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Hacker News (Apr 2022)

  1. Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)

    225 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  2. Protect domains that do not send email

    225 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  3. Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity

    225 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  4. Founding Uber SRE

    225 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

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

    225 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  6. 1x Programming

    224 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  7. DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla

    223 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  8. Rethinking Visual Programming with Go

    223 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  9. DaVinci Resolve 18

    223 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  10. A naked skydive inspired a way to keep pilots oriented in flight

    223 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  11. MIT-0 License

    222 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  12. Getting hired after fifty

    222 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  13. Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim

    222 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  14. Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design

    222 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  15. Actor system for the JVM developed by Electronic Arts

    222 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  16. 7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution

    221 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  17. How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

    221 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  18. I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations

    220 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  19. Tax the Land

    219 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  20. Critical Gitlab vulnerability let attackers take over accounts

    219 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  21. When to use generics

    219 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  22. Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive

    219 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  23. Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

    218 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  24. Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3

    218 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  25. UIs are streaming DAGs [video]

    218 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  26. Chinese inmates had hearts or lungs removed during executions, study says

    218 points • comment • apr 10, 2022

  27. Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study

    218 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  28. Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet

    218 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  29. We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure

    218 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  30. Are film critics losing sync with audiences?

    216 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  31. Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death

    216 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  32. Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible

    216 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  33. Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter

    216 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  34. Iced – A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

    216 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  35. A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)

    216 points • comment • apr 24, 2022

  36. QOI – The Quite OK Image Format

    215 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  37. I'm tired of Google's business products

    215 points • comment • apr 14, 2022

  38. Redox OS 0.7.0

    215 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  39. Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

    215 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  40. Terraform Provider for Spotify

    214 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  41. Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot ROM, line 442?

    214 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  42. Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day

    214 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  43. Reading academic computer science papers

    213 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  44. Show HN: Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir

    213 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  45. Operating Systems: CPU Scheduling

    213 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  46. Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit

    213 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  47. Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal

    212 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  48. The great VC pullback of 2022

    212 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  49. Vim Color Schemes

    212 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  50. Why is selling software so weird?

    212 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  51. OpenMower – Open-source robot lawn mower [video]

    212 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  52. Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters

    211 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  53. My attempted cult recruitment

    211 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  54. Georgia to mandate personal finance education

    210 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  55. Valve Software Archive

    210 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  56. Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense

    210 points • comment • apr 28, 2022

  57. Show HN: How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework

    210 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  58. Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud

    210 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  59. I finally understand methane lifetimes

    210 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  60. What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (2011)

    210 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  61. Limitations of DALL-E

    209 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  62. HTTP Feeds

    209 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  63. Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq

    209 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  64. Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE

    209 points • comment • apr 23, 2022

  65. A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site

    208 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  66. Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction

    208 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  67. FAANG promo committees are killing Kubernetes: A Short Thread

    207 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  68. Raspberry Pi update removes the default user

    207 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  69. Markov Chains for programmers

    207 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  70. Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

    206 points • comment • apr 29, 2022

  71. Cython is 20

    206 points • comment • apr 04, 2022

  72. Vancouver Zoning Map

    206 points • comment • apr 08, 2022

  73. Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

    205 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  74. Reloadium – Advanced hot reloading for Python

    205 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  75. GenieFramework – Build web applications with Julia

    205 points • comment • apr 06, 2022

  76. The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

    205 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  77. rand() may call malloc()

    205 points • comment • apr 07, 2022

  78. How to run a city-wide wireless network from a drawer

    204 points • comment • apr 03, 2022

  79. Insect Hotel

    204 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  80. Notable items missing from English Wikipedia

    203 points • comment • apr 16, 2022

  81. New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

    203 points • comment • apr 15, 2022

  82. Pounce: A multiplayer stealth game about hunting / tracking

    202 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  83. Overgrowth: Open-Source Announcement

    202 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  84. BCI lets completely “locked-in” man communicate

    202 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  85. Ask HN: Best way to learn about computing history?

    202 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  86. My macOS keyboard shortcuts

    202 points • comment • apr 01, 2022

  87. Lenovo Forums stores plaintext password as a cookie

    201 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  88. pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript

    201 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  89. NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit

    201 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  90. HUDS and GUIs: an inspiration resource site featuring Future User Interfaces

    201 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  91. How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (2018)

    201 points • comment • apr 02, 2022

  92. 40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years

    200 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  93. Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

    200 points • comment • apr 20, 2022

  94. The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information

    200 points • comment • apr 05, 2022

  95. The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone

    200 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  96. Meta COO Sandberg reportedly tried to block story about Activision CEO Kotick

    200 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  97. Middle managers fear they've become irrelevant with work from home

    200 points • comment • apr 09, 2022

  98. Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

    199 points • comment • apr 22, 2022

  99. Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use

    199 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  100. How to organize yourself as a solo founder

    199 points • comment • apr 05, 2022