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Hacker News (Jan 2022)
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My First Impressions of Web3
3239 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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GPS
2867 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
2741 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
2024 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
1696 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
1603 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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Ask HN: Gmail account security
1456 points • comment • jan 23, 2022
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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
1378 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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I got pwned by my cloud costs
1365 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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James Webb is fully deployed
1332 points • comment • jan 08, 2022
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Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
1218 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
1161 points • comment • jan 23, 2022
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Open-Sourcing our Firmware
1140 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
1112 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
1106 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
1098 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
1071 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
1060 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
1056 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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The UX on this small child is terrible
1054 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
1013 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
968 points • comment • jan 30, 2022
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The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
956 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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New Year, New CEO
925 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
917 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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AirPods don't “just work”
909 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
905 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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The New York Times buys Wordle
875 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji
863 points • comment • jan 15, 2022
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A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
862 points • comment • jan 30, 2022
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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
862 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
824 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Danish government makes its new economic model open source
815 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
812 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
804 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
795 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
794 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
784 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
780 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
777 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
768 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
760 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
758 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Burn My Windows
754 points • comment • jan 04, 2022
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James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away
751 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
749 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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YC’s $500k Standard Deal
741 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
734 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
724 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
716 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
710 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
706 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
702 points • comment • jan 29, 2022
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Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
697 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
697 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
693 points • comment • jan 01, 2022
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Oh, 2022
690 points • comment • jan 09, 2022
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Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
681 points • comment • jan 26, 2022
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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
676 points • comment • jan 21, 2022
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Red Light Green Light
676 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
673 points • comment • jan 10, 2022
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IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
669 points • comment • jan 23, 2022
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Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
668 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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1Password Has Raised $620M
667 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
665 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Computers as I used to love them
663 points • comment • jan 07, 2022
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How big was the Tonga eruption?
662 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
661 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
660 points • comment • jan 20, 2022
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Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
660 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
654 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
649 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
638 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
636 points • comment • jan 24, 2022
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I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
636 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Is the madness ever going to end?
630 points • comment • jan 11, 2022
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Multiple Sclerosis Causality
629 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
628 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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If Looks Could Kill
625 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Please make a dumb car
622 points • comment • jan 31, 2022
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Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
622 points • comment • jan 30, 2022
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Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
612 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
608 points • comment • jan 25, 2022
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Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
607 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
602 points • comment • jan 27, 2022
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Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
599 points • comment • jan 12, 2022
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I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
598 points • comment • jan 19, 2022
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New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
598 points • comment • jan 06, 2022
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Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
588 points • comment • jan 13, 2022
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Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
588 points • comment • jan 14, 2022
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We need to reclaim our attention
586 points • comment • jan 02, 2022
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How to design a house to last 1000 years
585 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
583 points • comment • jan 17, 2022
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Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills
582 points • comment • jan 18, 2022
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Search engines and SEO spam
582 points • comment • jan 03, 2022
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I Miss RSS
578 points • comment • jan 05, 2022
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Did I just lose half a million dollars?
577 points • comment • jan 30, 2022
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On Leaving Facebook
573 points • comment • jan 22, 2022
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Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
573 points • comment • jan 28, 2022
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Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
572 points • comment • jan 18, 2022