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Hacker News (May 2022)

  1. Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    111 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  2. Why America has so few carpenters

    111 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  3. Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?

    111 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  4. Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

    110 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  5. Founders Resign at Mycroft.ai

    110 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  6. Porn Actress Kitty Lixo Gets IG Account Unbanned by Having Sex W Meta Employees

    110 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  7. Stars in distant galaxies are typically more massive

    110 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  8. Sound Blaster (DOS)

    110 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  9. Japanese Words in Neuromancer

    110 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  10. Alan Turing using math to repair his bike

    110 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  11. Tetra – Full stack reactive component framework for Django using Alpine.js

    109 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  12. When hits were stored on floppy disk and created with an Atari ST (2020)

    109 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  13. C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more

    109 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  14. Chimpanzees have diverse vocal sequences with ordered recombinatorial properties

    109 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  15. Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring

    109 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  16. Mental model examples and their explanations

    109 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  17. Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto

    109 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  18. Better.com Founder/CEO Personally Liable for $750M SoftBank Loan

    109 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  19. WTF Happened in 1971?

    109 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  20. “Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects

    109 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  21. Tell HN: 3 years of running a minimal blogging platform

    109 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  22. Quick fixes to your code review workflow

    108 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  23. Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India

    108 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  24. Thin Platforms

    108 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  25. We reduced 502 errors by caring about PID 1 in Kubernetes

    108 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  26. Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)

    108 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  27. ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data

    108 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  28. The Code Is the To-Do List

    108 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  29. Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Firefox Forks Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon

    108 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  30. How I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML

    108 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  31. The first image of Earth taken from outer space

    108 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  32. You say “cave dweller debugging”, I say debug logging

    108 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  33. I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim

    108 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  34. LWN Is Now on Mastodon

    108 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  35. A Faster Lexer in Go

    107 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  36. The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate

    107 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  37. Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix social media

    107 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  38. Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance

    107 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  39. People hated shopping carts when they first came out

    107 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  40. Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

    107 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  41. What I wish I knew about onboarding

    107 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  42. RouterOS – Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (2012)

    107 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  43. Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  44. Effective altruism and the current funding situation

    107 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  45. There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (2019)

    107 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  46. How we did it: SNL – “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders” (2013)

    107 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  47. Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption (2021)

    107 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  48. Take my app ideas

    106 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  49. Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest

    106 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  50. The Mitto AG surveillanve case – or why we must never backdoor encryption

    106 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  51. Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

    106 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  52. Digging through the archives of Scarfolk

    106 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  53. Lyrebird – a voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3

    106 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  54. Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games?

    106 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  55. Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?

    106 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  56. When eBPF meets TLS. Defeating TLS encryption with eBPF tricks [pdf]

    106 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  57. Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games

    106 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  58. Russian toops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a bad idea

    106 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  59. From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future

    105 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  60. Anomaly Six claims it can track the movements of ~3B devices in real time

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  61. To learn more quickly, brain cells break their DNA (2021)

    105 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  62. Book review: The Little Typer (2021)

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  63. The “World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer” Is a Hoax with Staged Photos [pdf]

    105 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  64. A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk

    105 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  65. 'Rater' is paid $10 hourly to teach Google's algorithm

    105 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  66. Range joins in DuckDB

    105 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  67. Tylr: A tiny tile-based editor

    105 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  68. RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History

    105 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  69. Eurovision Song Contest Bingo

    105 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  70. King George and Tsar Nicolas Looked a Lot Alike

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  71. Codeball – AI-powered code review

    104 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  72. Mysterious Memset

    104 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  73. How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder

    104 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  74. Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus

    104 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  75. The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture (2016)

    104 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  76. Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  77. Sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software

    104 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  78. How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021)

    104 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  79. Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the terminal

    104 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  80. The industry has been sizing kayak paddles wrong

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  81. How we fixed the ozone layer (2021)

    103 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  82. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine

    103 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  83. Devouring the Heart of Portugal

    103 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  84. Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces

    103 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  85. FreeBSD on the Graviton 3

    103 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  86. How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news

    103 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  87. Adding rollback netplay to a Game Boy Advance game from 2005: Part 1

    103 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  88. Bunnymark GL in Jai – 200k sprites at 200fps [video]

    103 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  89. My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer

    103 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  90. Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time

    103 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  91. Catalog of Elixir-specific code smells

    102 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  92. CRISPR tomatoes genetically engineered to be richer in Vitamin D

    102 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  93. The scourge of Rec dot gov (2021)

    102 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  94. Improving the foundation of our falling sand simulator

    102 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  95. Weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponized

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  96. Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

    102 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  97. A Fast Excel Formula Parser and Evaluator

    102 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  98. Notes on Virtual Threads and Clojure

    102 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  99. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach [video]

    102 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  100. Modern Pandas (Part 2): Method Chaining

    101 points • comment • may 01, 2022