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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Tutors / tips to change your English accent

    111 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  2. Debian Turns 29

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  3. Email Is Async

    111 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  4. Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense

    110 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  5. Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion

    110 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  6. Classic HN Links

    110 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  7. Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands

    110 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  8. Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

    110 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  9. Religion as an Ego-modulator

    110 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  10. Ask HN: Will AI-generated images flooding the web pollute future training data?

    110 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  11. LibVF.IO: Add support for GPU Virtual Machine (GVM)

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  12. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story

    109 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  13. DevDash: A highly configurable terminal dashboard

    109 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  14. Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  15. Best practices for TypeScript monorepo

    109 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  16. Why do some humans love chili peppers?

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  17. Depending in Common Lisp

    109 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  18. Using Mypy in Production

    108 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  19. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)

    108 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  20. Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999)

    108 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  21. Ten years with a Citroën C6 (2021)

    108 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  22. I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence

    108 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  23. Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees

    108 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  24. Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says

    108 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  25. The First Three Discworld Games

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  26. The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

    108 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  27. Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues

    108 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  28. John Muir's Alarm Clock Desk

    108 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  29. Colour evolution of Betelgeuse over two millennia, derived from records

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  30. Faster CRC32-C on x86

    107 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  31. Flight Simulator 2022: Ultra Realism on RTX 3090 with $100 Graphics Mods [video]

    107 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  32. Infineon chip flaws to disrupt IONIQ 5 EV production

    107 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  33. Zig Self-Hosted Compiler Upgrade Guide

    107 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  34. 20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning

    107 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  35. Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

    107 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  36. Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs

    107 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  37. Eastern European Guide to Writing Reference Letters

    107 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  38. The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

    107 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  39. Philip K. Dick’s dystopia

    106 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  40. Linux 6.1 will make it a bit easier to help spot faulty CPUs

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  41. My Lack of Attention

    106 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  42. The end of Moore's Law forced YouTube to make its own video chip

    106 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  43. Auto giants like BMW, GM and Toyota make drivers ‘subscribe’ for basic features

    106 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  44. Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)

    105 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  45. mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system

    105 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  46. The Evolution of Marginalia's Crawling

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  47. Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework

    105 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  48. A farmer’s hunch led to a lost monastery and a Neolithic surprise

    105 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  49. The James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript, Apparently

    105 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  50. A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  51. Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model

    105 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  52. What alcohol does to your body, brain and health [video]

    105 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  53. The Bay Area's lost streetcars

    105 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  54. The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival

    105 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  55. There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one

    105 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  56. The hero's journey of getting laid off

    105 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  57. Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  58. Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing

    104 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  59. Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle

    104 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  60. Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says

    104 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  61. Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  62. 1960s Bike Buses Used to Transport Cyclists Under the Thames

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  63. A software engineer's circuitous journey to calculate eigenvalues

    104 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  64. Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift

    104 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  65. The mitochondrial NAD+ transporter SLC25A51 is a fasting-induced gene

    104 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  66. On tea and the art of doing nothing

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  67. But You Told Me You Were Safe: Attacking the Mozilla Firefox Renderer (Part 1)

    104 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  68. Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)

    103 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  69. Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

    103 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  70. Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains

    103 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  71. 400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast

    103 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  72. The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas

    103 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  73. Ask HN: Google Search down?

    103 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  74. How to make Flappy Bird with C++

    103 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  75. US Gas Prices Fall Below $4 per Gallon; First Time Since March

    103 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  76. A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment

    103 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  77. As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

    102 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  78. The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi

    102 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  79. Company Tells Employees: Work ‘Voluntary’ Overtime or Go to Jail

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  80. Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  81. Project Possible: Ascending 14 peaks in 7 months

    102 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  82. Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  83. PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch

    102 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  84. Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015

    102 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  85. Mental Model Practices

    102 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  86. A Soviet test pilot ejected two seconds before the crash of his MiG-29 (2019)

    102 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  87. Sanyo Triple Five

    102 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  88. Your doppelgänger is out there and you probably share DNA with them

    102 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  89. Faster offset pagination for Rails apps

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  90. The future of interactive theorem proving?

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  91. Happiness Is Two Scales

    102 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  92. Show HN: I made a local development, debugging and hotreload tool for AWS Lambda

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  93. Permaculture Water Systems of the Seven Seeds Farm [video]

    101 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  94. What are Magnus Carlsen's chances of reaching 2900?

    101 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  95. Show HN: Convert English to Cron Expressions

    101 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  96. Can We Throw Satellites to Space? [video]

    101 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  97. Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  98. Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users

    101 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  99. To speak meaningfully about art

    101 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  100. Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

    101 points • comment • aug 20, 2022