top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-07-31

Google Timer is gone

https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer

2 years ago

560 upvotes – 323 comments

Nuclear energy is clean

https://www.collectifission.nl/nl/2022/07/nuclear-energy-is-clean/

2 years ago

470 upvotes – 685 comments

Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-01/blockade-australia-technology-bail-conditions-encrypted-apps/101277038

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 337 comments

EasyRPG

https://easyrpg.org/

2 years ago

439 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years

https://playcode.io/

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 102 comments

Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32296952

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 148 comments

When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intruders/

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 390 comments

Famous HNers and their sites

https://jessimekirk.com/blog/hn_users_links/

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 189 comments

Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander

2 years ago

327 upvotes – 183 comments

Shor, I’ll do it (2007)

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=208

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 48 comments

Google’s in-house desktop Linux

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3668548/the-story-behind-google-s-in-house-desktop-linux.html

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 226 comments

RISC-V based single board computers are getting there

https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-vs-mangopi-mq-pro-benchmarks/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 143 comments

Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/mary-schmich-is-world-famous-but-you-may-not-know-her/

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 189 comments

People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/people-spend-too-much-time-on-decisions

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 121 comments

Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California

https://www.vox.com/recode/23282640/leaked-internal-memo-reveals-amazons-anti-union-strategies-teamsters

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 181 comments

A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

https://www.mining.com/the-looming-copper-crunch-and-why-recycling-cant-fix-it/

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 461 comments

CS109a: Introduction to Data Science – Resources

https://harvard-iacs.github.io/2021-CS109A/pages/materials.html

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 25 comments

New Ghostscript PDF interpreter

https://www.ghostscript.com/blog/pdfi.html

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 92 comments

Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast

https://millionjs.org/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 168 comments

Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

https://news.mit.edu/2022/study-finds-wikipedia-influences-judicial-behavior-0727

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 122 comments
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