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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. ‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food

    157 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  2. Sidney Poitier has died

    157 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  3. Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)

    157 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  4. Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world

    157 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  5. U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed

    156 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  6. The Righteousness Fix

    156 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  7. Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse

    156 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  8. Shodan 2000

    155 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  9. The World of Vintage Operating Systems

    155 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  10. Tamriel Rebuilt Roadmap

    155 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  11. 13 years sailing around the world

    155 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  12. Staff Engineer Communities

    155 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  13. Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space

    155 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  14. Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)

    155 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  15. Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve

    154 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  16. Brussels Airlines makes 3,000 unnecessary flights to maintain airport slots

    154 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  17. Do not use 'week year': YYYY

    154 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  18. Binance kept weak money-laundering checks even as it promised tougher compliance

    154 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  19. Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?

    154 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  20. Chesterton’s Fence (2020)

    154 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  21. Japanese game developer hasn't left the house in 10 years

    154 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  22. Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges

    154 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  23. Log4jscanner

    153 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  24. IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)

    153 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  25. I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright

    153 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  26. YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

    153 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  27. Making Your Game Go Fast by Asking Windows Nicely

    153 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  28. The Eyes Have It (1953)

    153 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  29. Winnie the Pooh to Enter the Public Domain in 2022

    153 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  30. Yemen's bifurcated monetary system

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  31. Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?

    153 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  32. State of the Web: Static Site Generators

    153 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  33. Python Bytecode Explained

    153 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  34. How do you visualize code?

    153 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  35. IRC technology news from the second half of 2021

    153 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  36. Health care is turning into a consumer product

    153 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  37. CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.

    152 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  38. Rail Theft Soars in California

    152 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  39. Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich

    152 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  40. A prisoner who worked out how to input Chinese characters into a machine

    152 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  41. Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb

    152 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  42. Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are

    151 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  43. $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

    151 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  44. Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)

    151 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  45. It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

    151 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  46. Hashing is not encryption

    151 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  47. Controlling RGB LEDs with only powerlines: Anatomy of a Christmas light string

    151 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  48. Building single-page-apps with PostgREST

    151 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  49. On Learning Smalltalk

    150 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  50. Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system? [pdf]

    150 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  51. Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one

    150 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  52. Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)

    150 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  53. The Polygons of Éric's Chahi Another World

    150 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  54. Arxiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning

    150 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  55. A Padlock I’d Use [video]

    150 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  56. Diving into BoardGameGeek

    150 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  57. Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years (2020)

    150 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  58. Unlisted App Distribution

    150 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  59. How to quit like a boss

    150 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  60. Top Major Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Says

    150 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  61. Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer

    149 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  62. Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool

    149 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  63. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years

    149 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  64. Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'

    149 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  65. Game-makers creating new Game Boy games (2021)

    149 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  66. Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era

    148 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  67. Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty

    148 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  68. The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)

    148 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  69. Personal calculator has key to solve any equation f(x)=0 (1979) [pdf]

    148 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  70. Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?

    148 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  71. Washed Up

    148 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  72. Twitter doesn't care about spam?

    148 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  73. The James Webb Space Telescope – making 300 points of failure reliable

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  74. Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  75. Is human behavior just elaborate running and tumbling?

    148 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  76. People behave more sadistically when they’re bored

    148 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  77. New genetic study confirms that alcohol is a direct cause of cancer

    148 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  78. StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022

    147 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  79. The Story of Maxis Software (1999)

    147 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  80. WSL with CUDA support

    147 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  81. New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning

    147 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  82. PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years (2019) [video]

    147 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  83. Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown

    147 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  84. Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder

    147 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  85. Will you write HTML with us tomorrow?

    147 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  86. Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero

    147 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  87. Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020)

    147 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  88. A pure Go embedded SQL database

    147 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  89. Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza

    147 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  90. That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (2014)

    146 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  91. The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation

    146 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  92. GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining

    146 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  93. Five Levels of Hype

    146 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  94. Faster IndexOf for Substrings in .NET

    146 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  95. Favor real dependencies for unit testing

    146 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  96. When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)

    146 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  97. Give me /events, not webhooks

    146 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  98. Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

    146 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  99. Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers, including hospitals

    146 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  100. Loopy Pro

    146 points • comment • jan 07, 2022