Hacker News on 7 January 2022

• My First Impressions of Web3
• Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
• Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
• Computers as I used to love them
• A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions
• Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
• A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor
• Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all
• A curated list of warez and piracy links
• Kagi: A Premium Search Engine