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Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future (theguardian.com)

208 points by zaptheimpaler on Dec 30, 2021 | 286 comments

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Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas message (reclaimthenet.org)

208 points by smsm42 on Dec 23, 2021 | 228 comments

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Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization (github.com)

208 points by cyber_kinetist on Dec 19, 2021 | 80 comments

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Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991 (markuskaarlonen.com)

208 points by bgm1975 on Dec 19, 2021 | 75 comments

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Advanced NLP with spaCy v3 (course.spacy.io)

207 points by pvpv on Dec 10, 2021 | 38 comments

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Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (2016) (hemmings.com)

206 points by whalesalad on Dec 20, 2021 | 238 comments

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Google Drive could soon start locking your files (techradar.com)

206 points by paulcarroty on Dec 17, 2021 | 187 comments

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Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home (ij.org)

206 points by tomohawk on Dec 1, 2021 | 124 comments

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Turing Pi 2: 4 Raspberry Pi nodes on a mini ITX board (jeffgeerling.com)

206 points by geerlingguy on Dec 1, 2021 | 108 comments

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The software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships (stackoverflow.blog)

206 points by jonashoechst on Dec 29, 2021 | 106 comments

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Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library (github.com)

206 points by chrissnell on Dec 11, 2021 | 81 comments

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Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users (npr.org)

206 points by authed on Dec 16, 2021 | 78 comments

643.

Glitch effect on text in pure CSS (dustri.org)

206 points by pabs3 on Dec 2, 2021 | 52 comments

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California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a year (forbes.com)

205 points by rgrieselhuber on Dec 12, 2021 | 273 comments

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Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars (theverge.com)

205 points by turtlegrids on Dec 30, 2021 | 267 comments

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U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general (thedrive.com)

205 points by pseudolus on Dec 1, 2021 | 264 comments

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Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes (theguardian.com)

205 points by perihelions on Dec 25, 2021 | 208 comments

648.

The web is fucked (thewebisfucked.com)

205 points by decrypt on Dec 14, 2021 | 144 comments

649.

The Impending Cloud Reshuffle (erikbern.com)

205 points by pierremenard on Dec 2, 2021 | 127 comments

650.

Show HN: 10-40% faster LZMA decoder using x86 CMOVcc (gist.github.com)

205 points by jpegqs on Dec 13, 2021 | 68 comments

651.

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) (queue.acm.org)

204 points by goranmoomin on Dec 27, 2021 | 192 comments

652.

C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful (c64os.com)

204 points by cpeterso on Dec 10, 2021 | 109 comments

653.

Giant 555 Timer (hackaday.com)

204 points by ggoo on Dec 20, 2021 | 40 comments

654.

Blender 3.0 (blender.org)

204 points by me_bx on Dec 3, 2021 | 1 comments

655.

Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful

203 points by cloogshicer on Dec 12, 2021 | 230 comments

656.

Nim 1.6.2 (nim-lang.org)

203 points by kindaAnIdiot on Dec 17, 2021 | 157 comments

657.

The Price of Discipline (perell.com)

203 points by yamrzou on Dec 31, 2021 | 144 comments

658.

Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go (github.com)