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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads

    106 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  2. Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf]

    106 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  3. OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems

    106 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  4. Prefix Sum with SIMD

    106 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  5. Highly virulent HIV variant found to be circulating in Europe for decades

    106 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  6. NanoVNA: Low-cost handheld 4GHz vector network analyzer

    106 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  7. Ice Spikes: Strange things you can find in your freezer

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  8. Israel rolls out laser defense system

    106 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  9. Tell HN: Voting on HN Fails Silently

    106 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  10. Facebook, Google other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law

    106 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  11. Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used

    106 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  12. New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers

    106 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  13. Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?

    105 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  14. Anatomy of a JWT

    105 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  15. Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)

    105 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  16. Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 1 (2016)

    105 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  17. Penkesu Computer – A Homebrew Retro-style Laptop

    105 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  18. That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet

    105 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  19. Against an increasingly user-hostile web (2017)

    105 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  20. The surprising links between what you eat and how well you sleep

    104 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  21. Ask HN: Is there VC appetite for defense related startups?

    104 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  22. Racket 8.4

    104 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  23. I Advised a Student to Not Publish Evidence of Reverse Racism

    104 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  24. Launch HN: Drifting in Space (YC W22) – A server process for every user

    104 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  25. 2021 at OCamlPro

    104 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  26. Country Flags in SVG

    104 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  27. Colorado to become first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments

    104 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  28. Explanation of Bitcoin’s Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

    104 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  29. Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?

    104 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  30. Forbidden Emacs Lisp Knowledge: Block Comments

    104 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  31. Trudeau tries to bring back online censorship bill

    103 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  32. Heroku Is Down

    103 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  33. The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”

    103 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  34. Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott

    103 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  35. S2n-QUIC (Rust implementation of QUIC)

    103 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  36. NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism problem

    103 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  37. eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries

    103 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  38. Go 1.18 RC1 is out

    103 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  39. How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink

    103 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  40. Squeezing Performance from SQLite: EXPLAINing the Virtual Machine

    103 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  41. 15 of 23 Monkeys with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chips Reportedly Died

    103 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  42. ‘Simple’ AI can anticipate bank managers’ loan decisions to over 95% accuracy

    103 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  43. Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage

    102 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  44. Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events

    102 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  45. Some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting

    102 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  46. SikuliX – Automate what you see on a computer monitor

    102 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  47. Ukraine creating international territorial defense legion – Zelensky

    102 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  48. Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America

    102 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  49. How to pick a good monitor for software development

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  50. The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility

    102 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  51. Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising

    102 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  52. 6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup

    102 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  53. Show HN: Windi – knowledge management and sharing platform based on short notes

    102 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  54. Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle

    102 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  55. CadQuery –- A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  56. UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

    102 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  57. Lisp in Production: an interview with the guys behind Nyxt Browser [video]

    102 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  58. Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (2007)

    101 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  59. A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses and phone numbers

    101 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  60. List of life-like cellular automata

    101 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  61. Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism

    101 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  62. Squabble.me – Multiplayer Wordle Royale

    101 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  63. Language homogenization at Harvard

    101 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  64. Review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

    101 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  65. Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

    101 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  66. Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus

    101 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  67. The Life of MS-DOS

    101 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  68. Wordlexpr: Compile-Time Wordle in C++20

    100 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  69. Vice Media organised $20m Saudi government festival

    100 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  70. A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics

    100 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  71. A Big Week for RISC-V

    100 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  72. 1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking

    100 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  73. Heavy Wears the Crown and the Kohinoor

    100 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  74. Kissing in the Middle Ages

    100 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  75. Ask HN: What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry?

    99 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  76. Finality does not exist in payments

    99 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  77. Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 6: the control registers

    99 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  78. What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020)

    99 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  79. CR+LF Has a Long History

    99 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  80. What do you really get from IDE-driven development?

    99 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  81. The harmful consequences of the robustness principle

    99 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  82. How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers

    99 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  83. Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers

    99 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  84. Writing a printer driver in JavaScript

    99 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  85. Apple in 2021

    99 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  86. The Maxims of Ptahhotep (circa 2350 BC)

    98 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  87. The Fall of Roam

    98 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  88. Bash Pitfalls

    98 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  89. Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results

    98 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  90. Inside Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator’s deliberately designed friction

    98 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  91. Being Slow to Criticise

    98 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  92. Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker

    98 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  93. Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine

    98 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  94. Show HN: TopHat Finance – free, open, and offline

    98 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  95. Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

    98 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  96. More intuitive partial function application in Python

    98 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  97. Ask HN: Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?

    98 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  98. Bootloader Basics

    98 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  99. Everything Has Fresnel (2010)

    98 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  100. Arctic Inuit, Native American adaptations to cold and body fat distribution

    97 points • comment • feb 27, 2022