628

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

527

Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

296

SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel

262

The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes

208

Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

206

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

193

AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button

192

Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?

184

Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning

181

Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?

174

A 13-year-old used my artificial nose to diagnose pneumonia

168

No one cares about your redesign

146

What I Learned During My Three Days Offline

145

Avoid the Apple App Store

115

Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor

112

Quordle: Four Wordles in One

108

2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report

98

Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed

94

The U.S. is now energy independent

91

WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers

88

Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

88

Ask HN: How do you manage your companies knowledge base?

76

How to commit murder inside a locked room

75

Tell HN: 1Password shares passwords you don't want shared

72

“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”

66

Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-thermal propulsion

61

C# Raw String Literal Proposal

59

Launch HN: 1Flow (YC W22) – In-product user feedback for web/mobile apps

58

Firefox dev: Encoding override not necessary since most mojibake still legible

57

Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A

55

PipeWire 0.3.46

53

Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?

52

NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr

49

Uniting the Linux random-number devices

49

How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer?

48

Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake

47

Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck

43

Transgenic glowing fish invades Brazilian streams

43

Internals of Go's new fuzzing system

42

FBI sounds alarm as QR code usage soars

42

Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search

41

Haskell2020 Is Dead, but All Hope Is Not Lost (2019)

40

Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99m pay package

39

Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS

37

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

36

Ask HN: If your SaaS was used to commit a financial crime, what should you do?

36

The Patriot Missile Failure (2000)

35

Show HN: Reversle – Find the words given Wordle pattern and the solution word

28

Open-source online SVG path editor

28

Go 1.18 RC1 is out

25

S2n-QUIC (Rust implementation of QUIC)

25

Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage

25

Wordle – But for D&D

23

My default search engine changed after updating Firefox to version 98

23

Hacker News Clone Using Remix and React

19

Gmail – A New Integrated Layout

19

Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux

19

Mathematical outreach: The good, bad und ugly

18

The Big Here Quiz

18

The Internals of PostgreSQL

18

Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug?

17

Eric Schmidt plans to give A.I. researchers $125M

16

KeePassXC – Cross-Platform Password Manager

12

Advent of Code Day 24: Computing with Sets

12

Designing Olympic sports for the spectator

11

LanguageTool – FOSS Style and Grammar Checker for 25 Languages

11

A brief history of gasoline: Searching for the magic bullet

9

The CIA and the New Dialect of Power

9

System V Application Binary Interface [pdf]

9

Deploy to DigitalOcean from Glitch

7

Lisp Alien 3D Model

6

Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD

5

What makes writing more readable?

4

The Journey of a Complaint at SIGCOMM HotNets 2020

4

WebCompat – Bug Reporting for the Web

3

Designing Your Incident Severities

3

“He who touched it last, owned it”: On the death of Unix pioneer Lorinda Cherry

3

The Wizards and the Sheep (2017)

3

Show HN: Flomo – a minimal note-taking tool based on zettelkasten method

2

Ne-Brezhibni Protokol (Non-Flawless Protocol) (2012)

2

Make megaprojects more modular

1

Apple’s next-gen M2 by the numbers: A worthy encore to the M1

1

GitBOM is a minimalistic scheme for build tools to build a compact artifact tree

1

Real Businesses (2017)

1

Ask HN: What Roles/Skills Do You Struggle to Hire For?

1

FreeBSD 13 on ThinkPad T460s

1

I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed

1

21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes