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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. The horizon problem for faster than light travel

    43 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  2. The International Flag of Planet Earth

    43 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  3. Python 2.7 removed from macOS Monterey 12.3 beta

    43 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  4. A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled New Breed of Superpredator

    43 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  5. 5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

    43 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  6. WhatsApp just downloaded 12k photos of other people's information on my phone

    43 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  7. iCloud Private Relay Overview [pdf]

    43 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  8. Why do startups hire so many people?

    43 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  9. Show HN: Live-Editable SVG Shaders/Filters for Drawing

    43 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  10. Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library

    43 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  11. Show HN: MergerFS – A Featureful Union Filesystem

    43 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  12. Ask HN: How do I deal with not being able to build products

    43 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  13. Frogs Regrow Missing Limbs in Lab Study

    43 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  14. RFC-2229 – A Dictionary Server Protocol

    42 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  15. How did software development end up dominated by web dev?

    42 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  16. Breaking Out of the Box

    42 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  17. Windows 11 update changed default browser to Edge, Chrome search-engine to Bing

    42 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  18. Here We Go Again

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  19. Uber rider stuck on I-95 hit with $600 bill

    42 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  20. Arm Predicts Stagnation If Nvidia Deal Fails

    42 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  21. Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages from UPS,FEDE,AMZ

    42 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  22. Recreating the Shortest Math Paper with Rust and WASM

    42 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  23. Djokovic's positive PCR test was manipulated

    42 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  24. The 90-9-1 principle: 10% of HN users decide on what the other 90% see

    42 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  25. Why Restaurants Are So Fucked

    42 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  26. The ACLU Suddenly Reverses Its Support for Transparency

    42 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  27. A Study of Firecracker and gVisor (2020) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  28. Microfibers Released into the Air from a Household Tumble Dryer

    42 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  29. DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System [pdf]

    42 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  30. History of Mathematics – An Online Exhibit

    42 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  31. Amazon KDP delayed royalties til Jan 1 then killed the account on Dec 31

    42 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  32. A bit about PURLs

    42 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  33. Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic Web of Power

    42 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  34. Ask HN: How to Grieve?

    42 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  35. Fluid Simulation – Siggraph 2007 Course Notes [pdf]

    42 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  36. A Holocaust Survivor's Hardboiled Science Fiction

    42 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  37. Postgres full text search examples

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  38. Crypto: When Will the Madness Stop?

    42 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  39. Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power

    42 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  40. Does anyone else get really bored while they're on vacation?

    42 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  41. You're not dumb, the prerequisites are bullshit

    42 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  42. Repeatable Execution (2020)

    41 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  43. Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan

    41 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  44. See How It Flies (2014)

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  45. Joni Mitchell says she will follow Neil Young by removing her music from Spotify

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  46. Occlupanids: Those plastic clips on bread bags

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  47. Why are air combat kills so rare? (2017)

    41 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  48. Justworks S-1

    41 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  49. Ask HN: What are options to replace “G Suite legacy” when it's retired in May?

    41 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  50. A macOS system monitor in your menu bar

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  51. Work Stress: How the 42% Rule Could Help You Recover from Burnout (2020)

    41 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  52. As U.S. companies beg for applicants, Germany to admit 400k skilled immigrants

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  53. Show HN: Possimpible: A Kernel Running on the Browser

    41 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  54. Being black in tech is exhausting

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  55. Former CEO and director of Reuters is large investor and board member of Pfizer

    41 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  56. Who cares about plagiarism?

    41 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  57. Fast Feature Flags

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  58. The hottest eight years on record were the last eight years

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  59. FAA Investigating YouTuber Who Probably Staged a Plane Crash for Views

    41 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  60. SQLite Strict Tables

    41 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  61. Guerrilla Mail can lose their domain due to attack on disposable emails

    41 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  62. Emperor for three years: the doomed reign of Maximilian I of Mexico

    41 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  63. Cray Simulator (X-MP, Y-MP-el, J90, SV1)

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  64. Code optimizations when using async/await

    41 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  65. Ask HN: How to make my macOS less distracting?

    41 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  66. Articulate and Incompetent

    41 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  67. List of the 850 book proposed to be banned in Texas [pdf]

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  68. The impact of hardware specifications on reaching quantum advantage

    41 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  69. Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

    41 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  70. Show HN: ThinkType – Write Down Your Thoughts

    41 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  71. Mementos Mori

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  72. ThriftBooks’s use of supply chain automation (2020)

    41 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  73. Ask HN: I’m starting a new job and things feel off. Am I overreacting?

    41 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  74. The men who starved to death to save the world's seeds (2014)

    41 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  75. Ex-Theranos computer brought to computer repair place, data intact

    41 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  76. Parler Raises $20M

    41 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  77. AWS Lambda Powertools (TypeScript)

    41 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  78. The Future of Snapcraft

    40 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  79. The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  80. Deep Diving Zen 3 V-Cache

    40 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  81. C&D Grand Prix: If company on shirt is first to serve Cease and Desist, you win

    40 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  82. Russian phone dialler using interesting magnetic memory tech [video]

    40 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  83. Great Stirrup Controversy

    40 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  84. Autosaved: A Go utility for autosaving progress in Git projects

    40 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  85. AWS Superglue Vulnerability

    40 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  86. Schelling's Model of Segregation

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  87. Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

    40 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  88. California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job

    40 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  89. Gurman: Apple's headset will likely cost $2k and have two CPUs

    40 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  90. 10.1-Inch RPI All-in-One PC Review with Raspberry Pi 4

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  91. Prince Andrew loses military titles and patronages

    40 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  92. Origami and the Structure of Materials

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  93. Ask HN: How to make more than $1mn+/yr as a software engineer? (2022 Edition)

    40 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  94. Show HN: Appwrite 0.12 – Open Source alternative to Google's Firebase

    40 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  95. Show the case against

    40 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  96. A King Who Became a Pirate

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  97. Three accounts of the same conversation

    40 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  98. Deep diving into the thread pool: a debugging story

    40 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  99. Show HN: Lockless Ringbuffer Built with Go Generics

    40 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  100. BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (2014)

    40 points • comment • jan 23, 2022