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Top of Month - Oct 2022
  1. Sound
    (18 Oct 2022 | 3053 points | Comments)

  2. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
    (17 Oct 2022 | 1847 points | Comments)

  3. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
    (27 Oct 2022 | 1752 points | Comments)

  4. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)
    (15 Oct 2022 | 1487 points | Comments)

  5. My dad's resume and skills from 1980
    (25 Oct 2022 | 1482 points | Comments)

  6. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
    (13 Oct 2022 | 1329 points | Comments)

  7. I help seniors with technology issues
    (24 Oct 2022 | 1276 points | Comments)

  8. Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
    (29 Oct 2022 | 1252 points | Comments)

  9. Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
    (31 Oct 2022 | 1207 points | Comments)

  10. How fateful?
    (4 Oct 2022 | 1120 points | Comments)

  11. Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
    (27 Oct 2022 | 958 points | Comments)

  12. Pokemon Card Animation
    (27 Oct 2022 | 944 points | Comments)

  13. Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
    (4 Oct 2022 | 940 points | Comments)

  14. Fake Books
    (24 Oct 2022 | 937 points | Comments)

  15. How I make a living working on SerenityOS
    (29 Oct 2022 | 936 points | Comments)

  16. GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
    (16 Oct 2022 | 914 points | Comments)

  17. The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
    (20 Oct 2022 | 902 points | Comments)

  18. Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
    (28 Oct 2022 | 898 points | Comments)

  19. Postgres WASM
    (3 Oct 2022 | 887 points | Comments)

  20. Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
    (7 Oct 2022 | 882 points | Comments)

  21. Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models
    (5 Oct 2022 | 800 points | Comments)

  22. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
    (24 Oct 2022 | 799 points | Comments)

  23. What “work” looks like
    (25 Oct 2022 | 788 points | Comments)

  24. Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana
    (6 Oct 2022 | 787 points | Comments)

  25. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
    (10 Oct 2022 | 780 points | Comments)

  26. Low Earth Orbit Visualization
    (14 Oct 2022 | 780 points | Comments)

  27. Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
    (3 Oct 2022 | 775 points | Comments)

  28. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
    (23 Oct 2022 | 760 points | Comments)

  29. Which emoji scissors close (2020)
    (27 Oct 2022 | 759 points | Comments)

  30. Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
    (21 Oct 2022 | 758 points | Comments)

  31. SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
    (6 Oct 2022 | 754 points | Comments)

  32. The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
    (3 Oct 2022 | 738 points | Comments)

  33. Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
    (3 Oct 2022 | 736 points | Comments)

  34. NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
    (19 Oct 2022 | 727 points | Comments)

  35. Stadia died because no one trusts Google
    (2 Oct 2022 | 724 points | Comments)

  36. How Wine works 101
    (10 Oct 2022 | 723 points | Comments)

  37. LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape
    (4 Oct 2022 | 712 points | Comments)

  38. I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
    (26 Oct 2022 | 707 points | Comments)

  39. Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
    (11 Oct 2022 | 696 points | Comments)

  40. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
    (15 Oct 2022 | 663 points | Comments)

  41. EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
    (19 Oct 2022 | 661 points | Comments)

  42. PostgreSQL 15
    (13 Oct 2022 | 655 points | Comments)

  43. Python 3.11.0 final
    (25 Oct 2022 | 646 points | Comments)

  44. Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
    (30 Oct 2022 | 646 points | Comments)

  45. Meta Quest Pro
    (11 Oct 2022 | 639 points | Comments)

  46. EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
    (4 Oct 2022 | 636 points | Comments)

  47. What does the ??!??! operator do in C?
    (5 Oct 2022 | 636 points | Comments)

  48. Mastodon.technology Shutdown
    (7 Oct 2022 | 630 points | Comments)

  49. The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
    (4 Oct 2022 | 629 points | Comments)

  50. Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
    (7 Oct 2022 | 629 points | Comments)

  51. Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
    (25 Oct 2022 | 626 points | Comments)

  52. Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain
    (23 Oct 2022 | 620 points | Comments)

  53. Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
    (1 Oct 2022 | 619 points | Comments)

  54. 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
    (18 Oct 2022 | 617 points | Comments)

  55. Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
    (8 Oct 2022 | 608 points | Comments)

  56. Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
    (29 Oct 2022 | 607 points | Comments)

  57. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
    (23 Oct 2022 | 606 points | Comments)

  58. The deception of “buying” digital movies
    (4 Oct 2022 | 601 points | Comments)

  59. Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org
    (29 Oct 2022 | 601 points | Comments)

  60. Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
    (2 Oct 2022 | 600 points | Comments)

  61. Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
    (14 Oct 2022 | 600 points | Comments)

  62. Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
    (20 Oct 2022 | 600 points | Comments)

  63. Wiring my home with fiber
    (30 Oct 2022 | 599 points | Comments)

  64. Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
    (26 Oct 2022 | 597 points | Comments)

  65. Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
    (12 Oct 2022 | 593 points | Comments)

  66. I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems
    (18 Oct 2022 | 590 points | Comments)

  67. I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
    (11 Oct 2022 | 589 points | Comments)

  68. Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
    (13 Oct 2022 | 589 points | Comments)

  69. Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
    (7 Oct 2022 | 584 points | Comments)

  70. How to become a pirate archivist
    (17 Oct 2022 | 579 points | Comments)

  71. Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
    (26 Oct 2022 | 578 points | Comments)

  72. Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court
    (9 Oct 2022 | 575 points | Comments)

  73. Moving from React to htmx
    (15 Oct 2022 | 575 points | Comments)

  74. Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
    (24 Oct 2022 | 575 points | Comments)

  75. Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
    (18 Oct 2022 | 572 points | Comments)

  76. Write better error messages
    (19 Oct 2022 | 566 points | Comments)

  77. We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
    (3 Oct 2022 | 564 points | Comments)

  78. Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
    (31 Oct 2022 | 558 points | Comments)

  79. SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
    (26 Oct 2022 | 551 points | Comments)

  80. Inside the Proton
    (19 Oct 2022 | 550 points | Comments)

  81. How to communicate effectively as a developer
    (28 Oct 2022 | 549 points | Comments)

  82. SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS
    (28 Oct 2022 | 547 points | Comments)

  83. Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
    (20 Oct 2022 | 546 points | Comments)

  84. MAR1D: First-Person Mario
    (12 Oct 2022 | 545 points | Comments)

  85. Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
    (21 Oct 2022 | 545 points | Comments)

  86. Wikipedia is not short on cash
    (12 Oct 2022 | 542 points | Comments)

  87. Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
    (14 Oct 2022 | 542 points | Comments)

  88. Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
    (19 Oct 2022 | 542 points | Comments)

  89. Compiler Explorer
    (16 Oct 2022 | 541 points | Comments)

  90. The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
    (9 Oct 2022 | 537 points | Comments)

  91. The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus
    (29 Oct 2022 | 536 points | Comments)

  92. Feather – open source icons
    (16 Oct 2022 | 532 points | Comments)

  93. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
    (13 Oct 2022 | 531 points | Comments)

  94. Disabling the Intel Management Engine
    (26 Oct 2022 | 531 points | Comments)

  95. Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
    (7 Oct 2022 | 527 points | Comments)

  96. I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)
    (28 Oct 2022 | 525 points | Comments)

  97. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    (12 Oct 2022 | 523 points | Comments)

  98. The Commodordion
    (21 Oct 2022 | 519 points | Comments)

  99. Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
    (5 Oct 2022 | 518 points | Comments)

  100. Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built
    (14 Oct 2022 | 514 points | Comments)