top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-08-04

Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349006

2 years ago

513 upvotes – 156 comments

Botspam apocalypse

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/61-botspam-apocalypse.gmi

2 years ago

411 upvotes – 346 comments

Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

https://codecrafters.io

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 206 comments

Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/

2 years ago

398 upvotes – 274 comments

Old jokes

https://dynomight.net/old-jokes/

2 years ago

381 upvotes – 265 comments

Sending spammers to password purgatory

https://www.troyhunt.com/sending-spammers-to-password-purgatory-with-microsoft-power-automate-and-cloudflare-workers-kv/

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 162 comments

The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/other-peoples-websites/

2 years ago

331 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341922

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 189 comments

Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/monotonous-web/index.html

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 244 comments

C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/

2 years ago

296 upvotes – 249 comments

Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/googles-video-chat-merger-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps/

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 274 comments

Part of my code makes Copilot crash

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/20273

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 354 comments

Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light

https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 124 comments

Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/french-heat/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 195 comments

Black holes finally proven mathematically stable

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-finally-proven-mathematically-stable-20220804/

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 141 comments

OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner

https://omnesviae.org/

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 60 comments

Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?

https://www.unite.ai/is-dall-e-2-just-gluing-things-together-without-understanding-their-relationships/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 354 comments

Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers

https://buf.build/blog/connect-web-protobuf-grpc-in-the-browser

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 156 comments

Excel never dies (2021)

https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 276 comments

All about QBasic and QuickBasic

https://www.qbasic.net/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 148 comments
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