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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. Fifth Browser

    62 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  2. Risky Food-Finding Strategy Could Be a Key to Human Success

    62 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  3. Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapping names for initials

    62 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  4. Ask HN: My coworker doesn't work. Does it make sense for me to say anything?

    62 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  5. The Tipping Point: The Economics of Taxi Fares

    62 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  6. Implementing a quantum computer emulator in SQL

    62 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  7. Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and the Health Effects

    62 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  8. Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS

    61 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  9. How Amiga 500 RAM Probably Works

    61 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  10. It's time for an inequality index for cryptocurrencies distribution

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  11. River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

    61 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  12. Are you building features for phishers?

    61 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  13. Tofuproxy – Web proxy, TLS terminator, X.509 TOFU manager, WARC/gemini browser

    61 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  14. Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  15. Distributed locking with Postgres advisory locks

    61 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  16. Space anemia

    61 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  17. Ask HN: Do we need an easier Git?

    61 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  18. A New Approach to Extracting Information from Large Ensembles of Sensors

    61 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  19. El Salvador Is Now over 31% Down on Its Bitcoin Bet

    61 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  20. New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century

    61 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  21. YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

    61 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  22. Motorola 68k Application Binary Interface (ABI)

    61 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  23. America's Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric

    61 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  24. Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)

    61 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  25. Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

    61 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  26. Two Years Is Long Enough

    61 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  27. Tackling the crisis of care for older people: lessons from India and Japan

    61 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  28. A simple argument for investing in your pricing

    61 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  29. Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers

    60 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  30. Can I Go to Japan Yet?

    60 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  31. Centers of Population

    60 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  32. How to acquire 1,024 public IPv4 addresses which are worth $60K for $500

    60 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  33. Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

    60 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  34. Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covid vaccine

    60 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  35. Word Embeddings Explained

    60 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  36. HN Predictions for 2021 (2020)

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  37. That Magical Word: Workstation

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  38. Browser-Vite – Vite in the Browser

    60 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  39. Modeling Uncertainty with PyTorch

    60 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  40. Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

    60 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  41. KiCad 6

    60 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  42. A deployable, annular, 30m telescope, space-based observatory [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  43. Silicon fluorescence from microcracks in cement, revealing signs of damage

    60 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  44. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion

    60 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  45. Gitlab is down

    60 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  46. The late rloew (Rudolph R. Loew) – Windows 9x hacker and phone phreaker

    60 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  47. Those computers in your head

    59 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  48. Ulysses at 100: The Birth of the Modern

    59 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  49. Facebook hands over private chats to US police, even sans warrant (2020)

    59 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  50. How to make $13M on the App Store

    59 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  51. A toast to all the rejects

    59 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  52. How does the FBI art crime team operate?

    59 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  53. Too many emojis in 'Concurrency and async / await' explanation

    59 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  54. BNPLs: Businesses Needing Provided Legibility

    59 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  55. Ask HN: How / where to learn practical electrical / electronics?

    59 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  56. Browser fingerprinting using only CSS

    59 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  57. How the Finnish survive without small talk

    59 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  58. Wearable device for noninvasive optical brain imaging

    59 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  59. Invasive Bradford (Callery) pear tree is banned in Pennsylvania

    59 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  60. Dutch-Japanese Relations

    59 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  61. Covid-19 breakthrough data

    59 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  62. Reverse engineering Wordle

    59 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  63. Campbell Soup turned New Jersey into a tomato-growing state

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  64. The Future of Hardware Is Software

    58 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  65. Show HN: Mercury – Publish Jupyter Notebook as web app by adding YAML header

    58 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  66. No, Ethereum Name Service is still a clown show

    58 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  67. Regression and Other Stories by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, Aki Vehtari

    58 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  68. A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases

    58 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  69. Einstein: 'Principles of Research' – for Max Planck's 60th birthday (1918)

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  70. The dirty work of cleaning online reputations

    58 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  71. SQLite 3.37.2 fixes potentially database corruption bug

    58 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  72. More Than Digital Copies: Maps That Interpret Maps

    58 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  73. Turkmenistan's leader wants 'Gates of Hell' fire put out

    58 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  74. Firehose of Falsehood

    58 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  75. Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories

    58 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  76. Norway Is the Only Country with Public Tax Returns (2018)

    58 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  77. How to easily read 50 books a year

    58 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  78. Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules

    58 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  79. Automatic Ripping Machine (2016)

    58 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  80. Airports Had to Deal With Over 2B Litres of Airplane Toilet Waste in 2019

    58 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  81. Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward

    58 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  82. Learning happens in the brains of sleeping babes

    57 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  83. Top Hacker News commenters of 2021

    57 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  84. Remembrance Agent (1996)

    57 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  85. India Semiconductor Mission

    57 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  86. Professor Ehud Qimron: “Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure”

    57 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  87. Suicidal and depressed 55 yr old ex radio announcer homeless

    57 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  88. GitHub will natively support Mermaid diagrams

    57 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  89. Dude, is my code constant time? (2016)

    57 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  90. Moral Machine

    57 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  91. Show HN: A LRU cache using go generics

    57 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  92. Can computers cope with human races? (1989)

    57 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  93. Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions

    57 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  94. New materials could deliver ultrathin solar panels

    56 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  95. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?

    56 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  96. Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads (2018)

    56 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  97. Don't trust comments

    56 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  98. Type: A Directed Typing Experiment

    56 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  99. Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

    56 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  100. How to put bad habits to good use

    56 points • comment • jan 19, 2022