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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?

    325 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)

    324 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  3. Dark Web – Justice League

    324 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  4. Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier

    324 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  5. The Color of Infinite Temperature

    324 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  6. A neuroscientist prepares for death

    324 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  7. Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'

    323 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  8. We have jetpacks and we do not care

    323 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  9. It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless NFTs are

    323 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  10. Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

    321 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  11. IPython 8.0

    321 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  12. Woob: Web Outside of Browsers

    321 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  13. Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download

    320 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  14. Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results

    320 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  15. How Dwarf Fortress is built

    319 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  16. The Internals of PostgreSQL

    319 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  17. Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals

    318 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  18. In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist

    318 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  19. UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B

    318 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  20. ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory

    318 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  21. Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

    318 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  22. Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable

    317 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  23. Google kills free G Suite / Workspace versions for existing customers

    316 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  24. WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?

    316 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  25. The Intel Split

    314 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  26. How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR

    313 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  27. APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files

    312 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  28. Pay attention to WebAssembly

    311 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  29. Iconoir – An Open-Source SVG Icons Library

    311 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  30. Ask HN: What's Up with Google?

    311 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  31. Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner

    310 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  32. Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests

    310 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  33. Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?

    310 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  34. Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

    309 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  35. Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons

    309 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  36. Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend

    309 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  37. Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database

    309 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  38. How E Ink developed full-color e-paper

    308 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  39. noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice

    308 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  40. Foundations of Computer Science

    308 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  41. Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

    307 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  42. How to mentor software engineers

    307 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  43. Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID

    307 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  44. How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months

    305 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  45. Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

    305 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  46. Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?

    304 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  47. OCaml Multicore merged upstream

    304 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  48. Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall

    304 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  49. Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

    304 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  50. A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data

    304 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  51. Why might you run your own DNS server?

    304 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  52. Quit Your Job

    303 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  53. Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?

    303 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  54. Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”

    303 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  55. Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad

    303 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  56. Sci Hub Injector

    303 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  57. Embrace slow productivity

    302 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  58. _Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object

    302 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  59. Are We Really Engineers? (2021)

    301 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  60. Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg doses

    300 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  61. Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death

    300 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  62. Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

    300 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  63. Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan

    300 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  64. Unix in the Browser Tab

    299 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  65. Kakoune Code Editor

    299 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  66. Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021

    299 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  67. Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park

    299 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  68. I Have a Dream (1963)

    299 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  69. The GNU Name System

    299 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  70. How Video Streaming Processing Works

    298 points • comment • jan 04, 2022

  71. The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)

    298 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  72. Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.

    298 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  73. RSS feeds are available for many U.S. Government collections

    298 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  74. Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz

    297 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  75. Foobar2000

    297 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  76. Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal

    296 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  77. School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents

    296 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  78. Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches

    296 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  79. DuckDuckGo Traffic

    296 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  80. Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

    295 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  81. Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials

    295 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  82. Postgres Indexes for Newbies

    294 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  83. Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop

    294 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  84. BitTorrent v2 (2020)

    293 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  85. IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

    293 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  86. Approved Cameras

    293 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  87. PHP in 2022

    292 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  88. International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems

    292 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  89. American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other

    292 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  90. A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube

    291 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  91. Open Infrastructure Map

    290 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  92. The WebSocket Handbook

    289 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  93. The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

    289 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  94. Masterclass on mathematical thinking

    289 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  95. Healthy soil is key to feeding the world

    289 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  96. Sir David Cox has died

    288 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  97. Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

    288 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  98. A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (2018)

    286 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  99. Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)

    286 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  100. Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden

    286 points • comment • jan 06, 2022