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Hacker News (2022)

  1. OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

    450 points • comment • may 03, 2022

  2. YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

    449 points • comment • sep 10, 2022

  3. Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

    449 points • comment • feb 23, 2022

  4. A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them

    449 points • comment • feb 14, 2022

  5. I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”

    449 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  6. As last module docks, China completes its space station

    449 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  7. Life Is Short (2016)

    449 points • comment • dec 25, 2022

  8. The Factorio Mindset

    449 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  9. Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower

    448 points • comment • dec 04, 2022

  10. Naomi Wu demonetized on YouTube

    448 points • comment • jan 27, 2022

  11. The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal

    448 points • comment • sep 01, 2022

  12. Lastpass Security Incident

    448 points • comment • nov 30, 2022

  13. Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries

    448 points • comment • nov 28, 2022

  14. Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

    448 points • comment • mar 16, 2022

  15. The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

    448 points • comment • jan 18, 2022

  16. Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation

    448 points • comment • jun 09, 2022

  17. Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake

    447 points • comment • sep 15, 2022

  18. Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

    447 points • comment • apr 26, 2022

  19. Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

    447 points • comment • aug 07, 2022

  20. Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite

    447 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  21. The $8 Linux Computer

    446 points • comment • dec 17, 2022

  22. Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

    446 points • comment • jun 18, 2022

  23. WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

    445 points • comment • may 31, 2022

  24. All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters

    445 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  25. WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers

    445 points • comment • dec 21, 2022

  26. Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)

    445 points • comment • jun 06, 2022

  27. Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

    445 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  28. How and why I built Japan Dev

    445 points • comment • aug 16, 2022

  29. MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

    445 points • comment • aug 03, 2022

  30. Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?

    445 points • comment • dec 02, 2022

  31. Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics

    445 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  32. Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

    445 points • comment • aug 05, 2022

  33. Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

    445 points • comment • jan 05, 2022

  34. Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust

    444 points • comment • may 07, 2022

  35. Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds

    444 points • comment • jul 09, 2022

  36. Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick

    444 points • comment • may 11, 2022

  37. GTA VI Leak [video]

    444 points • comment • sep 18, 2022

  38. If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)

    444 points • comment • mar 24, 2022

  39. Symbian Source Code

    444 points • comment • may 24, 2022

  40. Starlink Aviation

    444 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  41. I won free load testing

    444 points • comment • may 02, 2022

  42. Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI

    444 points • comment • oct 18, 2022

  43. A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore

    444 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  44. Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial

    443 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  45. Rust – A hard decision pays off

    443 points • comment • aug 24, 2022

  46. My ADHD founder toolbox

    443 points • comment • nov 17, 2022

  47. Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate √2 with 99.9999% accuracy

    443 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  48. CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database

    443 points • comment • dec 27, 2022

  49. Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022

    443 points • comment • jan 11, 2022

  50. John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

    443 points • comment • aug 19, 2022

  51. Insider Trading at Coinbase

    443 points • comment • apr 13, 2022

  52. I'm common as muck and spent £150 to try a Michelin star restaurant

    443 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  53. Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

    443 points • comment • jan 07, 2022

  54. Lichess: The free and open source chess server

    443 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  55. I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

    443 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  56. Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990

    442 points • comment • jul 18, 2022

  57. Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles

    441 points • comment • may 05, 2022

  58. FTC action against Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse for limiting right to repair

    441 points • comment • jun 23, 2022

  59. Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)

    441 points • comment • feb 28, 2022

  60. Generics can make your Go code slower

    441 points • comment • mar 30, 2022

  61. Tell HN: Google does not list application permissions in the Play Store any more

    441 points • comment • jun 10, 2022

  62. It's always been you, Canvas2D

    441 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  63. The Story of Mel (1983)

    441 points • comment • aug 09, 2022

  64. Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case

    441 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  65. I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

    441 points • comment • jun 05, 2022

  66. Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children

    441 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  67. Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

    440 points • comment • jun 23, 2022

  68. Nuclear energy is clean

    440 points • comment • jul 31, 2022

  69. Stolperstein

    440 points • comment • jun 18, 2022

  70. Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

    440 points • comment • apr 11, 2022

  71. Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)

    440 points • comment • feb 10, 2022

  72. Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways

    439 points • comment • feb 22, 2022

  73. Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs

    439 points • comment • oct 11, 2022

  74. This is the year of the RSS reader?

    439 points • comment • dec 23, 2022

  75. RP2040 Doom

    439 points • comment • mar 14, 2022

  76. Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

    439 points • comment • apr 21, 2022

  77. Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?

    439 points • comment • jan 12, 2022

  78. Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people

    439 points • comment • apr 30, 2022

  79. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

    439 points • comment • aug 15, 2022

  80. I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)

    439 points • comment • apr 27, 2022

  81. Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

    439 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  82. Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab

    439 points • comment • jun 07, 2022

  83. Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura

    439 points • comment • jun 14, 2022

  84. Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

    439 points • comment • jan 25, 2022

  85. Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn

    438 points • comment • jun 28, 2022

  86. Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

    438 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  87. Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?

    438 points • comment • dec 12, 2022

  88. Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

    438 points • comment • feb 13, 2022

  89. Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

    438 points • comment • nov 16, 2022

  90. Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

    438 points • comment • jun 15, 2022

  91. Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

    438 points • comment • jan 06, 2022

  92. Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team

    438 points • comment • sep 09, 2022

  93. Principles of Engineering Management

    437 points • comment • apr 25, 2022

  94. Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

    437 points • comment • jun 27, 2022

  95. NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030

    437 points • comment • dec 15, 2022

  96. Ante: A low-level functional language

    437 points • comment • jun 17, 2022

  97. Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]

    437 points • comment • jun 12, 2022

  98. Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

    437 points • comment • oct 23, 2022

  99. DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

    437 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  100. Diablo 1 for Web Browsers

    437 points • comment • aug 20, 2022