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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

  1. Rustaceans at the border

    256 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  2. YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite

    256 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  3. Return to Monkey Island

    255 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  4. No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “standby” devices

    255 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  5. Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

    254 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  6. Fennel: A Practical Lisp

    253 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  7. The Machine Learning Job Market

    253 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  8. Tell HN: People underestimate the effect of colleges in making lifelong friends

    253 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  9. Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed

    252 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  10. We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute

    252 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  11. You are not Google (2017)

    252 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  12. Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data

    252 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  13. The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)

    251 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  14. We unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness

    251 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  15. From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb

    250 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  16. Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists

    250 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  17. How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004)

    250 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  18. From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

    249 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  19. How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]

    249 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  20. Debian and firmware

    249 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  21. Google says AI generated content is against guidelines

    249 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  22. Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage

    249 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  23. Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components

    249 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  24. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

    248 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  25. Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them

    248 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  26. Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones

    247 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  27. Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap)

    246 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  28. Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

    246 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  29. Hush, a modern shell scripting language

    246 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  30. Introducing a16z START

    246 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  31. Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]

    246 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  32. The most popular chess streamer on Twitch

    245 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  33. How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021)

    245 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  34. Lowering sodium intake doesn’t help heart patients

    244 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  35. Manager's Handbook (2020)

    244 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  36. What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)

    244 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  37. A Census of Minecraft Servers

    244 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  38. No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works

    243 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  39. Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge

    243 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  40. How DALL-E 2 Works

    242 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  41. CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health

    242 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  42. The Personal Security Checklist

    242 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  43. Authorization in a Microservices World

    241 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  44. Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage

    241 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  45. 3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity

    241 points • comment • apr 17, 2022

  46. Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years

    240 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  47. Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  48. Ceephax Acid Crew

    240 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  49. We need someone who has done “it” before

    239 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  50. 1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)

    239 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  51. Life advice from NYC chess hustlers

    239 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  52. Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization

    238 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  53. Is my advice too mercenary?

    238 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  54. Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from

    238 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  55. Venmo forces binding arbitration unless you opt out by mail before June 22

    238 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  56. Good genes are nice, but joy is better (2017)

    238 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  57. Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules

    238 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  58. Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS

    238 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  59. On anti-crypto toxicity

    237 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  60. Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest

    237 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  61. Abandoned railroad routes in North America

    237 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  62. Ask HN: How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?

    236 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  63. US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves

    236 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  64. Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board

    235 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  65. Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world

    235 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  66. OpenSSH 9.0

    235 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  67. Cool things people do with their blogs

    235 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  68. Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

    234 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  69. $34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code

    234 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  70. The New OCaml Website

    234 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  71. Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses

    234 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  72. Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

    233 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  73. Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms

    233 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  74. Are you nice or kind?

    233 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  75. The tech bubble that never burst

    233 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  76. Writing for Engineers

    232 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  77. Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography

    232 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  78. Changing jobs during the Great Resignation

    232 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  79. Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?

    232 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  80. Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm – Russian Defense Ministry

    231 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  81. I was wrong – CRDTs are the future (2020)

    231 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  82. User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches

    230 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  83. WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

    230 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  84. The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident

    230 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  85. My Mathematics PhD research workflow: LaTeX notes and instant pdf referencing

    230 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  86. Should I Use a Carousel?

    229 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  87. FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL

    228 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  88. Listerine Mouthwash Royalties

    228 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  89. Cheat Engine contains GPL-licensed code but disallows commercial use

    228 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  90. Show HN: Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time

    228 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  91. Home lab beginners guide (2021)

    228 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  92. I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed

    228 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  93. Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

    227 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  94. What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla

    227 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  95. Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

    226 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  96. Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time

    226 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  97. DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

    226 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  98. Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer

    226 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  99. Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity

    226 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  100. Mapr: Native cross platform maps in Rust using WebGPU

    225 points • comment • apr 19, 2022