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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war

    97 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  2. Frugal Computing (2021)

    97 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  3. Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost

    97 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  4. Toyota to suspend operations Tuesday at all Japan factories

    97 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  5. Cozy Futurism

    97 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  6. What use is mental math in 2022?

    97 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  7. A six-fold improvement in the Merkle tree storage for Tezos

    97 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  8. Launch HN: Pelm (YC W22) – Plaid for Utilities

    97 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  9. The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB)

    97 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  10. A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)

    97 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  11. A 1970s boardgame takes about 1,500 hours to complete

    97 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  12. I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020)

    97 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  13. Desperation-Induced Focus

    97 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  14. I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home dir

    96 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  15. Brainwashing is sorcery

    96 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  16. Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth

    96 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  17. Show HN: StealthDrop – Anonymous crypto airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs

    96 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  18. How to make the internet small again

    96 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  19. Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route

    96 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  20. 3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently failing unit tests

    96 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  21. Show HN: Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges

    96 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  22. Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)

    95 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  23. Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?

    95 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  24. Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug?

    95 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  25. Against Pair Programming

    95 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  26. Why federated protocols don't work (2016)

    95 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  27. On Being Broke

    95 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  28. Ask HN: How do you get started as independent consultant or contractor

    95 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  29. Commodore History Part 8-The Amiga 1000 [video]

    95 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  30. Thousands of Romanians waiting in their cars to pick up refugees at the border

    95 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  31. ‘Space cleaner’ satellite spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

    95 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  32. Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (2017)

    95 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  33. How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics

    95 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  34. Exploring X11 windows and devices and emulating mouse movements and keystrokes

    95 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  35. Clear – Open-Source FPGA ASIC

    95 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  36. Ask HN: Is there any tool for benchmarking responsiveness for Linux?

    95 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  37. Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices

    95 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  38. Most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime

    94 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  39. Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory

    94 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  40. Learning rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)

    94 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  41. 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

    94 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  42. A Gas Dynamics Toolkit in D

    94 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  43. An-225 destruction image analysis

    94 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  44. The Cost of Financialization-Globalization: You Lost $500k and Gained $137.13

    94 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  45. Christopher Walken on Acting Like Christopher Walken

    94 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  46. Video Game Project Management Anti-Patterns [pdf]

    94 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  47. Ask HN: How do I develop skills to comfort people and offer compassion?

    94 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  48. Speeding up LXC container pull by up to 3x

    94 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  49. Product design course

    94 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  50. Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks

    94 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  51. BASIC-DOS: PC DOS Reimagined

    94 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  52. The unsustainable growth of the container ship industry

    93 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  53. Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people

    93 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  54. States where teachers’ unions are strongest are slowest to get back to in-person

    93 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  55. Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances

    93 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  56. Wasmer 2.2

    93 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  57. Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job

    93 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  58. Grocery delivery “dark stores” in Amsterdam

    93 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  59. Ask HN: How do carriers throttle streaming to 480p resolution?

    93 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  60. WebRTC support is being added to OBS

    93 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  61. A PM's guide to communicate effectively with software engineers

    93 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  62. The Problem with C (2020)

    93 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  63. Google gives execs raises after declining to boost employees' pay – HRD Canada

    93 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  64. Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal

    93 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  65. Twitter Problems?

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  66. Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles

    92 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  67. Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again

    92 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  68. Login with a Public Ed25519 Key

    92 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  69. Paranoid SQL Execution on Postgres

    92 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  70. Learn Awk with Emacs (2020)

    92 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  71. Does the human lifespan have a limit?

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  72. 'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago

    92 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  73. Russia 'Likely' to Default on Debts

    92 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  74. Stop Using Pie-Charts

    92 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  75. Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known

    92 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  76. Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023

    92 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  77. Jay Powell traded during blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates

    91 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  78. Assembly Four announces closure of sex-work-friendly social platform Switter

    91 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  79. Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)

    91 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  80. All Google Cloud product in this periodic table

    91 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  81. Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (2016)

    91 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  82. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

    91 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  83. Ask HN: Does targeted advertising work at all?

    91 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  84. Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture

    91 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  85. Ask HN: How to track flying objects?

    91 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  86. Putin puts Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on alert

    91 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  87. Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27

    91 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  88. When Postgres blocks: tips for dealing with locks

    91 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  89. What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop

    91 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  90. Optimal quitting

    91 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  91. More than 600 Russian scientists sign open letter against war with Ukraine

    91 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  92. SixtyFPS Becomes Slint

    91 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  93. Lua Devirtualization

    90 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  94. The internet was designed with a narrow waist

    90 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  95. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Book Summary

    90 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  96. Tesla FSD beta crashes into object [video]

    90 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  97. Some conclusions about the high desert after five months of desert life

    90 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  98. FTX Future Fund

    90 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  99. Req – An HTTP Scripting Language

    90 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  100. Launch HN: 1Flow (YC W22) – In-product user feedback for web/mobile apps

    90 points • comment • feb 17, 2022