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Issue #992 — December 26, 2022

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Merry Christmas, HN news.ycombinator.com \| points: 1582 \| comments: 215

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“Nobody cares about your blog” mssprovenance.blogspot.com \| points: 574 \| comments: 109

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“I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability” breached.vc \| points: 452 \| comments: 249

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Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none infosec.exchange \| points: 432 \| comments: 195

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Life Is Short (2016) paulgraham.com \| points: 422 \| comments: 247

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Stanford hates fun johnhcochrane.blogspot.com \| points: 377 \| comments: 295

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I worked at LastPass as an engineer twitter.com \| points: 366 \| comments: 189

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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 330 \| comments: 627

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Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year news.ycombinator.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 49

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Reverse engineering yet another eBook format mijailovic.net \| points: 313 \| comments: 61

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Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period news.ycombinator.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 145

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Ruby 3.2.0 ruby-lang.org \| points: 223 \| comments: 58

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The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter axios.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 492

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Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon worldhistory.medium.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 202

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APITable: open-source Airtable alternative github.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 41

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HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs github.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 36

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Official NORAD Tracks Santa noradsanta.org \| points: 176 \| comments: 44

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How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS micahwalter.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 125

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Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums cnbc.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 133

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Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults markuta.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 104

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