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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

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

    492 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  2. Building an iPod for 2022

    492 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  3. iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm

    487 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  4. uBlock Origin 1.41

    487 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  5. Building a modern home in the woods

    485 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  6. Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

    483 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  7. How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub

    482 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  8. SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

    482 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  9. Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B

    480 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  10. High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime

    480 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  11. Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

    480 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  12. Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information

    476 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  13. Settings are not a design failure

    476 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  14. Our User-Mode WireGuard Year

    476 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  15. BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion

    471 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  16. GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

    471 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  17. Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

    470 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  18. Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]

    469 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  19. Framework Raises $18M Series A

    468 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  20. Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

    464 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  21. My seatbelt rule for judgment

    462 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  22. My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash

    461 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  23. Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays

    461 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  24. Coinbase CEO tweets how they came up with Super Bowl ad, lied about it

    461 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  25. Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions

    460 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  26. No_color

    460 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  27. Make Linux look like Windows 95

    458 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  28. Building for the 99% Developers

    458 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  29. '50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

    458 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  30. The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii

    457 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  31. TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes

    454 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  32. Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center

    454 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  33. Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

    454 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  34. North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet

    452 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  35. Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)

    452 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  36. The Factorio Mindset

    449 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  37. A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them

    449 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  38. Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

    449 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  39. I'm common as muck and spent £150 to try a Michelin star restaurant

    443 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  40. Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case

    441 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  41. Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)

    441 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  42. Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)

    440 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  43. Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

    439 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  44. Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways

    439 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  45. Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

    438 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  46. Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant

    437 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  47. Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

    436 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  48. NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

    433 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  49. Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning

    430 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  50. Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?

    429 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  51. Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again

    428 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  52. F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store

    428 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  53. A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine

    426 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  54. As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place

    426 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  55. Open Textbook Initiative

    425 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  56. Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

    424 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  57. Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament

    422 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  58. That wild Ask a Manager story

    420 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  59. Ukraine Conflict Live Map

    419 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  60. Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH

    419 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  61. Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study

    419 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  62. EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]

    418 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  63. I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

    418 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  64. How to Mislead with Facts

    416 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  65. No user accounts, by design

    415 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  66. Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor

    414 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  67. The dangers of high status, low wage jobs

    412 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  68. How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)

    411 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  69. J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story

    408 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  70. Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)

    404 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  71. Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes

    402 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  72. A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner

    402 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  73. Understanding the War in Ukraine

    402 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  74. Slackware 15.0

    402 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  75. Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)

    401 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  76. “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”

    399 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  77. Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse

    399 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  78. Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines

    398 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  79. IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access

    397 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  80. I would like a job writing Haskell

    396 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  81. AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button

    395 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  82. Postman Now Supports gRPC

    394 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  83. Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution

    394 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  84. You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough

    394 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  85. Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

    393 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  86. Text Rendering Hates You (2019)

    392 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  87. DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games

    391 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  88. Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel

    389 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  89. Why won’t anyone teach me math?

    388 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  90. U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline

    387 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  91. Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech

    386 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  92. Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

    385 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  93. New JSON query operators in SQLite 3.38.0

    385 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  94. A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

    383 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  95. What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?

    383 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  96. 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)

    381 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  97. Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands

    379 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  98. Spam blacklisting is out of control

    379 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  99. Lets Get Arrested (2019)

    379 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  100. What to know about the stock market (2007)

    377 points • comment • feb 14, 2022