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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Prison Money Diaries: What People Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

    121 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  2. The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists

    121 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  3. Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?

    121 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  4. Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

    121 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  5. Prometheus: Fuel from the Air

    121 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  6. Heroku to discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts

    121 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  7. Spiders Seem to Have REM-Like Sleep and May Even Dream

    120 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  8. Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (2012)

    120 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  9. TinyTapeout: Get your design on an actual ASIC

    120 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  10. NetBSD 9.3

    120 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  11. Ask HN: More “experimental” UIs for editing/writing code?

    120 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  12. Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

    120 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  13. Physically Based: A Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials

    120 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  14. Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?

    120 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  15. DuckDuckGo Email

    120 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  16. The Penguin Random House trial

    120 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  17. Song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives

    120 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  18. Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?

    120 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  19. GM gives customers no choice to opt out of $1500 onstar subscription

    120 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  20. Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022

    120 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  21. Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body

    120 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  22. How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]

    119 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  23. Why use Paxos instead of Raft?

    119 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  24. Removal of Heroku Free Product Plans FAQ

    119 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  25. So you have decided to start a free software consultancy

    119 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  26. Starlink is reducing your monthly service fee

    119 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  27. North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]

    119 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  28. Zoom macOS app quietly added back cs.disable-library-validation entitlement

    119 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  29. Are we going back to the cable days?

    119 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  30. Mudge's redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure [pdf]

    119 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  31. How to Make a CubeSat

    119 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  32. Why is solar more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries?

    118 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  33. Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio

    118 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  34. A short sci-fi story written with GPT-3 and illustrated with DALL-E 2

    118 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  35. Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js

    118 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  36. Another ship stuck in Suez Canal – Affinity V

    118 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  37. Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming

    118 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  38. What is the cost of a cashless society?

    118 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  39. Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies

    118 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  40. Move fast or die: Key startup lessons

    118 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  41. Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese

    118 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  42. Microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance

    118 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  43. How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?

    118 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  44. Let's Talk SkipList

    117 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  45. Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)

    117 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  46. NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)

    117 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  47. TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

    117 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  48. Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

    117 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  49. Launch HN: Sematic (YC S22) – Open-source framework to build ML pipelines faster

    117 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  50. Understanding UseMemo and UseCallback

    117 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  51. Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime

    117 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  52. Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots

    117 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  53. Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea

    117 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  54. Slab City reaches its boiling point

    116 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  55. Using SSH_config Match to connect to a host using multiple IP or Hostnames

    116 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  56. Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser

    116 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  57. Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity

    116 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  58. Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?

    116 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  59. Android 13

    116 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  60. Apple to mandate three days in a week in the office by Labor Day

    116 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  61. The Quest for Fuel in World War II (1993)

    116 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  62. Programming and Writing

    116 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  63. P5.play

    116 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  64. Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server

    116 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  65. Best Practices for Using Webhooks

    116 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  66. How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them? (2019)

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  67. The top layer: a solution to z-index:10000

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  68. Ask HN: Are we building a tech dystopia?

    115 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  69. FDIC issues cease and desist letter to FTX US [pdf]

    115 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  70. Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning

    115 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  71. Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use

    115 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  72. SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies

    115 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  73. Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  74. The silence of risk management victory

    115 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  75. Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

    114 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  76. No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]

    114 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  77. Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator

    114 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  78. Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  79. Free online textbooks work

    114 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  80. ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally leaking uninitialized data from the microarchitecture [pdf]

    114 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  81. Americans will soon be able to renew passports online

    114 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  82. We switched to cursor-based pagination

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  83. What the Hell Is Up with Dilbert?

    114 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  84. An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)

    113 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  85. Chezmoi – Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely

    113 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  86. Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

    113 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  87. OpenCore Legacy Patcher

    113 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  88. The Google Pixel 6a highlights the problem with the U.S. phone market

    112 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  89. Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”

    112 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  90. Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch

    112 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  91. BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

    112 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  92. Abolish the PhD (2016)

    111 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  93. Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon

    111 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  94. Researcher finds a new method for recycling polystyrene

    111 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  95. Auto Traffic Control – A gRPC Programming Air Traffic Control Game

    111 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  96. Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color

    111 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  97. How prestige outlets get away with copypasta

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  98. Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go

    111 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  99. Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  100. Debian Turns 29

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2022