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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

  1. Bill.com Quietly Decided to Divert Customer Funds To Unwanted Bank Accounts

    145 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  2. Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power adapter with new iPhone

    145 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  3. As inflation soars, how is Arizona iced tea still 99 cents?

    144 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  4. When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass

    144 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  5. VRML

    144 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  6. Show HN: Voxel Lunar Lander in the Browser

    144 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  7. Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas

    144 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  8. The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter

    143 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  9. Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination

    143 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  10. Actuarial Life Table

    143 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  11. Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

    143 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  12. GNU Nano 6.3

    143 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  13. Compile time evaluation in Nim, Zig, Rust and C++

    143 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  14. Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?

    143 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  15. Job hunting while day-jobbing (2021)

    143 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  16. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

    142 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  17. Libre Desktop Publishing

    142 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  18. Ask HN: Dealing with Career Mistakes

    142 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  19. Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?

    142 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  20. Show HN: Monocle – bidirectional code generation library

    142 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  21. Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode

    142 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  22. Whats New in PHP 8.2

    142 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  23. Vampire Attack Twitter

    142 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  24. How did I get so unhappy working in tech?

    142 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  25. Sorbet and 100% cov makes Ruby refactoring possible

    141 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  26. One-line drawings

    141 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  27. You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why

    141 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  28. Resumes are dangerous?

    141 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  29. Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

    141 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  30. The candy stores of Oxford Street

    141 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  31. Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals

    140 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  32. Turning nuclear waste into diamond batteries

    140 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  33. The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

    140 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  34. Tell HN: Amazon.com is limiting purchases of Audio CDs to four-per-week

    140 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  35. Tools for visualizing a codebase

    140 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  36. Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator

    140 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  37. Ask HN: Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?

    140 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  38. The TTY Demystified (2008)

    139 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  39. Doctree

    139 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  40. Show HN: thin.dev, back end for making realtime, typesafe React Apps

    139 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  41. Qt 6.3

    139 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  42. Maslow never proposed a pyramid

    139 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  43. Privacy Friendly Apps – improved privacy protection on the smartphone

    139 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  44. What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust

    139 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  45. The Reliability of Optical Disks

    139 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  46. Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents

    138 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  47. Always tell kids the truth (2019)

    138 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  48. What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?

    138 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  49. The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet

    138 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  50. Apple’s risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon is paying off

    138 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  51. Why Ruby Has Symbols

    137 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  52. There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)

    137 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  53. A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago

    137 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  54. Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  55. Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years

    137 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  56. AWS RDS Vulnerability Leads to AWS Internal Service Credentials

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  57. Medusa is a device that allows connecting of old computers to modern displays

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  58. Former Xinjiang prisoner arrives in U.S. as key witness to abuses

    137 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  59. I Believe Zig Has Function Colors

    137 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  60. A basic introduction to NumPy's einsum

    137 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  61. Mastodon for Android

    136 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  62. Ask HN: Why do password managers have TOTP?

    136 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  63. High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)

    136 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  64. Analyzing iMessage with SQL

    136 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  65. Spacedrive – A File Explorer from the Future

    136 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  66. What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)

    136 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  67. BBC: Killings in Bucha are deliberate massacre – Ukraine

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  68. Police seized $10k from him. a court ruled he had no right to an attorney

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  69. DARPA Completes Underminer Program: New tactical tunneling technologies

    136 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  70. Incident with GitHub Actions and Codespaces

    136 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  71. Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain

    136 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  72. Over 15% of world population has a headache on any given day

    135 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  73. How and why Daily is using Rust for our WebRTC APIs

    135 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  74. Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?

    135 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  75. Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet

    135 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  76. John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt

    135 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  77. Type-Based Optimizations in the JIT

    135 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  78. Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide

    135 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  79. So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell

    135 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  80. We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos

    134 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  81. The tech interview prep industry

    134 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  82. The underwhelming impact of software engineering research

    134 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  83. PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to detect side effects

    134 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  84. First Reflective LCD indoor monitor – 32“ FullHD true-color 60Hz

    134 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  85. Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

    134 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  86. Self-calibrating USB Paper Tape Reader

    134 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  87. In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

    134 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  88. Testing consistency of rqlite

    134 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  89. Fast analysis with DuckDB and Pyarrow

    134 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  90. Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

    133 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  91. What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution

    133 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  92. Elementary Audio: a modern platform for writing high performance audio software

    133 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  93. The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running

    133 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  94. Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine

    133 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  95. Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening

    132 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  96. Making open source hardware design a reality

    132 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  97. Gallium OS: a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices

    132 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  98. Effective Go

    132 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  99. The State of Fortran

    132 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  100. Ask HN: Why Blog at All?

    132 points • comment • apr 09, 2022