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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

    305 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  2. Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India [audio]

    304 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  3. How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime

    303 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  4. New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation

    301 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  5. Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

    301 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  6. Why and How I Got My Own ASN

    300 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  7. How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm

    299 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  8. Caltech's CS interview prep course

    299 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  9. Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?

    299 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  10. Nix: An idea whose time has come

    297 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  11. A toy DNS resolver

    297 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  12. Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?

    297 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  13. The web starts on page four

    297 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  14. SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel

    297 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  15. Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension

    297 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  16. Missouri governor’s office responsible for teacher data leak

    296 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  17. I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer

    296 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  18. YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is possible

    296 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  19. Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike

    296 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  20. Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite

    295 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  21. AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English

    295 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  22. OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems

    294 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  23. Origin of the Bluetooth Name

    294 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  24. Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?

    294 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  25. Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search

    294 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  26. Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP

    294 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  27. Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?

    292 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  28. You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way

    292 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  29. What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity

    292 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  30. Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?

    292 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  31. Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online

    292 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  32. Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good

    291 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  33. Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do

    290 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  34. Slack is down for some users

    290 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  35. Arduboy

    289 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  36. What are your company's anti-values?

    288 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  37. You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses

    288 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  38. Strange plant-like formation captured by Curiosity rover on Mars

    287 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  39. Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

    286 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  40. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

    286 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  41. Over-reliance on CGI in movies

    286 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  42. Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”

    285 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  43. ASCII art for semantic code commenting

    283 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  44. How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers

    283 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  45. Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure

    282 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  46. What a $500k grant proposal looks like

    282 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  47. Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

    282 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  48. Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

    282 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  49. I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day

    281 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  50. Managing People

    281 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  51. Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes

    280 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  52. Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)

    279 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  53. The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research

    279 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  54. PHP – The Right Way

    278 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  55. Fengari – Lua for the Browser

    277 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  56. MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation

    277 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  57. I Quit Shopify After Five Months

    277 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  58. Reddit can't build a better search engine

    277 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  59. IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool

    276 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  60. Django: Reformatted code with Black

    276 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  61. Laravel 9

    275 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  62. State of JavaScript 2021

    275 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  63. The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible

    273 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  64. Open source alternatives to popular SaaS products

    273 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  65. Linux Sysops Handbook

    272 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  66. Serenity OS: Interview

    272 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  67. Disney Filmmaking Process

    271 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  68. Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person

    271 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  69. Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps

    271 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  70. Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser

    271 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  71. A pentester gets root - step by step example

    271 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  72. JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows

    270 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  73. Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms

    270 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  74. Nike.com's robots.txt

    270 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  75. Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

    270 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  76. The road to success is paved with rejection letters

    268 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  77. Elevator.js (2015)

    268 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  78. Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

    267 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  79. The Internals of PostgreSQL

    267 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  80. MAME Turns 25

    267 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  81. Installing Every Arch Package

    267 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  82. BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M

    267 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  83. Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently

    266 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  84. The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019)

    266 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  85. Testing Distributed Systems

    265 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  86. A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash

    265 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  87. Ask HN: Has anyone sold their employee stock on the secondary market?

    265 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  88. A home made PCB stepper motor

    265 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  89. NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr

    264 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  90. Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

    263 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  91. Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

    263 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  92. Real Me and Fake Me

    263 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  93. Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better

    263 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  94. PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide

    262 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  95. New lightweight material is stronger than steel

    261 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  96. One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown

    261 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  97. Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?

    260 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  98. Koenigsegg's Tiny Electric Motor Makes 335 HP and 443 LB-FT of Torque

    260 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  99. Running Lisp in Production (2020)

    260 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  100. OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster

    260 points • comment • feb 09, 2022