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Hacker News (Nov 2022)

  1. Symbian OS Kernel (2010)

    139 points • comment • nov 12, 2022

  2. IKEA asks horror game to change so people stop comparing it to IKEA [update]

    139 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  3. So I lost my OpenBSD FDE password (2016)

    138 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  4. Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications

    138 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  5. Flu and colds are back with a vengeance

    138 points • comment • nov 10, 2022

  6. Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies

    138 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  7. Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)

    138 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  8. Quarter-Scale Retrocomputing

    138 points • comment • nov 30, 2022

  9. Three new utility functions in C++23

    137 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  10. Qatar intelligence operation against FIFA officials

    137 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  11. Scrutiny – A WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring (written in Go)

    137 points • comment • nov 13, 2022

  12. Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork

    137 points • comment • nov 13, 2022

  13. Life as a door-to-door salesman

    137 points • comment • nov 23, 2022

  14. The lonely runner conjecture

    136 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  15. Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative

    136 points • comment • nov 18, 2022

  16. Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

    136 points • comment • nov 20, 2022

  17. Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

    136 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  18. Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

    136 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  19. Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig

    136 points • comment • nov 21, 2022

  20. 60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down

    136 points • comment • nov 05, 2022

  21. Emacs on an iPad

    136 points • comment • nov 23, 2022

  22. Rclone is 10 years old today

    136 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  23. More Instant Messaging Interoperability

    136 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  24. Bethesda issues statement to Mick Gordon

    135 points • comment • nov 17, 2022

  25. Apache AGE, a PostgreSQL extension with graph database functionality

    135 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  26. Noosphere, a Protocol for Thought

    135 points • comment • nov 25, 2022

  27. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is denied a bid for new trial

    135 points • comment • nov 08, 2022

  28. Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior for Processes Starting with “X”

    135 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  29. Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for Blue subscribers

    135 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  30. Canada police charge Hydro-Quebec employee with China espionage

    135 points • comment • nov 15, 2022

  31. Taste vs. Skills

    135 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  32. ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983) [pdf]

    135 points • comment • nov 16, 2022

  33. Ruby concurrency is hard: how I became a Ruby on Rails contributor

    135 points • comment • nov 23, 2022

  34. The Pentagon fails its fifth audit in a row

    135 points • comment • nov 26, 2022

  35. Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub

    134 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  36. Mighty Retrospective

    134 points • comment • nov 17, 2022

  37. Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You

    134 points • comment • nov 28, 2022

  38. Basics of Concrete Barriers (2000)

    134 points • comment • nov 22, 2022

  39. DWARF-Based Stack Walking Using eBPF

    134 points • comment • nov 29, 2022

  40. I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+

    134 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  41. Books recommended by profitable founders

    134 points • comment • nov 11, 2022

  42. Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe

    134 points • comment • nov 02, 2022

  43. Set Adrift

    134 points • comment • nov 28, 2022

  44. Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022

    134 points • comment • nov 25, 2022

  45. Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad

    133 points • comment • nov 02, 2022

  46. LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT from scratch

    133 points • comment • nov 26, 2022

  47. Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”

    133 points • comment • nov 25, 2022

  48. NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures

    133 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  49. Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop

    132 points • comment • nov 02, 2022

  50. FTX hacker identity discovered by Kraken Exchange team?

    132 points • comment • nov 12, 2022

  51. Split Your Overwhelmed Teams

    132 points • comment • nov 12, 2022

  52. Want to live in a van down by the river? Ford has a new vehicle for that

    132 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  53. Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?

    132 points • comment • nov 28, 2022

  54. Imperative configs are out; Declarative configs are in

    132 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  55. Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)

    132 points • comment • nov 05, 2022

  56. Engineers are exploring radical new designs for commercial planes

    132 points • comment • nov 10, 2022

  57. Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially revealing acquaintances

    132 points • comment • nov 29, 2022

  58. Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)

    131 points • comment • nov 29, 2022

  59. How stdbuf works

    131 points • comment • nov 11, 2022

  60. Maps and Memory Leaks in Go

    131 points • comment • nov 08, 2022

  61. Building a semantic search engine in Rust

    131 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  62. Is algae the new kale?

    131 points • comment • nov 11, 2022

  63. Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate differentiable rendering with algebraic surfaces

    131 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  64. Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL

    130 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  65. How thick is a three-sided coin?

    130 points • comment • nov 28, 2022

  66. Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy

    130 points • comment • nov 04, 2022

  67. Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

    130 points • comment • nov 10, 2022

  68. Sequoia has marked its investment in FTX down to $0

    130 points • comment • nov 10, 2022

  69. WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (1990)

    130 points • comment • nov 12, 2022

  70. Thinking Forth (1984)

    130 points • comment • nov 20, 2022

  71. LeanQt – GUI is here, Widgets are near

    129 points • comment • nov 12, 2022

  72. Breaking BIOS: enabling VT-x virtualization support on Acer Aspire One netbook

    129 points • comment • nov 18, 2022

  73. Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD

    129 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  74. FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

    129 points • comment • nov 13, 2022

  75. Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th

    129 points • comment • nov 23, 2022

  76. Idaho Stop

    129 points • comment • nov 05, 2022

  77. Leaderless Teams

    129 points • comment • nov 08, 2022

  78. Centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge

    128 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  79. Ancient water system uncovered at Roman Stabiae

    128 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  80. Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King

    128 points • comment • nov 13, 2022

  81. Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

    128 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  82. Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC

    128 points • comment • nov 15, 2022

  83. 9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released

    128 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  84. An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets

    128 points • comment • nov 11, 2022

  85. Kindness, tech staffing and resource allocation

    128 points • comment • nov 08, 2022

  86. Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?

    128 points • comment • nov 14, 2022

  87. AT&T Syntax versus Intel Syntax

    128 points • comment • nov 13, 2022

  88. Launch HN: Metlo (YC S21) – Open-source software for securing your APIs

    127 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  89. US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

    127 points • comment • nov 19, 2022

  90. Cameras on phones? (2001) [video]

    127 points • comment • nov 08, 2022

  91. Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names

    127 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  92. Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative

    127 points • comment • nov 15, 2022

  93. Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming (Ada)

    127 points • comment • nov 21, 2022

  94. Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover

    127 points • comment • nov 09, 2022

  95. Musk’s Twitter Purchase Was a Leveraged Buyout

    127 points • comment • nov 04, 2022

  96. Zero point leet seconds (2018)

    127 points • comment • nov 06, 2022

  97. Passage Is Joining 1Password

    127 points • comment • nov 04, 2022

  98. Class-action lawsuit filed against US state agency over mobile 'spyware'

    126 points • comment • nov 19, 2022

  99. Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022

    126 points • comment • nov 27, 2022

  100. Nokia and Airbus elected as judges at the UPC, an unheard corruption of Justice

    126 points • comment • nov 16, 2022