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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. Meta Unwisely Kills Off the Oculus Name for VR Headsets Once and for All

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  2. Reports: “Graceful exit” for Kotick helped convince CEO to sell Activision

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  3. CCC RC3 Short Film: Reclaim Your Face

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  4. Sweetness and Power

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  5. Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet?

    15 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  6. Ask HN: Could Omicron boosters create an overfitting problem?

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  7. Go package for printing human readable, relative time differences

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  8. Of Course GameStop Is Doing NFTs

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  9. Vintage vending machines you never knew existed, 1920-1960

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  10. Robot successfully performs keyhole surgery on pigs without human help

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  11. Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  12. Do androids dream of Berkeley? The city of Philip K. Dick's youth

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  13. The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its sunshield

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  14. NPR/Ipsos poll: 64% of Americans believe US Democracy is failing

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  15. Why GNU moe does not use UTF-8 or other form of Unicode?

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  16. US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System

    15 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  17. I broke up with Digitalocean, here’s the story

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  18. Britain’s vellum industry is booming, quietly

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  19. Show HN: FaChords – Guitar Learning Software and Science-Based Practice Lessons

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  20. Nils Lofgren Pulls Music from Spotify in Solidarity with Neil Young

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  21. On Writing: An Abecedarian

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  22. SpaceX Starlink Dish 'Snow Melt Mode' Warmth Attracts Cats

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  23. Japanese Hanko Stamp: Guide to Japan’s Personal Seals

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  24. Gold and silver tubes in a Russian museum are the oldest known drinking straws

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  25. Ask HN: Video On or Off?

    15 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  26. Is America headed for a civil war?

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  27. CoinDesk: Conflicts of interest make journalists more independent, apparently

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  28. Highlights from Git 2.35

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  29. Kazakh Protesters Try to Make Their Voices Heard Amid the Chaos

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  30. DEI takeover of STEM hinders ability ‘to produce the best science’

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  31. Abisxir/alasgar: 3D game engine for nim

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  32. Tips for Building High-Quality Django Apps at Scale – DoorDash Engineering Blog

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  33. Facebook, Merck and CDC Foundation, whose sponsor includes Pfizer, form alliance [pdf]

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  34. The End of the Empress

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  35. European Space Agency: hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  36. Tell HN: Current WFH trend (part 2)

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  37. Private Equity Firm Amassing Companies That Collect Data on America’s Children

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  38. New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  39. Parsing Decimals 4 times faster

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  40. Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  41. Firefox was down last night

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  42. Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems (1997)

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  43. What Americans lost when we abandoned the secret ballot

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  44. AT&T/Verizon reject Buttigieg's plea to delay 5G amid warnings of aviation chaos

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  45. Tesla announces record deliveries of over 305k Q4 vehicles, 936K for 2021

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  46. Why I Broke Up with Firefox

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  47. Children and Teens Gained Weight During the Pandemic

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  48. CheriBSD – FreeBSD for Cheri-MIPS, Cheri-RISC-V, and Arm Morello ISAs

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  49. Google Pay hopes to recover from brutal 2021 with new leadership

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  50. Roaming, Malicious, Hooligan Ghosts

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  51. Weather satellite detects meteor explosion near Pittsburgh on first day of 2022

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  52. Ask HN: How did you switch to part time?

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  53. Why I Live In a Shed

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  54. The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  55. Classifying Hacker News Articles

    15 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  56. The Celtic Tiger bridge that wouldn't open because of a lost remote control

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  57. CQL – A database query language using category theory

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  58. Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  59. LambdaMART in Depth

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  60. Reddit Founder Says 90% of Games Will Pay You to Play Them in 5 Years

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  61. When to cache in your Rails app

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  62. Ten richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while 99 percent incomes fall

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  63. How We Ended Up with the Pregnant Man Emoji

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  64. Bitcoin goes down – and time bombs are waiting in the market

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  65. 'Havana syndrome': US baffled after new cases in Europe

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  66. How Signal is playing with fire – A push into untraceable payments

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  67. Judge rules FDA can’t keep vaccine docs secret ‘until 2096’

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  68. Microsoft poaches Apple chip expert for custom silicon

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  69. AX.25 in User Space

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  70. Ask HN: Where does gas mileage go?

    15 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  71. Apple ditched Intel, and it paid off

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  72. My (free) Django monitoring stack for 2022

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  73. Crypto Browser Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active Users

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  74. Ask HN: What US-hosted, non-Google email service do you use?

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  75. Will They Reply? Analysing Reply Networks of 32 Programming Language Subreddits

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  76. Wordle2Townscaper: Convert Wordle tweets into Townscaper houses

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  77. I now have full remote control of over 20 Tesla’s in 10 countries

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  78. Spotify drops all Neil Young music after he demanded Joe Rogan removal

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  79. Ask HN: Why don't most CS academics make novel video games?

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  80. Placebo Effect Accounts for More Than 2/3s of Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Events

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  81. Omicron Study in S. Africa Points to End of Acute Pandemic

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  82. US Sets New Global Daily Record of over 1M Covid Cases

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  83. Tour of George Eastman Museum Technology Vault (2015)

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  84. Signal Is Playing with Fire

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  85. Ask HN: Examples of Unusual Code Formatting Styles?

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  86. A guide to electrify everything in your home

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  87. Nassim Taleb compared Bitcoin to a disease, called it a speculative bubble

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  88. Form Validation Using JavaScript's Constraint Validation API

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  89. You Can Save More Animals by Donating $100 Than Going Vegan

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  90. Ask HN: Have anyone had success with projector-based work station?

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  91. Indonesia names new capital that will replace Jakarta

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  92. Land Value Tax

    14 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  93. Vaccine found to get rid of cells behind diseases due to aging

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  94. Conrex – Elixir package for topogographical and isochrone maps

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  95. “You were nice to me and taught me how to drive a stick shift. Who does that?”

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  96. Hotel chain switches to Chrome OS to recover from ransomware attack

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  97. It’s Time to Close Guantanamo

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  98. Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  99. RFC 6928 - Increasing TCP's Initial Window

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  100. Major Music Acts Are Seeing 20% No-Show Rates at Concerts

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2022