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Hacker News (May 2022)

  1. WordPress’ market share is shrinking

    257 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  2. Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project

    257 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  3. Internet drama in Canada

    256 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  4. Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing

    256 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  5. Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake

    255 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  6. Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO

    254 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  7. The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling

    254 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  8. Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’

    253 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  9. My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test

    253 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  10. Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement

    253 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  11. V86: x86 virtualization in the browser, recompiling x86 to WASM on the fly

    252 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  12. Jabra denies support for Elite 85t Bluetooth earbuds on computers

    252 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  13. You can create a great looking website while sucking at design

    252 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  14. Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act

    251 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  15. Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data

    251 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  16. I'm quitting my PhD

    250 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  17. Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health

    250 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  18. The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem

    250 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  19. Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support

    250 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  20. Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  21. SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining

    249 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  22. Stripe App Marketplace

    248 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  23. Britain should scrap its online safety bill

    248 points • comment • may 29, 2022

  24. I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed

    247 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  25. Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete

    247 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  26. Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)

    247 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  27. Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll

    246 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  28. Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function

    246 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  29. What we can deduce from a leaked PDF

    245 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  30. Proper use of Git tags

    245 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  31. Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)

    245 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  32. Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

    244 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  33. Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?

    244 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  34. Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python

    244 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  35. Home Assistant OS Release 8

    243 points • comment • may 29, 2022

  36. Logging C Functions

    243 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  37. Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    243 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  38. What Happened to Perl 7?

    242 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  39. I'm retiring from the engineering profession

    242 points • comment • may 29, 2022

  40. Singapore Government Tech Stack

    242 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  41. Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA

    241 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  42. Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days

    241 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  43. Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them

    241 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  44. Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)

    240 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  45. JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)

    240 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  46. Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on

    240 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  47. FireZone – Open-source VPN server and firewall

    239 points • comment • may 28, 2022

  48. Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager

    239 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  49. Two envelopes problem

    239 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  50. ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant

    239 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  51. Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B

    239 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  52. Surgery estimated cost $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000

    239 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  53. Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark

    238 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  54. Short URLs: Why and How

    238 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  55. Schools should be using open source software

    237 points • comment • may 30, 2022

  56. Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse

    237 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  57. Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs

    237 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  58. My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer

    237 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  59. On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on

    236 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  60. The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn

    236 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  61. TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states

    236 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  62. Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter

    236 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  63. Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes

    236 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  64. Modern programming languages require generics

    236 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  65. Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams

    236 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  66. Taskwarrior

    236 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  67. Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?

    236 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  68. Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16

    235 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  69. Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you

    235 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  70. Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support

    234 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  71. Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month

    233 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  72. Virtual Graph Paper

    232 points • comment • may 26, 2022

  73. Unauthorized gem takeover for some gems

    232 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  74. Riot Games: Artificial Latency for Remote Competitors

    232 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  75. Heroku CI and Review App Secrets Compromised

    232 points • comment • may 18, 2022

  76. “Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism

    232 points • comment • may 06, 2022

  77. Empirical Notes on Kissing

    232 points • comment • may 23, 2022

  78. Tell HN: Discord Ignores Right to Erasure

    231 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  79. No Fixed Address Bank Account

    231 points • comment • may 08, 2022

  80. A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)

    231 points • comment • may 25, 2022

  81. How to Be Successful (2019)

    230 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  82. Best Raspberry Pi Projects

    230 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  83. Emacs for Professionals

    229 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  84. Visual explanations of core machine learning concepts

    229 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  85. Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats

    229 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  86. Webb Telescope Image Sharpness Check

    229 points • comment • may 09, 2022

  87. Using TODO For Everything

    228 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  88. Windmill.dev

    228 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  89. How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

    228 points • comment • may 15, 2022

  90. Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?

    227 points • comment • may 13, 2022

  91. Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software

    227 points • comment • may 22, 2022

  92. RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents

    227 points • comment • may 27, 2022

  93. Abletone Learning Synth

    227 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  94. Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away

    227 points • comment • may 17, 2022

  95. Unofficial firmware upgrade for Dyson V6/V7 vacuum battery management system

    225 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  96. IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)

    225 points • comment • may 14, 2022

  97. Pop culture has become an oligopoly

    225 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  98. Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling

    224 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  99. A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

    224 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  100. PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

    224 points • comment • may 23, 2022