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Hacker News (May 2022)

  1. Image of a genome autosuspends you from Twitter

    29 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  2. How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen

    29 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  3. Ask HN: Should I learn the tech behind crypto even if I don't want to own any?

    29 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  4. The Last Cigarette: Cinema’s most seductive prop

    29 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  5. Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services

    29 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  6. Notes on an Observability Team

    29 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  7. Maps All Through the Ages

    28 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  8. Could this pottery shard be a 1k-year-old hand grenade?

    28 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  9. Ask HN: Starting a Development Shop

    28 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  10. PayPal Has Begun Quietly Shuttering Left-Wing Media Accounts

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  11. Camera Films Itself Getting Launched Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000mph

    28 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  12. Nature and nurture contribute to signatures of socioeconomic status in the brain

    28 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  13. CSTA Survey Asks Teachers How to Help All but Asian/White Boys Succeed in CS

    28 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  14. Digital Pollution (2019)

    28 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  15. India IT Ministry orders VPN providers, crypto players to store data for 5 years

    28 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  16. Concepts of the Text Editor Lara (1985)

    28 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  17. Decompiling stack strings in Ghidra with emulation

    28 points • comment • may 29, 2022

  18. Ask HN: How to block Indian programming tutorial websites?

    28 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  19. Welcome to .NET Multi-Platform App UI

    28 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  20. Eric Schmidt’s Hidden Influence over US Defense Spending

    28 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  21. What’s down the road for silicon?

    28 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  22. How Albania Became a Pyramid Scheme

    28 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  23. Microsoft is making a native Arm version of Visual Studio 2022 and a mini PC

    28 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  24. HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

    28 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  25. Show HN: MockRTC – a mock peer and MitM proxy library for WebRTC

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  26. Incredible things Are Happening in Europe

    28 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  27. How many bots are on Twitter? Question is tough to answer and misses the point

    28 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  28. Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks dies aged 79

    28 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  29. Neural Network Follies (2003)

    28 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  30. WebAuthn, and Only WebAuthn

    28 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  31. Swiss Billionaire’s Mega-Influence on U.S. Politics

    28 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  32. AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache

    28 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  33. Le Paper Globe – a DIY paper terrestrial globe (2012)

    28 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  34. Food Deserts in America

    28 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  35. DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers

    28 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  36. Australia Liberal/National government voted out

    28 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  37. A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird

    28 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  38. Plex Media Server is pushing ads as push notifications

    28 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  39. Starlink adds $25/month to let users move their internet around

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  40. Show HN: A stab at building my own string diffing library

    28 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  41. History of the Salvator Mundi

    28 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  42. Elicit search: find research papers using GPT-3 (requires sign-up)

    28 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  43. Overthinking can be our superpower if we use it well

    28 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  44. Entanglement and superposition are equivalent concepts in any physical theory

    28 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  45. I helped negotiate the $22B sale to Facebook, Today, I regret it

    28 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  46. What rocks teach us about the human condition

    28 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  47. U.S. moves toward supplying Romania with a new style of nuclear plant

    28 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  48. FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness

    27 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  49. The Algol 68 Genie project

    27 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  50. 16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart

    27 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  51. React-ape: React Renderer to build UI interfaces using canvas/WebGL

    27 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  52. Considerations for Incremental Static Regeneration in Next.js

    27 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  53. Drivers Can’t Stop Crashing on This Highway Exit in Seattle

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  54. Exceptionally high quality deepfakes in Kendrick Lamar music video

    27 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  55. Ask HN: Hiring managers why don't you post salary range in your job postings?

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  56. Ask HN: Jobs After a Math PhD?

    27 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  57. No communication from Protonmail in its open-source repository

    27 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  58. Gergely Orosz: Meta rescinding E3 and E4 offers

    27 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  59. Magic Numbers: Treating “the algorithm” as a kind of divine power

    27 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  60. Ubuntu 22.04's new OOM kiler closes Firefox while in use

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  61. Some special cases of method dispatch in Julia

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  62. Netflix Lays Off Estimated 150 Staffers in New Round of Layoffs

    27 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  63. After returning to the office, many Apple workers are unhappy and ready to quit

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  64. Wi-Fi may be coming soon to a lamppost near you

    27 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  65. Texans asked to turn up thermostats after heat knocks six power plants offline

    27 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  66. Lemon Squeezy: Sell digital products the easy-peasy way

    27 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  67. NATO no longer bound by commitments to Russia, to beef up East Europe presence

    27 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  68. Twitter Board Says It Plans to ‘Enforce’ Musk Merger Agreement

    27 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  69. Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  70. Computer Scientists Prove That Certain Problems Are Truly Hard

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  71. Ask HN: Why does my '15 MacBook Air have the same RAM (8gb) as a '22 McBook Pro?

    27 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  72. EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to Hardware and Software

    27 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  73. Binance's LUNA investment, which peaked at $1.6B, now worth just $3k

    27 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  74. ISPs stop fighting California net neutrality law

    27 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  75. How to Compare Images Fairly (2017)

    27 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  76. Unlock the Door

    27 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  77. Putin the Planner

    27 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  78. Some Cryptography Books I Like

    27 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  79. DC Attorney General sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach

    27 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  80. Teaching the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)

    27 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  81. Popular Python and PHP libraries hijacked to steal AWS keys

    27 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  82. NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space

    27 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  83. Securing AWS Lambda Function URLs

    27 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  84. Oral History of Chuck Peddle (2014) [video]

    27 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  85. The Publishing Industry

    27 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  86. “I Have to Admit, I Have a Low Opinion of Human Beings”

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  87. It's Good to Bet on .NET

    27 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  88. Ask HN: Solo founders, what’s your got-hit-by-a-bus strategy?

    27 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  89. Magic Doesn‘t Happen, Especially Not in Business

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  90. Finding and fixing regressions in Lyft's data infrastructure

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  91. Show HN: What dogs can eat? (Web App)

    27 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  92. Meta spent nearly $27M on Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2021

    26 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  93. The Weather Year Round Anywhere on Earth

    26 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  94. Long-awaited accelerator ready to explore origins of elements

    26 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  95. AMD shares new details on Ryzen 7000, Zen 4

    26 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  96. Finding wisdom in Charles Baudelaire’s mad scribblings

    26 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  97. Am I the only person who can’t get a job?

    26 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  98. Ask HN: Who would you recommend following on Mastodon?

    26 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  99. Bone and tooth objects from the Late Bronze Age ‘shaman's grave’ in Poland

    26 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  100. Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera Reporter Killed by Israeli Gunfire

    26 points • comment • may 11, 2022