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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. My First Impressions of Web3

    3239 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  2. GPS

    2867 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  3. Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

    2741 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  4. Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

    2024 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  5. Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

    1696 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  6. Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

    1603 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  7. Ask HN: Gmail account security

    1456 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  8. Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    1378 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  9. I got pwned by my cloud costs

    1365 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  10. James Webb is fully deployed

    1332 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  11. Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

    1218 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  12. Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

    1161 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  13. Open-Sourcing our Firmware

    1140 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  14. Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

    1112 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  15. Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

    1106 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  16. I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law

    1098 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  17. Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

    1071 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  18. CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”

    1060 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  19. Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

    1056 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  20. The UX on this small child is terrible

    1054 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  21. Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

    1013 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  22. Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

    968 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  23. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

    956 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  24. New Year, New CEO

    925 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  25. FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

    917 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  26. AirPods don't “just work”

    909 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  27. Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

    905 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  28. The New York Times buys Wordle

    875 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  29. Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji

    863 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  30. A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar

    862 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  31. Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

    862 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  32. Free Postgres databases for small projects

    824 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  33. Danish government makes its new economic model open source

    815 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  34. Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

    812 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  35. A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15

    804 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  36. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

    795 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  37. U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

    794 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  38. PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

    784 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  39. Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid

    780 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  40. What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)

    777 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  41. Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up

    768 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  42. Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff

    760 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  43. I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now

    758 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  44. Burn My Windows

    754 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  45. James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away

    751 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  46. I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

    749 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  47. YC’s $500k Standard Deal

    741 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  48. We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

    734 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  49. Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research

    724 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  50. I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house

    716 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  51. Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux

    710 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  52. Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

    706 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  53. Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale

    702 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  54. Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

    697 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  55. More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

    697 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  56. Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22

    693 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  57. Oh, 2022

    690 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  58. Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide

    681 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  59. My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

    676 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  60. Red Light Green Light

    676 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  61. T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US

    673 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  62. IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

    669 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  63. Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web

    668 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  64. 1Password Has Raised $620M

    667 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  65. Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

    665 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  66. Computers as I used to love them

    663 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  67. How big was the Tonga eruption?

    662 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  68. Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

    661 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  69. Roblox October Outage Postmortem

    660 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  70. Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

    660 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  71. I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

    654 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  72. Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years

    649 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  73. Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux

    638 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  74. PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

    636 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  75. I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to

    636 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  76. Is the madness ever going to end?

    630 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  77. Multiple Sclerosis Causality

    629 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  78. In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)

    628 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  79. If Looks Could Kill

    625 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  80. Please make a dumb car

    622 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  81. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

    622 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  82. Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions

    612 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  83. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

    608 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  84. Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

    607 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  85. Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

    602 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  86. Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

    599 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  87. I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

    598 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  88. New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

    598 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  89. Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

    588 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  90. Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

    588 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  91. We need to reclaim our attention

    586 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  92. How to design a house to last 1000 years

    585 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  93. An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation

    583 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  94. Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills

    582 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  95. Search engines and SEO spam

    582 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  96. I Miss RSS

    578 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  97. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

    577 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  98. On Leaving Facebook

    573 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  99. Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration

    573 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  100. Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens

    572 points • comment • jan 18, 2022