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Hacker News (Dec 2022)

  1. Does glass break faster than a bullet? [video]

    132 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  2. The Overlords Finally Showed Up

    132 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  3. The more metrics you track, the less you know

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  4. Helix 22.12

    132 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  5. The Right to Be Lazy (1883)

    132 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  6. Glow: Render Markdown on the CLI

    132 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  7. The Roof Always Caves In: Why there is nothing wrong with being doomed

    132 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  8. Ask HN: Help with Meta

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  9. Hi, hello, I’m back at it

    132 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  10. How to write like Malcolm Gladwell

    131 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  11. People took some potassium and lost some weight

    131 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  12. Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS

    131 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  13. Stranger Things and the Amiga 1000

    131 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  14. FreeBSD 12.4

    131 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  15. Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law

    131 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  16. Facebook owner Meta sued for inciting hatred in Ethiopia

    131 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  17. Nix and NixOS, my pain points

    131 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  18. People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One

    130 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  19. The Metals Company subsidiary lifts over 3000T of nodules to sea surface

    130 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  20. Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?

    130 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  21. CLI for OAuth 2.0

    130 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  22. The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori

    130 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  23. Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?

    130 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  24. Show HN: RSS Brain

    130 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  25. Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel

    130 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  26. BBC Subtitle Guidelines

    130 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  27. MuseScore 4

    129 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  28. Adventures in Advent of Code

    129 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  29. Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars higher than ever on 35th Red Planet flight

    129 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  30. What color is it?

    129 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  31. Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules

    129 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  32. Orion has splashed down off the coast of Baja, California

    129 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  33. How the brain distinguishes memories from perceptions

    129 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  34. NTSC encoding/decoding in C89 using only integers and fixed point math

    129 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  35. Against Method

    129 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  36. Encrypted DNS and NTP = Deadlock

    128 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  37. Colorado ski town fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from iPhones

    128 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  38. Is Europe just not good at innovating?

    128 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  39. EsPiFF: An ESP32 in the Raspberry Pi form factor

    128 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  40. Fast memcpy, a system design

    128 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  41. ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword

    128 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  42. Water-based circuit concept switches much faster than semiconductors

    128 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  43. Digital Gardening in Obsidian

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  44. The record-breaking -108.00 diopter myopia lenses (2016)

    127 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  45. Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon

    127 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  46. Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think

    127 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  47. Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API

    127 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  48. Carp – a statically typed, non-GC Lisp language

    126 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  49. Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction

    126 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  50. Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service

    126 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  51. Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins

    126 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  52. Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP

    126 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  53. Richard Hipp Speaks Out on SQLite (2019) [pdf]

    126 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  54. Show HN: Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps

    126 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  55. Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

    126 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  56. Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2

    126 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  57. Supabase Vault is now in Beta

    125 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  58. Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed

    125 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  59. Ask HN: Similar books to “Raytracing in one Weekend”?

    125 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  60. Rackspace Exchange hosting down ~18 hours; “solution” is to start over on O365

    125 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  61. Engineered photosynthesis demonstrated in animals in vivo via synthetic biology

    125 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  62. Pa – a simple password manager based on age

    125 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  63. Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI

    125 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  64. Microsoft fined $64M by France over cookies used in Bing searches

    125 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  65. TensorFlow Datasets

    125 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  66. Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

    124 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  67. Ask HN: What's the best free course in your area of expertise?

    124 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  68. Bike Frame Stiffness

    124 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  69. The Decline of the City Grid

    124 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  70. Non-ECC memory corrupted my hard drive image [video]

    123 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  71. Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

    123 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  72. Amtrak asks fed regulators to investigate Union Pacific handling of Sunset Ltd

    123 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  73. The Peking Duck Exemption

    123 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  74. Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)

    123 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  75. Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers (2021)

    122 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  76. Meditations on an inexpensive laundry basket

    122 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  77. Songtell

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  78. How tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end

    122 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  79. ULIDs and Primary Keys

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  80. Invisible Characters

    122 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  81. Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  82. French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  83. No longer possible for the public to learn who owns a EU company

    122 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  84. Rare “noctilucent” clouds appear over the SF Bay Area

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  85. 86Box – Low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software

    121 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  86. The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House

    121 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  87. Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

    121 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  88. Getting started with nmap

    121 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  89. Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure by DOJ?

    121 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  90. Why T-shaped people? (2018)

    121 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  91. We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone

    121 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  92. Three things for the next 100 years of Computer Science

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  93. Hypermedia Systems

    120 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  94. The Berlin Egyptian Museum’s scan of the Bust of Nefertiti (2017)

    120 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  95. Palantir’s SPAC bets backfire

    120 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  96. Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  97. Vite 4.0

    120 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  98. Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive

    120 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  99. Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election

    120 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  100. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links

    120 points • comment • dec 16, 2022