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1.

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard (news.microsoft.com)

430 points by totablebanjo 2022-01-18 | 225 comments

2.

Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal (tutanota.com)

260 points by caaqil 2022-01-19 | 156 comments

3.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of conspiracy (www.axios.com)

241 points by sdan 2022-01-04 | 161 comments

4.

New Year, New CEO (signal.org)

198 points by 0xedb 2022-01-10 | 61 comments

5.

Update: iPhone Camera app did NOT replace man's head with a leaf (twitter.com)

182 points by agar 2021-12-31 | 46 comments

6.

1Password Has Raised $620M (blog.1password.com)

172 points by andrewdutton 2022-01-19 | 168 comments

7.

Tell HN: Microsoft forks MIT licensed repo, and changes the copyright to them (github.com)

168 points by mkdirp 2021-12-25 | 41 comments

8.

Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (twitter.com)

160 points by mdoms 2022-01-12 | 84 comments

9.

Firefox 96 (www.mozilla.org)

156 points by NiekvdMaas 2022-01-11 | 85 comments

10.

YC’s $500k Standard Deal (blog.ycombinator.com)

153 points by langitbiru 2022-01-10 | 71 comments

11.

Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work (www.universiteitleiden.nl)

147 points by giuliomagnifico 2022-01-17 | 164 comments

12.

Paul Graham's Twitter thread on Search engines and SEO spam (twitter.com)

122 points by iamjbn 2022-01-03 | 107 comments

13.

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

120 points by markplindsay 2021-12-28 | 41 comments

14.

Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell (sylviavanos.nl)

118 points by ajdude 2022-01-17 | 42 comments

15.

Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially) (loginwithhn.com)

115 points by hardwaresofton 2022-01-13 | 24 comments

16.

'America's Dad’ Bob Saget Dies at Orlando Hotel (www.news4jax.com)

112 points by grawprog 2022-01-10 | 48 comments

17.

Bevy game engine v0.6.0 released (bevyengine.org)

111 points by VitalyAnkh 2022-01-08 | 28 comments

18.

FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned (gitlab.com)

110 points by tercio 2022-01-21 | 25 comments

19.

James Webb is fully deployed (twitter.com)

107 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2022-01-08 | 17 comments

20.

Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) (special.usps.com)

105 points by mattl 2022-01-18 | 69 comments

21.

I quit caffeine (keygen.sh)

102 points by ezekg 2022-01-10 | 88 comments

22.

Framework: Open Sourcing Our Firmware (frame.work)

101 points by aram 2022-01-21 | 15 comments

23.

Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter (www.nasdaq.com)

95 points by 737min 2022-01-11 | 49 comments

24.

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019) (blog.haschek.at)

93 points by BayAreaEscapee 2022-01-17 | 16 comments

25.

A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November (www.axios.com)

93 points by doppp 2022-01-05 | 85 comments

26.

Congress Needs to Stop Day Trading, Says Sen. Mark Warner (bigtechnology.substack.com)

93 points by kantrowitz 2022-01-14 | 26 comments

27.

Rail Theft Soars in California (www.latimes.com)

93 points by ilamont 2022-01-16 | 84 comments

28.

“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs (paulbutler.org)

90 points by paulgb 2021-12-28 | 62 comments

29.

noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice (github.com)

88 points by xxyzz 2022-01-10 | 34 comments

30.

During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total (twitter.com)

86 points by doener 2022-01-02 | 27 comments

31.

Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist (github.com)

84 points by AmandaGreere 2022-01-16 | 48 comments

32.

Dura: You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git (github.com)

83 points by todsacerdoti 2022-01-03 | 35 comments

33.

New York City Will Make It Mandatory for Companies to Post Salaries on Job Ads (www.forbes.com)

80 points by thebigspacefuck 2022-01-06 | 55 comments

34.

I sent my boyfriend a picture of a storm. He got one of a woman and a dog (old.reddit.com)

77 points by olegious 2022-01-16 | 32 comments

35.

No Hello (2013) (www.nohello.com)

75 points by emreb 2022-01-18 | 46 comments

36.

Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence (www.bookstackapp.com)

74 points by ssddanbrown 2022-01-08 | 24 comments

37.

Facebook Said My Article Was False. Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong (reason.com)

74 points by nradov 2021-12-29 | 35 comments

38.

My First Impressions of Web3 (moxie.org)

73 points by natdempk 2022-01-07 | 13 comments

39.

Google fined 150M€, Facebook 60M€ for assymetric cookie dialogs (www.cnil.fr)

72 points by SkySkimmer 2022-01-06 | 45 comments

40.

Show HN: Isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com (isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com)

71 points by james_impliu 2022-01-19 | 29 comments

41.

Ffmpeg 5.0 (ffmpeg.org)

71 points by LeoPanthera 2022-01-17 | 11 comments

42.

Burn My Windows (github.com)

70 points by marcodiego 2022-01-04 | 22 comments

43.

Some Apple Engineers Rewarded Up to $180K in Stock Bonuses as Incentive to Stay (www.macrumors.com)

70 points by purplesnowflake 2021-12-28 | 74 comments

44.

Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer (krebsonsecurity.com)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2022-01-06 | 10 comments

45.

Alex Graveley, architect of GitHub Copilot, arrested for strangling girlfriend (drive.google.com)

70 points by betsydupuis 2022-01-05 | 17 comments

46.

Top Major Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Says (www.wsj.com)

69 points by jmsflknr 2022-01-10 | 4 comments

47.

EU planning to start their own DNS infrastructure (hadea.ec.europa.eu)

68 points by nixass 2022-01-19 | 15 comments

48.

Blame Cronyism, Not Capitalism (journals.aom.org)

67 points by rustoo 2022-01-10 | 85 comments

49.

Reddit Blocks Firefox (twitter.com)

67 points by espadrine 2022-01-14 | 19 comments

50.

UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption (www.theregister.com)

67 points by FinnKuhn 2022-01-20 | 4 comments

51.

Multiple Sclerosis Causality (www.science.org)

67 points by nabla9 2022-01-14 | 12 comments

52.

glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default (ariadne.space)

66 points by chmaynard 2021-12-29 | 9 comments

53.

Woman dies seven years after pricking finger in prion research lab (www.science.org)

66 points by tomrod 2022-01-21 | 40 comments

54.

A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation (arxiv.org)

65 points by say_it_as_it_is 2021-12-23 | 48 comments

55.

Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map (minitokyo3d.com)

64 points by bane 2022-01-02 | 7 comments

56.

Steam has been banned in China (www.thegamer.com)

63 points by meibo 2021-12-25 | 27 comments

57.

Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever – except she was a fraud (paperpile.com)

63 points by millie13 2022-01-03 | 14 comments

58.

Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada) (edmontonjournal.com)

63 points by peteradio 2022-01-01 | 96 comments

59.

Why I'm Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022 (joeldare.com)

62 points by codazoda 2022-01-01 | 27 comments

60.

Gitlab Handbook's HN Page (about.gitlab.com)

62 points by mooreds 2022-01-20 | 21 comments

61.

70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows (news.crunchbase.com)

62 points by one-possibility 2022-01-20 | 56 comments

62.

Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration (twitter.com)

62 points by mkurz 2022-01-14 | 37 comments

63.

Ireland to drop almost all Covid restrictions (www.reuters.com)

59 points by lando2319 2022-01-22 | 29 comments

64.

No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption (noplacetohide.org.uk)

58 points by intunderflow 2022-01-18 | 21 comments

65.

$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash (www.tomshardware.com)

57 points by simonjgreen 2022-01-03 | 38 comments

66.

Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done (nick.comer.io)

57 points by nkcmr 2022-01-03 | 6 comments

67.

Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust (github.com)

56 points by KubikPixel 2021-12-23 | 26 comments

68.

Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review (luisartola.com)

56 points by luisartola 2022-01-05 | 23 comments

69.

Switching from macOS to Pop _OS (support.system76.com)

56 points by zathan 2022-01-15 | 12 comments

70.

Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals (crypto.com)

55 points by camjohnson26 2022-01-20 | 45 comments

71.

Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation (sloanreview.mit.edu)

55 points by Hard_Space 2022-01-13 | 12 comments

72.

Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji (earthquake.usgs.gov)

54 points by ggm 2022-01-15 | 15 comments

73.

Zoroastrians make a comeback in northern Iraq (www.reuters.com)

54 points by jelliclesfarm 2022-01-17 | 3 comments

74.

CVE-2021-44832: New Log4j 2 vulnerability (nvd.nist.gov)

54 points by xaner4 2021-12-28 | 10 comments

75.

Why isn't there a universal data-format for résumés? (toot.cat)

54 points by ColinWright 2022-01-16 | 58 comments

76.

SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9) (www.openssh.com)

54 points by frutiger 2022-01-09 | 9 comments

77.

Is screen scraping illegal? AmericanAirlines suing TPG (The Points Guy) over app (viewfromthewing.com)

53 points by vnkatesh 2022-01-20 | 53 comments

78.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, Dies at 95 (tricycle.org)

53 points by rowanajmarshall 2022-01-21 | 9 comments

79.

ADHD Accommodations Guide (adhdatwork.add.org)

53 points by osivertsson 2021-12-24 | 19 comments

80.

Former CEO and director of Reuters is large investor and board member of Pfizer (www.pfizer.com)

53 points by Jimmc414 2022-01-10 | 18 comments

81.

It’s cheaper to stop emitting now than to pull carbon from the air later (arstechnica.com)

53 points by Tomte 2021-12-28 | 22 comments

82.

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt (www.telegraph.co.uk)

53 points by steelstraw 2022-01-12 | 24 comments

83.

Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery (gizmodo.com)

52 points by thunderbong 2021-12-26 | 42 comments

84.

The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich (academic.oup.com)

52 points by rustoo 2022-01-07 | 30 comments

85.

Darling – run Mac apps on Linux (www.darlinghq.org)

52 points by tomrod 2022-01-05 | 11 comments

86.

In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient (apnews.com)

51 points by danso 2022-01-10 | 44 comments

87.

37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet (www.itu.int)

51 points by giuliomagnifico 2021-12-26 | 25 comments

88.

Michigan DOT Snowplow Names (www.michigan.gov)

51 points by nielsbot 2022-01-10 | 18 comments

89.

Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law (libreboot.org)

51 points by nixass 2022-01-08 | 11 comments

90.

Zendesk pretends to be open source? (www.zendesk.co.uk)

51 points by tailspin2019 2022-01-14 | 10 comments

91.

Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (soccermatics.medium.com)

50 points by thinkafterbef 2021-12-29 | 10 comments

92.

Celebrity fascination tied to lower intelligence (bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com)

50 points by RickJWagner 2022-01-07 | 17 comments

93.

FedEx: equip aircraft with countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles [pdf] (public-inspection.federalregister.gov)

50 points by jaredwiener 2022-01-14 | 56 comments

94.

The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-Up (www.texasmonthly.com)

49 points by 0x53 2022-01-20 | 10 comments

95.

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers (web.archive.org)

49 points by ColinWright 2022-01-07 | 14 comments

96.

Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account (www.nytimes.com)

48 points by mistersquid 2022-01-02 | 38 comments

97.

The SNESticle Liberation Project (dataswamp.org)

48 points by farmerbb 2022-01-17 | 3 comments

98.

Caden launches with $3.4M to help consumers take control of their data (techcrunch.com)

48 points by rhankey 2022-01-20 | 0 comments

99.

Eyeo wins copyright court decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML (eyeo.com)

48 points by rmoriz 2022-01-18 | 10 comments

100.

Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials (www.bloomberg.com)

47 points by herbstein 2022-01-22 | 10 comments

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