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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

  1. Horrible edge cases when dealing with music

    510 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  2. Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter

    505 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  3. Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions

    501 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  4. Elon has decided not to join our board

    499 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  5. Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

    498 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  6. Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid

    493 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  7. Why I'll never use Affirm again

    492 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  8. 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

    490 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  9. Heaps: A free, open-source and cross-platform game engine

    489 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  10. Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”?

    489 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  11. The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

    486 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  12. I put my whole life into a single database

    484 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  13. A project with a single 11,000-line code file

    484 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  14. Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]

    480 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  15. What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows

    479 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  16. A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem

    479 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  17. Those HTML attributes you never use

    478 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  18. Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks

    478 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  19. SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way

    475 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  20. The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)

    471 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  21. You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off

    471 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  22. Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

    471 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  23. Memray: a memory profiler for Python

    469 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  24. BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking

    462 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  25. The endgames of bad faith communication

    461 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  26. The human genome is, at long last, complete

    460 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  27. Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

    457 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  28. I stopped working on black hole information loss

    455 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  29. Super Simple Storage Service

    453 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  30. Mental speed is high until age sixty

    452 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  31. “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG

    452 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  32. Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech

    451 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  33. What are you doing, WordPress.com?

    451 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  34. I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”

    449 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  35. Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

    447 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  36. Insider Trading at Coinbase

    443 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  37. Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

    440 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  38. I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)

    439 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  39. Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

    439 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  40. Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people

    439 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  41. Principles of Engineering Management

    437 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  42. An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California

    435 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  43. Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

    435 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  44. Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

    432 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  45. Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

    432 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  46. ‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania

    431 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  47. Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat

    427 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  48. The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity

    426 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  49. TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

    423 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  50. The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)

    422 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  51. Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments

    422 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  52. Go will use pdqsort in next release

    420 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  53. Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?

    416 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  54. Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

    416 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  55. California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3

    413 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  56. Unreal vs. Unity Opinion

    410 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  57. Node.js packages don't deserve trust

    410 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  58. A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

    409 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  59. The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk

    408 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  60. Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981

    407 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  61. NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

    407 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  62. Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations

    406 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  63. Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private API

    405 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  64. The Uber Bubble

    403 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  65. We don’t use a staging environment

    401 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  66. LineageOS 19

    401 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  67. The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)

    399 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  68. Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial

    396 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  69. Drone footage of Tesla factory

    395 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  70. Heroku Security Notification

    395 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  71. Tinygrad

    394 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  72. Exit interviews are a trap

    393 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  73. Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement

    392 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  74. Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted

    391 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  75. Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing

    391 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  76. Is everything falling apart?

    388 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  77. Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

    387 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  78. YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database

    386 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  79. The Owen Wilson Wow API

    385 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  80. Ask HN: Teach me something new

    384 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  81. Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities

    383 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  82. Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls

    383 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  83. The Gov.uk Design System is now live

    383 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  84. I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)

    381 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  85. Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

    381 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  86. I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it

    381 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  87. The Joy of Small Projects

    381 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  88. Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault

    377 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  89. U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts

    377 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  90. It took me 10 years to understand entropy

    377 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  91. Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished

    377 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  92. Hacker News Guidelines

    374 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  93. 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day

    373 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  94. Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket

    372 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  95. The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want

    371 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  96. OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and Conquer

    370 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  97. WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app

    370 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  98. I've used all the notebooks

    370 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  99. Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

    369 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  100. What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

    368 points • comment • apr 06, 2022