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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. The Curse of NixOS

    572 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  2. Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

    570 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  3. Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others

    569 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  4. Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

    567 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  5. Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions

    564 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  6. The internet changed my life

    560 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  7. Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

    557 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  8. Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon

    556 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  9. Don't Waste the Good Days

    551 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  10. Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

    549 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  11. Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

    549 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  12. 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

    549 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  13. Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

    545 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  14. Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?

    543 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  15. Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt

    542 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  16. Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)

    537 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  17. Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

    535 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  18. “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”

    533 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  19. €2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP

    533 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  20. Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

    532 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  21. Google rewrites many page titles

    532 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  22. Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

    525 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  23. Procrastinatory Doom Loops

    523 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  24. The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

    523 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  25. Train burglaries in LA

    521 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  26. Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review

    521 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  27. My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

    518 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  28. I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

    516 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  29. It’s not still the early days of blockchain

    515 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  30. We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled

    512 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  31. Lab Leak 2.0?

    510 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  32. A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions

    509 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  33. Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022

    505 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  34. Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation

    505 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  35. Who wrote this shit?

    504 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  36. Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

    501 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  37. Thich Nhat Hanh has died

    499 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  38. Firefox 96

    498 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  39. Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language

    497 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  40. 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage

    494 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  41. Michigan DOT Snowplow Names

    493 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  42. The Demise of Scientific American

    491 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  43. Loving Someone with Depression

    489 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  44. Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment

    487 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  45. Gitlab Handbook's HN Page

    486 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  46. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

    483 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  47. Searching for Susy Thunder

    483 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  48. No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption

    479 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  49. Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car

    478 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  50. UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption

    476 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  51. The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

    475 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  52. Systemd by Example

    471 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  53. More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

    467 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  54. See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively

    463 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  55. Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable

    463 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  56. Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)

    458 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  57. Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

    458 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  58. WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack

    458 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  59. UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows

    458 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  60. People don't work as much as they say

    454 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  61. Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

    450 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  62. The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

    448 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  63. Naomi Wu demonetized on YouTube

    448 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  64. Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite

    447 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  65. Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

    445 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  66. Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022

    443 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  67. Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

    443 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  68. Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

    439 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  69. Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?

    439 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  70. Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

    438 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  71. We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

    436 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  72. hiccupFX.js

    436 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  73. Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware

    436 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  74. I’m porting the TypeScript type checker tsc to Go

    434 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  75. Summary of Atomic Habits

    425 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  76. Matrix Multiplication

    424 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  77. Web3 is centralized

    420 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  78. Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)

    419 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  79. GitHub Actions by Example

    418 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  80. Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)

    416 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  81. To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work

    416 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  82. No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

    415 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  83. Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta

    414 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  84. Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

    413 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  85. MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering

    413 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  86. OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

    411 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  87. Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?

    411 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  88. Reasons Kubernetes is so complex

    410 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  89. Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool

    408 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  90. A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor

    407 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  91. The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom

    404 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  92. Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?

    404 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  93. No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

    400 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  94. Wine 7.0

    399 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  95. My Many Girlfriends

    399 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  96. Don't forget Microsoft

    398 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  97. Nothing like this will be built again (2002)

    397 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  98. Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done

    394 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  99. Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

    394 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  100. Everything must be paid for twice

    394 points • comment • jan 20, 2022