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Hacker News (Dec 2022)

  1. Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok

    275 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  2. Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements

    274 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  3. IPv6 Internet is broken

    274 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  4. Advent of Code 2022 is nigh

    274 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  5. Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy

    274 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  6. I wrote a SQL engine in Python

    274 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  7. Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon

    274 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  8. Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

    273 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  9. How we slowed the subway down

    273 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  10. Canary Tokens

    273 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  11. I Lost All Faith in LastPass

    273 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  12. What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?

    273 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  13. Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

    273 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  14. No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix that with 'TLDR' bill

    273 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  15. Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

    272 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  16. Bunny AI

    272 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  17. Building a website like it's 1999

    271 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  18. Play Windows Pinball (Space Cadet) on the Web

    271 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  19. React Native is not the future

    271 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  20. Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos

    271 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  21. Emacs should become a Wayland compositor

    270 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  22. New York City hiring top rat killer

    269 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  23. Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    269 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  24. Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

    269 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  25. GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years

    269 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  26. Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified

    268 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  27. Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature

    268 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  28. Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money

    268 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  29. Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?

    268 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  30. Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP

    268 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  31. Tell HN: Tired of Hearing about ChatGPT

    268 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  32. Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF

    267 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  33. Native Reflection in Rust

    266 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  34. Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications

    265 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  35. As winter approaches, here's a story about why hardware is hard

    265 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  36. Web IDE Beta

    265 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  37. Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte

    265 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  38. Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?

    265 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  39. Snap updates happen without user consent

    265 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  40. Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark

    264 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  41. Show HN: Dog API

    264 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  42. Shutting down our unencrypted public DNS service

    264 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  43. Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

    264 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  44. New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content

    264 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  45. Password Requirements: Myths and Madness

    263 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  46. Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT

    263 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  47. The cloudy layers of modern-day programming

    263 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  48. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

    263 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  49. Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake

    262 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  50. A year of building for the terminal

    262 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  51. The State of HTTP in 2022

    262 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  52. I've asked Stable Diffusion to generate 250 pages of 1987 RadioShack catalog

    262 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  53. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (2021)

    261 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  54. The longest ever flight was 64 days in a Cessna 172 (2021)

    260 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  55. For Want of a JOIN

    260 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  56. Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3rd Ed

    259 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  57. The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS

    258 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  58. Wiretapping Google smart speakers

    258 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  59. Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

    258 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  60. Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (2019)

    258 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  61. Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access

    258 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  62. Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare

    257 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  63. IRS accidentally releases taxpayers’ private data again

    257 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  64. CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers

    257 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  65. My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs

    257 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  66. US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F

    257 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  67. What Is a Wildcard Person?

    256 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  68. Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are

    256 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  69. Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder

    255 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  70. Cached Chrome Top Million Websites

    255 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  71. The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa

    254 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  72. 1k True Fans (2008)

    254 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  73. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail

    253 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  74. Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

    253 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  75. Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)

    253 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  76. The Rise of User-Hostile Software (2021)

    253 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  77. Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code

    252 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  78. Adding WebRTC support to OBS using Rust

    252 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  79. “Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)

    252 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  80. Checked C

    252 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  81. A simple guide on words to avoid in government

    250 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  82. The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (1998)

    250 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  83. Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

    249 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  84. Practice typing by retyping entire novels

    249 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  85. Show HN: A highly opinionated, fully functional Obsidian vault

    248 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  86. A self-updating list of the most current useragents

    248 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  87. Female spies of MI6

    248 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  88. The best things and stuff of 2022

    248 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  89. Maryland law limits homeowner association control over eco-friendly yards

    248 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  90. Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

    247 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  91. A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom

    247 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  92. What happens when babies are left to cry it out?

    246 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  93. O Holy Crap

    246 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  94. Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone

    245 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  95. Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign

    245 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  96. PHP 8.2

    245 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  97. I built a wildlife pond [video]

    245 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  98. Ask HN: How to get back into AI?

    244 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  99. How to draw ugly lines fast

    244 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  100. Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, better RAID 5/6 reliability

    243 points • comment • dec 12, 2022