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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery–then gave the tech to China

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  2. Antibody fragment discovered that neutralizes all major Covid-19 variants

    38 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  3. Some clarification from one of the programmers (2003)

    38 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  4. Equifax Sent Lenders Inaccurate Credit Scores on Millions of Consumers

    38 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  5. Did Manuel Ramírez spend years in prison for murdering a man who is still alive?

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  6. An encrypted ZIP file can have two correct passwords – here's why

    38 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  7. Helium says its crypto mesh network is used by Lime and Salesforce – it isn’t

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  8. The Viable Systems Model, and where my team fits

    38 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  9. The Ecology of a Corporate IT Workplace

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  10. Northern California ranchers defy state orders to cut water usage

    38 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  11. Sea creatures pollinate marine plants and algae

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  12. Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational Awk code

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  13. Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot?

    38 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  14. Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam

    38 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  15. Googling 'cancer genetics conferences' only returns ads

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  16. NASA Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed

    38 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  17. Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (2013)

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  18. HNSJ: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process [pdf]

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  19. Ask HN: How do you keep marching?

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  20. Price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th

    38 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  21. Iran makes first import order using cryptocurrency – report

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  22. The Mensa Fallacy

    38 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  23. Iknowwhatyoudownload.com

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  24. Vifm: A Vim-like file manager

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  25. SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  26. Y Combinator Slashes Startup Accelerator Class Size by 40%

    38 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  27. Against Generality (2016)

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  28. Venture Fund Portfolio Construction

    37 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  29. Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? (2019)

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  30. America’s Affordable Housing Problem

    37 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  31. Attorney General Bonta Announces Settlement with Sephora on CCPA/GPC Enforcement

    37 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  32. John Carmack's Approach to AGI

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  33. Demystifying the LFSR

    37 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  34. Handheld RPI4 based computer with keyboard and display

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  35. Constructive and obsessive criticism in science

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  36. On Car Seats as Contraception

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  37. California to consider keeping last nuclear plant open

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  38. Using light to restore cell function

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  39. A History of Silicon Innovation at AWS [video]

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  40. Federal Court Upholds First Amendment for Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post

    37 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  41. Aussieplusplus: Programming Language from Down Under (2021)

    37 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  42. Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Windows 11 Start menu

    37 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  43. One dead, nine injured in autonomous test vehicle crash in Germany

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  44. Ask HN: Anyone here switch to Go for building (REST) APIs?

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  45. Understanding Transducers

    37 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  46. From working at Subway to one of the greatest mathematicians (2015)

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  47. The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist regimes

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  48. Ask HN: When did corporate America become so flaky?

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  49. How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  50. The Burglaries Were Never the Story

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  51. X-in-Y Lines of Code

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  52. An “Extreme Heat Belt” will soon emerge in the U.S.

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  53. Show HN: `pdf2searchablepdf` command-line tool to make PDF have searchable text

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  54. U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  55. University can’t scan students’ rooms during remote tests, judge rules

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  56. Passive exercise may benefit postexercise executive function

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  57. YSFlight Source Code Released

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  58. Quality of random number generator significantly affects Monte Carlo simulations

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  59. RaspberryPi for measuring bio signals (open source)

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  60. Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015)

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  61. Non-Machine Learning Image Matching with a Vector DB

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  62. Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn safety-critical C/C++ coding from?

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  63. London’s History, Washed Up on the Shores of the Thames

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  64. Using A Very Old Machine

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  65. Ask HN: Aging and learning. Does it become more difficult?

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  66. The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress over Product

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  67. Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders Through AI Facial Expression Evaluation

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  68. OpenAI was down

    37 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  69. Poland deploys troops as dead fish pile up on river bank in toxic disaster

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  70. What Tech Workers Don't Understand They've Lost by WFH

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  71. Ownership of debian.community domain

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  72. Why is recruiting developers so difficult?

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  73. Ask HN: How worried should I be about Google randomly suspending my accounts?

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  74. Bank Shot: Abe Assassin’s Wild Success

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  75. Ask HN: Does anyone here not own a phone?

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  76. What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)

    36 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  77. Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now?

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  78. Volkswriter Deluxe – One of the first word processors for the IBM PC

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  79. I Implemented Nyströmformer

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  80. Org-Mode as a Lightweight Notebook

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  81. St. Cuthbert's Beads

    36 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  82. How we perceive nature through our sense of smell

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  83. Linux 6.0 arrives with performance improvements and more Rust coming

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  84. Please Help! Our Apple Developer Account got flagged for removal without explain

    36 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  85. How Can We Create a Manual for Civilization? (2017)

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  86. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table (2019)

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  87. California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price

    36 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  88. Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus?

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  89. Integers, Decibels, and Graphs

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  90. Software from the Pits of Hell: Remembering Flashstuffer

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  91. Using Mushrooms for Fiber Dyeing

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  92. Barn raising: thoughts on going through change with the help of others

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  93. Apology for Video Games Research

    36 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  94. Non-Believers

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  95. Forecasting of energy consumption by G20 countries

    36 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  96. Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060

    35 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  97. Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man wants some in Arabic

    35 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  98. Sony Unlocks In-Camera Forgery-Proof Technology

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  99. A developper friendly (web) comic format

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  100. Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020

    35 points • comment • aug 31, 2022