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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Ask HN: How can I start a business to generate electricity?

    92 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  2. Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  3. Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  4. $5.6B cloud company Fivetran acquired its way to survival

    92 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  5. Interlisp Online

    92 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  6. The ejector seats that fire through the floor

    92 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  7. Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?

    92 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  8. Show HN: 1024, a 2048 Puzzle Game

    92 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  9. Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

    92 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  10. The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis

    92 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  11. DOE to invest up to $165M to advance domestic geothermal energy

    92 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  12. Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?

    91 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  13. Inappbrowser.com – see what JavaScript gets injected through an in-app browser

    91 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  14. Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

    91 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  15. Tesla wants videos of its cars running over child-sized dummies taken down

    91 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  16. Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture – Literature Prize 2018

    91 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  17. Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

    91 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  18. Why are there so few economies of scale in construction? Part I

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  19. PicoLisp

    91 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  20. The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation

    91 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  21. GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users

    91 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  22. Ask HN: What are some of your favorite YouTube channels?

    91 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  23. The Four Dirty C-Words of the Internet

    91 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  24. Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?

    91 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  25. Bridge Loans

    90 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  26. Presentation: Four programming languages from forty years ago (2018)

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  27. How to learn hard things in tech

    90 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  28. A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller

    90 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  29. Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across all platforms

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  30. Rust Linux kernel development

    90 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  31. Mercedes and Ferrari’s edge in the electric car age: high-end axial motors

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  32. The Peter Principle (1974) [video]

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  33. AllegroServe, a web server written in Common Lisp

    90 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  34. The Car-Replacement Bicycle (The Bakfiets)

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  35. Debugging Win32 Binaries in Ghidra via Wine

    89 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  36. The Slotted Counter Pattern

    89 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  37. One more clue to the Moon’s origin

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  38. A Review of the Art of the Metaobject Protocol (2010) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  39. Keeping a project bisectable

    89 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  40. Why Is a British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?

    89 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  41. Every U.S. Crypto Exchange (and Binance) Is Being Investigated by the SEC

    89 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  42. The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (2019)

    89 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  43. In two centuries, the labor to produce a kilogram of grain was reduced by 99.7%

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  44. Possible breakthrough to destroy PFAS using sodium hydroxide

    89 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  45. Play MSDOS Oregon Trail 1990 on archive.org

    89 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  46. Show HN: Density userstyle to remove spacing from popular websites

    89 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  47. I wish I could organize my thoughts

    89 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  48. Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH from Tornado Cash

    89 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  49. Engine Simulator: produce realistic sounds from various engine parameters

    88 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  50. FCC rejects LTD Broadband, Starlink RDOF bids

    88 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  51. Ask HN: Longevity for your parents, what to do?

    88 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  52. Rules for Weird Ideas

    88 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  53. Bit twiddling with Arm Neon: beating SSE movemasks, counting bits and more

    88 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  54. Simplicity of IRC

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  55. Labstack/echo: High performance, minimalist Go web framework

    88 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  56. Secret talks that could have prevented the Apple vs. Facebook war

    88 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  57. Subreply

    88 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  58. Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out?

    88 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  59. First Eco-Friendly Filter Removing 'Microplastics in Water,'

    88 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  60. A man’s lonely fight to ban private jets

    88 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  61. Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

    88 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  62. Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation

    88 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  63. The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998)

    88 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  64. Some ways to get better at debugging

    88 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  65. The fall of datacenter software

    88 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  66. Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980's [pdf]

    87 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  67. Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits

    87 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  68. Another Path to Intelligence

    87 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  69. The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)

    87 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  70. Tup – an instrumenting file-based build system

    87 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  71. Vector search just got up to 10x faster and vertically scalable

    87 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  72. Poorly configured cloud technology makes 5G networks worryingly hackable

    87 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  73. Unifying fold left and fold right in Prolog

    87 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  74. Ask HN: Chip startups?

    87 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  75. The open source paradox (2020)

    87 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  76. Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code

    87 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  77. The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (2005) [pdf]

    87 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  78. Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex

    86 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  79. Contrastive Representation Learning

    86 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  80. Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion

    86 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  81. A model for journalistic copypasta

    86 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  82. We thank Miss Mary Tsingou (2020)

    86 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  83. Launch HN: Artemis (YC S22) – Use comments to give code an interactive interface

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  84. Bank of America Email: “Update Your iPhone”

    86 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  85. The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at Hoover Dam

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  86. In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  87. The many derivatives of CP/M

    85 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  88. Fruit eating possibly linked to primates' large brain evolution (2017)

    85 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  89. Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle

    85 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  90. The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) [video]

    85 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  91. Photos of trains in the American West (2017)

    85 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  92. Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  93. The Pickleball Troll

    85 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  94. Losslessly Optimising Images

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  95. Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)

    85 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  96. Eqwalizer: A Type-Checker for Erlang

    85 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  97. Future trains could provide carbon capture

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  98. Flang: LLVM’s Fortran Front End

    85 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  99. Learning to Love Myself

    85 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  100. I have 218 browser tabs open

    85 points • comment • aug 01, 2022