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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. How We Lost the Women in Computing (2018)

    51 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  2. Ask HN: Why can't I downvote? I've been a member for over 10 years

    51 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  3. Dostoevsky’s Favorite Murder

    51 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  4. Burnt Out Amazon Employees Are Embracing the Great Resignation

    51 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  5. Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?

    51 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  6. A night with the freegans

    51 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  7. Wokeademia (2020)

    51 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  8. FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready

    51 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  9. Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness

    51 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  10. Harmful Defaults in Django

    51 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  11. American Airlines gave its workers a raise. Wall Street freaked out (2017)

    51 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  12. Sheriff and Feds partner to steal more than $1M from cannabis businesses

    51 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  13. Record lifetime for a bubble

    51 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  14. C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (2009)

    51 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  15. HistoEnder: A 3D printer-based histological slide autostainer

    51 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  16. Johann Hari’s Stolen Ideas

    51 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  17. Where aliens could be watching us

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  18. Recent research highlights the use of letterlocking techniques

    51 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  19. The economics of dog walking

    51 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  20. Show HN: RandomCoin – A cryptocurrency that changes its price every second

    51 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  21. Ideas Want to Be Shared

    51 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  22. Show HN: HomeownerLog – For tracking the tasks you complete around the house

    51 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  23. The Central Problem: the world of Late Antiquity from its Persian centre (2021)

    51 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  24. Writing a toy traceroute from scratch

    50 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  25. Seattle police faked radio chatter about Proud Boys during 2020 protests

    50 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  26. Why should you care about Ethereum Layer-2?

    50 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  27. Documenting APIs

    50 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  28. Programs that were launched with impossible command line options

    50 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  29. How to become good at system design?

    50 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  30. Findings on route optimization in practice

    50 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  31. Ask HN: Do you also feel you retain nothing after reading a technical book?

    50 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  32. Twitter bans account highlighting Nancy Pelosi stock trades

    50 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  33. Why is Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb working with ardent UFO believers?

    50 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  34. Overlay visuals for live-streamed events using Unity Engine

    50 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  35. The rise of the anti-work movement

    50 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  36. Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (2020)

    50 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  37. Ask HN: I’m New to Computer Science and Engineering. Any Advice?

    50 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  38. The Life of an Optimization Barrier

    50 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  39. Update on the Bagel language

    50 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  40. Replacing jQuery (110kb) With UmbrellaJS (8kb)

    50 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  41. Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars

    50 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  42. Conway's Law

    50 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  43. Getting to Know the Armed, the Most Unknowable Band in Hardcore

    50 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  44. Sending messages as I drift off to sleep

    50 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  45. Roguelikes: The Misnamed Genre (2011)

    50 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  46. Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans

    50 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  47. NFT: even more deceiving

    50 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  48. Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at posh offices

    50 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  49. Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019)

    50 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  50. LineageOS

    50 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  51. A sad story about self-publishing a tech book and fraud on Amazon

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  52. Raspberry Pi Direct: buy RP2040 in bulk from just $0.70

    49 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  53. One-Man Amphibious 'Copter' [video] (1955)

    49 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  54. 'Just wear a mask and don't tell anyone': Workplaces are filling up with sick

    49 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  55. Why Tesla Cannot Solve Full Self-Driving – Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed

    49 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  56. Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa

    49 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  57. Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan

    49 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  58. The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island and created many mysteries

    49 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  59. Ruby's Email Address Regexp

    49 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  60. Sonora: Python implementation of gRPC-Web built on top of WSGI/ASGI

    49 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  61. The truckers shutting down Canada's capital

    49 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  62. Modern War Institute: We Ignore the Human Domain at Our Own Peril

    49 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  63. YouTube banned most videos from “JCS – Criminal Psychology”

    49 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  64. Parsing Text with Nom

    49 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  65. Intuition is a “superpower”

    49 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  66. All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope’s lifetime

    49 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  67. Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods – Part III

    49 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  68. Fuchsia already runs Java code with Android's DalvikVM

    49 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  69. The years-long, international effort to save one tiny Mexican fish

    49 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  70. The Hacker's Diet

    49 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  71. How did I run that code again? Tools to help recall

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  72. Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search

    49 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  73. A Democratic Scandal Is Unfolding in Denmark

    49 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  74. Asimov, Programming and the Meta Ladder

    49 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  75. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  76. VS Code extensions for web development in 2022

    49 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  77. The Federation Fallacy (2019)

    48 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  78. At This Armenian Restaurant, the Ovens Are Satellite Dishes

    48 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  79. Chief Justice Backs Plan to Review Patent Trial Forum-Shopping

    48 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  80. U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021

    48 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  81. Heyday: a clever app that makes you way more productive – automatically

    48 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  82. Show HN: Slim 2: Create VM from Dockerfile, boots in seconds (+macOS M1/Hyper-V)

    48 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  83. Bitcoin Sinks to $41,000 Amid ‘Extreme Fear’

    48 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  84. ‘I was just scared’: Apple AirTags lead to stalking complaints

    48 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  85. The con artist who sold rich investors a fake country

    48 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  86. Ask HN: Is anyone working on “downloading” knowledge to the brain?

    48 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  87. YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino

    48 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  88. France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart

    48 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  89. How to win at the world championships of financial modeling

    48 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  90. Browse the web like reading email? What is the name of that app?

    48 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  91. LAN-port-scan forbidder, browser addon to protect private network

    48 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  92. The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender”

    48 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  93. Bogus DMCA Takedowns from Publishers Nuke Book Review Blog Off the Internet

    48 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  94. What I learned from a year of watching bad financial advice on TikTok

    47 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  95. Ask HN: Which websites/blogs do you visit which makes you happy?

    47 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  96. The cameras and lenses used on the latest Oscar nominated films

    47 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  97. Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web

    47 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  98. Python Type Hints – How to Handle Optional Imports

    47 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  99. Regarding the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify Saga

    47 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  100. Why Googleplex Architect Says Luxury On-Site Perks Are 'Dangerous'

    47 points • comment • jan 25, 2022