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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Why Nagasaki? (2013)

    55 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  2. Tell HN: Spotify Premium is full of Ads

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  3. Immune cells acquire genomic scars in a lifetime defending against infection

    55 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  4. Embracer enters into agreement to acquire The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit IP

    55 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  5. How to Exit Vim

    55 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  6. Algebraic Semiotics (2020)

    55 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  7. Ask HN: Where to meet people who are interested in building a company together?

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  8. An Astronomer's Introduction to NumPyro

    55 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  9. Launch HN: DeploySentinel (YC S22) – End-to-end tests that don't flake

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  10. Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  11. Apple asked for a cut of Facebook’s ad sales years before it stifled Facebook

    55 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  12. U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang

    55 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  13. The Feynman Technique

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  14. Ask HN: Should grapefruit juice have warning labels for medicine interactions?

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  15. The ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  16. TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  17. Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

    55 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  18. C++ Expression Templates: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo & XTensor (2020)

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  19. “Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009)

    55 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  20. I increased my traffic 13,000% by changing a title

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  21. Anarchy Works (2010)

    55 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  22. Median webpage size was 2.3 MB in July

    55 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  23. Fiction Is History: A journey through Joseph Conrad’s life at sea

    54 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  24. Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve?

    54 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  25. Largest Japanese Anime Database “Anime Taizen” Opens to the Public Today

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  26. CEO's LinkedIn Crying Selfie About Layoffs Met with Backlash

    54 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  27. Ask HN: Anyone using Swift on the server-side?

    54 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  28. Ask HN: What are examples of activities/bets with asymmetric upside?

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  29. JetBrains files liquidation of its main Russian subsidiary on Aug 19, 2022

    54 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  30. What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  31. eXpOS – An Educational Operating System

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  32. Show HN: I Created a personal radio platform that delivers news, podcasts, music

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  33. Uber's still not profitable

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  34. PostScript Control Structures (2003)

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  35. Federated Credential Management API

    54 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  36. SmartDry’s useful laundry sensor to be cloud-bricked next month

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  37. You Shouldn't Use Manjaro

    54 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  38. Meta’s chatbot replying that Dutch politican is a terrorist

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  39. Linode EU-West (London) is out again

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  40. StackOverflow Is Down

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  41. An attacker is currently draining 100s of Solana, $SOL, wallets and SPL tokens

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  42. Why the term "open source" is important

    54 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  43. Microsoft blocks Tutanota users from own service

    54 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  44. Open to a fault: On the passive compromise of TLS keys via transient errors [pdf]

    54 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  45. An artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet (2021)

    54 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  46. Not getting a new computer

    54 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  47. Revirt – Virtualization on Redox OS

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  48. Joe Bernard successfully land solid fuel model rocket after 7 years (video)

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  49. Discord Switching to React Native for Android App

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  50. Göring’s Man

    53 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  51. A history of storage media (2017)

    53 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  52. Slackmoji has been sunset due to cease and desist (2018)

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  53. How the light moves

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  54. Activities for Boring Meetings (2012)

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  55. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  56. Reading bits with zero refill latency

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  57. Severance is the workplace thriller we’ve needed

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  58. Play 1978 Oregon Trail in the browser

    53 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  59. Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?

    53 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  60. Simplicity Is an Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  61. Open Source Game Clones

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  62. The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America

    53 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  63. Psychological Problems of Interplanetary Travel (1975)

    53 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  64. Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case

    53 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  65. Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  66. Using your phone as a software development platform

    53 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  67. Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost the US Economy $14.5T by 2070

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  68. How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning

    53 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  69. Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?

    52 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  70. Starlink could be an ecological disaster

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  71. Apple Rhapsody revisited, to go (2014)

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  72. A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to ancient traditions

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  73. Tips for Better Burgers (2010)

    52 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  74. Do regex dream of Turing Completeness? (2021) [video]

    52 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  75. Abusing container mount points on MikroTik's RouterOS to gain code execution

    52 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  76. The commissar for traffic presents the latest five-year plan (2014) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  77. Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985)

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  78. Ask HN: What are the ways you go about getting comfortable with a new codebase?

    52 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  79. How to access Reddit without ads and tracking

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  80. America’s First Black Physician (2021)

    52 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  81. Ask HN: Are you going to quit?

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  82. Separation Logic

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  83. Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

    52 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  84. A Brief History of Peanut Butter (2021)

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  85. Show HN: Build for any cloud with the same code

    52 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  86. Giant Keyboard Is Just Our Type

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  87. In the U.S. Nepotism Is Key to Economic Success

    52 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  88. The effects of grounding on inflammation

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  89. France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them

    51 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  90. Hyperparasite

    51 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  91. U.S. Ship Sunk by Germans in 1917 Is Found Off English Coast

    51 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  92. How safe are nuclear power plants?

    51 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  93. I Am a Spammer. AMA (2009)

    51 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  94. A History of HTML (1998)

    51 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  95. Stop using DICT dictionary apps (such as GNOME/MATE Dictionary)

    51 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  96. The rise of ‘ARPA-everything’ and what it means for science (2021)

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  97. An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  98. Is Heroku’s DNS down again?

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  99. Superlattices Could Make Bulky Capacitors Obsolete

    51 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  100. Diffsound: Discrete Diffusion Model for Text-to-Sound Generation

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2022