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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. Google Search Is Dying

    3541 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  2. Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

    2153 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  3. Facebook loses users for the first time

    1736 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  4. Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

    1647 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  5. Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

    1555 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  6. Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

    1379 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  7. Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

    1374 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  8. The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever

    1351 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  9. Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

    1286 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  10. Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

    1240 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  11. Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually

    1222 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  12. City Generator

    1176 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  13. Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

    1133 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  14. Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

    1119 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  15. Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

    1116 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  16. Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

    1027 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  17. Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

    1008 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  18. Akamai to Acquire Linode

    977 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  19. Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

    977 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  20. In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously

    955 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  21. Passwordle

    950 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  22. Heuristics that almost always work

    946 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  23. Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

    941 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  24. Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

    940 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  25. Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

    908 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  26. Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

    907 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  27. Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

    891 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  28. Amazon Pip Horror Story

    880 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  29. Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

    875 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  30. I have no capslock and I must scream

    871 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  31. Worldle

    869 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  32. Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website

    868 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  33. Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone

    842 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  34. Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm

    833 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  35. What does it mean to listen on a port?

    832 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  36. A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

    809 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  37. Audiblegate

    804 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  38. I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss

    791 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  39. Why I will never buy another Samsung device

    774 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  40. Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter

    765 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  41. Thank You, Valve

    737 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  42. A career ending mistake

    731 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  43. Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims

    724 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  44. Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

    722 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  45. Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station

    721 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  46. Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

    720 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  47. For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

    714 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  48. Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

    695 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  49. Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

    690 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  50. Do things, tell people (2012)

    686 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  51. Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

    673 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  52. Competitive Programming with AlphaCode

    669 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  53. Fetch API has landed into Node.js

    667 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  54. A new wave of Linux applications

    665 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  55. Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

    663 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  56. Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?

    662 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  57. The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes

    659 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  58. Twitter based map of Russian troop movements

    656 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  59. Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

    655 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  60. Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

    654 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  61. Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

    652 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  62. You can change your number

    648 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  63. How I learned French in 12 months (2020)

    645 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  64. The fastest GIF does not exist

    643 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  65. France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors

    642 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  66. Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

    641 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  67. Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills

    637 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  68. Words known better by males than females, and vice versa

    633 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  69. Be anonymous

    630 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  70. Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

    627 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  71. In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether

    621 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  72. Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

    615 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  73. Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

    607 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  74. I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

    598 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  75. White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug

    591 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  76. Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here

    585 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  77. Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

    575 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  78. Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes

    566 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  79. The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae

    565 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  80. Unlearning perfectionism

    565 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  81. Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets

    565 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  82. Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

    559 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  83. Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

    553 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  84. Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

    547 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  85. Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs

    547 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  86. The data are clear: The boys are not all right

    545 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  87. LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

    545 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  88. Chris Lattner left Swift core team

    543 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  89. Sci-Hub statistics and database

    540 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  90. Web hacking techniques of 2021

    536 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  91. Discord is a black hole for information

    534 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  92. The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

    530 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  93. Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection

    528 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  94. Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS

    525 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  95. Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets

    517 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  96. Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands

    516 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  97. Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

    503 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  98. America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

    499 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  99. Learn Rust by writing a small OS

    496 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  100. A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters

    492 points • comment • feb 24, 2022