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Hacker News (Jul 2022)

  1. The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar

    371 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  2. $9.99/month

    370 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  3. Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

    369 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  4. They're made out of meat (1991)

    369 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  5. 10% of the top million sites are dead

    368 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  6. Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh

    366 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  7. How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?

    366 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  8. Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

    366 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  9. How I Experience the Web Today

    365 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  10. EdgeDB 2.0

    365 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  11. Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

    365 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  12. Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes

    364 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  13. Decompiler Explorer

    364 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  14. Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

    363 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  15. A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s

    363 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  16. Show HN: Copy React code from any site

    362 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  17. Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1

    361 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  18. Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls

    360 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  19. Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips

    360 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  20. Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more

    360 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  21. Love Song to Costco

    359 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  22. Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

    359 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  23. Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping

    357 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  24. An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love

    357 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  25. Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting banner?

    355 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  26. Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (2019)

    354 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  27. Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

    354 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  28. Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze (2014)

    351 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  29. FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 Mbps

    350 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  30. CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles

    350 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  31. Watching an acquirer ruin your company

    350 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  32. Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

    348 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  33. To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

    348 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  34. Show HN: Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator

    347 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  35. Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]

    346 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  36. He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal

    345 points • comment • jul 05, 2022

  37. Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019

    344 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  38. Thoughts on the potato diet

    342 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  39. Rust is actually portable

    342 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  40. Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel?

    342 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  41. Archive.org Seeks Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Filed by Publishing Companies

    342 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  42. Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB

    340 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  43. When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders

    339 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  44. Learn TLA+

    338 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  45. Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story

    337 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  46. Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp

    337 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  47. Signal: You were the chosen one [video]

    335 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  48. 4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

    335 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  49. Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme

    334 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  50. China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads

    334 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  51. My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

    334 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  52. Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest user data for months

    334 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  53. Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?

    333 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  54. Supply chain issues are killing synth companies

    333 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  55. I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)

    333 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  56. A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination

    333 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  57. Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range

    332 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  58. Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge

    332 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  59. Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs

    332 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  60. Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol

    332 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  61. Teens are rewriting what is possible in the world of competitive Tetris

    330 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  62. How I went about learning Rust

    330 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  63. AWS us-east-2 outage

    329 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  64. Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens

    328 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  65. As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

    328 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  66. 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled

    327 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  67. Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO

    326 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  68. WeatherKit

    326 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  69. The GNU Name System

    325 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  70. Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

    325 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  71. Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

    325 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  72. GTA GeoGuesser

    324 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  73. James Lovelock has died

    324 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  74. Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (2019)

    322 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  75. Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’

    321 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  76. UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption

    320 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  77. Ask HN: What can you realistically manufacture in your garage?

    319 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  78. Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla

    319 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  79. Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

    317 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  80. Bad UI is causing people to get scammed

    316 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  81. People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows

    316 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  82. Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards

    315 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  83. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

    315 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  84. Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

    315 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  85. Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

    314 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  86. Gnucash – open-source accounting software for personal and small businesses

    314 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  87. How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing

    314 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  88. The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)

    311 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  89. What happens when a reservoir goes dry

    311 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  90. LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

    311 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  91. The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges

    311 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  92. Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells

    311 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  93. Show HN: Remove unwanted objects in photos simply by dragging boxes

    310 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  94. Famous HNers and their sites

    310 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  95. Fake Dog for Home Security

    310 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  96. Project Naptha

    309 points • comment • jul 11, 2022

  97. Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

    308 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  98. On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations

    308 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  99. Shor, I’ll do it (2007)

    308 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  100. Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k

    306 points • comment • jul 23, 2022