The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2022
We track 1,381 stories from August 2022, averaging 246 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 88 stories. Together they drew 227,356 comments, 165 per story on average.
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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
vibilagare.se · eriksdh · 17 Aug 2022
1.6k pts
953 comments
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
andys.page · andy_xor_andrew · 30 Aug 2022
1.4k pts
382 comments
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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
7tech · 22 Aug 2022
1.3k pts
508 comments
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Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
dukope.com · nycpig · 6 Aug 2022
1.3k pts
180 comments
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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
krausefx.com · the_mitsuhiko · 10 Aug 2022
1.3k pts
449 comments
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
blog.comma.ai · arduinomancer · 24 Aug 2022
1.2k pts
299 comments
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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
arstechnica.com · carride · 10 Aug 2022
1.1k pts
427 comments
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I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
electronicmaterialsoffice.com · aemerson_ · 18 Aug 2022
1.1k pts
664 comments
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Librarian's Letter to Google Security
docs.google.com · 2352500 · 1 Aug 2022
1.1k pts
461 comments
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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
noctslackv2.wordpress.com · ColinWright · 3 Aug 2022
1.1k pts
467 comments
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14
An odd discovery on Spotify
robinsloan.com · breathenow · 23 Aug 2022
1.1k pts
429 comments
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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
jacobmartins.com · cube2222 · 2 Aug 2022
1k pts
378 comments
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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
whitehouse.gov · mattkrisiloff · 25 Aug 2022
1k pts
267 comments
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Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
cnn.com · razin · 23 Aug 2022
1k pts
603 comments
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NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
blog.cr.yp.to · trulyrandom · 5 Aug 2022
974 pts
443 comments
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A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
nytimes.com · dklsf · 21 Aug 2022
949 pts
559 comments
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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
endtimes.dev · DitheringIdiot · 25 Aug 2022
933 pts
343 comments
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Removal of Heroku free product plans
help.heroku.com · countspongebob · 25 Aug 2022
908 pts
573 comments
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal
simonwillison.net · simonw · 29 Aug 2022
874 pts
471 comments
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To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
metaphysic.ai · Hard_Space · 8 Aug 2022
864 pts
274 comments
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25
Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
crunchydata.com · samwillis · 17 Aug 2022
814 pts
171 comments
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An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
privacy.twitter.com · WaitWaitWha · 9 Aug 2022
807 pts
450 comments
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“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
android.com · Fabricio20 · 9 Aug 2022
796 pts
960 comments
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28
Things people blamed on bicycles
twitter.com · the-archivist · 24 Aug 2022
780 pts
817 comments
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Stable Diffusion Public Release
stability.ai · flimsythoughts · 22 Aug 2022
770 pts
413 comments
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RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
ravynos.com · behnamoh · 17 Aug 2022
769 pts
363 comments
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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
krausefx.com · krausefx · 18 Aug 2022
763 pts
307 comments
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A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
smithsonianmag.com · evo_9 · 11 Aug 2022
753 pts
285 comments
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34
Welcome Home, Garry Tan
ycombinator.com · todsacerdoti · 29 Aug 2022
749 pts
269 comments
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Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
learnmyog.com · almog · 18 Aug 2022
748 pts
164 comments
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We're improving search results when you use quotes
blog.google · Kortaggio · 5 Aug 2022
741 pts
687 comments
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'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
business-standard.com · quaffapint · 10 Aug 2022
730 pts
1.1k comments
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US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
sec.gov · wmf · 31 Aug 2022
723 pts
624 comments
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Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
pornpen.ai · dreampen · 23 Aug 2022
711 pts
414 comments
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Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
about.maps.earth · ellenhp · 22 Aug 2022
696 pts
111 comments
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42
I hacked my car
programmingwithstyle.com · ytpete · 13 Aug 2022
688 pts
134 comments
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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
blog.zulip.com · williamstein · 26 Aug 2022
687 pts
757 comments
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One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
peabee.substack.com · donbox · 27 Aug 2022
685 pts
355 comments
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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
deephaven.io · dsmmcken · 8 Aug 2022
677 pts
322 comments
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Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
support.signal.org · input_sh · 15 Aug 2022
672 pts
478 comments
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How I regained concentration and focus
innoq.com · aiobe · 1 Aug 2022
671 pts
415 comments
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Nobody wants to teach anymore
jessicalexicus.medium.com · grej · 21 Aug 2022
666 pts
966 comments
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52
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
automaticwasher.org · userbinator · 14 Aug 2022
659 pts
753 comments
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53
Accounting For Developers, Part I
moderntreasury.com · qin · 17 Aug 2022
648 pts
186 comments
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A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
studyfinds.org · rajnathani · 16 Aug 2022
634 pts
459 comments
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56
Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
cv6.poinsignon.org · fjarlq · 26 Aug 2022
633 pts
150 comments
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The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
theverge.com · neodypsis · 13 Aug 2022
630 pts
393 comments
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SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
wsj.com · mmastrac · 26 Aug 2022
621 pts
472 comments
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
github.com · ducktective · 20 Aug 2022
618 pts
208 comments
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