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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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