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Hacker News (Mar 2022)

  1. Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)

    505 points • comment • mar 23, 2022

  2. Tell HN: A $40B company killed my 2yo son. Now they force me to keep silent

    504 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  3. Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity

    502 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  4. Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?

    497 points • comment • mar 26, 2022

  5. Russia to legalize software piracy

    497 points • comment • mar 07, 2022

  6. Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

    495 points • comment • mar 17, 2022

  7. Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by

    493 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  8. ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]

    492 points • comment • mar 03, 2022

  9. CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques

    492 points • comment • mar 15, 2022

  10. YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results

    492 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  11. Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

    491 points • comment • mar 05, 2022

  12. Things you don't need JavaScript for

    490 points • comment • mar 01, 2022

  13. Christopher Alexander has died

    488 points • comment • mar 18, 2022

  14. CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text

    485 points • comment • mar 21, 2022

  15. Vanced has been discontinued

    483 points • comment • mar 13, 2022

  16. Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters

    483 points • comment • mar 21, 2022

  17. Twitter is now available on Tor

    478 points • comment • mar 09, 2022

  18. Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

    477 points • comment • mar 25, 2022

  19. Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC

    477 points • comment • mar 29, 2022

  20. Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising

    475 points • comment • mar 17, 2022

  21. Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator

    474 points • comment • mar 17, 2022

  22. USWDS: The United States Web Design System

    472 points • comment • mar 29, 2022

  23. React v18.0

    471 points • comment • mar 29, 2022

  24. Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok

    468 points • comment • mar 30, 2022

  25. How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list

    465 points • comment • mar 18, 2022

  26. Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer

    464 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  27. Tradle

    462 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  28. My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)

    461 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  29. How to Design Better APIs

    461 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  30. Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

    460 points • comment • mar 08, 2022

  31. Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off

    460 points • comment • mar 29, 2022

  32. ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’

    457 points • comment • mar 28, 2022

  33. What is money, anyway?

    456 points • comment • mar 28, 2022

  34. Google Docs New Feature: Pageless

    454 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  35. IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)

    454 points • comment • mar 06, 2022

  36. Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages

    453 points • comment • mar 21, 2022

  37. f.lux

    451 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  38. Why America can’t build quickly anymore

    451 points • comment • mar 19, 2022

  39. Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

    448 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  40. If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)

    444 points • comment • mar 24, 2022

  41. It's always been you, Canvas2D

    441 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  42. Generics can make your Go code slower

    441 points • comment • mar 30, 2022

  43. RP2040 Doom

    439 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  44. Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor

    437 points • comment • mar 07, 2022

  45. Firefox UI/UX History

    436 points • comment • mar 27, 2022

  46. Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

    435 points • comment • mar 23, 2022

  47. Deliberately optimizing for harm

    434 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  48. A non-standard book list for software developers

    434 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  49. Arizona moves to ban recording video of police

    434 points • comment • mar 19, 2022

  50. Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

    432 points • comment • mar 06, 2022

  51. US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018

    429 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  52. My essential Firefox fixes in 2022

    428 points • comment • mar 13, 2022

  53. 5 Charged with Stalking, Harassing, Spying on US Residents for PRC Secret Police

    427 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  54. I hate what video games have become

    427 points • comment • mar 27, 2022

  55. Crypto is an unproductive bubble

    427 points • comment • mar 18, 2022

  56. Vulnerability in Honda's Remote Keyless System

    422 points • comment • mar 25, 2022

  57. Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon

    420 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  58. Killed by Microsoft

    418 points • comment • mar 27, 2022

  59. Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit

    418 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  60. How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

    417 points • comment • mar 18, 2022

  61. OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out

    413 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  62. Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday

    412 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  63. Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

    410 points • comment • mar 09, 2022

  64. RISC-V is succeeding

    409 points • comment • mar 01, 2022

  65. Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails

    408 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  66. Senate votes unanimously to pass bill making Daylight Savings Time permanent

    407 points • comment • mar 15, 2022

  67. Nvidia Grace CPU

    406 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  68. China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war

    405 points • comment • mar 09, 2022

  69. Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3

    405 points • comment • mar 13, 2022

  70. Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

    404 points • comment • mar 15, 2022

  71. How does perspective work in pictures?

    403 points • comment • mar 02, 2022

  72. Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?

    403 points • comment • mar 11, 2022

  73. How To Do Less

    401 points • comment • mar 11, 2022

  74. Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

    398 points • comment • mar 05, 2022

  75. Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination

    398 points • comment • mar 02, 2022

  76. Deno Is Webby

    396 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  77. OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems

    395 points • comment • mar 19, 2022

  78. Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

    395 points • comment • mar 05, 2022

  79. Stripe Crypto

    395 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  80. Spending more on retaining developers reduces the cost of hiring developers

    393 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  81. HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

    393 points • comment • mar 11, 2022

  82. Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

    393 points • comment • mar 24, 2022

  83. Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv

    390 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  84. Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

    389 points • comment • mar 24, 2022

  85. .NET Myths Dispelled

    388 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  86. Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

    388 points • comment • mar 06, 2022

  87. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020)

    387 points • comment • mar 24, 2022

  88. New WebKit features in Safari 15.4

    386 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  89. 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home

    383 points • comment • mar 25, 2022

  90. Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times

    382 points • comment • mar 22, 2022

  91. Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat

    382 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  92. Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

    381 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  93. iMac G4 to M1 conversion process

    381 points • comment • mar 06, 2022

  94. Moving money internationally

    380 points • comment • mar 02, 2022

  95. Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist

    380 points • comment • mar 10, 2022

  96. Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH

    380 points • comment • mar 15, 2022

  97. WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas

    379 points • comment • mar 08, 2022

  98. US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel

    379 points • comment • mar 18, 2022

  99. Zelensky video deepfake

    378 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  100. Ubiquiti vs. Krebs

    377 points • comment • mar 31, 2022