woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. FFmpeg 5.0

    103 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  2. In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale

    103 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  3. Strange DNA structures linked to cancer

    103 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  4. Crystal Installs OpenBSD on the PinePhone

    103 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  5. AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security

    103 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  6. How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?

    103 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  7. Ask HN: Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?

    103 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  8. Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)

    103 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  9. Stray bullet kills English astrophysicist visiting United States

    102 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  10. One of the most famous Victorian dishes is a hilarious lie

    102 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  11. Flameshot v11.0.0

    102 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  12. A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

    102 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  13. Show HN: WallSmash – An Infinite Brick Breaker Game

    102 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  14. Vim9 Script Feature-Complete

    102 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  15. Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists

    102 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  16. IQ decline and Piaget: Does the rot start at the top? [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  17. Xorg update adds touchpad gestures and variable refresh support (2021)

    102 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  18. Faster TypedArrays: Vector Addition in WebAssembly

    102 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  19. Proposal to merge WASI based WebAssembly support

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  20. Ethnographic research on Dynamicland

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  21. NordVPN has killed their warrant canary

    101 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  22. Show HN: SPyQL – SQL with Python in the middle

    101 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  23. How to grow monosodium glutamate (MSG) crystals

    101 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  24. Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation

    101 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  25. Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics

    101 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  26. Pydantic

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  27. Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes

    101 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  28. My Elm Experience

    101 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  29. Launch HN: Nyckel (YC W22) – Train and deploy ML classifiers in minutes

    101 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  30. Malicious app on Google Play drops banking malware on users’ devices

    100 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  31. Native American restaurants

    100 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  32. Some ways DNS can break

    100 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  33. 50 Years of Prolog and Beyond

    100 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  34. Random number generator updates for Linux 5.17

    100 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  35. How programmers make sure that their software is correct

    100 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  36. Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)

    100 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  37. Fanpage: Italian website that went from gossip to award-winning scoops

    100 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  38. Lessons from Seoul's controversial privatized subway line

    100 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  39. Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

    99 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  40. Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard

    99 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  41. The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (2019)

    99 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  42. Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test

    99 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  43. Ask HN: Is Bay Area in a tipping point for tech talent?

    99 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  44. Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop

    99 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  45. Do Not Log

    99 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  46. Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?

    99 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  47. Tango: Create step-by-step documentation with screenshots

    99 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  48. “Y Combinator is not worth it”

    98 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  49. Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret

    98 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  50. French Navy ATL2 MPA: Someone Just Lasered The Wrong Aircraft

    98 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  51. Writing Literate API Documentation in Emacs Org Mode

    98 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  52. Ascension’s response to Thedacare’s motion for restraining order [pdf]

    98 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  53. An Armful of CHERIs

    98 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  54. Court rejects $1.2B EU antitrust fine against Intel

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  55. Why I Like D

    98 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  56. Abuse and Harassment on the Blockchain

    97 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  57. Avoid Meaningless Binary Labels

    97 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  58. Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at Luxor

    97 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  59. Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)

    97 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  60. Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work

    97 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  61. Fortran is easy to learn

    97 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  62. Winnie-the-Pooh and more works enter the public domain

    97 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  63. The Society of the Spectacle

    97 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  64. American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals transition to open access

    97 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  65. Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990)

    97 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  66. Charge, Baby, Charge for Parking

    97 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  67. Apple Reports First Quarter Results

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  68. North Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks

    96 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  69. Remember Aaron Swartz

    96 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  70. Xerox PARC Mesa Programming Language 5.0 (1979) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  71. Uniqlo dangles $8.8M salaries to draw talent in Big Tech showdown

    96 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  72. Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof

    96 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  73. Ask HN: Mistakes working with small local clients?

    96 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  74. U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism

    96 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  75. Minecraft mod that runs RISC-V Linux

    96 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  76. Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?

    95 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  77. The clock does not measure time; it produces it

    95 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  78. Automated Code Optimization with E-Graphs

    95 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  79. Database character sets and collations explained – why utf8 is not UTF-8

    95 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  80. Game performance optimization – A practical example from Industry Idle

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  81. Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco

    95 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  82. Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing?

    95 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  83. Two Phase Commit

    95 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  84. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2022)

    95 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  85. E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way

    95 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  86. My process for building a feature

    95 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  87. Cheese Making

    95 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  88. Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints

    95 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  89. Leadership as a Type B Introvert (2018)

    94 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  90. Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74

    94 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  91. Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  92. Does my site need HTTPS?

    94 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  93. The James Webb space telescope has arrived at L2

    94 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  94. Activision Blizzard fires 3 dozen people in sexual harassment probe

    94 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  95. Is Bitcoin Down or Just Me?

    94 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  96. Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation

    94 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  97. Writing New System Software

    94 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  98. Microtargeting as Information Warfare [pdf]

    94 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  99. Reducing the Size of Large PDFs

    94 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  100. Kedro – Creating reproducible, maintainable and modular data science code

    93 points • comment • jan 22, 2022