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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic

    377 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  2. MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

    376 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  3. Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam

    376 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  4. Back-end languages are coming to the front-end

    375 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  5. Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory

    372 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  6. Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid

    370 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  7. Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

    369 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  8. Inside Pornhub

    367 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  9. Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi

    366 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  10. Traffic Simulator

    364 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  11. PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos

    364 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  12. Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

    364 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  13. Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?

    364 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  14. Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees

    363 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  15. Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world

    360 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  16. Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme

    359 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  17. Don’t point out something wrong immediately

    359 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  18. Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

    358 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  19. Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

    358 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  20. Things that used to be hard and are now easy

    357 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  21. Linux from Scratch

    356 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  22. Ten Years of ThinkPadding

    356 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  23. MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

    354 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  24. Aspect-ratio is great

    353 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  25. Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

    353 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  26. Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes

    352 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  27. Music theory for nerds (2016)

    351 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  28. Quordle: Four Wordles in One

    351 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  29. Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun

    350 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  30. Gyroflow: Advanced open-source gyro-assisted video stabilization

    350 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  31. AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust

    350 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  32. The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding

    350 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  33. An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

    349 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  34. The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)

    349 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  35. New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars

    349 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  36. Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare

    347 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  37. Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992

    346 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  38. Send your email right to the other person's spam

    345 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  39. My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story

    344 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  40. Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to display a paper in HTML

    343 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  41. BeeWare – write Python, run everywhere using native UIs

    342 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  42. How UTF-8 Works

    342 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  43. Podman 4.0

    342 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  44. Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT

    341 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  45. Bill to require job postings to include salaries passes Washington Senate

    341 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  46. First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)

    340 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  47. Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties

    339 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  48. DuckDuckGo \u202E

    339 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  49. WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser

    338 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  50. Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)

    338 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  51. Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)

    336 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  52. Is it safe to use __secret_internals_do_not_use_or_you_will_be_fired?

    334 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  53. Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?

    334 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  54. AMD is now worth more than Intel

    331 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  55. Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18

    330 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  56. FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s

    330 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  57. Lon Lat Lon Lat

    329 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  58. Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)

    329 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  59. An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf

    328 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  60. How PostgreSQL stores rows

    328 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  61. Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

    328 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  62. Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps

    327 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  63. Non-Consensual Personalization

    326 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  64. Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch

    326 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  65. Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health

    325 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  66. Every employee who leaves Apple becomes an ‘associate’

    325 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  67. Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations

    325 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  68. No one cared about my spreadsheets

    323 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  69. Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

    321 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  70. Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query Any Database via Postgres

    321 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  71. Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables

    320 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  72. Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis

    320 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  73. Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

    319 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  74. Radiation spikes in Chernobyl

    318 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  75. A 13-year-old used my artificial nose to diagnose pneumonia

    318 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  76. Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes

    318 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  77. Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

    318 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  78. Why not hire part-time developers?

    316 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  79. Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]

    316 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  80. On the removal of Come Back Alive

    315 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  81. Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later

    314 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  82. Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company

    314 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  83. Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

    314 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  84. Peloton – A call for action [pdf]

    313 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  85. Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

    311 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  86. GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source

    311 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  87. Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

    311 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  88. Dwarf Fortress Steam Updates – Release Roadmap

    310 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  89. Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism

    309 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  90. CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Deck

    309 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  91. Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade

    309 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  92. KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE

    309 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  93. Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage

    309 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  94. Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

    308 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  95. I quit my job to make free web tools

    308 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  96. Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox

    307 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  97. Can no longer view websites on smart display

    307 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  98. Interview questions to ask your interviewer

    306 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  99. Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

    306 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  100. Project Oberon

    306 points • comment • feb 25, 2022