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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 \| 277 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 rzk 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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