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Hacker News (Aug 2022)
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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
1541 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Design the next iPhone
1450 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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The Big [Censored] Theory
1395 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Use one big server
1384 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
1365 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
1281 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
1227 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
1207 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
1197 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
1097 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
1084 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
1046 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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An odd discovery on Spotify
1034 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
1021 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
986 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
985 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Librarian's Letter to Google Security
981 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
959 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Mikhail Gorbachev has died
941 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
909 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Removal of Heroku free product plans
863 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
851 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
840 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal
814 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
792 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
781 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Things people blamed on bicycles
751 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Productivity porn
744 points • comment • aug 03, 2022
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“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
742 points • comment • aug 09, 2022
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RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
740 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Welcome Home, Garry Tan
739 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
733 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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We're improving search results when you use quotes
723 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
721 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Stable Diffusion Public Release
710 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
692 points • comment • aug 18, 2022
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US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
686 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
685 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
679 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
672 points • comment • aug 22, 2022
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One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
672 points • comment • aug 27, 2022
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Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
663 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Understanding Jane Street
658 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
656 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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I hacked my car
655 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
654 points • comment • aug 23, 2022
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There’s no speed limit (2009)
654 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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How I regained concentration and focus
653 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
650 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
649 points • comment • aug 02, 2022
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GraphQL kinda sucks
635 points • comment • aug 06, 2022
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Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
624 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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It wasn't for nothing
623 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Nobody wants to teach anymore
620 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
618 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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Accounting For Developers, Part I
616 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
610 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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90s Cursor Effects
602 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
600 points • comment • aug 14, 2022
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Mindustry – Open-Source Game
594 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
592 points • comment • aug 20, 2022
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Stable Diffusion animation
586 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
573 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED
573 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
566 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
565 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
564 points • comment • aug 05, 2022
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Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
561 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
557 points • comment • aug 29, 2022
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
557 points • comment • aug 21, 2022
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Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
555 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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JSON Visio – Visualize JSON data into graphs
550 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
545 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Fake IMDB credits
542 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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SSH tips and tricks
541 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
537 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
537 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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No More “Insight Porn”
535 points • comment • aug 08, 2022
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Is this the end of social networking?
527 points • comment • aug 11, 2022
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Mainnet Merge Announcement
526 points • comment • aug 24, 2022
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Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
524 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
522 points • comment • aug 15, 2022
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Don’t think to write, write to think
519 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
519 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
512 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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Why I built a dictionary app
510 points • comment • aug 01, 2022
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OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
510 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
506 points • comment • aug 19, 2022
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Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
506 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
500 points • comment • aug 10, 2022
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Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
498 points • comment • aug 25, 2022
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
495 points • comment • aug 26, 2022
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“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available
492 points • comment • aug 07, 2022
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Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
485 points • comment • aug 16, 2022
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Time Till Open Source Alternative
482 points • comment • aug 28, 2022
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It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
482 points • comment • aug 13, 2022
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WebKit on GitHub
482 points • comment • aug 31, 2022
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Why I left Pine64
482 points • comment • aug 17, 2022
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Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux
482 points • comment • aug 30, 2022
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Second-Order Thinking
479 points • comment • aug 15, 2022