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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

    297 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  2. Why React Re-Renders

    296 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  3. Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study

    295 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  4. Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

    294 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  5. The great Miyazaki watch of 2022

    293 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  6. Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) [video]

    293 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  7. Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero

    293 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  8. 10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins

    292 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  9. They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care

    291 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  10. Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google

    291 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  11. Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)

    291 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  12. C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

    291 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  13. VLC media player banned in India

    290 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  14. Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?

    289 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  15. FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing exculpatory evidence

    289 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  16. Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends

    289 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  17. Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake

    288 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  18. Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?

    287 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  19. Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever

    287 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  20. Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go

    287 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  21. Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)

    287 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  22. Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown

    286 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  23. The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved

    285 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  24. D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams

    285 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  25. From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

    285 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  26. Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

    285 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  27. Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

    284 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  28. The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal

    284 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  29. Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google

    283 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  30. Django 4.1

    283 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  31. Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones

    282 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  32. Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process

    282 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  33. Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?

    282 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  34. LibGen's Bloat Problem

    281 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  35. MiniRust

    280 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  36. Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution

    280 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  37. Software engineering books

    279 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  38. Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)

    278 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  39. Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

    278 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  40. The silent majority in software

    277 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  41. TikTok’s Poison Pill

    277 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  42. FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available

    276 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  43. After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work

    275 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  44. Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

    275 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  45. RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

    275 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  46. Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows

    275 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  47. Is Google.com Down?

    275 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  48. Hetzner Price Adjustment

    274 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  49. Go 1.19 Released

    274 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  50. Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)

    274 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  51. LastPass: Notice of Security Incident

    274 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  52. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)

    274 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  53. Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?

    273 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  54. Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot

    273 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  55. 134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]

    272 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  56. Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago

    272 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  57. Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall

    272 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  58. The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range

    272 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  59. Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order

    272 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  60. Clip control on the Apple GPU

    271 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  61. Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin

    271 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  62. Our Roadmap for Nix

    271 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  63. Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret

    271 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  64. Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity

    270 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  65. Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become

    269 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  66. PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting

    268 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  67. Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

    268 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  68. Part of my code makes Copilot crash

    267 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  69. 30TB Portable SSD Hits Walmart for $39 but Stay Away from It

    267 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  70. FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop

    267 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  71. Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird

    267 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  72. Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week

    266 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  73. Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast

    265 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  74. John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

    265 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  75. YaCy – your own search engine

    265 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  76. The end of Optane is bad news

    265 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  77. U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent

    265 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  78. How to stop being “terminally online”

    264 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  79. Oven: The Company Behind Bun

    264 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  80. A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

    262 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  81. The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

    262 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  82. Podman 4.2.0

    261 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  83. Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

    260 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  84. OCaml at First Glance

    259 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  85. The erosion of the Mac experience

    259 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  86. Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active

    258 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  87. Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing

    257 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  88. Airflow's Problem

    257 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  89. Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy

    257 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  90. How to present to executives (2021)

    256 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  91. How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)

    256 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  92. Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light

    256 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  93. Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ

    255 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  94. Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

    255 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  95. Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network

    255 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  96. The container orchestrator landscape

    255 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  97. Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)

    255 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  98. A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire

    254 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  99. C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu

    254 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  100. We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing

    254 points • comment • aug 26, 2022