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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

    1541 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  2. Design the next iPhone

    1450 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  3. The Big [Censored] Theory

    1395 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  4. Use one big server

    1384 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  5. 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything

    1365 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  6. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

    1281 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  7. Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

    1227 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  8. Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

    1207 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  9. Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit

    1197 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  10. Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

    1097 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  11. I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

    1084 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  12. What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

    1046 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  13. An odd discovery on Spotify

    1034 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  14. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

    1021 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  15. Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies

    986 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  16. Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

    985 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  17. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

    981 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  18. NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

    959 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  19. Mikhail Gorbachev has died

    941 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  20. A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page

    909 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  21. Removal of Heroku free product plans

    863 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  22. To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways

    851 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  23. A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

    840 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  24. Stable Diffusion is a big deal

    814 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  25. An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

    792 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  26. Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

    781 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  27. Things people blamed on bicycles

    751 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  28. Productivity porn

    744 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  29. “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

    742 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  30. RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD

    740 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  31. Welcome Home, Garry Tan

    739 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  32. Learn to sew your own outdoor gear

    733 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  33. We're improving search results when you use quotes

    723 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  34. A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor

    721 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  35. Stable Diffusion Public Release

    710 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  36. See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

    692 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  37. US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

    686 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  38. 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

    685 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  39. Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

    679 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  40. Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

    672 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  41. One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

    672 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  42. Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know

    663 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  43. Understanding Jane Street

    658 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  44. I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

    656 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  45. I hacked my car

    655 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  46. Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn

    654 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  47. There’s no speed limit (2009)

    654 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  48. How I regained concentration and focus

    653 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  49. Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

    650 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  50. Robinhood lays off 23% of staff

    649 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  51. GraphQL kinda sucks

    635 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  52. Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute

    624 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  53. It wasn't for nothing

    623 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  54. Nobody wants to teach anymore

    620 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  55. The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS

    618 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  56. Accounting For Developers, Part I

    616 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  57. SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas

    610 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  58. 90s Cursor Effects

    602 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  59. Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability

    600 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  60. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

    594 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  61. Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

    592 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  62. Stable Diffusion animation

    586 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  63. A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

    573 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  64. Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED

    573 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  65. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]

    566 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  66. Resolving an unusual WiFi issue

    565 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  67. Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

    564 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  68. Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150

    561 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  69. Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

    557 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  70. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

    557 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  71. Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

    555 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  72. JSON Visio – Visualize JSON data into graphs

    550 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  73. Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

    545 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  74. Fake IMDB credits

    542 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  75. SSH tips and tricks

    541 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  76. DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest

    537 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  77. How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency

    537 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  78. No More “Insight Porn”

    535 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  79. Is this the end of social networking?

    527 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  80. Mainnet Merge Announcement

    526 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  81. Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

    524 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  82. Add ability to choose a custom coordination server

    522 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  83. Don’t think to write, write to think

    519 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  84. Things not available when someone blocks all cookies

    519 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  85. Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years

    512 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  86. Why I built a dictionary app

    510 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  87. OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits

    510 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  88. App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

    506 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  89. Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade

    506 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  90. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

    500 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  91. Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

    498 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  92. Why no Roman industrial revolution?

    495 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  93. “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

    492 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  94. Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?

    485 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  95. Time Till Open Source Alternative

    482 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  96. It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet

    482 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  97. WebKit on GitHub

    482 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  98. Why I left Pine64

    482 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  99. Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

    482 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  100. Second-Order Thinking

    479 points • comment • aug 15, 2022