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Top of Month - Aug 2022

1. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
   (17 Aug 2022 | 1614 points | Comments)

2. Design the next iPhone
   (23 Aug 2022 | 1463 points | Comments)

3. The Big [Censored] Theory
   (29 Aug 2022 | 1444 points | Comments)

4. 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
   (30 Aug 2022 | 1428 points | Comments)

5. Use one big server
   (2 Aug 2022 | 1413 points | Comments)

6. Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
   (22 Aug 2022 | 1313 points | Comments)

7. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
   (6 Aug 2022 | 1297 points | Comments)

8. Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
   (10 Aug 2022 | 1258 points | Comments)

9. Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
   (24 Aug 2022 | 1212 points | Comments)

10. Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
    (10 Aug 2022 | 1135 points | Comments)

11. I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
    (18 Aug 2022 | 1131 points | Comments)

12. Librarian's Letter to Google Security
    (1 Aug 2022 | 1082 points | Comments)

13. What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
    (3 Aug 2022 | 1070 points | Comments)

14. An odd discovery on Spotify
    (23 Aug 2022 | 1056 points | Comments)

15. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
    (2 Aug 2022 | 1045 points | Comments)

16. Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
    (25 Aug 2022 | 1044 points | Comments)

17. Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
    (23 Aug 2022 | 1005 points | Comments)

18. NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
    (5 Aug 2022 | 974 points | Comments)

19. Mikhail Gorbachev has died
    (30 Aug 2022 | 970 points | Comments)

20. A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
    (21 Aug 2022 | 949 points | Comments)

21. A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
    (25 Aug 2022 | 933 points | Comments)

22. Removal of Heroku free product plans
    (25 Aug 2022 | 908 points | Comments)

23. Stable Diffusion is a big deal
    (29 Aug 2022 | 874 points | Comments)

24. To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
    (8 Aug 2022 | 864 points | Comments)

25. Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
    (17 Aug 2022 | 814 points | Comments)

26. An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
    (9 Aug 2022 | 807 points | Comments)

27. “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
    (9 Aug 2022 | 796 points | Comments)

28. Things people blamed on bicycles
    (24 Aug 2022 | 780 points | Comments)

29. Productivity porn
    (3 Aug 2022 | 770 points | Comments)

30. Stable Diffusion Public Release
    (22 Aug 2022 | 770 points | Comments)

31. RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
    (17 Aug 2022 | 769 points | Comments)

32. See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
    (18 Aug 2022 | 763 points | Comments)

33. A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
    (11 Aug 2022 | 753 points | Comments)

34. Welcome Home, Garry Tan
    (29 Aug 2022 | 749 points | Comments)

35. Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
    (18 Aug 2022 | 748 points | Comments)

36. We're improving search results when you use quotes
    (5 Aug 2022 | 741 points | Comments)

37. 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
    (10 Aug 2022 | 730 points | Comments)

38. US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
    (31 Aug 2022 | 723 points | Comments)

39. GraphQL kinda sucks
    (6 Aug 2022 | 720 points | Comments)

40. Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
    (23 Aug 2022 | 711 points | Comments)

41. Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
    (22 Aug 2022 | 696 points | Comments)

42. I hacked my car
    (13 Aug 2022 | 688 points | Comments)

43. Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
    (26 Aug 2022 | 687 points | Comments)

44. One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
    (27 Aug 2022 | 685 points | Comments)

45. I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
    (8 Aug 2022 | 677 points | Comments)

46. Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
    (2 Aug 2022 | 672 points | Comments)

47. Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
    (15 Aug 2022 | 672 points | Comments)

48. How I regained concentration and focus
    (1 Aug 2022 | 671 points | Comments)

49. Understanding Jane Street
    (2 Aug 2022 | 671 points | Comments)

50. There’s no speed limit (2009)
    (17 Aug 2022 | 671 points | Comments)

51. Nobody wants to teach anymore
    (21 Aug 2022 | 666 points | Comments)

52. Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
    (14 Aug 2022 | 659 points | Comments)

53. Accounting For Developers, Part I
    (17 Aug 2022 | 648 points | Comments)

54. It wasn't for nothing
    (17 Aug 2022 | 644 points | Comments)

55. A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
    (16 Aug 2022 | 634 points | Comments)

56. Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
    (26 Aug 2022 | 633 points | Comments)

57. The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
    (13 Aug 2022 | 630 points | Comments)

58. SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
    (26 Aug 2022 | 621 points | Comments)

59. 90s Cursor Effects
    (29 Aug 2022 | 620 points | Comments)

60. Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
    (20 Aug 2022 | 618 points | Comments)

61. Stable Diffusion animation
    (31 Aug 2022 | 616 points | Comments)

62. Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
    (14 Aug 2022 | 606 points | Comments)

63. Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
    (15 Aug 2022 | 603 points | Comments)

64. Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
    (16 Aug 2022 | 601 points | Comments)

65. Mindustry – Open-Source Game
    (11 Aug 2022 | 600 points | Comments)

66. Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
    (19 Aug 2022 | 594 points | Comments)

67. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
    (19 Aug 2022 | 590 points | Comments)

68. Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
    (5 Aug 2022 | 589 points | Comments)

69. SSH tips and tricks
    (16 Aug 2022 | 589 points | Comments)

70. Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED
    (5 Aug 2022 | 588 points | Comments)

71. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
    (21 Aug 2022 | 585 points | Comments)

72. JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs
    (28 Aug 2022 | 576 points | Comments)

73. Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
    (29 Aug 2022 | 571 points | Comments)

74. No More “Insight Porn”
    (8 Aug 2022 | 568 points | Comments)

75. Is this the end of social networking?
    (11 Aug 2022 | 565 points | Comments)

76. App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
    (19 Aug 2022 | 561 points | Comments)

77. DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
    (31 Aug 2022 | 557 points | Comments)

78. Mainnet Merge Announcement
    (24 Aug 2022 | 556 points | Comments)

79. Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
    (17 Aug 2022 | 555 points | Comments)

80. Don’t think to write, write to think
    (28 Aug 2022 | 553 points | Comments)

81. Fake IMDB credits
    (7 Aug 2022 | 552 points | Comments)

82. How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
    (15 Aug 2022 | 551 points | Comments)

83. OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
    (10 Aug 2022 | 541 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
    (16 Aug 2022 | 539 points | Comments)

85. Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
    (31 Aug 2022 | 539 points | Comments)

86. Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
    (31 Aug 2022 | 538 points | Comments)

87. Why I built a dictionary app
    (1 Aug 2022 | 533 points | Comments)

88. Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
    (15 Aug 2022 | 530 points | Comments)

89. Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
    (16 Aug 2022 | 526 points | Comments)

90. “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available
    (7 Aug 2022 | 525 points | Comments)

91. VPNs on iOS are a scam
    (16 Aug 2022 | 525 points | Comments)

92. Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
    (28 Aug 2022 | 524 points | Comments)

93. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
    (10 Aug 2022 | 517 points | Comments)

94. It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
    (13 Aug 2022 | 515 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
    (25 Aug 2022 | 515 points | Comments)

96. Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
    (4 Aug 2022 | 513 points | Comments)

97. Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
    (23 Aug 2022 | 512 points | Comments)

98. Why no Roman industrial revolution?
    (26 Aug 2022 | 509 points | Comments)

99. The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
    (22 Aug 2022 | 505 points | Comments)

100. Why I left Pine64
     (17 Aug 2022 | 504 points | Comments)