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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died

    474 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  2. MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

    474 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  3. AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage

    473 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  4. Hacker News Official API

    472 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  5. Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

    471 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  6. The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

    470 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  7. Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

    470 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  8. VPNs on iOS are a scam

    466 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  9. Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone

    466 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  10. Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks

    461 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  11. Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin

    459 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  12. Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

    457 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  13. You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)

    456 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  14. Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven

    454 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  15. Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

    447 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  16. Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

    445 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  17. MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

    445 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  18. How and why I built Japan Dev

    445 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  19. Rust – A hard decision pays off

    443 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  20. John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

    443 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  21. The Story of Mel (1983)

    441 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  22. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

    439 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  23. Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

    438 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  24. The coming tsunami of fakery

    437 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  25. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

    437 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  26. Diablo 1 for Web Browsers

    437 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

    436 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  28. 1 week of Stable Diffusion

    436 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  29. Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion

    435 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  30. Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites

    434 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  31. DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

    434 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  32. Big changes ahead for Deno

    431 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  33. I love my GPD Micro PC

    430 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  34. Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion

    429 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  35. Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

    429 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  36. Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

    426 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  37. Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

    426 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  38. What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

    425 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  39. Redis explained

    422 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  40. DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source

    421 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  41. Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

    419 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  42. Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

    418 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  43. Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer

    417 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  44. My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

    417 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  45. Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

    416 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  46. Open AirPlay 2 Receiver

    412 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  47. FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot

    412 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  48. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

    409 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  49. Goat Rental – Hire Goats

    408 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  50. Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression

    406 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  51. CEO Shadow Program

    404 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  52. Let websites framebust out of native apps

    404 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  53. Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)

    403 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  54. Botspam apocalypse

    403 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  55. From novice to master, and back again (2013)

    403 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  56. Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

    400 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  57. Programming breakthroughs we need

    400 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  58. Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    400 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  59. American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft

    400 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  60. Why do arrays start at 0?

    399 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  61. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    399 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  62. What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out

    398 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  63. Raft Consensus Animated (2014)

    398 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  64. Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine

    398 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  65. Oracle Suspended My Account

    395 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  66. Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

    394 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  67. Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?

    394 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  68. Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

    394 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  69. Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

    394 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  70. I still love PHP and JavaScript

    393 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  71. Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling

    389 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  72. Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach

    389 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  73. Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode

    387 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  74. Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled

    387 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  75. Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

    386 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  76. The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun

    386 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  77. TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month

    385 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  78. The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots

    383 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  79. Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch

    379 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  80. Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi

    376 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  81. Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

    376 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  82. StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

    376 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  83. Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive

    375 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  84. Docker Compose best practices for dev and prod

    374 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  85. Old jokes

    373 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  86. Snap lays off 20% of employees

    373 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  87. Write a note to your spouse every day

    373 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  88. Zig is now self–hosted by default

    371 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  89. Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle

    371 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  90. Mysterious holes on the seafloor

    371 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  91. Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission

    370 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  92. Workplace surveillance is coming for you

    367 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  93. Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system

    367 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  94. Thank You, Firebug (2017)

    367 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  95. 6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard

    366 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  96. GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos

    365 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  97. How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?

    365 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  98. Finnish as a world language?

    364 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  99. Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam

    363 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  100. A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers

    363 points • comment • aug 19, 2022