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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

  1. Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions

    200 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  2. Oracle started as a CIA project (2014)

    199 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  3. Benefits of the Danish transfat ban for coronary heart disease mortality

    199 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  4. What We Gain from a Good Bookstore

    199 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

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

    199 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  6. Agile projects have become waterfall projects with sprints

    199 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  7. Apple is building a demand-side platform

    198 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  8. Google’s caste-bias problem

    198 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  9. Art of README (2020)

    198 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  10. The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)

    198 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  11. You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord

    198 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  12. Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate?

    197 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  13. FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19

    197 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  14. SEC Charges Eleven Individuals in $300M Crypto Pyramid Scheme

    197 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  15. Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not

    197 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  16. WireGuard Servers Running from RAM

    197 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  17. Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store

    196 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  18. Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal

    196 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  19. Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)

    196 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  20. 3Hz Computer, Hold the Transistors

    196 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  21. Fed expects to launch long-awaited Faster Payments System by 2023

    196 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  22. Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

    195 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  23. Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads

    195 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  24. Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox

    195 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  25. Show HN: Fuzz Map – a GUI fuzzer, interactive demo

    194 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  26. Show HN: A piano chord reference tool

    194 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  27. How discord stores billions of messages (2017)

    194 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  28. French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

    194 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  29. Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?

    194 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  30. I Reached $4k/Mo. But How Many Great Startup Ideas Have Died?

    193 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  31. What Beirut was like before the war (2019)

    193 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  32. High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California

    193 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  33. The Secretary Problem

    193 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  34. The end of the manual transmission is near?

    192 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  35. End of the Machinery Game Engine

    192 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  36. Relax for the same result (2015)

    191 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  37. Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties

    191 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  38. The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)

    191 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  39. Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone

    191 points • comment • aug 28, 2022

  40. Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]

    190 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  41. Multiple sclerosis has a common viral culprit, opening doors to new approaches

    190 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  42. Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

    190 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  43. Differentiable programming from scratch

    189 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  44. Supabase Vault

    189 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  45. Tell HN: HN London Meetup

    188 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  46. Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses

    188 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  47. Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

    188 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  48. How to communicate why your startup is worth joining

    188 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  49. Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

    188 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  50. Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup

    188 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  51. Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming?

    188 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  52. Stringbike: Benefits (2020)

    187 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  53. The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers

    187 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  54. A few ops lessons we all learn the hard way (2020)

    187 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  55. Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

    187 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  56. Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells

    187 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  57. Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)

    187 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  58. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

    186 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  59. REPL Driven Minecraft

    186 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  60. A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

    185 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  61. Unstripping Stripped Binaries

    185 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  62. VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

    185 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  63. The growing image-processor unpleasantness

    185 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  64. Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi through Ampere GPUs

    184 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  65. SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web

    184 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  66. Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

    184 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  67. Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4M accounts

    184 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  68. The world map that reboots your brain

    184 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  69. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

    183 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  70. Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

    183 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  71. Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial

    182 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  72. Post-Apocalyptic Programming

    182 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  73. New open source project: Common Lisp 3D graphics system

    182 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  74. Google Timer is back

    182 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  75. At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

    182 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  76. Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments

    181 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  77. On being tired

    181 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  78. Political betting site PredictIt to shut down after CFTC withdraws approval

    181 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  79. Fully Dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment

    180 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  80. Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M

    180 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  81. List of Creepypastas

    180 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  82. Converting a fisheye image into a panoramic, spherical or perspective projection

    180 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  83. France is now offering a €4k e-bike subsidy to people who trade in their car

    180 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  84. Show HN: EthicalAds – Privacy-first ad network for developers

    180 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  85. Starlink successfully hacked using $25 modchip

    180 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  86. Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion

    180 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  87. Disney's mosquito control program

    180 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  88. A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later

    179 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  89. Thinking with pen and paper

    179 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  90. Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (2014)

    179 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  91. Dusting “Attack” via Tornado Cash to Public Wallets

    179 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  92. Namecheap vulnerability they refuse to fix: no 2FA on support portal login

    179 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  93. Emergent Features in 6.7B+ Param Transformers

    178 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  94. Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy

    178 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  95. Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum

    178 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  96. Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?

    177 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  97. Docusaurus 2.0

    177 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  98. Functional Reactive Programming

    177 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  99. I Love My PinePhone

    177 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  100. U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

    176 points • comment • aug 31, 2022