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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

    201 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  2. Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis

    201 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  3. Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon

    201 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  4. Curious lack of sprintf scaling

    201 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  5. A Shader Trick

    201 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  6. App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee

    201 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  7. Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network

    200 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  8. Rust started as a personal project in 2006

    199 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  9. Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline

    199 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  10. Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?

    199 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  11. Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for free to all

    199 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  12. Web3 doesn’t care about privacy

    199 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  13. What I learned during my three days offline

    199 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  14. Radio Garden

    198 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  15. An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed

    198 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  16. Solving some formal math olympiad problems

    198 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  17. Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

    198 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  18. Facebook's African Sweatshop

    198 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  19. Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team

    198 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  20. Logging at Twitter

    198 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  21. Show HN: Three Magic Words

    197 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  22. How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer?

    197 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  23. Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B

    196 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  24. 200-foot-long railway to nowhere is a brilliant shipping loophole

    196 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  25. The brain’s reading of the body’s state is key to mental health

    196 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  26. Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

    196 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  27. Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)

    195 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  28. The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi

    195 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  29. The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pesticide hazards in the U.S

    195 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  30. Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014)

    194 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  31. Putting Ideas into Words

    194 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  32. Russian central bank confirms block on foreign bids to sell Russian securities

    194 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  33. Starship Update [video]

    194 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  34. Mark Cuban's pharmacy started with a cold email

    193 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  35. No one cares about your redesign

    193 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  36. Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain

    193 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  37. An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script

    193 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  38. Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools

    193 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  39. Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)

    193 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  40. Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

    193 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  41. I collect and read old computer manuals

    193 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  42. Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year

    192 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  43. Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs

    192 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  44. Intel acquires Linutronix

    192 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  45. How to waste time and overcomplicate things

    191 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  46. This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system

    191 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  47. Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users

    191 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  48. Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035

    190 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  49. Compromising Angular via expired NPM publisher email domains

    190 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  50. SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence

    190 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  51. What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?

    190 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  52. How Japan saved Tokyo's rail network from collapse (part 1, 1945-1982)

    189 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  53. NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power

    189 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  54. Biologist decided to disavow his own study

    189 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  55. How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?

    189 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  56. LibreOffice 7.3

    189 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  57. How to Explain an Idea

    189 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  58. The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again

    188 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  59. Structured Procrastination (1995)

    188 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  60. Networking of a turn-based game

    188 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  61. Push-ups with Python, mediapipe and OpenCV

    188 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  62. Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed

    188 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  63. KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)

    187 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  64. Detecting Monero Miners with Bpftrace

    187 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  65. How to know if you’re addicted

    187 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  66. Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning

    187 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  67. Play Wordle from Your Terminal

    186 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  68. Wormhole confirms all $320M in funds have been restored

    186 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  69. Chip Red Pill: Arbitrary [Micro]Code Execution Inside Intel Atom CPUs

    186 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  70. Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a web app playing them

    186 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  71. New atomic clock loses only one second every 300B years

    185 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  72. Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit

    185 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  73. How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections

    185 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  74. Everything we're told about website identity assurance is wrong

    185 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  75. Tell HN: 1Password shares passwords you don't want shared

    184 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  76. Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time

    184 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  77. The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow

    184 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  78. Tell HN: GitHub is down (Update: Back online now)

    184 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  79. J. Kenji López-Alt says you’re cooking just fine

    183 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  80. Reproducible Builds in January 2022

    183 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  81. Inkscape 1.1.2

    183 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  82. Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter

    182 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  83. Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions

    182 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  84. Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus

    182 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  85. Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs

    182 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  86. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?

    182 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  87. Mergers ruin everything

    182 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  88. Spam accounts in 2022

    182 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  89. Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer

    181 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  90. YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views

    181 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  91. Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet

    181 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  92. Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain

    181 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  93. Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron paved the way for AI 60 years too soon (2019)

    181 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  94. Internals of Go's new fuzzing system

    180 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  95. Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price

    180 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  96. Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president

    180 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  97. New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy

    180 points • comment • feb 02, 2022

  98. Understanding the global chip shortages

    179 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  99. GTA 6 Confirmed

    179 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  100. How to secure anything

    179 points • comment • feb 22, 2022