top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-08-03

What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/

2 years ago

1070 upvotes – 467 comments

Productivity porn

https://calebschoepp.com/blog/2022/productivity-porn/

2 years ago

770 upvotes – 409 comments

MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

https://www.freethink.com/technology/solar-desalination

2 years ago

462 upvotes – 235 comments

Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

https://www.textualize.io/blog/posts/7-things-about-terminals

2 years ago

439 upvotes – 230 comments

FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot

https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 79 comments

Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

https://lichess.org/blog/Yt7x2BAAACkABlKS/a-first-time-grandmaster-titled-arena-winner-and-nakamuras-forbidden-platform

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 135 comments

Cut the cutesy errors

https://alexwlchan.net/2022/08/no-cute/

2 years ago

386 upvotes – 331 comments

Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/02/y-combinator-narrows-current-cohort-size-by-40-citing-downturn-and-funding-environment/

2 years ago

376 upvotes – 173 comments

Being swamped is normal and not impressive

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/swamped/

2 years ago

355 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: Adadot – analytics for better, happier developers

https://adadot.com/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 16 comments

Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 137 comments

Django 4.1

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/aug/03/django-41-released/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 125 comments

TikTok’s Poison Pill

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/08/01/tiktoks-poison-pill/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 421 comments

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

https://tls13.xargs.org

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 20 comments

Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing

https://albertpedersen.com/blog/hijacking-email-with-cloudflare-email-routing/

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 83 comments

Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

https://www.themanual.com/auto/markup-exposes-car-dealership-greed/

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 261 comments

GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/08/GlobalFoundries-joins-Googles-open-source-silicon-initiative.html

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 86 comments

Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments

https://twitter.com/stephenlacy/status/1554697077430505473

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32328207

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 301 comments

Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real

https://www.thingsihavedrawn.com

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 40 comments
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