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Hacker News (Jul 2022)

  1. The rise of air conditioning (2018)

    58 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  2. Black Widow Pulsar Sets Mass Record

    57 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  3. 3D-Printed Homes for Sale in Austin

    57 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  4. An Airbus A380 was flown on fuel derived from cooking oil

    57 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  5. PRR – a terminal tool for managing Pull Requests on GitHub

    57 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  6. Event-level prediction of urban crime reveals a enforcement bias in US cities

    57 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  7. The art of meticulous disassembly (2011)

    57 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  8. Solana stablecoin violently de-pegs

    57 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  9. Meiosis is all you need

    57 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  10. Ted Gioia: The history of music innovation [video]

    57 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  11. German Government Lied About Nuclear

    57 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  12. Schönhage–Strassen Algorithm

    57 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  13. College financial aid is a sham based on what colleges think families will pay

    57 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  14. Show HN: Redbean 2.0 in Docker

    57 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  15. Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

    57 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  16. Crypto Ancienne 2.0 brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS)

    57 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  17. The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)

    57 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  18. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Review

    57 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  19. Hypergraphs Reveal Solution to 50-Year-Old Problem

    57 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  20. Security policy audits: Why and How

    57 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  21. Logistics Collapse

    57 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  22. Wittgenstein at War

    57 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  23. DiscoArt: Create compelling Disco Diffusion artworks in one line

    57 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  24. The data rules worth $40k a day

    57 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  25. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal

    57 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  26. Show HN: CSVFiddle – Query CSV files with DuckDB in the browser

    56 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  27. Ancient Siberian dogs relied on humans for seafood diets

    56 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  28. Layoffs Create a Vacuum for Fraud

    56 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  29. Protect your data from ransomware with S3 Object Lock

    56 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  30. US Doesn't Care About Financial Crimes

    56 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  31. New study lays out hidden backstory behind deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave

    56 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  32. A new way to predict when software jobs will become automated

    56 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  33. Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide

    56 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  34. The State of Fortran Generics

    56 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  35. Captive Portals

    56 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  36. World’s fairs acted as showcases for American cocktail ingenuity

    56 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  37. Volkswagen bringing back Scout brand truck as electric vehicle made in America

    56 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  38. Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

    56 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  39. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

    56 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  40. Behind Closed Doors review – entertaining study of London private members’ clubs

    56 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  41. Windows lost market share in the last decade

    56 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  42. Canada’s Federal Police Have Been Using Malware to Snoop on Communication

    56 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  43. Making Things Think – AI Book

    55 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  44. Beating the Averages (2001)

    55 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  45. What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?

    55 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  46. FFmpeg 5.1 out – LTS release

    55 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  47. VM/370 Community Edition V1R1.2 released

    55 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  48. I raised my kids on the command line and they love it

    55 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  49. Cold emails and Twitter (2018)

    55 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  50. Art is crime [NFT artist funds seized]

    55 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  51. A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers

    55 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  52. Exit, pursued by a bear

    55 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  53. Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false arrests

    55 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  54. The Old Reader

    55 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  55. Admit It, Squirrels Are Just Tree Rats

    55 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  56. Ask HN: One team lead always builds a monoethnic team – what to do?

    55 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  57. Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go?

    55 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  58. The simple usefulness of the Secchi disk

    55 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  59. AWS breaking changes

    55 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  60. YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating

    55 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  61. Crypto-assets and decentralized finance through a financial stability lens

    55 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  62. Clinically clean lenses are destroying what makes cameras special

    55 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  63. GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite technologies

    55 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  64. Crash – A real-time creative coding environment for robot arms

    54 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  65. Elon Musk’s Friendship with Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair

    54 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  66. New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU

    54 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  67. Show HN: Logto beta – build universal sign-in, auth, and identity with ease

    54 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  68. Meta is pulling the plug on its crypto payments wallet, Novi

    54 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  69. Electric seagliders could enable short-haul emissions-free air travel

    54 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  70. BMList – A list of big pre-trained models (GPT-3, DALL-E2...)

    54 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  71. French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse

    54 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  72. Simple game programming through a comic

    54 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  73. Show HN: A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines

    54 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  74. What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos?

    54 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  75. ‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave

    54 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  76. People Who Apply for Jobs by Showing Up

    54 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  77. Eiffel Tower riddled with rust and in need of repair, leaked reports say

    54 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  78. Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal

    54 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  79. Moving to zsh (2019)

    54 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  80. The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursuit of focus

    54 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  81. Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models

    54 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  82. World Container Index

    54 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  83. 300% Increase in Boob Size on Comic Book Cover Art

    54 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  84. Aya: your tRusty eBPF companion

    53 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  85. From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary

    53 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  86. Ejabberd scalability: single node with 2M concurrent users (2016)

    53 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  87. The first RISC-V laptop announced with quad-core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux support

    53 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  88. Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

    53 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  89. “Today is a hard day for OpenSea, as we’re letting go of ~20% of our team.”

    53 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  90. “Shit Academics Say” Twitter account hacked, Twitter Support refusing help

    53 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  91. World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the California coast

    53 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  92. Fresnel Integral

    53 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  93. Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most American’s Urine

    53 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  94. Potted History: The canning of food

    53 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  95. Ask HN: Help? My YouTube channel was suspended

    53 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  96. Show HN: Open-Source Notion UI, Lotion

    53 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  97. How to fold a Julia fractal (2013)

    53 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  98. CDs to flexible biosensors: Researchers discover inexpensive recycling method

    53 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  99. Breaking the warp barrier: solitons in Einstein–Maxwell-plasma theory (2021)

    53 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  100. The stock market is a machine for creating cults

    53 points • comment • jul 17, 2022