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Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

412

GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing

380

U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022

282

My bad habit of hoarding information

272

How transportation technologies shaped empires

250

Why was Roman concrete so durable?

221

Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies

218

Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering

209

Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness

204

Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

195

Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse

185

No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)

168

Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA

161

Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays

152

Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

149

Software horror show: SAP Concur

148

Epochalypse

138

Switzerland: snow flown in by helicopter in attempt to keep ski slopes open

136

Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do

129

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (2018)

128

Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)

108

How to Build an Exchange (2017)

105

Why Cassettes?

105

Perfect Circle

100

Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection

90

A skeptical take on ChatGPT: Ezra Klein interviews Gary Marcus

89

FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims

86

Monkey stone tools shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites

83

MT-Propeller 11 blade propeller delivers 15% increase in static thrust

79

Please Sell My Personal Information

73

Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?

72

The Tyranny of Nicespeak (2001)

57

Jazz Is Freedom

57

A Look into Medieval Homes

54

A Brief Defense of XML

52

Public Schools Lost More Than One Million Students During Pandemic

52

Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (2019) [video]

51

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

51

Canaries in coal mines (2018)

50

A Curious Integral

48

Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?

43

Sunken Greenhouse

43

Modern Polars: A comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries

40

Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models

39

Ask HN: Contingency plans for a lead dev no longer avail?

39

Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes

36

Non-binary DDR5 memory could be a game-changer for businesses everywhere

35

Politics and the English Language (1946)

34

Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb

34

Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain

34

Coaching engineering managers to take on organizational problems

32

Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site

31

Netscape's Constellation (1997)

30

Making the ultimate-guitar.com web player easier to practice with

30

Ask HN: Why do people still use Stripe?

30

Artsy Engineering Handbook

26

Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration

25

P Language: a state machine-based programming language (2021)

24

Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]

23

That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted

23

Elevator Control Panels (2004)

22

Show HN: List of Stripe Alternatives

20

BMW I Vision Dee

19

Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia

17

‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66

16

Tell HN: Oculus will delete purchases if you don’t switch to a meta account

15

The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul

14

Vulkan video shenanigans – FFmpeg and RADV integration experiments

12

BugChecker – A SoftICE-like kernel debugger for Windows 11

10

The all in one web editor for M68K

10

I Feel for the NetBSD Community

9

English Eel-Rents: 10th-17th Centuries

9

ULID – Sortable Unique Identifier

9

MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes

8

Ask HN: Is there some academic research on software fragility?

7

Independent researcher claims to find writing in prehistoric cave paintings

7

In the Stacks

6

Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by default

5

A Person Paper on Purity in Language

5

ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks

5

Always bet on text (2014)

5

Learn to Process Text in Linux Using Grep, Sed, and Awk

4

Please stop using Win32_product to find installed software

3

Students in Iran are risking everything to rise up against the government

3

Getting Lost in the World’s Largest Stack of Menus

2

Show HN: Devbase – Find products to make your next fantastic project

2

The Detective of Northern Oddities (2017)

2

Code Riffs

2

Podman in Action

1

Finally Making Use of Bpftrace

1

Mastering Emacs Weekend Book Club

1

GOP leader McCarthy elected House Speaker on 15th vote in historic run

1

ChaCha20 Encryption Performance on Dec PDP-11 (2021)

1

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says there's 2 more years of pain before tech rally

1

Cisco commences layoffs, slashing nearly 700 Bay Area tech jobs

1

FTC proposes to ban noncompete clauses. Move will help workers, entrepreneurs

1

What does the sea sound like?