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Hacker News (Sep 2022)

  1. AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different

    532 points • comment • sep 21, 2022

  2. “Return to Monkey Island” is out today

    530 points • comment • sep 19, 2022

  3. On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services

    524 points • comment • sep 10, 2022

  4. Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software

    506 points • comment • sep 24, 2022

  5. IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

    505 points • comment • sep 03, 2022

  6. Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?

    505 points • comment • sep 18, 2022

  7. U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech

    504 points • comment • sep 17, 2022

  8. Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)

    504 points • comment • sep 02, 2022

  9. Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes

    502 points • comment • sep 05, 2022

  10. Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

    499 points • comment • sep 30, 2022

  11. What I’ve learned from users

    499 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  12. WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing

    494 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  13. Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

    493 points • comment • sep 01, 2022

  14. Olive.c: a simple graphics library that does not have any dependencies

    492 points • comment • sep 21, 2022

  15. Stable Diffusion based image compression

    489 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  16. GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge

    489 points • comment • sep 16, 2022

  17. Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years

    486 points • comment • sep 16, 2022

  18. Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea

    486 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  19. Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats

    486 points • comment • sep 22, 2022

  20. New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades

    485 points • comment • sep 21, 2022

  21. Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

    485 points • comment • sep 29, 2022

  22. Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way

    478 points • comment • sep 22, 2022

  23. Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff

    476 points • comment • sep 13, 2022

  24. Jean-Luc Godard has died

    476 points • comment • sep 13, 2022

  25. Wasmtime 1.0

    476 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  26. Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)

    475 points • comment • sep 24, 2022

  27. Shortest URLs on the Internet

    473 points • comment • sep 11, 2022

  28. Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers

    470 points • comment • sep 23, 2022

  29. The forty-year programmer

    466 points • comment • sep 02, 2022

  30. You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list

    465 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  31. The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

    461 points • comment • sep 12, 2022

  32. Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

    461 points • comment • sep 04, 2022

  33. Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final

    452 points • comment • sep 01, 2022

  34. Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast

    451 points • comment • sep 18, 2022

  35. W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth

    450 points • comment • sep 13, 2022

  36. YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

    449 points • comment • sep 10, 2022

  37. The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal

    448 points • comment • sep 01, 2022

  38. Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake

    447 points • comment • sep 15, 2022

  39. GTA VI Leak [video]

    444 points • comment • sep 18, 2022

  40. Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team

    438 points • comment • sep 09, 2022

  41. Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers

    434 points • comment • sep 19, 2022

  42. Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone

    433 points • comment • sep 09, 2022

  43. Show HN: Zelda Breath of The Wild Street View

    432 points • comment • sep 04, 2022

  44. Why car wheels are so flat these days

    432 points • comment • sep 14, 2022

  45. The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

    431 points • comment • sep 09, 2022

  46. Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

    427 points • comment • sep 14, 2022

  47. Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals

    424 points • comment • sep 06, 2022

  48. Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”

    422 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  49. I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)

    421 points • comment • sep 08, 2022

  50. Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

    420 points • comment • sep 02, 2022

  51. Accelerate Python code by importing Taichi

    419 points • comment • sep 08, 2022

  52. At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record

    416 points • comment • sep 23, 2022

  53. If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

    415 points • comment • sep 03, 2022

  54. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer

    415 points • comment • sep 13, 2022

  55. I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content

    414 points • comment • sep 28, 2022

  56. We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS

    413 points • comment • sep 28, 2022

  57. Zen4's AVX512 Teardown

    410 points • comment • sep 26, 2022

  58. How a QR code works

    410 points • comment • sep 14, 2022

  59. Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis

    406 points • comment • sep 05, 2022

  60. Cache your CORS

    406 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  61. Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

    405 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  62. Learning Is Remembering

    404 points • comment • sep 26, 2022

  63. We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

    401 points • comment • sep 01, 2022

  64. DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist

    399 points • comment • sep 28, 2022

  65. EU Open Web Search project kicked off

    397 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  66. Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?

    395 points • comment • sep 22, 2022

  67. Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

    395 points • comment • sep 30, 2022

  68. Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]

    394 points • comment • sep 21, 2022

  69. macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See

    389 points • comment • sep 26, 2022

  70. Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

    389 points • comment • sep 17, 2022

  71. 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx

    388 points • comment • sep 16, 2022

  72. American Data Privacy and Protection Act

    387 points • comment • sep 22, 2022

  73. Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant

    387 points • comment • sep 04, 2022

  74. OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

    386 points • comment • sep 30, 2022

  75. Figma Alternatives

    386 points • comment • sep 16, 2022

  76. Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says

    386 points • comment • sep 09, 2022

  77. Has tiktok_us been breached?

    386 points • comment • sep 04, 2022

  78. Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling

    385 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  79. iPhones and action discoverability

    383 points • comment • sep 24, 2022

  80. Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?

    382 points • comment • sep 10, 2022

  81. How history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers, $5K/month

    382 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  82. Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?

    382 points • comment • sep 23, 2022

  83. The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game

    381 points • comment • sep 15, 2022

  84. WhatsApp Remote Code Execution in Video Call

    381 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  85. It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

    380 points • comment • sep 08, 2022

  86. Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th

    379 points • comment • sep 03, 2022

  87. How the SQLite virtual machine works

    379 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  88. Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else

    378 points • comment • sep 12, 2022

  89. Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

    373 points • comment • sep 19, 2022

  90. Unreal Rust

    373 points • comment • sep 04, 2022

  91. The Strid: The ‘deadliest stretch of water’

    372 points • comment • sep 22, 2022

  92. Meta and Google are cutting staff

    371 points • comment • sep 21, 2022

  93. Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash

    371 points • comment • sep 14, 2022

  94. An X11 apologist tries Wayland

    370 points • comment • sep 18, 2022

  95. .ai

    370 points • comment • sep 11, 2022

  96. GeForce RTX 40 Series

    369 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  97. Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love

    368 points • comment • sep 23, 2022

  98. Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)

    368 points • comment • sep 14, 2022

  99. Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

    367 points • comment • sep 08, 2022

  100. We worked for 4 months to build a port for Stadia and today we finished it

    367 points • comment • sep 30, 2022