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Hacker News (May 2022)

  1. Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest

    302 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  2. The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence

    302 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  3. Bitwarden: Generate a Username

    301 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  4. Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf]

    300 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  5. Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux

    300 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  6. After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’

    299 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  7. What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?

    299 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  8. I Miss Heroku's DevEx

    299 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  9. The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting

    299 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  10. Modern Python Performance Considerations

    299 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  11. Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

    298 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  12. Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

    298 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  13. The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose

    296 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  14. Feather Wiki: app for creating personal non-linear notebooks, databases, wikis

    296 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  15. A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

    296 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  16. Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

    296 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  17. Netflix lays off about 150 employees

    296 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  18. El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets

    295 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  19. Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era

    295 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  20. Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?

    295 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  21. You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)

    295 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  22. Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)

    295 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  23. Programming in the Apocalypse

    294 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  24. How do video games stay in sync?

    294 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  25. I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (2019)

    293 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  26. Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit

    293 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  27. Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation

    292 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  28. Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps

    292 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  29. Lofi.co – Relax and Focus

    291 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  30. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)

    291 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  31. Morrowind 20-year anniversary book

    291 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  32. How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey

    288 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  33. Thoughts on OKRs

    288 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  34. Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL

    288 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  35. SwiftUI in 2022

    288 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  36. How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide

    288 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  37. Tell HN: My early access eBook over iOS made $120k in 1 year

    287 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  38. Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer

    287 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  39. HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

    286 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  40. How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8

    286 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  41. Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools

    285 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  42. Germany: Crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed

    284 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  43. Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage

    284 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  44. Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

    283 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  45. The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds

    283 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  46. The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)

    283 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  47. Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser

    283 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  48. OP-1 field

    282 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  49. Meld for Macs

    282 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  50. Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition

    282 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  51. Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

    281 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  52. Show HN: Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet

    281 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  53. Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book

    279 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  54. US Army's Land Trains (2020)

    279 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  55. I fixed my broken monitor with a hair dryer

    278 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  56. Tether Withdrawals Top $10B

    277 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  57. Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos

    276 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  58. A clean start for the web (2020)

    276 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  59. $35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII

    275 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  60. Vitamin D and Depression (2020)

    275 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  61. The Coming Food Catastrophe

    275 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  62. Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool

    274 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  63. Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale

    274 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  64. Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering

    273 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  65. Cities with Nice Weather

    273 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  66. How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax

    272 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  67. Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak

    272 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  68. Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money

    271 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  69. Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?

    270 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  70. U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public

    270 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  71. A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS

    270 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  72. How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising

    270 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  73. Python Standard Library changes in recent years

    269 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  74. Deletionpedia: Rescuing articles from Wikipedia's deletionism

    268 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  75. Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good teacher?

    268 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  76. NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens

    268 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  77. Dutch digital identity system crisis

    267 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  78. Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database

    267 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  79. Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?

    267 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  80. RCE over ham radio – Reverse shell via WinAPRS memory corruption bug

    267 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  81. Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”

    266 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  82. Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept

    265 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  83. Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid

    264 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  84. World record 477-mile-long lightning ‘megaflash’ confirmed over U.S.

    264 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  85. Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

    264 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  86. QCAD – Open Source CAD System

    264 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  87. SumatraPDF 3.4 Released

    263 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  88. Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security

    263 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  89. Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

    262 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  90. 460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6

    261 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  91. ‎Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30

    261 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  92. HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

    259 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  93. Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

    259 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  94. The big six matrix factorizations

    259 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  95. Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding

    259 points • comment • may 29, 2022

  96. Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative

    259 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  97. New DigitalOcean Pricing

    258 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  98. Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep burrito wrapped tightly

    258 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  99. Master’s Degree in Computer Science

    257 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  100. What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

    257 points • comment • may 26, 2022