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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Why study functional programming? (2012)

    143 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  2. Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills

    143 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  3. AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture

    143 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  4. The CRPG Addict

    143 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  5. A spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation [video]

    143 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  6. Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats

    143 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  7. In the battle over the right to repair, open-source tractors offer alternatives

    143 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  8. After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready to fly

    142 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  9. How to design a referral program

    142 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  10. Apple and Globalstar Rumored to Announce Satellite Connectivity for iPhone 14

    142 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  11. AppLovin offers to buy Unity Software in $17.5 bln deal

    142 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  12. Helium

    142 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  13. Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)

    142 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  14. Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement

    142 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  15. Stable Diffusion launch announcement

    142 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  16. Why does anything exist?

    141 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  17. Copilot: Realtime programming language and runtime verification framework

    141 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  18. Making Quieter Technology

    141 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  19. Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters

    141 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  20. Emacs: Mastering Eshell

    141 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  21. Reflections on my time in Y Combinator

    141 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  22. Does my data fit in RAM?

    141 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  23. Google Titan M: Hey, Google! It's time to redeem your promise.

    141 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  24. Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust

    141 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  25. US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Broke

    141 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  26. Documenting software architecture with arc42

    141 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  27. Type of Barcodes and Their Usage

    141 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  28. BART’s excursion fare: Agency earns millions from passengers not riding trains

    141 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  29. Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality

    140 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  30. The Inner Osborne Effect (2021)

    140 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  31. Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (1997)

    140 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  32. CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

    139 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  33. Running Rust on Logic Gates

    139 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  34. A handy guide to financial support for open source

    139 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  35. Clojure Scripting on Node.js

    139 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  36. Float Toy

    139 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  37. Libgen-text: complete Library Genesis, re-packaged as text only (1.2TB)

    138 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  38. Hooking Go from Rust

    138 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  39. The OK? Programming Language

    138 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  40. Is the internet killing the nude beach?

    138 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  41. Snakisms

    137 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  42. Tether will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses

    137 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  43. YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)

    137 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  44. Three people in critical condition from Google data center 'electrical incident'

    137 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  45. Should notes be end-to-end encrypted?

    137 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  46. Military drone swarms and how to combat them

    137 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  47. The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript

    136 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  48. Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs

    136 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  49. The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers

    136 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  50. Axios Sells for $525M

    136 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  51. Modern Malaise

    136 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  52. The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator

    136 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  53. Amazon Reportedly Makes Offer to Acquire Electronic Arts

    136 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  54. A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life

    136 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  55. The AK-47

    136 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  56. A History of Lua (2001)

    136 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  57. Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany

    136 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  58. Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa

    135 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  59. Show HN: Tech Compensation in Europe

    135 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  60. Rsync client-side arbitrary file write vulnerability

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  61. Copyright infringement in AI art

    135 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  62. This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions

    135 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  63. Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

    135 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  64. IPFS and Their Gateways

    135 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  65. Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Men's Marathon

    134 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  66. How I learned to stop worrying and love macros

    134 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  67. FTC Takes Action to Stop Opendoor from Cheating Potential Sellers

    134 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  68. A generically typed pipe function in TypeScript

    134 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  69. Volcanic eruption starts in Iceland (Live webcam)

    134 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  70. I Choose Optimism

    134 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  71. Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York

    134 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  72. The art of sharpening pencils (2007)

    134 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  73. Show HN: Property Trends Scraped from Zillow

    134 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  74. I like Odin

    134 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  75. Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements

    133 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  76. Starting Sep 1, GPT-3 is becoming 3X Cheaper

    133 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  77. RTEMS Real Time Operating System

    133 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  78. FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  79. An intriguing discovery of Computer Science: The Y combinator [video]

    133 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  80. Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans

    133 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  81. Acorn: A simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes

    133 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  82. The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid

    133 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  83. Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?

    132 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  84. Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (2019)

    132 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  85. Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration

    132 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  86. Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  87. Earbirding – How to Visualize Sounds

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  88. Malcolm Gladwell opposes WFH while he works from his couch for the last 20 years

    132 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  89. Swedish tech startups and scaleups

    132 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  90. The Futures of Inform

    132 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  91. Ivy – An interpreter for an APL-like language

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  92. Formally Verifying Rust's Opaque Types

    131 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  93. Hacker News moved off AWS again at 10:17 PM PST

    131 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  94. The Excellent Schemer

    131 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  95. Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)

    131 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  96. Inter-brain sync occurs without physical copresence during online gaming

    131 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  97. How to choose the right Python concurrency API

    131 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  98. Git’s database internals II: commit history queries

    131 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  99. Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here

    131 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  100. Ask HN: Depressed, need to leave web development, what can I do?

    131 points • comment • aug 15, 2022