1749
1352
Facebook loses users for the first time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/facebook-earnings-meta/
4 years ago
702
169
Do things, tell people (2012)
http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
632
594
In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
https://blockworks.co/in-second-largest-defi-hack-ever-blockchain-bridge-loses-320m-ether/
536
134
Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.html
535
488
Building a modern home in the woods
https://johnnyrodgers.is/building-a-modern-home
503
139
iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-iphone-flaw-exploited-by-second-israeli-spy-firm-sources-2022-02-03/
468
331
The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/3/22915715/nintendo-earnings-q3-2021-switch-sales-forecast
421
178
Slackware 15.0
http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/15.0.php
358
113
BeeWare – write Python, run everywhere using native UIs
https://beeware.org/
350
209
Is it safe to use __secret_internals_do_not_use_or_you_will_be_fired?
https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/3896
319
101
Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00241-0
305
381
Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online
https://gizmodo.com/silenced-airtags-with-disabled-speakers-for-sale-online-1848473673
302
770
What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00214-3
296
122
I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day
https://www.deadf00d.com/post/how-i-hacked-sonos-and-youtube-the-same-day.html
289
482
Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
https://nodum.org/why-semi-trucks-in-us-and-europe-are-so-different/
286
155
The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/kariko-problem-lessons-funding-basic-research/
271
68
A home made PCB stepper motor
https://kevinlynagh.com/pcb-stepper/
259
50
Show HN: I made a little digital circuit simulator that operates on PNGs
https://github.com/lynnpepin/reso
258
144
Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?
https://blog.ovalerio.net/archives/2346
255
63
Routed Gothic Font
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
252
106
Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914612/apple-podcasts-app-rating-user-reviews-problem
247
185
Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX
https://www.seattleix.net/participant-updates
240
148
Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44057/mysterious-aircraft-spotted-at-area-51-in-unprecedented-satellite-image
234
327
How should net metering affect your electric bill?
https://climateer.substack.com/p/price-lies
213
245
I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled
211
424
App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee
https://www.axios.com/app-store-bill-sails-out-of-senate-judiciary-committee-c49c22bf-c9ae-41f4-b23e-55a3ce8caace.html
70
Dip Switch USB Stick
https://twitter.com/bikerglen/status/1482516332432162820
102
Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/
80
Photons incoming: Webb team begins aligning the telescope
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/03/photons-incoming-webb-team-begins-aligning-the-telescope/
207
290
Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html
192
273
Wormhole confirms all $320M in funds have been restored
https://finbold.com/wormhole-confirms-all-300-million-in-funds-have-been-restored/
183
52
Why my projects keep failing
https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2021/12/27/a-comprehensive-list-of-failed-projects.html
180
74
Wolvic, a new browser project picking up where Firefox Reality leaves off
https://www.igalia.com/2022/02/03/Introducing-Wolvic.html
Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/882799/cb8f313c57c6d8a6/
177
202
Ask HN: General Mood of the Community
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193946
174
378
What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?
https://nautil.us/whats-so-hard-about-understanding-consciousness-13877/
171
89
Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences
https://www.kapwing.com/tools/smart-cut
168
Decades-old IBM database became profitable dossier on health of 270M Americans
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/ibm-watson-health-marketscan-data/
166
The first day of HN frontpage
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19
165
216
Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4408365318426-Sustainers-Boost-Badges#sustainer_what
218
Star Citizen will limit its roadmap, as players are getting upset over delays
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-03-star-citizen-slimming-down-roadmap-to-stop-having-to-update-roadmap
162
100
Compensation Data and Trends in the USA
https://dataforest.sequoia.com/reports/compensation/
154
173
Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077784525/mississippi-becomes-the-37th-state-to-legalize-medical-marijuana
143
71
FreeCAD: Open-source 3D parametric modeler
https://www.freecadweb.org/
99
How we broke the supply chain
https://prospect.org/economy/how-we-broke-the-supply-chain-intro/
141
72
DaVinci-style drone with 600-year-old screw rotor design
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/44100/davinci-style-drone-with-600-year-old-screw-rotor-design-actually-flies
140
260
Web3 is not going to change the world
https://sifted.eu/articles/web3-blockchain-internet-bitcoin-environment/
135
114
Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eatkind-for-chrome/ngojbbddpmckcgficlhojjcabamifdmi
133
69
My mental model of how alpha opacity works is wrong (2020)
https://coolbutuseless.github.io/2020/02/14/my-mental-model-of-how-alpha-works-is-wrong/
128
219
Why Not ZFS (2021)
https://storytime.ivysaur.me/posts/why-not-zfs/
126
23
Launch HN: Ploomber (YC W22) – Quickly deploy data pipelines from Jupyter/VSCode
https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber
124
105
Iowa man convicted of lottery rigging scheme granted parole
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/iowa-man-convicted-of-lottery-rigging-scheme-granted-parole/
118
270
GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60239038
110
Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/01/11/why-are-mathematicians-so-bad-at-arithmetic/
Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine
https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-compiler-vm/
51
Squabble.me – Multiplayer Wordle Royale
https://squabble.me/
98
109
Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188101
97
119
Ask HN: How do carriers throttle streaming to 480p resolution?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30192820
34
BASIC-DOS: PC DOS Reimagined
https://basicdos.com/
94
19
Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-30-year-old-andre-oort-conjecture-20220203/
90
188
It could be years until we see a normal housing market
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/02/why-it-could-take-years-until-we-see-a-normal-housing-market/
87
41
Top Chess Engine Championship
https://tcec-chess.com/
85
22
Rebelle: Experimental online paint software
https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/try/
48
Accidentally Turing-Complete
https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html
84
Try Turris Omnia, the open source router
https://opensource.com/article/22/1/turris-omnia-open-source-router
78
55
Bittersweet Symfony: Devs accidentally turn off CSRF protection in PHP framework
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/bittersweet-symfony-devs-accidentally-turn-off-csrf-protection-in-php-framework
77
6
Browser Shell: A Linux VM in the browser serving a website
https://humphd.github.io/browser-shell/
76
27
Creating Camera Lenses with Stereolithography
https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereolithography/
75
Design and Prototypical Implementation of an IRC Chat Server in Erlang OTP
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/design-and-prototypical-implementation-irc-chat-server-erlang-otp
56
Row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/captain-cook-ship-endeavour-identified-confirmed-shipwreck-us-rhode-island
73
8
Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment in Xinjiang
https://text.npr.org/1073793823
16
Coral, a Cobra fork with nearly all its features, but only 4 dependencies
https://github.com/muesli/coral
24
Genealogy of Relational Database Management Systems [pdf]
https://hpi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachgebiete/naumann/projekte/RDBMSGenealogy/RDBMS_Genealogy_V6.pdf
Dumpster diving the Go garbage collector
https://blog.px.dev/go-garbage-collector/
44
Freud's nephew and the origins of public relations (2009)
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/consumer
14
A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009)
http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html
Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages
Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]
https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2021/q4/business_and_financial_update.pdf
39
Netflix paid just 1.1 percent in Federal Tax
https://itep.org/netflix-posts-record-profits-federal-tax-rate-of-just-1-percent/
Dllicious – shared object usage analysis on Linux
https://wiki.alopex.li/Dllicious
67
18
The Sumerian Game
https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-video-game-youve-never-heard/