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Hacker News (Jan 2022)

  1. LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds

    285 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  2. The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

    284 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  3. It takes $420k per year to run Lichess

    284 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  4. My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

    284 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  5. An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice

    284 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  6. Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding

    283 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  7. The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study

    283 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  8. Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter

    282 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  9. Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

    282 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  10. Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting

    282 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  11. Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI

    282 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  12. Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in

    282 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  13. Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots

    281 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  14. Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB

    280 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  15. LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required

    280 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  16. Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?

    279 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  17. Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)

    279 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  18. Wire is now on F-Droid

    279 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  19. Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell

    279 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  20. Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation

    277 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  21. XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy

    276 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  22. Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames

    276 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  23. NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

    275 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  24. Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds

    275 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  25. John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

    275 points • comment • jan 30, 2022

  26. Why skyscrapers are so short

    275 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  27. The SNESticle Liberation Project

    274 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  28. GNU Radio

    274 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  29. The State of Web Scraping 2022

    273 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  30. The Zen of Drinking Alone

    273 points • comment • jan 15, 2022

  31. War Is a Racket (1933)

    273 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  32. Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

    273 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  33. UK government plans publicity blitz against encrypted communications

    273 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  34. I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS

    272 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  35. Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes

    272 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  36. Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

    272 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  37. Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’

    272 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  38. CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology

    271 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  39. SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)

    270 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  40. Rare real colour photos of WWII

    270 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  41. Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals

    270 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  42. 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

    270 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  43. Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code

    269 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  44. The Block Protocol

    269 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  45. Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

    268 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  46. Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released

    268 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  47. I Built a Shed (2020)

    268 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  48. How much did a tunic cost in the Roman Empire? (2021)

    267 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  49. Go Fuzzing

    267 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  50. Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)

    267 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  51. Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service

    266 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  52. Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers

    266 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  53. How the Soviets put a lander on Venus

    266 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  54. Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics

    265 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  55. India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures

    264 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  56. A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes

    264 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  57. Jerrycan

    263 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  58. Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests

    263 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  59. Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

    262 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  60. An Ode to Ruby

    262 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  61. Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?

    262 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  62. Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH

    262 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  63. Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

    261 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  64. You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California

    261 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  65. The case against masks at school

    261 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  66. Interactive piano reference to major and minor scales

    261 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  67. Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?

    260 points • comment • jan 19, 2022

  68. Window System X (1984)

    259 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  69. Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing

    259 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  70. Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension

    259 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  71. The Manga Guide Series

    259 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  72. Zendesk pretends to be open source?

    259 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  73. A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming

    258 points • comment • jan 10, 2022

  74. Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps

    258 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  75. Format Strings in Rust 1.58

    257 points • comment • jan 14, 2022

  76. Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules

    257 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  77. Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

    256 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  78. Send text messages for free using Python

    256 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  79. Many clothing donations end up in African landfills

    256 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  80. Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)

    255 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  81. Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines

    255 points • comment • jan 17, 2022

  82. Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online

    254 points • comment • jan 23, 2022

  83. Hacker Laws

    254 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  84. Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage

    253 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  85. Life at 800 MHz

    253 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  86. Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf]

    253 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  87. Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan

    253 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  88. High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching

    252 points • comment • jan 03, 2022

  89. Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy

    252 points • comment • jan 24, 2022

  90. FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON

    251 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  91. Linux kernel heap buffer overflow in fs_context.c since version 5.1

    251 points • comment • jan 20, 2022

  92. Reasons for servers to support IPv6

    251 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  93. Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

    251 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  94. UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)

    250 points • comment • jan 08, 2022

  95. Show HN: My 486 Server

    250 points • comment • jan 16, 2022

  96. Highlights from Git 2.35

    250 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  97. Sega quits arcade business after 50 years

    250 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  98. Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

    249 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  99. Cost of Attrition

    249 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  100. TypeScript Features to Avoid

    248 points • comment • jan 18, 2022