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Hacker News (Aug 2022)

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

    176 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  2. Google to pay $60M for misleading representations

    175 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  3. An opinionated approach to GNU Make

    175 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  4. Introducing multitasking to Arduino

    175 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  5. Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping

    174 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  6. Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems

    174 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  7. Is El Salvador Up?

    174 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  8. The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies

    174 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  9. Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

    173 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  10. Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)

    173 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  11. Godot 3.5

    173 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  12. “I survived the TCP transition” (2013)

    173 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  13. So you want to be a consultant? (2005)

    173 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  14. GitHub-Next

    173 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  15. Marc Andreessen and Ultra-Wealthy Neighbors Thwart Housing in California Town

    173 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  16. Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek

    173 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  17. Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries

    173 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  18. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)

    172 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  19. Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles

    172 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  20. Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept

    172 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  21. You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected

    171 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  22. Asdf Performance

    171 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  23. IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable

    171 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  24. Fintech is making credit cards weirder

    171 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  25. Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

    171 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  26. Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)

    170 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  27. Apple releases macOS 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, patches for two zero-day vulerabilities

    170 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  28. JiraCLI

    170 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  29. The endless search for a crypto use case

    170 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  30. Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality

    170 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  31. A Graph-Based Firebase

    169 points • comment • aug 25, 2022

  32. Falsehoods programmers believe about time

    169 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  33. What to read to understand how economists think

    169 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  34. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

    169 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  35. Rights, Laws, and Google

    169 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  36. Requiring MFA on popular gem maintainers

    168 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  37. Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

    168 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  38. Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill

    168 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  39. Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them

    168 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  40. Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early stage employees?

    168 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  41. PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero

    168 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  42. Putting Tailscale on the Steam Deck

    167 points • comment • aug 17, 2022

  43. Engineering Festivus

    167 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  44. How to stay focused while working on your startup and having a 9 to 5

    167 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  45. Learning algebra in my 60s

    167 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  46. Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake

    167 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  47. Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD

    167 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  48. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder

    167 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  49. Launch HN: Iollo (YC S22) – At-home metabolomics test to extend healthy lifespan

    167 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  50. W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem

    167 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  51. Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?

    167 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  52. Launch Attempt Scrubbed

    167 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  53. QEMU Internals (2021)

    167 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  54. Quaternions: A Practical Guide

    166 points • comment • aug 14, 2022

  55. Minify your container

    166 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  56. Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte

    166 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  57. Visualizing Toxic Air

    166 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  58. M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than pricier Dell laptop

    165 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  59. Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled

    165 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  60. Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux

    165 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  61. Software engineering research questions

    165 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  62. Hacker’s Delight (2012)

    165 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  63. JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution

    165 points • comment • aug 30, 2022

  64. Google Maps' moat is evaporating (2020)

    165 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  65. Ask HN: Who do you talk to about system architecture and design?

    165 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  66. AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others

    165 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  67. My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year

    164 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  68. Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)

    164 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  69. Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users

    164 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  70. A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

    164 points • comment • aug 29, 2022

  71. Ushering out strlcpy()

    164 points • comment • aug 27, 2022

  72. Dublin Whiskey Fire

    164 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  73. Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

    164 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  74. Solein – Protein out of thin air

    164 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  75. New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature

    163 points • comment • aug 21, 2022

  76. Having, a less understood SQL clause

    163 points • comment • aug 06, 2022

  77. Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)?

    163 points • comment • aug 20, 2022

  78. Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)

    163 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  79. Political Chips

    163 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  80. Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs

    163 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  81. Issues with upstream DNS provider

    163 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  82. New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation

    163 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  83. Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell

    163 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  84. Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?

    163 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  85. Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)

    162 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  86. Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths

    162 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  87. Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers

    162 points • comment • aug 01, 2022

  88. Operating well – what I learned at Stripe

    162 points • comment • aug 11, 2022

  89. Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts

    162 points • comment • aug 08, 2022

  90. Show HN: I created a browser automation tool

    162 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  91. Switcher (2004)

    162 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  92. Why does everything on Netflix look like that?

    161 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  93. Open-source tool to enforce privacy/security best-practices on Windows, macOS

    161 points • comment • aug 12, 2022

  94. TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

    161 points • comment • aug 02, 2022

  95. Against Discipline

    161 points • comment • aug 04, 2022

  96. Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial

    160 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  97. Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released

    160 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  98. Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible

    160 points • comment • aug 13, 2022

  99. The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95

    160 points • comment • aug 23, 2022

  100. The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007)

    159 points • comment • aug 07, 2022