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Hacker News (Dec 2022)

  1. Facebook addiction increases depression severity among already depressed people

    316 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  2. Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe

    316 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  3. Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year

    316 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  4. France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

    316 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  5. Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

    315 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  6. Apple’s anti-union tactics in Atlanta were illegal, US officials say

    314 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  7. What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?

    314 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  8. Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023

    314 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  9. “News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”

    313 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  10. Don't Use Stripe

    312 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  11. Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

    311 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  12. In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)

    311 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  13. Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

    311 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  14. Cook whole grains like popcorn (2018)

    311 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  15. Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”

    310 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  16. Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account

    309 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  17. Na-S Battery: Low-cost with four times the capacity of lithium

    309 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  18. As unions decline, inequality rises

    308 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  19. ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman

    307 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  20. MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot

    306 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  21. Farewell, Building in Public

    305 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  22. How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

    305 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  23. Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app

    305 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  24. Show HN: Create a paid link to anything

    304 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  25. Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?

    304 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  26. Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources

    304 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  27. I found a secret US Government surveillance program (2019)

    303 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  28. Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole

    302 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  29. Writing a Mini-CDN to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua

    302 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  30. Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store

    301 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  31. An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)

    301 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  32. UC Berkeley launches SkyPilot to help navigate soaring cloud costs

    301 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  33. Video codec in 100 lines of Rust

    301 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  34. Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery

    300 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  35. State of the Sanderson 2022

    299 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  36. Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games

    299 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  37. Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM

    298 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  38. Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games

    298 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  39. The silent struggles of workers with ADHD

    298 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  40. When McKinsey comes to town

    297 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  41. Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges

    297 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  42. I have reached Vim nirvana

    296 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  43. Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA

    295 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  44. Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

    295 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  45. Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve

    294 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  46. FTX Contagion

    294 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  47. The Twitter Files, Part Six

    294 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  48. Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory

    293 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  49. Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe

    293 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  50. APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

    292 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  51. Tips for analyzing logs

    292 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  52. How Pitfall builds its world (2021)

    292 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  53. Why I'm still using Python

    291 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  54. PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database

    290 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  55. Julius: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

    290 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  56. Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly

    289 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  57. Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware

    289 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  58. Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

    289 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  59. Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms

    288 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  60. What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

    288 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  61. BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

    288 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  62. Six charged in mass takedown of DDoS-for-hire sites

    288 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  63. Pfizer Penalties Since 2000: $10B

    287 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  64. Second Life on GitHub

    287 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  65. Show HN: Pg_CRDT – an experimental CRDT extension for Postgres

    287 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  66. Are super-rich people just better at making money?

    287 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  67. XFCE 4.18

    286 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  68. The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

    286 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  69. Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics

    285 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  70. All in with Nuitka

    285 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  71. Getting Started with Tmux

    284 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  72. Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission

    284 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  73. Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

    283 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  74. Mastering Stratego

    283 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  75. Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber

    283 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  76. The maddening mess of airport codes [video]

    283 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  77. The human cost of neurotechnology failure

    282 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  78. The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists

    282 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  79. Evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere

    282 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  80. Request for Startups: Climate Tech

    282 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  81. I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh [video]

    282 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  82. Lesser-known JavaScript APIs

    281 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  83. The mid in fake midcentury modern

    281 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  84. JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium

    281 points • comment • dec 10, 2022

  85. Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?

    281 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  86. Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough

    280 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  87. Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account

    280 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  88. Publicity Stunt Fallout

    279 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  89. EABitTricks.h

    279 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  90. How Southwest Airlines melted down

    279 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  91. Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports

    278 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  92. Notepad Calculator

    278 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  93. Acorn, our open source precision farming rover

    277 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  94. Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python

    277 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  95. Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer

    277 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  96. Apple Lightning (2020)

    277 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  97. Privacy is ok

    276 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  98. Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated with 19KB of JavaScript

    276 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  99. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade

    275 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  100. Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok

    275 points • comment • dec 13, 2022