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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough by Team in California

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  2. Ask HN: What are the best API generators you know?

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  3. The Family That Mined The Pentagon’s Data for Profit

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  4. The Benefit of the Bargain by Mark A. Lemley

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  5. Amazon Kindle update is removing a key feature for loads of users

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  6. The Legacy of Heroku's Free Tier

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  7. NHS [UK National Health Service] 111 software outage confirmed as cyber-attack

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  8. Why Stacking Chips Like Pancakes Could Mean a Leap for Laptops

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  9. The semiconductor boom: has the UK missed its chance?

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  10. How to fix democracy: empower the best informed voters

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  11. Ask HN: Does your Android phone call 911 if you tap “power” three times?

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  12. Encrypted Phone Firm Ciphr Plans to Shut Down

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  13. MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor steps down to ‘focus’ on Bitcoin as chairman

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  14. PL/Python

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  15. CDC Drops Quarantine Recommendation After Covid-19 Exposure

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  16. Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying America

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  17. Algorave

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  18. Height discrimination: How 'heightism' affects careers

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  19. North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  20. Apps turning restaurant leftovers into cheap meals take off in Asia

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  21. Ask HN: What is the least payment you can effectively transact in non-cash fiat?

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  22. New NAND flash paves the way for super cheap, extra large SSDs – TechRadar

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  23. Cannabis Could Transform Moffat into Kush, a Mecca of Marijuana Tourism

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  24. Poop Energy and Money

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  25. Concrete Mathematics by Knuth [pdf]

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  26. Boeing, Caterpillar and Citadel Are Leaving Illinois. Here’s What It Means For

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  27. Canadian School Board Hacked, Teacher Names, DOB, Bank Accounts, Sins Exposed

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  28. Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  29. Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  30. Twitter is launching its ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  31. “Nofollow” links are selfish and monopolistic

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  32. The secret world of trading nudes

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  33. “Modern problems require old solutions”

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  34. A bioengineered cornea can restore sight to blind people

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  35. Google is working on a super-charged screen recorder for Chrome OS

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  36. US Army looking to hire APT nation-state hackers

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  37. Ask HN: Is anyone using the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 glasses for coding?

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  38. The Predicament of Bourgeois Anticapitalism

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  39. Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  40. HP iPAQ 4150 Pocket PC

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  41. A ‘Reversible’ Form of Death? Scientists Revive Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  42. New water cuts coming for Southwest as Colorado River falls into Tier 2 shortage

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  43. Block Is Sued for ‘Negligent’ Security After Breach of 8.2M Users’ Data

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  44. Extreme rise in porn addiction fueled by working from home according to clinics

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  45. Crypto.com Sues Woman After Sending Her $10M by Mistake

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  46. The World’s Largest Open Multilingual Language Model: Bloom

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  47. Ask HN: Proposal for an ActivityPub RSS Based News Aggregation Community

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  48. Ask HN: Is there a way to solve this using Maths?

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  49. Why most programmers are single

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  50. Illusory Truth Effect

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  51. Ask HN: Tricks to disconnect from work while on vacation

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  52. Apple's Diabolical Plan to Control the Ads

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  53. CDC warns of diarrheal outbreaks linked to poopy splash pads

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  54. Show HN: Layoffbase – the place where you can get a new tech job after layoff

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  55. Bring Your Own Camera: Baltimore residents pool resources to stop thieves

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  56. Lawyers with brain chip implants will be better, faster and cheaper

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  57. Beachgoer killed after umbrella impales her in the chest in South Carolina

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  58. Cross Compile with CGO Using GoReleaser and GitHub Action

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  59. Ofrak – A Long-Awaited IoT Reverse Engineering Tool Is Finally Here

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  60. The Crypto Collapse Has Flooded the Market with Rolex and Patek

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  61. Engineer who threw away a HDD holding 7,500 BTC hopes he can recover it with AI

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  62. FAANG co. won patent for device competitive to one I’m developing. Am I screwed?

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  63. When modern graph neural networks do worse than classical greedy algorithms

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  64. Beyond net-zero: We should cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  65. Scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for realtime web

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  66. Ask HN: What is your favorite retro game?

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  67. Syntax-Tree Queries – Joern

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  68. The Great American Bubble Machine

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  69. QuitMormon and the tricky process of leaving the Church (2019)

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  70. How to make C much easier and more powerful (C preprocessor)

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  71. Preparedness Paradox

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  72. Journey into Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  73. James Webb Telescope uses JavaScript from Bankrupt company

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  74. The Crow

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  75. Experiment on YouTube shows potential to inoculate against misinformation

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  76. How Large Language Models Will Transform Science, Society, and AI [2021]

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  77. Will Europa finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  78. The remote revolution could lead to offshoring Armageddon

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  79. Show HN: Peloton Personalized Recommendations

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  80. Coffee with Brian Kernighan – Computerphile [video]

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  81. Arm Sues Qualcomm and Nuvia for Breaking License Agreement

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  82. The LDT, a Perfect Home for All Your Kernel Payloads

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  83. Can We Contain the Dragon?

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  84. Cloudflare locks comments on new tweet announcing freedom of speech ideology

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  85. Some Thoughts on Collecting Computers

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  86. The Working Code Test (Update of the Joel Test)

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  87. No, seriously, NASA’s Space Launch System is ready to take flight

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  88. Electric Scooter Revolution Faces a Reckoning in Stockholm

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  89. The Most Surveilled Place in America

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  90. USAF Aircraft Allegedly Carrying Us House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Lands in Taiwan

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  91. Sample vs. Metrics vs. Cardinality. Dealing with Time Series

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  92. KPIs, Velocity, and Other Destructive Metrics

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  93. How to Enable God Mode in Windows 11 or 10

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  94. Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  95. YouTube Went to War Against Terrorists, Just Not White Nationalists

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  96. Help Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura Overcome Astronomical Odds

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  97. 4B-year-old chunk of Earth's crust found below Australia

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  98. The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Pseudonymity

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  99. Ford cuts 3k jobs as it pivots to EVs, software

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  100. Orange S.A. Suicides

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2022