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Hacker News (Oct 2022)

  1. 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

    258 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  2. Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications

    258 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  3. Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)

    257 points • comment • oct 09, 2022

  4. Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?

    257 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  5. Record-breaking chip can transmit 1.8 petabits per second

    257 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  6. I need structure in my life

    256 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  7. Ardour 7.0

    256 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  8. An elegy for GNU and RMS

    256 points • comment • oct 02, 2022

  9. "The Social Network" synth sounds

    255 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  10. How to hide your IP address

    254 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  11. Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?

    254 points • comment • oct 08, 2022

  12. Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub

    254 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  13. Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make cities greener and less car-centric

    254 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  14. Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served

    254 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  15. Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees

    253 points • comment • oct 06, 2022

  16. Linux: What Can You Epoll?

    253 points • comment • oct 22, 2022

  17. The Google plasma globe affair of 2012

    252 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  18. Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees

    252 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  19. Phantom forests: Ambitious tree planting projects are failing

    252 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  20. Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28B over 12 years

    251 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  21. Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt

    251 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  22. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

    250 points • comment • oct 22, 2022

  23. I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

    250 points • comment • oct 31, 2022

  24. AMD Ryzen 7000 Series performs better with Spectre V2 Mitigations enabled

    250 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  25. Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right

    250 points • comment • oct 01, 2022

  26. Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down

    250 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  27. Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince

    250 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  28. CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

    250 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  29. Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (2020)

    249 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  30. Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?

    248 points • comment • oct 20, 2022

  31. Warpd: A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

    248 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  32. Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus

    248 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  33. Asdf – language tool version manager

    248 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  34. Tinyphysicsengine: Minimalist 3D C99 single-header physics engine

    247 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  35. Show HN: Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus

    246 points • comment • oct 06, 2022

  36. Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

    246 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  37. Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’

    246 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  38. Google added HEVC support in Chrome

    245 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  39. Heroku Free Alternatives

    245 points • comment • oct 22, 2022

  40. Show HN: Open-Sourcing InboxSDK (YC S11) – Build Apps in Gmail

    245 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  41. Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

    245 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  42. Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal

    244 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  43. Show HN: Open-source user onboarding and KYC flow made with Svelte (~50kb)

    244 points • comment • oct 30, 2022

  44. Show HN: FFmpeg Command Visualizer and Editor

    244 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  45. Cool HTML elements nobody uses

    243 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  46. Stupid Security Things (2017)

    243 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  47. Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory

    242 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  48. Banks are not repaying victims of Zelle scams

    242 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  49. The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

    242 points • comment • oct 28, 2022

  50. Learn Exponentially

    242 points • comment • oct 09, 2022

  51. Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero

    242 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  52. Meta stock price drops more than 20%

    242 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  53. FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (2015)

    242 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  54. Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?

    242 points • comment • oct 01, 2022

  55. Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon also invest in the companies’ stocks

    241 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  56. Intel will lay off 20k employees

    241 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  57. Terminal.Gui: A Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET

    241 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  58. How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?

    240 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  59. Watchman: Execute a command when something changes

    240 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  60. Show HN: Satori – Convert HTML and CSS to SVG

    239 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  61. Most buildings at MIT campus are remaining closed to the public

    239 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  62. Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

    239 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  63. Some people who appear to be in a coma may be conscious

    238 points • comment • oct 22, 2022

  64. I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”

    238 points • comment • oct 16, 2022

  65. Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

    238 points • comment • oct 07, 2022

  66. Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666

    238 points • comment • oct 24, 2022

  67. The first minute of every phone call is torture now

    237 points • comment • oct 31, 2022

  68. P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators

    236 points • comment • oct 12, 2022

  69. Blending Modes

    236 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  70. QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the background hours/days later

    235 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  71. “You meant to install ripgrep”

    235 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  72. Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis

    234 points • comment • oct 01, 2022

  73. Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters

    234 points • comment • oct 09, 2022

  74. The Social Recession: By the Numbers

    234 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  75. Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

    234 points • comment • oct 14, 2022

  76. Things your manager might not know (2021)

    233 points • comment • oct 30, 2022

  77. Why Tesla removed radar and ultrasonic sensors [video]

    233 points • comment • oct 30, 2022

  78. We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (2016)

    233 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  79. WireGuard in FreeBSD

    233 points • comment • oct 29, 2022

  80. Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs

    232 points • comment • oct 02, 2022

  81. Lufthansa has not banned AirTags

    231 points • comment • oct 08, 2022

  82. Let's order strange things from NIST

    231 points • comment • oct 15, 2022

  83. Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development

    229 points • comment • oct 08, 2022

  84. Starting a food co-op: Year 1

    229 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  85. Just for Fun. No, really.

    228 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  86. Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites

    227 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  87. Apple says iPhones will switch to USB-C chargers to comply with new EU law

    227 points • comment • oct 27, 2022

  88. AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest

    227 points • comment • oct 21, 2022

  89. Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015)

    227 points • comment • oct 25, 2022

  90. Effect of Colonoscopy Screening on Risks of Colorectal Cancer and Related Death

    227 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  91. YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary

    226 points • comment • oct 01, 2022

  92. Microsoft has started layoffs today

    226 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  93. Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots

    226 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  94. HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies

    226 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  95. Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

    226 points • comment • oct 13, 2022

  96. VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban

    226 points • comment • oct 04, 2022

  97. Product vs. Engineering

    226 points • comment • oct 17, 2022

  98. From Pythonista to Rustacean

    226 points • comment • oct 05, 2022

  99. The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant

    225 points • comment • oct 31, 2022

  100. Announcing KataOS and Sparrow

    225 points • comment • oct 16, 2022