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Hacker News (Jul 2022)

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

    306 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  2. How does rsync work?

    305 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  3. SATAn: Air-Gap Exfiltration Attack via Radio Signals from SATA Cables

    304 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  4. Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay

    304 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  5. The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time

    303 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  6. The Case for C# and .NET

    303 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  7. How to drive away your best engineers

    303 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  8. Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time

    302 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  9. Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship

    302 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  10. Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-old D7100 DSLR camera

    302 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  11. Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer

    301 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  12. Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use

    301 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  13. Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid

    301 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  14. Remote Attestation is coming back

    301 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  15. 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

    300 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  16. How I clean my glasses

    300 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  17. Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment

    300 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  18. Open source is not about you (2018)

    299 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  19. Logging in Python like a pro

    299 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  20. Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts

    299 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  21. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

    299 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  22. Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

    297 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  23. OpenDroneMap

    297 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  24. Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous

    296 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  25. The GPU shortage is over

    293 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  26. Darktable 4.0

    292 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  27. Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1

    290 points • comment • jul 29, 2022

  28. Pretty maps in Python

    290 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  29. Swallowing the elephant into Blender

    289 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  30. New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police

    289 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  31. Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points

    289 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  32. GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility

    288 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  33. Taking things less personally

    288 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  34. Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

    288 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  35. Books to read to understand financial crime

    288 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  36. From idea to paying customer

    287 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  37. How to fuck up an airport

    287 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  38. Bear Blog – A privacy-first, fast blogging platform

    287 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  39. Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearly 30 years

    286 points • comment • jul 27, 2022

  40. Polio Detected in US

    286 points • comment • jul 22, 2022

  41. Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

    286 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  42. Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

    286 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  43. GPSJam: Daily Maps of GPS Interference

    285 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  44. The local news crisis is deepening America's divides

    284 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  45. Did the early medieval era ever take place?

    284 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  46. Python is Actually Portable

    284 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  47. Tech layoffs keep stacking up

    284 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  48. Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study

    283 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  49. I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

    282 points • comment • jul 15, 2022

  50. Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday shutdown benefit

    281 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  51. Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically

    281 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  52. Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

    280 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  53. Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%

    280 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  54. Being on call sucks

    280 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  55. The new wave of React state management

    279 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  56. RISC-V based single board computers are getting there

    279 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  57. A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

    278 points • comment • jul 24, 2022

  58. Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?

    278 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  59. Google’s in-house desktop Linux

    278 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  60. My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)

    277 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  61. Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam

    277 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  62. The Design of Everyday Things – Book Summary and Notes

    277 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  63. S3 isn't getting cheaper

    276 points • comment • jul 28, 2022

  64. Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?

    275 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  65. Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?

    275 points • comment • jul 03, 2022

  66. Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland

    274 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  67. My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman

    274 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  68. MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars

    273 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  69. Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns

    273 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  70. Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them

    273 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  71. Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]

    272 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  72. Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected

    272 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  73. Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)

    271 points • comment • jul 02, 2022

  74. Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no refunds offered

    271 points • comment • jul 07, 2022

  75. Programming Fonts

    271 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  76. Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience

    271 points • comment • jul 25, 2022

  77. Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery

    270 points • comment • jul 08, 2022

  78. Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996)

    270 points • comment • jul 13, 2022

  79. BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea

    269 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  80. Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation

    268 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  81. An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS

    268 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  82. Why rails buckle in Britain

    268 points • comment • jul 16, 2022

  83. Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive

    265 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  84. Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers

    265 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  85. An SPA Alternative

    265 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  86. Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS

    264 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  87. For centuries, English bakers’ biggest customers were horses

    264 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  88. MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body

    264 points • comment • jul 30, 2022

  89. A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)

    264 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  90. I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort

    263 points • comment • jul 04, 2022

  91. How Hong Kong became a police state

    263 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  92. Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

    262 points • comment • jul 17, 2022

  93. Auto manufacturer family tree: Who owns what?

    262 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  94. America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach

    262 points • comment • jul 19, 2022

  95. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

    262 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  96. Strange new phase of matter acts like it has two time dimensions

    260 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  97. See Thru Jet Engine [video]

    260 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  98. Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

    260 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  99. My experience writing and selling a short story

    259 points • comment • jul 12, 2022

  100. The Preprocessor Iceberg Meme

    259 points • comment • jul 14, 2022