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Top of Month - Jan 2022

1. My First Impressions of Web3
   (7 Jan 2022 | 3393 points | Comments)

2. GPS
   (18 Jan 2022 | 2900 points | Comments)

3. Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
   (2 Jan 2022 | 2813 points | Comments)

4. Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
   (18 Jan 2022 | 2051 points | Comments)

5. Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
   (4 Jan 2022 | 1712 points | Comments)

6. Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
   (7 Jan 2022 | 1690 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Gmail account security
   (23 Jan 2022 | 1508 points | Comments)

8. I got pwned by my cloud costs
   (24 Jan 2022 | 1398 points | Comments)

9. James Webb is fully deployed
   (8 Jan 2022 | 1384 points | Comments)

10. Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
    (18 Jan 2022 | 1384 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
    (13 Jan 2022 | 1241 points | Comments)

12. Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
    (23 Jan 2022 | 1195 points | Comments)

13. Open-Sourcing our Firmware
    (21 Jan 2022 | 1168 points | Comments)

14. Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
    (25 Jan 2022 | 1165 points | Comments)

15. Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
    (9 Jan 2022 | 1142 points | Comments)

16. I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
    (28 Jan 2022 | 1141 points | Comments)

17. Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
    (24 Jan 2022 | 1117 points | Comments)

18. The UX on this small child is terrible
    (4 Jan 2022 | 1079 points | Comments)

19. Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
    (15 Jan 2022 | 1079 points | Comments)

20. CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
    (11 Jan 2022 | 1075 points | Comments)

21. Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
    (31 Jan 2022 | 1049 points | Comments)

22. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
    (31 Jan 2022 | 1018 points | Comments)

23. Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
    (30 Jan 2022 | 1016 points | Comments)

24. New Year, New CEO
    (10 Jan 2022 | 939 points | Comments)

25. FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
    (21 Jan 2022 | 939 points | Comments)

26. AirPods don't “just work”
    (26 Jan 2022 | 927 points | Comments)

27. Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
    (9 Jan 2022 | 924 points | Comments)

28. A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
    (30 Jan 2022 | 906 points | Comments)

29. The New York Times buys Wordle
    (31 Jan 2022 | 902 points | Comments)

30. Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
    (29 Jan 2022 | 896 points | Comments)

31. Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji
    (15 Jan 2022 | 876 points | Comments)

32. Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
    (25 Jan 2022 | 855 points | Comments)

33. Danish government makes its new economic model open source
    (21 Jan 2022 | 842 points | Comments)

34. Free Postgres databases for small projects
    (21 Jan 2022 | 841 points | Comments)

35. PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
    (14 Jan 2022 | 814 points | Comments)

36. A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
    (26 Jan 2022 | 813 points | Comments)

37. What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
    (6 Jan 2022 | 805 points | Comments)

38. U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
    (10 Jan 2022 | 804 points | Comments)

39. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
    (17 Jan 2022 | 799 points | Comments)

40. Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
    (7 Jan 2022 | 790 points | Comments)

41. I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
    (11 Jan 2022 | 785 points | Comments)

42. Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
    (25 Jan 2022 | 784 points | Comments)

43. Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
    (1 Jan 2022 | 780 points | Comments)

44. I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
    (28 Jan 2022 | 770 points | Comments)

45. We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
    (5 Jan 2022 | 766 points | Comments)

46. Burn My Windows
    (4 Jan 2022 | 764 points | Comments)

47. James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away
    (25 Jan 2022 | 754 points | Comments)

48. YC’s $500k Standard Deal
    (10 Jan 2022 | 752 points | Comments)

49. Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
    (2 Jan 2022 | 747 points | Comments)

50. I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
    (22 Jan 2022 | 740 points | Comments)

51. Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
    (2 Jan 2022 | 726 points | Comments)

52. Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
    (29 Jan 2022 | 725 points | Comments)

53. Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
    (28 Jan 2022 | 722 points | Comments)

54. More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
    (13 Jan 2022 | 717 points | Comments)

55. My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
    (21 Jan 2022 | 716 points | Comments)

56. Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
    (1 Jan 2022 | 711 points | Comments)

57. Oh, 2022
    (9 Jan 2022 | 709 points | Comments)

58. Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
    (21 Jan 2022 | 708 points | Comments)

59. Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
    (31 Jan 2022 | 705 points | Comments)

60. I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
    (5 Jan 2022 | 704 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
    (13 Jan 2022 | 696 points | Comments)

62. Red Light Green Light
    (31 Jan 2022 | 694 points | Comments)

63. Computers as I used to love them
    (7 Jan 2022 | 692 points | Comments)

64. T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
    (10 Jan 2022 | 692 points | Comments)

65. Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
    (12 Jan 2022 | 690 points | Comments)

66. IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
    (23 Jan 2022 | 688 points | Comments)

67. Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
    (12 Jan 2022 | 687 points | Comments)

68. Roblox October Outage Postmortem
    (20 Jan 2022 | 687 points | Comments)

69. Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
    (26 Jan 2022 | 686 points | Comments)

70. 1Password Has Raised $620M
    (19 Jan 2022 | 681 points | Comments)

71. Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
    (28 Jan 2022 | 681 points | Comments)

72. Is the madness ever going to end?
    (11 Jan 2022 | 679 points | Comments)

73. How big was the Tonga eruption?
    (24 Jan 2022 | 671 points | Comments)

74. Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
    (6 Jan 2022 | 663 points | Comments)

75. Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
    (19 Jan 2022 | 660 points | Comments)

76. I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
    (27 Jan 2022 | 656 points | Comments)

77. Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
    (5 Jan 2022 | 652 points | Comments)

78. PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
    (24 Jan 2022 | 650 points | Comments)

79. I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
    (19 Jan 2022 | 646 points | Comments)

80. In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
    (12 Jan 2022 | 643 points | Comments)

81. Did I just lose half a million dollars?
    (30 Jan 2022 | 638 points | Comments)

82. We need to reclaim our attention
    (2 Jan 2022 | 636 points | Comments)

83. Multiple Sclerosis Causality
    (14 Jan 2022 | 635 points | Comments)

84. If Looks Could Kill
    (28 Jan 2022 | 634 points | Comments)

85. Please make a dumb car
    (31 Jan 2022 | 633 points | Comments)

86. New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
    (6 Jan 2022 | 631 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
    (30 Jan 2022 | 631 points | Comments)

88. Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
    (6 Jan 2022 | 630 points | Comments)

89. Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
    (2 Jan 2022 | 628 points | Comments)

90. An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
    (17 Jan 2022 | 622 points | Comments)

91. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
    (25 Jan 2022 | 622 points | Comments)

92. Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
    (24 Jan 2022 | 619 points | Comments)

93. Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
    (14 Jan 2022 | 618 points | Comments)

94. Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
    (13 Jan 2022 | 617 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
    (27 Jan 2022 | 617 points | Comments)

96. Don't Waste the Good Days
    (1 Jan 2022 | 611 points | Comments)

97. I Miss RSS
    (5 Jan 2022 | 605 points | Comments)

98. Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
    (28 Jan 2022 | 602 points | Comments)

99. Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
    (2 Jan 2022 | 601 points | Comments)

100. On Leaving Facebook
     (22 Jan 2022 | 600 points | Comments)