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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

    362 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  2. Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

    362 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  3. Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards

    361 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  4. Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions

    361 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  5. Cut the cutesy errors

    359 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  6. “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC

    359 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  7. Remote startups will win the war for top talent

    359 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  8. Excel is pretty dang cool

    356 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  9. Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)

    356 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  10. American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists

    354 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  11. Visual Sum of Cubes

    354 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  12. Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?

    354 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  13. Why are you so busy?

    353 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  14. Introduction to Apple Silicon

    352 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  15. The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives

    352 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  16. Shazam turns 20

    351 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  17. Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy

    351 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  18. .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04

    351 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  19. “10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control

    350 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  20. Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe

    350 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  21. I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)

    350 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  22. Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories

    349 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  23. Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition

    348 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  24. Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

    348 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  25. Coding as a greybeard

    347 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  26. Why is Snowflake so expensive

    346 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  27. Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format

    345 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  28. How SQLite Helps You Do ACID

    343 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  29. Color has been disappearing from the world

    343 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  30. Linux 5.19

    341 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  31. “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”

    339 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  32. Being swamped is normal and not impressive

    338 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  33. Tesla Virtual Power Plant

    338 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  34. DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open

    338 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  35. Sending spammers to password purgatory

    337 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  36. Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection

    336 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  37. Ghana bans a Delta Boeing 767 (yes, just one)

    335 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  38. Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS

    335 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  39. Creativity requires solitude

    334 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  40. Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?

    333 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  41. Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card

    333 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  42. I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case

    332 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  43. Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)

    331 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  44. AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

    331 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  45. LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)

    331 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  46. The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)

    329 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  47. Solar canopies on parking lots

    328 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  48. Why aren't smart people happier?

    327 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  49. Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database

    327 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  50. How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)

    326 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  51. Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough

    326 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  52. A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system

    326 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  53. Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

    324 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  54. High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]

    323 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  55. The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites

    323 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  56. Why does gRPC insist on trailers?

    322 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  57. TypeScript is terrible for library developers

    322 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  58. Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)

    321 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  59. Coping with Copilot

    321 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  60. Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

    320 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  61. Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

    320 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  62. Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961

    319 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  63. Cognitive loads in programming

    318 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  64. “Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory

    318 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  65. Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

    318 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  66. AMD passes Intel in market cap

    317 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  67. Accounting for Developers, Part II

    316 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  68. How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]

    316 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  69. Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google

    314 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  70. Rust 1.63

    314 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  71. PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal

    313 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  72. Quirky computing books

    313 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  73. U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%

    311 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  74. Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?

    309 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  75. EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

    308 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  76. Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor

    308 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  77. U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

    307 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  78. How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)

    307 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  79. Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

    307 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  80. Want to found a startup? Work at one first

    307 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  81. I have complicated feelings about TDD

    307 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  82. The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

    307 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  83. Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory

    306 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  84. Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?

    306 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  85. Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

    305 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  86. Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization

    303 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  87. The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

    303 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  88. TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

    303 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  89. Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf]

    302 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  90. Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle

    302 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  91. What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]

    302 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  92. Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?

    300 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  93. MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

    300 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  94. What would a “good” WebMD look like?

    299 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  95. Google Trying to Solve a UUID

    299 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  96. H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

    299 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  97. Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting

    298 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  98. We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson

    297 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  99. John Carmack on avoiding distractions

    297 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  100. The layoffs at Klarna

    297 points • comment • aug 14, 2022