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1. A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (pkolaczk.github.io)
617 points by Ygg2 on Dec 31, 2021 | 195 comments
2. Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server (cprimozic.net)
511 points by mattrighetti on Dec 31, 2021 | 280 comments
3. How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API (danpetrov.xyz)
392 points by decrypt on Dec 31, 2021 | 278 comments
4. Smartbolts (smartbolts.com)
346 points by tosh on Dec 31, 2021 | 144 comments
5. My progress in porting Wine (haiku-os.org)
290 points by smallstepforman on Dec 31, 2021 | 62 comments
6. Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript (terrainformatica.com)
327 points by BafS on Dec 30, 2021 | 107 comments
7. Companies that had successful pivots (github.com/fikrikarim)
363 points by karimf on Dec 31, 2021 | 219 comments
8. macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux (hookrace.net)
347 points by def- on Dec 30, 2021 | 395 comments
9. The Modern Guide to OAuth (fusionauth.io)
295 points by mooreds on Dec 31, 2021 | 60 comments
10. Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules (wsj.com)
319 points by arwhatever on Dec 31, 2021 | 224 comments
11. Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures (brusselstimes.com)
227 points by justinzollars on Dec 31, 2021 | 275 comments
12. Why is my Rust build so slow? (fasterthanli.me)
298 points by jacobwg on Dec 30, 2021 | 214 comments
13. PortableGL: An implementation of OpenGL 3.x-ish in clean C (github.com/rswinkle)
185 points by kk6mrp on Dec 31, 2021 | 52 comments
14. Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf (twitter.com/mitchcohen)
502 points by agar on Dec 31, 2021 | 127 comments
15. Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
225 points by MasterYoda on Dec 31, 2021 | 290 comments
16. Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö (opencore.ch)
153 points by ocrb on Dec 31, 2021 | 140 comments
17. Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser (boingboing.net)
368 points by denysvitali on Dec 31, 2021 | 203 comments
18. Thousands of coma patients may be conscious (sciencefocus.com)
285 points by LouisLazaris on Dec 31, 2021 | 86 comments
19. Circuit Design and Applied Optimization (Part 1) (stefanabikaram.com)
95 points by stefanpie on Dec 31, 2021 | 32 comments
20. NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful (cranberryblog.substack.com)
109 points by boraginaceae on Dec 30, 2021 | 81 comments
21. Music Library and MusicBrainz Picard (homehack.nl)
118 points by app4soft on Dec 30, 2021 | 45 comments
22. Improving the quality of publicly trusted intermediate CA certificates (blog.mozilla.org)
88 points by floatingatoll on Dec 30, 2021 | 26 comments
23. Web3/Crypto: Why Bother? (continuations.com)
233 points by fandorin on Dec 31, 2021 | 548 comments
24. You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1) (wooledge.org)
149 points by tosh on Dec 31, 2021 | 148 comments
25. Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI (twitter.com/_jack_poulson)
241 points by danso on Dec 31, 2021 | 138 comments
26. Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure (saggis.com)
107 points by d4a on Dec 31, 2021 | 17 comments
27. Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser (naro.go.jp)
115 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 31, 2021 | 120 comments
28. The Price of Discipline (perell.com)
203 points by yamrzou on Dec 31, 2021 | 144 comments
29. Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows (nullprogram.com)
125 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2021 | 137 comments
30. List of games that Buddha would not play (wikipedia.org)
199 points by zdw on Dec 30, 2021 | 140 comments

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