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Hacker News (Jul 2022)

  1. Excel: Getting rid of everything except numbers

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  2. Decentral Bank fixes bug that let one user mint 10T USN for just $10

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  3. Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)

    44 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  4. Apple’s Hot iPhone Quarter Masks a Behind-the-Scenes Slowdown

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  5. Gazette – Build platforms that flexibly mix SQL, batch, and stream processing

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  6. The disintegrating cube

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  7. Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  8. Heads Up: Microsoft to Ban Commercial Open Source from App Store

    43 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  9. Ad company is teaming up with US carriers to take over your lock screen

    43 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  10. Meta cracks down on low performers staffer says feels like a 'witch hunt'

    43 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  11. Artist Kenichi Kanazawa makes geometric designs using sound waves (2020)

    43 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  12. External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears (2019)

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  13. Cryptanalyzing MEGA in Six Queries

    43 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  14. Codebot.Tiny – A tiny library for rendering animated 2D/3D graphics

    43 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  15. Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.4

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  16. The Commodore Plus/4, 3-Plus-1 and computer literacy

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  17. Why Linux Succeeded

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  18. Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  19. Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering

    43 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  20. GPT-3 fails horribly, then I coax it into figuring out how to phreak a payphone

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  21. DALL-E Chess in Jungle and Dunes

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  22. Execline – an interpreter-less scripting language

    43 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  23. School’s out for summer and many teachers are calling it quits

    43 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  24. Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession

    43 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  25. I got fired for unionizing at Starbucks and I’d do it again

    43 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  26. Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts

    43 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  27. Class Action Lawsuit Filed over California Gun Owners' Data Leak [pdf]

    43 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  28. Who’s Using Common Lisp?

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  29. Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?

    42 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  30. Formal CHERI: design-time proof of architecture security properties

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  31. Sybil attacks on airdrops

    42 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  32. 75% of middle-class households say their income is behind the cost of living

    42 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  33. Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from A to B in the early 1900s (2020)

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  34. Netflix loses almost a million subscribers

    42 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  35. Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work

    42 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  36. U.S. Mass Shootings on Rise No Matter How You Define Them – The Marshall Project

    42 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  37. Nashvillians Are Weaponizing Metro Codes Against ‘Undesirable’ Neighbors

    42 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  38. Show HN: A CLI to avoid remembering HTTP status codes

    42 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  39. The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed

    42 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  40. Hilarious 'Web 3 Console' Will Never, Ever Happen

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  41. Nikon is reportedly dropping out of the market for SLR cameras

    42 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  42. Forget the Hype, “Thinking Machines” Can’t Replace Humans

    42 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  43. Most workers want their employer to share their values

    42 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  44. PyAlgoViz: Python Algorithm Visualizations done in Python running in the browser

    42 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  45. The Saint of Mathematics

    42 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  46. AI Forecasting: One Year In

    42 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  47. McDonald's and Optimal Pricing Strategies

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  48. Python Negatypes (2021)

    42 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  49. Diffusers: Modular Diffusion model library from HuggingFace

    42 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  50. Ask HN: How to keep water-obsessed autistic child from wasting water?

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  51. American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture

    42 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  52. Tesla cashes out $936M in Bitcoin

    42 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  53. Jitter a Git-based binary manager for Linux written in Nim

    42 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  54. EU legislation eIDAS article 45.2 may force inclusion of insecure QWAC root CAs

    42 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  55. The People Of The Cloud

    42 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  56. Full-office tech jobs pay 1.9x less than full-remote

    42 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  57. Florida police department diverting calls to mental health staff

    42 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  58. Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know

    42 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  59. Microsoft prohibits selling open source / free apps on windows store

    41 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  60. Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

    41 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  61. BlackRock suffers $1.7T loss in 6 months: Worlds largest asset manager

    41 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  62. DuckDuckGo, others warn Big Tech will attempt to weasel out of fair play rules

    41 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  63. Covid learning loss has been a global disaster

    41 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  64. Untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service

    41 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  65. What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right – and wrong – about the future

    41 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  66. Content-Based Image Retrieval

    41 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  67. Ask HN: Are you cutting back on subscription services?

    41 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  68. Green Dogma Behind Fall of Sri Lanka

    41 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  69. Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

    41 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  70. Samsung Launches 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM

    41 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  71. The Curse of Konzo (2018)

    41 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  72. Concatenative K

    41 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  73. Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes (2016)

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  74. The Art of the Family Photo

    41 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  75. Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive

    41 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  76. Lion's mane mushrooms: Benefits and side effects

    41 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  77. Electronic Music: Allen Strange's Classic Book Reissued

    41 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  78. Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site

    41 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  79. A self-contained AVR programmer using an Arduino Uno

    41 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  80. Yes, there is such a thing as a formerly developed country

    41 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  81. Superman 64

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  82. Klemperer rosette

    41 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  83. Architecture Decisions in Neon

    41 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  84. Are Buy Now Pay Laters the Next Bubble?

    41 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  85. The New Era of Nicotine

    41 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  86. The Sky Thief (2021)

    41 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  87. Voyager Digital suspends trading, deposits and withdrawals

    41 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  88. Tell HN: Gitlab.com doesn't allow issue search without signing in

    41 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  89. UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s Spycatcher files (2021)

    41 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  90. Show HN: Qboard, a drawing app with Vim-style keybindings

    41 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  91. Average new car transaction price hits a record $48,043

    41 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  92. MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change

    40 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  93. Lisp in Vim (2019)

    40 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  94. Show HN: Bebo – run Clojure scripts on Deno

    40 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  95. Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  96. The Future of System Memory Is Mostly CXL

    40 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  97. Interview with the Panama Papers Whistleblower

    40 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  98. The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat (2014)

    40 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  99. Diablo Immortal brought $100M to developers in less than two months

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  100. Netherlands poised to make work-from-home a legal right, says report

    40 points • comment • jul 12, 2022