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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

  1. Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’–who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour

    40 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  2. ‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software is watching you

    40 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  3. Tesla revenues grow 81% from last year

    40 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  4. LumoSQL

    40 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  5. Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the Primates article (2015)

    40 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  6. Old Skool Demo in Awk

    40 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  7. Ask HN: What creative field will be safe from AI?

    40 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  8. Factorization of RSA-250 (2020)

    40 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  9. Ask HN: What's Going on with Amazon Search?

    39 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  10. Tenacity and Life Lessons through the 33% rule

    39 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  11. Google stops hiding Russian secret sites on its maps

    39 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  12. Ask HN: What 'deeper technical skills' make up a strong engineer?

    39 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  13. Sharding Is Also NP-Complete

    39 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  14. The man who invented relaxation (2015)

    39 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  15. The genius of fishing with tidal weirs

    39 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  16. Crackling hair (2019)

    39 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  17. JSON Resume

    39 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  18. Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage did

    39 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  19. More Evidence Emerges That There Is No Trucker Shortage, There's a Pay Shortage

    39 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  20. In a surprise move, honeybee tongue hairs repel water

    39 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  21. Former eBay executive in pig mask case pleads guilty to stalking, tampering

    39 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  22. Essential Guide to Feather Quill Pens (2020)

    39 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  23. Python App in the Browser

    39 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  24. Ask HN: What methods do you use to focus and stay relaxed?

    39 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  25. Science in the age of selfies (2016)

    39 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  26. In Chicago, Wealthy Neighborhoods Hire Their Own Private Police as Crime Rises

    38 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  27. Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support?

    38 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  28. Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics

    38 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  29. Making a 'sandwich' out of magnets and topological insulators

    38 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  30. Ask HN: What are you using for a RSS Reader?

    38 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  31. The 1950s miracle kitchen of the future

    38 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  32. UX and the Civilizing Process

    38 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  33. On Twitter, briefly

    38 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  34. UCLA Wants to Hire an Adjunct. But the Pay Is Zero

    38 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  35. No wonder Netflix is bleeding subscribers – it’s become the new cable

    38 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  36. TSMC to manufacture 2nm chips in 2025. Apple and Intel first to adopt

    38 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  37. AWS Log4Shell HotPatch Introduced a Container Escape Vulnerability

    38 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  38. BGP Blockchain

    38 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  39. How to Be an Incipit

    38 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  40. Can brain scans reveal behaviour? Study says not yet

    38 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  41. Ask HN: New hire at Facebook, getting weird cult vibes

    38 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  42. Deep Learning in Neuroimaging

    38 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  43. Shameful: Insteon looks dead–just like its users’ smart homes

    38 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  44. Cambridge University study finds Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian

    38 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  45. The Amazon Kindle will support ePub in late 2022

    38 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  46. How to sign off an email. Epistolary etiquette for the 21st century

    38 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  47. Elon Musk appointed to twitters board of directors

    38 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  48. French $217m lottery winner donates almost all winnings to tackle climate change

    38 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  49. Researchers control brain circuits from a distance using infrared light

    38 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  50. Twitter Agrees to Be Taken Over

    38 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  51. You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/Await Considerations

    38 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  52. Denny Delk

    38 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  53. Florida governor signs bill stripping Disney of self-governing authority

    38 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  54. California tech billionaire launches Senate campaign to take on Tesla

    37 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  55. Cohere: The world’s most powerful NLP toolkit

    37 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  56. Show HN: Efficient-VDVAE an Open-source memory-efficient deep hierarchical VAE

    37 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  57. Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to democracy

    37 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  58. How do I practically create wealth?

    37 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  59. Pattie Maes and the foundations of social networks

    37 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  60. Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’

    37 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  61. You think the energy problem is hard? Meet the food climate challenge

    37 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  62. Potential Gains in Life Expectancy Associated with Diabetes Treatment Goals [pdf]

    37 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  63. Robot scientist finds less than one third of scientific results are reproducible

    37 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  64. Automerge CRDT – Build local-first software

    37 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  65. My typical working day as software engineer

    37 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  66. Elon's Giant Package

    37 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  67. N26 Bank Closing Accounts Without Notice

    37 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  68. Florida says it rejected math textbooks for referring to critical race theory

    37 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  69. Red bull is denied FAA exemption, crashes Cessna 182 anyways

    37 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  70. Deciphering an English Exorcism Manual

    37 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  71. Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt

    37 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  72. Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

    37 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  73. Iron Salt Aerosol for Climate Control

    37 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  74. Elo scoring two years of Magic: The Gathering games

    37 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  75. YouTube is emailing users to say “members of the community” are “concerned”

    37 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  76. Emmanuel Macron is re-elected French President, defeating Marine Le Pen

    37 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  77. Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it

    37 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  78. The New Homophobia

    37 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  79. Open letter from anonymous Ontario teacher (2021)

    36 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  80. Can synthetic data help train your AI model?

    36 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  81. A tiny, embedded and free-of-charge open-source RISC-V SoC

    36 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  82. Monitoring the kernel.org Transparency Log for a year

    36 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  83. JEP 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)

    36 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  84. Microsoft says changing taskbar location in Windows 11 is not important

    36 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  85. The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal

    36 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  86. Provisioning and Automating High Availability Postgres

    36 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  87. Ask HN: Which small video editor do you use?

    36 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  88. UK to build 8 nuclear reactors amid new energy strategy

    36 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  89. Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic

    36 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  90. Driverless Car Pulled over by Police

    36 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  91. How private are Erlang private functions? (2018)

    36 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  92. U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row

    36 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  93. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

    36 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  94. Practical concurrency guide in Go

    36 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  95. ByteDance made fake accounts with content scraped from Instagram and Snapchat

    36 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  96. Integer Overflow into Information Disclosure (2017)

    36 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  97. Full Day Sun Exposure

    36 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  98. Philae’s Troubled Landing (2018)

    36 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  99. Economy and distribution of land rents in Singapore (1996)

    36 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  100. As creation stories go, the big bang is a good one

    36 points • comment • apr 18, 2022