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Hacker News (Dec 2022)

  1. Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

    243 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  2. VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux

    243 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  3. Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist

    243 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  4. 26 Programming Languages in 25 Days

    242 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  5. Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?

    242 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  6. Why do new cars look like wet putty?

    242 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  7. Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

    241 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  8. Ruby 3.2.0

    241 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  9. How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works

    241 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  10. How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook?

    240 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  11. In praise of MIDI

    240 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  12. Framer's Magic Motion

    240 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  13. Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal

    240 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  14. Amazon packages burn in India, final stop in broken recycling system

    240 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  15. Pico8 Music Synthesizer

    240 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  16. Ruby delights built into the language

    239 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  17. Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras

    239 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  18. Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees

    238 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  19. Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests

    237 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  20. The Linux Command Line

    237 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  21. Leak of a cancelled 1996 “Duke Nukem Forever” side-scroller

    237 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  22. Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?

    237 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  23. Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks

    237 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  24. The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)

    236 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  25. Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair [video]

    236 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  26. SQLite internals: How the most-used database works

    236 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  27. I've just started mixing shaders with Pygame

    236 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  28. Bra size calculator

    236 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  29. Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

    235 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  30. I did Advent of Code on a Playstation

    235 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  31. PicoCAD – A tiny modeller for tiny models

    235 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  32. Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods

    235 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  33. Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity

    235 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  34. An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT

    235 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  35. Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

    234 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  36. Apple to end employee gagging clauses after activist campaign

    234 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  37. Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool

    234 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  38. Twitter is suspending journalists who cover Elon

    234 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  39. ‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades

    233 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  40. The topologist’s world map (2020)

    233 points • comment • dec 20, 2022

  41. ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off

    233 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  42. Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing (2018)

    233 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  43. Comparing Google and ChatGPT

    233 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  44. Amazon shipped fake product, refuses refund until 'correct' item returned

    232 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  45. The impotence of being clever

    231 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  46. Perhaps it is a bad thing that the leading AI companies cannot control their AIs

    231 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  47. Rewriting TypeScript in Rust?

    231 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  48. NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”

    231 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  49. Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say

    231 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  50. Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

    231 points • comment • dec 05, 2022

  51. My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop

    230 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  52. Asymmetry detected in the distribution of galaxies

    230 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  53. The 6.1 kernel is out

    230 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  54. France prepares for possibility of electricity blackouts during winter months

    229 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  55. The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now

    229 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  56. IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

    229 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  57. Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own

    228 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  58. Why do bees die when they sting you?

    228 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  59. Tailnet Lock

    228 points • comment • dec 14, 2022

  60. Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance

    228 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  61. Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?

    228 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  62. ‘Luddite’ Teens

    227 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  63. Don't call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2011)

    227 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  64. SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers

    226 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  65. “Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (2019)

    226 points • comment • dec 28, 2022

  66. Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?

    226 points • comment • dec 30, 2022

  67. Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer

    226 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  68. News for Ruby 3.2.0

    226 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  69. Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow

    226 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  70. Maxi Jazz has died

    225 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  71. Hijacking infrared to make a dumb device smart

    225 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  72. Brute Force Colors

    225 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  73. Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager

    225 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  74. Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on

    225 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  75. Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

    225 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  76. Mars Now

    224 points • comment • dec 13, 2022

  77. Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years

    224 points • comment • dec 16, 2022

  78. Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses

    224 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  79. WLED Project

    224 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  80. User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb

    223 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  81. Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

    223 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  82. Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)

    223 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  83. AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

    222 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  84. The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

    222 points • comment • dec 24, 2022

  85. Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period

    221 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  86. Chrome, 10 Years Later

    221 points • comment • dec 09, 2022

  87. Surviving disillusionment (2020)

    221 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  88. Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands

    221 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  89. Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm

    221 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  90. LineageOS 20

    221 points • comment • dec 31, 2022

  91. Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?

    220 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  92. ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references

    220 points • comment • dec 03, 2022

  93. General guidance when working as a cloud engineer

    219 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  94. Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

    218 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  95. What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen?

    218 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  96. NixOS on M1

    218 points • comment • dec 26, 2022

  97. Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0

    218 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  98. Abstraction is expensive

    218 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  99. TSMC founder Morris Chang says globalization and free trade 'almost dead'

    218 points • comment • dec 08, 2022

  100. Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?

    218 points • comment • dec 11, 2022