947
430
Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30171800
4 years ago
768
433
Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808
678
397
Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode
525
536
Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-shares-tank-20-on-q4-earnings-miss-weak-outlook
492
421
GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europes-consent-popups-are-unlawful/
488
378
Settings are not a design failure
https://linear.app/blog/settings-are-not-a-design-failure
475
238
North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/
467
365
Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)
https://leetcode.com/problems/sudoku-solver/discuss/15796/Singapore-prime-minister-Lee-Hsien-Loong%27s-Sudoku-Solver-code-runs-in-1ms
409
210
Postman Now Supports gRPC
https://blog.postman.com/postman-now-supports-grpc/
403
203
DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games
https://www.darkpattern.games
386
272
Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
https://pragprog.com/titles/mrpython/portable-python-projects/
357
100
AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
https://blog.adacore.com/adacore-and-ferrous-systems-joining-forces-to-support-rust
351
113
Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992
https://tech.nextroll.com/blog/dev/2022/02/02/rustenstein.html
342
79
An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/31/library-book-idaho-dillon-helbig/
331
234
Non-Consensual Personalization
https://amitp.blogspot.com/2022/02/non-consensual-personalization.html
323
239
Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/retrospective-and-technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-outage/
320
124
Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0
311
118
Why and How I Got My Own ASN
https://chown.me/blog/getting-my-own-asn
302
253
Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?
https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/
300
476
Over-reliance on CGI in movies
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/cgi-did-in-fact-ruin-movies
277
188
Impacts of lack of sleep
https://belkarx.github.io/posts/finished/Impacts%20Of%20Lack%20Of%20Sleep.html
274
157
New lightweight material is stronger than steel
https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-0202
271
75
A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash
https://gist.github.com/huytd/6a1a6a7b34a0d0abcac00b47e3d01513
268
Running Lisp in Production (2020)
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-production/
258
183
mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
https://www.joshhorne.com/mmwave-radar-and-ambient-computing/
256
82
Senate introduces bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/new-senate-bill-farm-equipment-right-to-repair-rcna13961
252
235
Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30186091
251
The complicated futility of WordPress
https://coderjerk.com/the-complicated-futility-of-wordpress/
250
56
Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
https://grafana.com/blog/2022/02/02/announcing-grafana-incident-smart-incident-management-for-your-teams/
230
119
Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1386/
209
123
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
https://coffeehouse.chat/hn
206
223
Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1896107/reduced-hours-software-development-engineer
205
73
YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views
https://reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/sim12o/well_fuck/
16
Solving some formal math olympiad problems
https://openai.com/blog/formal-math/
200
70
Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
https://blog.eleuther.ai/announcing-20b/
195
43
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-stop-running-out-of-ephemeral-ports-and-start-to-love-long-lived-connections/
194
95
LibreOffice 7.3
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/02/02/libreoffice-73-community/
189
84
New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-scientists-material-absorb-enormous-amounts.html
64
Tell HN: GitHub is down (Update: Back online now)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182369
110
Cocktail party ideas
https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/
175
264
A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer
https://www.reuters.com/technology/year-gamestop-champion-roaring-kitty-is-quiet-yet-much-richer-2022-02-02/
174
35
LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView
https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/
166
46
Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/annotations.org
149
214
Starlink Premium
https://www.starlink.com/premium
148
65
An introduction to type programming in TypeScript
https://www.zhenghao.io/posts/type-programming
138
159
I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
https://swizec.com/blog/how-i-used-indie-hacking-to-sponsor-my-own-greencard
135
162
On Why I'm Quitting Alcohol
https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-why-im-quitting-alcohol
128
Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'
https://www.boston.com/news/cars/2022/02/01/self-driving-tesla-boston-video-elon-musk/
127
There are too many video games
https://bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/there-are-too-many-video-games
125
That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
https://lyz.substack.com/p/thats-how-it-works-when-youre-a-woman
60
Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%
https://www.usage.ai/
120
55
Show HN: Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185599
29
Assimilate: A Flood-It game for Mac OS 9, released in 2021
http://www.theztd.com/assimilate/
71
Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181167
40
John Koss, headphones pioneer, has died (2021)
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/john-koss
117
109
Write it in Garamond
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/magazine/garamond.html
116
140
Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30178571
111
78
Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle
https://www.mathler.com/
105
Heroku Is Down
https://status.heroku.com/
106
47
Vice Media organised $20M Saudi government festival
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/01/vice-media-secretly-organised-20m-saudi-government-festival
101
Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth
https://unum.cloud/post/2022-01-29-ddr4/
15
A Gas Dynamics Toolkit in D
https://dlang.org/blog/2022/02/02/a-gas-dynamics-toolkit-in-d/
94
The unsustainable growth of the container ship industry
https://prospect.org/economy/hidden-costs-of-containerization/
92
72
Why the coverage of the trucker protest should worry all Canadians
https://stuartparker.ca/why-the-coverage-of-the-trucker-protest-should-worry-all-canadians/
88
Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled for Oceanco's 127m sailing yacht Y721
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/jeff-bezos-oceanco-sailing-yacht
87
52
Grep flags – the good stuff
https://zwischenzugs.com/2022/02/02/grep-flags-the-good-stuff/
86
7
Linux bcc/BPF tcplife: TCP Lifespans (2016)
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-11-30/linux-bcc-tcplife.html
83
17
Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with webtorrent and Handshake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180399
Evolving clock sync for distributed databases
https://blog.yugabyte.com/evolving-clock-sync-for-distributed-databases/
77
18
Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (2017)
https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it#
76
141
Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
https://oncircles.com
74
Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
https://blog.dijit.sh//teams-microsoft-monopoly
30
SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
https://accessible.substack.com/p/soundprint-telling-those-of-us-with
