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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)

    134 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  2. NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS

    134 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  3. Wave Function Collapse library in pure C

    134 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  4. One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range

    134 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  5. Despite decades of hacking attacks, companies leave sensitive data unprotected

    134 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  6. Windows Subsystem for Android

    134 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  7. Right to Repair Fight

    134 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  8. The vicious cycle of food and sleep

    134 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  9. Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

    134 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  10. What made the Amiga so great

    134 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  11. The ITC declares Google infringed on audio tech patents held by Sonos [pdf]

    134 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  12. A Simple Math Equation Can Transform Your Productivity

    133 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  13. Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan

    133 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  14. Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete

    133 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  15. A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

    133 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  16. Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)

    133 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  17. Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)

    133 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  18. The Gates of Hell

    133 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  19. The battle for the world’s most powerful cyberweapon

    133 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  20. MoonBounce: The dark side of UEFI firmware

    133 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  21. New Temperature Records for the UK

    133 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  22. Automation is reaching more companies

    133 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  23. CryptPad: Collaboration suite end-to-end encrypted and open-source

    132 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  24. Tech debt gets worse before it gets better

    132 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  25. Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

    132 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  26. Fixing the Unfixable: Story of a Google Cloud SSRF

    132 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  27. Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

    132 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  28. Balabhadra Graveley – application for arrest warrant – assault strangulation

    132 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  29. How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers

    132 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  30. Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (2015)

    132 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  31. The mystery of social behavior in octopuses

    132 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  32. Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability

    131 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  33. Ireland to launch basic income program for artists

    131 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  34. Dinosaur food: 100M year old foods we still eat today

    131 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  35. Vitamin D supplementation reduces autoimmune disease risk in trial findings

    131 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  36. Show HN: An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML

    131 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  37. A guide to building Lego Classic Town cars

    131 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  38. Best Wordle guessing strategy

    131 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  39. Macrochips: A collection of laser engraved, 4 inch slate tile microchip coasters

    131 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  40. Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS

    131 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  41. Urea prices increase 270% in 1 year

    131 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  42. The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer

    131 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  43. Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

    131 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  44. World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded

    130 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  45. A better way to display museum hours (2017)

    130 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  46. A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

    130 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  47. Is old music killing new music?

    130 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  48. Do climate models predict extreme weather?

    129 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  49. The Facebook Text Prompt Zombie Land

    129 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  50. Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer

    129 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  51. A persistent denial of service vulnerability affecting iOS

    129 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  52. Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)

    129 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  53. New SysJoker Backdoor Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS

    129 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  54. Request your personal information

    129 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  55. Swiss army restricts use of messenger apps for military purposes

    129 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  56. Strict Python function parameters

    129 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  57. Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End

    129 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  58. Lighthouse Map

    128 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  59. Are warp drives science now?

    128 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  60. Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022)

    128 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  61. Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust

    128 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  62. Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (2019)

    128 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  63. A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)

    128 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  64. Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering

    128 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  65. Security Engineering Course

    128 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  66. The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate

    128 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  67. Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for Covid-19

    128 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  68. What Defcon Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages (2016)

    127 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  69. Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729

    127 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  70. AaronOS

    127 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  71. Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)

    127 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  72. Former child prodigy Ruth Slenczynska will release a new album at the age of 97

    127 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  73. Amish Hackers (2009)

    127 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  74. An embeddable Prolog scripting language for Go

    127 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  75. Socrates on the blessing of being refuted

    127 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  76. Device wraps around hot surfaces, turns wasted heat to electricity

    126 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  77. Show HN: Social network that looks and works more like a forum

    126 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  78. How to excel in tech without learning to code

    126 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  79. Counter-intuitive results in operations research

    126 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  80. Jailer: A tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing

    126 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  81. Choosing tools for Game Boy development

    126 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  82. Stop Being the Hero

    126 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  83. Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain

    125 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  84. Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

    125 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  85. Cyberattack hits Ukrainian government websites amid Russia tensions

    125 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  86. dwm

    125 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  87. Myths about FreeBSD

    125 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  88. The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015)

    125 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  89. SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order

    125 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  90. Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

    125 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  91. Tcl/Tk Spline Editor

    125 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  92. Stories Are Coming to Signal

    125 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  93. Lessons learned on SaaS pricing

    124 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  94. Grocery store shortages are back

    124 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  95. Show HN: Hebrew Wordle

    124 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  96. A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  97. Ruby: Porting YJIT to Rust

    124 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  98. Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)

    124 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  99. AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections

    124 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  100. Practical Shell Patterns I Use

    124 points • comment • jan 09, 2022