Hacker News Top Charts - 2022-04-02 to 2022-04-09

Go dark

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

W1

W2

W3

W4

W5

W6

W7

W8

W9

W10

W11

W12

W13

W14

W15

W16

W17

W18

W19

W20

W21

W22

W23

W24

W25

W26

W27

W28

W29

W30

W31

W32

W33

W34

W35

W36

W37

W38

W39

W40

W41

W42

W43

W44

W45

W46

W47

W48

W49

W50

W51

W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1820

2

One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

1260

3

1212

4

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

1144

5

Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it

936

6

Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios

848

7

Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

843

8

Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

790

9

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

768

10

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

765

Top Ask HN

1

When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

711

2

Share your personal site

665

3

I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?

444

4

Have you ever switched cloud?

274

5

How do I develop focus?

217

6

Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?

203

7

Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?

163

8

Hybrid/Remote software team rituals

147

9

Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?

135

10

Have you invested in self-development and done inner work?

126

Top Show HN

1

Warp, a Rust-based terminal

946

2

Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

448

3

I made a puzzle game in HTML5

368

4

Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library

301

5

A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day

229

6

Zaplib – Speed up your webapp with Rust+Wasm

175

7

HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

156

8

I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination

152

9

Tilepieces – An open source project for visually editing HTML documents

123

10

Rust test harness that measures energy consumption

120

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

“Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod

285

2

A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site

221

3

Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code

167

4

Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years

138

5

A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago

138

6

Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world

123

7

Twitter is adding an edit button

119

8

What it’s like to get custom earbuds made

114

9

Ballooning spiders rely on electric fields to generate lift

100

10

The full Windows 95 launch event video is finally online

85

News [?]

1

Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

790

2

Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

693

3

I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

600

4

Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls

414

5

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan

335

6

Proposed EU rules would require clothes to last longer and be easier to repair

277

7

Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania

277

8

CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health

254

9

How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (2018)

207

10

Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers

192

Scientific publications [?]

1

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

209

2

Single-chip processors have reached their limits

203

3

Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

145

4

The State of Fortran

137

5

Gmail sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study

19

6

'Now or never' to avoid climate catastrophe, warns UN

18

7

Measurement of W boson mass suggests Standard Model needs improvement

13

8

Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

8

9

Hardship early in life increases entrepreneurship in adulthood

7

10

Nvidia’s Next GPU Shows That Transformers Are Transforming AI

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1820

2

Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters

235

3

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

232

4

Reading academic computer science papers

229

5

Use Git tactically

198

6

Meta quickly detects silent data corruptions at scale

167

7

We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub

159

8

Stripe 2021 Business Update [pdf]

155

9

ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Manages to Run Some Battlefield Games

138

10

The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

68

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app

37

2

AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking

21

3

AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking

14

4

Diabetes successfully treated using ultrasound in preclinical study

7

5

Apple demands Telegram remove posts related to Belarus protests (2020)

6

6

Converting Your Bike to Electric: Why You Should, and When You Shouldn’t

5

7

Open-Source Lawn Mowing Robot with ROS

5

8

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Review: Firing Back at Alder Lake

5

9

AMD's Future CPUs Could Feature a 3D-Stacked ML Accelerator

5

10

Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Review: Firing Back at Alder Lake

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints

277

2

Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses

106

3

AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN

47

4

WWDC22 online-only on June 6-10

10

5

AWS Organizations now provides central AWS account closure

7

6

Software Defined Radio Transceiver: Theory and Construction of Amateur Radio SDT

3

7

Jigsaw fixes bugs in machine-written software

2

8

The Rise of the Triple Peak Day

2

9

Adam Smith: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

2

10

AWS AppSync releases enhanced filtering in real-time GraphQL subscriptions

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

765

2

Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

159

3

Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button

112

4

Netflix Should Sell Ads

96

5

Women and their hair transformed South Korea

82

6

In 1980 an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian Town and Revealed Another

65

7

A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years

52

8

A Secret Vice (1931) [pdf]

10

9

To Make Better Software, Do What Artists Do

7

10

CodeMirror, Ship Fast, and the State of Replit: Feedback from the Community

7

Science News [?]

1

The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity

439

2

Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations

356

3

Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

234

4

Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

192

5

Why I got a PhD at age 61

135

6

IPCC’s starkest message yet: extreme steps needed to avert climate disaster

123

7

Cholesterol and mortality: Evidence of a U-shape Relationship

121

8

What happens in your dog’s brain when you speak

114

9

Father-Son Team Solves Geometry Problem with Infinite Folds

106

10

Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do

103

Social [?]

1

Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios

848

2

What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows

503

3

Drone footage of Tesla factory

408

4

Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing

399

5

AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent

365

6

Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years

316

7

AT&T's website raising the price every time I refresh the page

290

8

YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite

261

9

Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter

226

10

FAANG promo committees are killing Kubernetes: A Short Thread

218

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Why I'll never use Affirm again

512

2

NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

420

3

405

4

Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames

313

5

The Personal Security Checklist

253

6

226

7

Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode

146

8

YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube

137

9

Navi- an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line

132

10

NPM package event-source-polyfill compromised by political activists

124

Wikipedia [?]

1

Nicaraguan Sign Language

84

2

73

3

57

4

Induced Demand Is Real

31

5

Palmer Notation

22

6

Big Mac Index Manipulation

20

7

18

8

Massacre in Korea by Pablo Picasso

12

9

12

10

Vinegar Tasters

11

Blogs [?]

1

In defense of simple architectures

368

2

How to organize yourself as a solo founder

207

3

‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020)

185

4

Advantages of Monorepos (2015)

183

5

How private are Erlang private functions? (2018)

36

6

What should Russia do with Ukraine?

14

7

What I want (and don’t want) to see on your software engineering resume

12

8

I’m not a prophet, but I play one on the Dark Net

9

9

I Spent $20k Testing Social Media Strategies, Here’s What I Learned

9

10

Steward Brand Saw and Sparked the Future (again and again and again)

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Duplicate highlighter one-liner [Vim]

2

2

Comparing Two Images with Imagemagick

2

3

How to handle video autoplay on web just like YouTube

2

4

Is it ok to run Docker from inside Docker?

1

Substack [?]

1

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

768

2

Are you a baby? A litmus test

660

3

Are you nice or kind?

255

4

Life advice from NYC chess hustlers

249

5

Money Stuff is Linear-ish

182

6

All you need is links

164

7

Watching the World Wrecking

122

8

35mm cinema film and digital audio

110

9

The true purpose of propaganda

69

10

Digital models preserve game show history

65