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1. Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg (bmj.com)
1599 points by DrHilarius on Dec 17, 2021 | 644 comments
2. TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS (twitter.com/naaackers)
1545 points by cwaffles on Dec 17, 2021 | 498 comments
3. Tokio Console (tokio.rs)
788 points by hasheddan on Dec 17, 2021 | 118 comments
4. President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment (purdueexponent.org)
867 points by h2odragon on Dec 17, 2021 | 964 comments
5. Kinesis Advantage 360 (kinesis-ergo.com)
394 points by ndrake on Dec 17, 2021 | 329 comments
6. Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation (axios.com)
620 points by paulpauper on Dec 17, 2021 | 809 comments
7. I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video] (youtube.com)
434 points by indosauros on Dec 17, 2021 | 229 comments
8. Apple Helps Asahi Linux (twitter.com/marcan42)
540 points by CraigJPerry on Dec 17, 2021 | 174 comments
9. Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews (fullstackeconomics.com)
429 points by yedava on Dec 17, 2021 | 226 comments
10. Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps (nolanlawson.com)
219 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2021 | 31 comments
11. Defrag Like It's 1993 (shiplift.dev)
362 points by centerorbit on Dec 16, 2021 | 268 comments
12. Two custom React hooks (molecule.dev)
225 points by loh on Dec 17, 2021 | 174 comments
13. Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software (github.com/davidbuchanan314)
276 points by valebes on Dec 17, 2021 | 101 comments
14. Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
408 points by illud_tempus on Dec 17, 2021 | 485 comments
15. Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python (pola.rs)
238 points by daureg on Dec 16, 2021 | 124 comments
16. Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022 (rbi.org.in)
266 points by vivekv on Dec 17, 2021 | 147 comments
17. Why start a new database conference? (scattered-thoughts.net)
127 points by luu on Dec 17, 2021 | 20 comments
18. Why 'Long Rituals' Matter (longtermist.substack.com)
127 points by anarbadalov on Dec 16, 2021 | 76 comments
19. Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX) (arhamjain.com)
154 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2021 | 28 comments
20. There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home (zdnet.com)
216 points by walterbell on Dec 17, 2021 | 219 comments
21. Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon (cnn.com)
259 points by ChuckMcM on Dec 17, 2021 | 113 comments
22. Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows (washingtonpost.com)
190 points by ren_engineer on Dec 17, 2021 | 485 comments
23. How I learned to stop worrying and push to master (thenable.io)
145 points by sparklingmango on Dec 16, 2021 | 162 comments
24. Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs (youtube.com)
142 points by nik12795 on Dec 16, 2021 | 52 comments
25. The rise and fall of rationality in language (pnas.org)
124 points by olifante on Dec 17, 2021 | 58 comments
26. Forth BBS 2 (1985) (github.com/rickcarlino)
103 points by eatonphil on Dec 17, 2021 | 12 comments
27. YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 (github.com/ytdl-org)
339 points by pdimitar on Dec 17, 2021 | 106 comments
28. We need your beginner’s mind (joshcanhelp.com)
141 points by joshcanhelp on Dec 16, 2021 | 45 comments
29. Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG (github.com/filosottile)
108 points by Shank on Dec 17, 2021 | 55 comments
30. Design evolution of the Windows control panel (versionmuseum.com)
127 points by userbinator on Dec 17, 2021 | 109 comments

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