Dec 10, 2021 | 165 comments
7. Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
409 points by brogrammer2018 on Dec 11, 2021 | 275 comments
8. Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens (burke.dev)
231 points by kevinburke on Dec 11, 2021 | 324 comments
9. Universal Paperclips (if50.substack.com)
176 points by TheLocehiliosan on Dec 9, 2021 | 82 comments
10. Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C (github.com/tsherif)
210 points by ingve on Dec 11, 2021 | 73 comments
11. Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match (chessbase.com)
255 points by S4M on Dec 11, 2021 | 139 comments
12. Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019) (seriouseats.com)
108 points by Tomte on Dec 11, 2021 | 101 comments
13. The trees that miss the mammoths (2011) (americanforests.org)
109 points by mbildner on Dec 10, 2021 | 30 comments
14. Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages (github.com/scottrogowski)
135 points by nothrowaways on Dec 9, 2021 | 17 comments
15. Learn X in Y Minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)
241 points by toomanydoubts on Dec 11, 2021 | 52 comments
16. The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077 (newyorker.com)
170 points by mitchbob on Dec 11, 2021 | 255 comments
17. An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture (github.com/jdah)
82 points by tirrex on Dec 10, 2021 | 31 comments
18. Computers revolutionized chess – Magnus Carlsen wins by being human (wsj.com)
97 points by wallflower on Dec 9, 2021 | 43 comments
19. Icon Programming Language – A brief introduction (1993) (arizona.edu)
57 points by smartmic on Dec 9, 2021 | 18 comments
20. Moo Card Player (hicks.design)
84 points by tobr on Dec 10, 2021 | 27 comments
21. Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS (cleartax.github.io)
104 points by mathnmusic on Dec 11, 2021 | 10 comments
22. Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed (sprudge.com)
89 points by thomas on Dec 11, 2021 | 71 comments
23. I have a brain injury [video] (youtube.com)
155 points by fortran77 on Dec 11, 2021 | 95 comments
24. Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library (github.com/bradfitz)
206 points by chrissnell on Dec 11, 2021 | 81 comments
25. StarFive Dubhe 64-bit RISC-V core to be found in 12nm, 2 GHz processors (cnx-software.com)
76 points by btdmaster on Dec 11, 2021 | 23 comments
26. A library for audio feature extraction, regression, classification, segmentation (github.com/tyiannak)
107 points by nothrowaways on Dec 9, 2021 | 12 comments
27. What happens to developers who never go into management? (wbscodingschool.com)
223 points by pelasaco on Dec 11, 2021 | 283 comments
28. Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies (raku-advent.blog)
112 points by lizmat on Dec 11, 2021 | 67 comments
29. Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946) (publicdomainreview.org)
77 points by pepys on Dec 8, 2021 | 12 comments
30. “Open source” is broken (christine.website)
292 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 11, 2021 | 341 comments

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