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Hacker News (Feb 2022)

  1. Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?

    161 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  2. Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

    161 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  3. The Unbundling of Airflow

    160 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  4. Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

    160 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  5. A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)

    160 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  6. A nice story about Unix processes “infecting” each other

    160 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  7. We built a secret apartment in the mall (2007)

    160 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  8. A short history of the O’Reilly animals (2013)

    160 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  9. Ask HN: How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?

    160 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  10. Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs

    160 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  11. Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design

    159 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  12. Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?

    159 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  13. Compensation Data and Trends in the USA

    159 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  14. Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (2015)

    159 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  15. What is the purpose of check-in before flying? (2014)

    159 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  16. ZX Spectrum at 40: a look back

    159 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  17. Using Ansible and Nomad for a homelab (part 1)

    158 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  18. Ask HN: General Mood of the Community

    158 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  19. Practical guide to solving hard problems

    158 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  20. “How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji

    158 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  21. Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent

    158 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  22. The Death of Process

    158 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  23. Intel gets worse, but Power11 might get better

    158 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  24. PwC fined over exam cheating involving 1,100 of its auditors

    158 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  25. Ask HN: Disillusioned with the Direction of Society and Technology

    158 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  26. The underground economy of solitary confinement

    158 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  27. Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine

    157 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  28. Binance is taking a $200M stake in Forbes

    157 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  29. FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show

    157 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  30. Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs

    157 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  31. Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

    157 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  32. Ask HN: Recent computer hacking convictions and employability?

    156 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  33. Rust Survey 2021 Results

    156 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  34. 20 Years of .NET

    156 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  35. What we lost

    156 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  36. Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack

    155 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  37. HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?

    155 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  38. Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

    155 points • comment • feb 17, 2022

  39. We’re Fine Without Facebook, German and French Ministers Say [Bloomberg]

    154 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  40. A submarine made from IKEA jar and legos

    154 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  41. Dune: Spice Wars

    154 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  42. Germany commits €100B to defense spending

    153 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  43. All you should know about Flutter development

    153 points • comment • feb 12, 2022

  44. Tell HN: Udacity dark pattern to cancel a subscription

    153 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  45. Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges

    153 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  46. Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?

    153 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  47. Zig build system internals

    153 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  48. The Big Mac index: Our interactive currency comparison tool

    153 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  49. NES 64 – Commodore 64 Kernal and Basic ROMs Ported to the NES

    152 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  50. Imitate, Then Innovate

    152 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  51. Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)

    152 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  52. Tinder’s pricing algorithm can charge users up to 5x more for same service

    152 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  53. Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

    152 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  54. Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego

    152 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  55. DYMO's new label printer uses RFID tags to prevent the use of non-OEM paper

    151 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  56. Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)

    151 points • comment • feb 18, 2022

  57. Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

    151 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  58. On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind

    151 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  59. Become a better data engineer on a shoestring (free resources)

    151 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  60. Pollution causing more deaths than Covid, action needed, U.N. expert says

    151 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  61. Phenethylamines I have feared and loathed (2020)

    151 points • comment • feb 06, 2022

  62. Thoughts on Intel software-defined silicon

    151 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  63. The new FreeDOS 1.3 is now available for download

    151 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  64. Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part V: the output circuitry

    151 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  65. Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span

    151 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  66. A planned EU regulation about website certificates is causing concern

    150 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  67. How illiterate people use their mobile phones (2012)

    150 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  68. ‘Columbo’ shows the benefits of asking just one more thing

    150 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  69. Detailed simulation of complete minimal cellular life

    150 points • comment • feb 26, 2022

  70. Is it time to remove reiserfs?

    150 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  71. PyTorch on Apple M1 MAX GPUs with SHARK – faster than TensorFlow-Metal

    149 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  72. Jepsen: Radix DLT 1.0-Beta.35.1

    149 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  73. Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

    149 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  74. The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained

    149 points • comment • feb 08, 2022

  75. Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin

    149 points • comment • feb 05, 2022

  76. Breaking rainbow takes a weekend on a laptop

    149 points • comment • feb 25, 2022

  77. Don't Write a Programming Language

    149 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  78. C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

    149 points • comment • feb 21, 2022

  79. Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)

    148 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  80. Parallels Desktop Pro now sends spam notifications with ads to your desktop

    148 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  81. Love is biological bribery?

    148 points • comment • feb 16, 2022

  82. Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?

    148 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  83. Sonic Robo Blast 2: a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built on Doom

    148 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  84. 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

    147 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  85. Ukraine launches site to help families of captured and killed Russian soldiers

    147 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  86. The Go language's first commit (1972)

    147 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  87. An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

    147 points • comment • feb 24, 2022

  88. An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

    146 points • comment • feb 27, 2022

  89. Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store

    146 points • comment • feb 20, 2022

  90. A gentle introduction to automated reasoning

    146 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  91. Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox

    146 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  92. Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way

    145 points • comment • feb 19, 2022

  93. Cloudflare to acquire Area 1 Security for $162M

    145 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  94. Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination

    145 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  95. Have we been thinking about inflation all wrong?

    145 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  96. My CEO’s rating on Glassdoor is so bad that all we are getting are shitty hires

    145 points • comment • feb 09, 2022

  97. Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory (2019)

    145 points • comment • feb 15, 2022

  98. Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

    145 points • comment • feb 07, 2022

  99. Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

    145 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  100. Belgium approves four-day week

    144 points • comment • feb 15, 2022