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Hacker News (Oct 2022)

  1. Sound

    3019 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  2. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

    1810 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  3. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

    1738 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  4. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

    1474 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  5. My dad's resume and skills from 1980

    1463 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  6. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

    1276 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  7. I help seniors with technology issues

    1239 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  8. Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

    1199 points • comment • oct 31, 2022

  9. Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died

    1191 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  10. How fateful?

    1081 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  11. Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

    929 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  12. Pokemon Card Animation

    926 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  13. How I make a living working on SerenityOS

    924 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  14. Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print

    919 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  15. Fake Books

    911 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  16. GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

    896 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  17. The HTTP crash course nobody asked for

    881 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  18. Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

    877 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  19. Postgres WASM

    869 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  20. Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year

    852 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  21. Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models

    792 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  22. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

    779 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  23. Low Earth Orbit Visualization

    771 points • comment • oct 14, 2022

  24. What “work” looks like

    767 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  25. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

    762 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  26. Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana

    762 points • comment • oct 06, 2022

  27. Which emoji scissors close (2020)

    753 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  28. Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living

    752 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  29. SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc

    747 points • comment • oct 06, 2022

  30. Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

    728 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  31. The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken

    726 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  32. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

    726 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  33. Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

    715 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  34. NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

    714 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  35. Stadia died because no one trusts Google

    694 points • comment • oct 02, 2022

  36. I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)

    691 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  37. How Wine works 101

    687 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  38. LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape

    662 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  39. Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

    657 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  40. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

    647 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  41. Meta Quest Pro

    629 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  42. What does the ??!??! operator do in C?

    624 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  43. Python 3.11.0 final

    624 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  44. Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

    622 points • comment • oct 30, 2022

  45. Mastodon.technology Shutdown

    620 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  46. PostgreSQL 15

    617 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  47. EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

    615 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  48. Turbopack, the successor to Webpack

    611 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  49. The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

    605 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  50. Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots

    604 points • comment • oct 01, 2022

  51. EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024

    602 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  52. Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

    592 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  53. Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

    591 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  54. Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

    589 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  55. Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse

    589 points • comment • oct 08, 2022

  56. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

    589 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  57. Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse

    587 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  58. Wiring my home with fiber

    583 points • comment • oct 30, 2022

  59. Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub

    581 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  60. The deception of “buying” digital movies

    581 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  61. Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

    580 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  62. I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems

    577 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  63. 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12

    574 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  64. Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills

    573 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  65. I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

    573 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  66. Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society

    571 points • comment • oct 02, 2022

  67. Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

    563 points • comment • oct 14, 2022

  68. Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

    562 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  69. How to become a pirate archivist

    562 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  70. Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org

    561 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  71. Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend

    560 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  72. Moving from React to htmx

    554 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  73. We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online

    548 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  74. Remix web framework aquired by Shopify

    547 points • comment • oct 31, 2022

  75. Write better error messages

    545 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  76. Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

    545 points • comment • oct 09, 2022

  77. Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms

    544 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  78. SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri

    544 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  79. Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

    544 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  80. Inside the Proton

    543 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  81. Compiler Explorer

    534 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  82. MAR1D: First-Person Mario

    530 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  83. SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS

    530 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  84. How to communicate effectively as a developer

    528 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  85. The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum

    527 points • comment • oct 09, 2022

  86. Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

    516 points • comment • oct 14, 2022

  87. Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

    515 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  88. Disabling the Intel Management Engine

    515 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  89. Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests

    513 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  90. I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)

    512 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  91. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

    511 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  92. Brave browser now blocks cookie banners

    511 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  93. The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus

    510 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  94. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports

    509 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  95. Feather – open source icons

    509 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  96. The Commodordion

    507 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  97. CT scans of batteries

    503 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  98. DaVinci Resolve for iPad

    500 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  99. Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

    498 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  100. Wikipedia is not short on cash

    498 points • comment • oct 12, 2022