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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

    222 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  2. Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?

    222 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  3. Preparedness Paradox

    221 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  4. Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5

    221 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  5. Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?

    221 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  6. Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die

    221 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  7. New study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

    220 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  8. Xcode Cloud overview

    220 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  9. GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative

    220 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  10. Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production

    220 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  11. Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture

    220 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  12. Teenager invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers

    219 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  13. Why I quit using SwiftUI

    219 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  14. Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks

    219 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  15. Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

    219 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  16. The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators

    219 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  17. Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

    219 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  18. Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?

    219 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  19. Performance Improvements in .NET 7

    218 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  20. Hacker News Predictions

    218 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  21. Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

    218 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  22. Disneyland with Death Penalty

    217 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  23. I built a vector map from scratch

    217 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  24. Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++

    217 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  25. Launch HN: Be Golden (YC S22) – Measure and manage your inflammation levels

    216 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  26. German digital signage ban prompts confusion

    216 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  27. Patent Act requires an inventor to be a natural person, not an AI [pdf]

    215 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  28. Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers

    214 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  29. SSH commit verification now supported

    214 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  30. Cloud.gov

    213 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  31. Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers

    213 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  32. Ask HN: Exercises to think, then speak, more clearly?

    213 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  33. Want quick answers? Ask questions well

    213 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  34. Understanding Google’s File System (2020)

    213 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  35. All about QBasic and QuickBasic

    212 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  36. The case against a C alternative

    212 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  37. Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit

    212 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  38. Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security

    211 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  39. Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move

    211 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  40. Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals

    211 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  41. Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)

    211 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  42. “Who Should Write the Terraform?”

    211 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  43. Creating Shazam in Java (2010)

    211 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  44. Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)

    210 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  45. Show HN: A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw

    210 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  46. Dark Matter Doesn't Exist

    210 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  47. Homebrew Bluetooth Headphones

    210 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  48. A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave

    209 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  49. Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?

    209 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  50. Amid chip shortages, companies bet on RISC-V

    208 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  51. Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

    208 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  52. Essential Climbing Knots

    208 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  53. An Introduction to PipeWire

    208 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  54. Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community

    208 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  55. Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef

    208 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  56. Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing revelations

    208 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  57. We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them

    208 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  58. Rustle: Svelte compiler rewritten in Rust

    207 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  59. Using the power of the sun to roast green chile

    207 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  60. Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

    207 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  61. Nichelle Nichols Has Died

    207 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  62. Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more

    207 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  63. India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says

    207 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  64. A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)

    206 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  65. What’s going on with security at PayPal?

    206 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  66. Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities

    206 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  67. 2022 Oder Environmental Disaster

    206 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  68. Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor

    205 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  69. One Page Dungeon

    205 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  70. How to create a blog post title optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News data

    205 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  71. Ubisoft about to take away games you bought

    205 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  72. Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

    205 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  73. Git’s database internals I: packed object store

    205 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  74. Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real

    205 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  75. Excel never dies (2021)

    205 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  76. We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know

    205 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  77. Remote scan of student’s room before test violated his privacy, judge rules

    204 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  78. Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows

    204 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  79. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

    204 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  80. Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion

    203 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  81. Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise

    203 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  82. Cosmopolitan Libc v2.0

    203 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  83. Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’

    203 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  84. Day ahead electricity prices for EU

    203 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  85. Libraries – how companies do not understand open spaces

    203 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  86. $250k for your AI-first product startup

    202 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  87. Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

    202 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  88. Using unwrap() in Rust is okay

    202 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  89. Ctrl-C

    202 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  90. Handpicked No-Signup Tools

    202 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  91. Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme

    202 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  92. Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

    201 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  93. Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?

    201 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  94. It's easier to manage four people than one

    201 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  95. Nocturnal bottleneck

    201 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  96. US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force

    201 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  97. Crumb Circuit Simulator

    200 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  98. Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions

    200 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  99. AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery

    200 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  100. The productivity tax you pay for context switching

    200 points • comment • aug 08, 2022