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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

Design 101
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2022
Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2022
Drugs, planes, bail: The wild story of George Jones’s lost recordings [video]
17 points • comment • apr 22, 2022
Twitter, Elon and Fosstodon – A Post-Mortem
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2022
Wild sounds: The loss of sonic diversity and why it matters
17 points • comment • apr 26, 2022
Zuckerberg wants Meta’s AR glasses to be ‘an iPhone moment’ in 2024
17 points • comment • apr 13, 2022
Gossip’s Café
17 points • comment • apr 02, 2022
Ask HN: Switching from Java Back end dev to systems programming dev?
17 points • comment • apr 18, 2022
The guitarist who saved hundreds of people on a sinking cruise liner
17 points • comment • apr 07, 2022
With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet to Outdo Infiniband
17 points • comment • apr 13, 2022
How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions?
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2022
Implementation of DALL-E 2 in PyTorch
17 points • comment • apr 12, 2022
Ask HN: Why aren’t autonomous cars using signals?
17 points • comment • apr 24, 2022
Cisco's Webex phoned home audio telemetry even when muted
17 points • comment • apr 15, 2022
Ask HN: Which email app can be trusted with my data?
17 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
EU Ecodesign: 38 organisations demand the right to access and to reuse hardware
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2022
Stop Using SMS
16 points • comment • apr 02, 2022
Russia Is Jamming Jet Navigation, French Safety Official Says
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2022
The Secret Code of Beauty Spots
16 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Humans are not smart enough to have ideas that lie beyond challenge and debate
16 points • comment • apr 22, 2022
Jack of all trades, master of none
16 points • comment • apr 23, 2022
Not all SaaS revenue is the same
16 points • comment • apr 24, 2022
Ask HN: Is joining AWS a bad idea? (MSFT, Oracle options)
16 points • comment • apr 11, 2022
Jack Dorsey’s new title: Block Head
16 points • comment • apr 22, 2022
Ask HN: Do people at Google not use Gmail? Why don't they improve it?
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2022
Did J.J. Thomson Discover the Electron?
16 points • comment • apr 30, 2022
My journey of implementing a Cryptocurrencies payment gateway (from scratch)
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2022
CA asks Native American Tribes to help prevent wildfires with traditional burns
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2022
Apple is removing outdated apps from the App Store, even if fully functional
16 points • comment • apr 26, 2022
German ‘Watergate’: Chancellor spied on rival party, study reveals
16 points • comment • apr 08, 2022
Ask HK: Why companies are keep pushing work from office?
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2022
Digging Up the Rich Viking History of Britain
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2022
Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2022
Ask HN: How do people working remotely prevent interruptions from family?
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
Re-viewing Pompeian domestic space through VR-based eye tracking and 3D GIS
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2022
Remembering Gagarin, remember Ukrainians who made his flight possible
16 points • comment • apr 14, 2022
GNU Coreutils 9.1 Released
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2022
Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
16 points • comment • apr 02, 2022
Adversarial Pair Programming
16 points • comment • apr 28, 2022
Online subscriptions to The Economist cost twice as much in NZ as the US. Why?
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2022
Ask HN: How to change web page's grey text to black?
16 points • comment • apr 03, 2022
Policy-as-Code or Policy-as-Data? Why Choose?
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2022
My living room still has 3 TVs but I have regrets
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2022
Seattle CEO Dan Price charged with assault
16 points • comment • apr 24, 2022
Return to Monkey Island, follow-up to Monkey Island 2 [video]
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
Seattle's transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2022
Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2022
Opinion: What I wish I’d known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2022
The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense
16 points • comment • apr 22, 2022
Crontabula: Parse Crontab Expressions with Python
16 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Partial reprogramming deep dive: the good, bad, and partially unresolved
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2022
Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2022
Contra Chrome – How Google Browser Became Threat
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
Crystal 1.4.0 Is Released
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2022
NASA’s Webb in Full Focus, Ready for Instrument Commissioning
16 points • comment • apr 28, 2022
Spain Plans to Invest $12.4B in Chips, Semiconductors
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
Period problems after Covid vaccine: Tenfold increase in reports
16 points • comment • apr 03, 2022
Fast shuts doors after slow growth, high burn precluded fundraising options
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
Hypersonic space cannon promises 10 minutes from ground to orbit
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2022
Why Web3 won't make the world more equal
16 points • comment • apr 11, 2022
Ask HN: Are FAANG employees right for an early-stage startup?
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
Le Pen and her father are accused of embezzling £500K+ a week before election
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2022
Microsoft Q3
16 points • comment • apr 26, 2022
Ask HN: The case for middle men in freelancing, do agents exist?
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2022
What is it like to be an AGI?
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
A slice of life: table partitioning in PostgreSQL databases
16 points • comment • apr 14, 2022
Open Refine – working with messy data
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2022
The idea of uploading consciousness is misdirected narcissism
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
Add Live Captions (Deepgram, YC W16) to Your Daily (YC W16) Prebuilt Calls
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2022
Is Twitter biased against conservatives? A Study
16 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2022
An Introduction to Bluetooth Mesh Networking
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
Ask HN: Why do people get angry when other people disagree with them?
16 points • comment • apr 11, 2022
America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2022
RFC 9226: Bioctal, Hexadecimal 2.0
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2022
Rejuvenation of woman's skin could tackle diseases of ageing
16 points • comment • apr 08, 2022
Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic and what we can do to stop it
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m
16 points • comment • apr 14, 2022
Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem
16 points • comment • apr 10, 2022
Forced Colors Explained
16 points • comment • apr 23, 2022
AWS charged my client for stopped EC2 Instances
16 points • comment • apr 03, 2022
UK to revoke Moscow Stock Exchange’s recognised status
16 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Ask HN: Are there techniques to cope with acute anxiety?
16 points • comment • apr 06, 2022
RISC-V takes steps to minimize fragmentation
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
To Get into the Ivy League, “Extraordinary” Isn’t Always Enough These Days
15 points • comment • apr 22, 2022
Pop _OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle
15 points • comment • apr 28, 2022
Moderna Announces Clinical Update on Bivalent Covid-19 Booster Platform
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Ask HN: What technologies have come and gone in your lifetime
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
I use targeted ads as my personal shopping assistant
15 points • comment • apr 29, 2022
Ranking YC W22 companies with a neural net
15 points • comment • apr 03, 2022
Safari adds back Shared Workers support
15 points • comment • apr 04, 2022
5,713,613,640€ have been transferred from Germany to Russia since the war
15 points • comment • apr 05, 2022
Apple App Store appears to be widely removing outdated apps
15 points • comment • apr 24, 2022
Intel CEO Sees Chip Shortage Lasting into 2024
15 points • comment • apr 29, 2022
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released
15 points • comment • apr 21, 2022
How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons and Dragons
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
The French data privacy regulator asked a public body to not use ReCAPTCHA
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2022
Ask HN: How different is it to make an Android app vs. an Apple app?
15 points • comment • apr 21, 2022
Something Sharp
15 points • comment • apr 26, 2022
Play and Devotion with Oliver Sacks
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2022