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1.

Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)

193 points by colin_jack 2022-07-10 | 65 comments

2.

Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY? (twitter.com)

150 points by exogeny 2022-08-05 | 138 comments

3.

Elon Musk Trying to Back Out of Twitter Deal (www.sec.gov)

144 points by coloneltcb 2022-07-08 | 132 comments

4.

Twitter Is Down (twitter.com)

144 points by Heliosmaster 2022-07-14 | 51 comments

5.

Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot (www3.nhk.or.jp)

133 points by coolandsmartrr 2022-07-08 | 53 comments

6.

Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition (notepad-plus-plus.org)

131 points by p4bl0 2022-07-08 | 55 comments

7.

Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1 (mp1st.com)

116 points by josephcsible 2022-07-10 | 76 comments

8.

Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens (climatechangedispatch.com)

111 points by notlukesky 2022-07-19 | 56 comments

9.

Japan’s Ex-PM Abe shot during speech (www.bloomberg.com)

109 points by cwwc 2022-07-08 | 48 comments

10.

DALL·E Now Available in Beta (openai.com)

108 points by todsacerdoti 2022-07-20 | 65 comments

11.

Deepest Infrared Image of Universe (www.nasa.gov)

107 points by potiuper 2022-07-11 | 29 comments

12.

Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon (www.science.org)

104 points by droptablemain 2022-07-20 | 134 comments

13.

Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns (tutanota.com)

100 points by starsep 2022-07-26 | 58 comments

14.

Brazilian Amazon lost 18 trees per second in 2021 (www.batimes.com.ar)

100 points by carride 2022-07-19 | 50 comments

15.

Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car (gist.github.com)

97 points by jeffbee 2022-07-09 | 28 comments

16.

Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town (justinmcelroy.com)

95 points by annapowellsmith 2022-07-29 | 24 comments

17.

Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix? (www.gq-magazine.co.uk)

93 points by metadat 2022-07-27 | 105 comments

18.

A Facebook account is no longer required to use Meta VR devices (www.oculus.com)

93 points by pesenti 2022-07-07 | 81 comments

19.

Scratch Is a Big Deal (www.bryanbraun.com)

93 points by bryanbraun 2022-07-16 | 17 comments

20.

Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments (twitter.com)

88 points by pcmonk 2022-08-03 | 26 comments

21.

Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

87 points by amf12 2022-08-04 | 63 comments

22.

Oracle Suspended My Account (Without Notice) (batin.sh)

83 points by stradiv 2022-08-02 | 13 comments

23.

Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs (www.superblocks.com)

83 points by bradmenezes 2022-08-04 | 16 comments

24.

I've started using Mozilla Firefox and now I can never go back to Google Chrome (www.techradar.com)

83 points by p4bl0 2022-07-17 | 28 comments

25.

Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy (www.quantamagazine.org)

82 points by theafh 2022-07-25 | 17 comments

26.

Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession (www.japantimes.co.jp)

82 points by zinekeller 2022-08-03 | 86 comments

27.

Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down (gamerant.com)

80 points by achow 2022-07-29 | 77 comments

28.

Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected (www.cnbc.com)

80 points by mfiguiere 2022-07-13 | 56 comments

29.

Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta (engineering.fb.com)

79 points by iamnotarobotman 2022-07-27 | 61 comments

30.

FTC Takes Action to Stop Opendoor from Cheating Potential Sellers (www.ftc.gov)

78 points by felideon 2022-08-01 | 1 comments

31.

VCs Squandered Billions on Scooter Startups (news.crunchbase.com)

78 points by prostoalex 2022-07-31 | 85 comments

32.

From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal (www.israelnationalnews.com)

75 points by walterbell 2022-07-26 | 61 comments

33.

A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service (web.archive.org)

74 points by kelseydh 2022-07-25 | 43 comments

34.

FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores (blog.malwarebytes.com)

73 points by scanr 2022-07-19 | 35 comments

35.

Google Trying to Solve a UUID (www.google.com)

72 points by delduca 2022-08-06 | 20 comments

36.

Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks (flipperzero.one)

71 points by clouddrover 2022-07-20 | 13 comments

37.

Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean? (www.science.org)

71 points by hprotagonist 2022-07-25 | 21 comments

38.

GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee (gcc.gnu.org)

69 points by edelsohn 2022-07-11 | 39 comments

39.

Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test (twitter.com)

69 points by longnguyen 2022-08-04 | 19 comments

40.

Theranos Former President ‘Sunny’ Balwani Found Guilty on All 12 Fraud Counts (www.wsj.com)

66 points by cwwc 2022-07-07 | 15 comments

41.

Twitter Layoff Started Today (www.linkedin.com)

66 points by amrrs 2022-07-07 | 28 comments

42.

AMD passes Intel in market cap (www.cnbc.com)

65 points by latchkey 2022-08-01 | 9 comments

43.

Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme (stacker.news)

64 points by 123six 2022-07-21 | 34 comments

44.

Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim (www.bbc.co.uk)

63 points by vinni2 2022-08-05 | 32 comments

45.

How Much Money Do Indie Hackers Products Make? (scrapingfish.com)

63 points by mateuszbuda 2022-07-19 | 30 comments

46.

Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud (wallstreetpro.com)

61 points by manesioz 2022-07-24 | 14 comments

47.

Vi Hart: Hexaflexagons [video] (www.youtube.com)

61 points by mgdlbp 2022-07-24 | 3 comments

48.

Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam (www.kapwing.com)

60 points by jenthoven 2022-07-13 | 40 comments

49.

Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video] (www.youtube.com)

58 points by swarmy 2022-07-17 | 22 comments

50.

Why is it so hard to give Google money? (paulbutler.org)

58 points by paulgb 2022-07-26 | 12 comments

51.

Why the world needs a non-profit search engine (daoudclarke.net)

57 points by daoudc 2022-07-10 | 23 comments

52.

Former Coinbase PM Charged in Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Tipping Scheme (www.justice.gov)

57 points by tempsy 2022-07-21 | 7 comments

53.

Apple Introduces Nudity Check for iMessage (support.apple.com)

57 points by komape 2022-07-28 | 81 comments

54.

1.0 Euro is now worth $1.0 USD (www.xe.com)

56 points by dezmou 2022-07-11 | 11 comments

55.

Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (www.wsj.com)

56 points by jzig 2022-07-26 | 8 comments

56.

Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh (gist.github.com)

56 points by app4soft 2022-07-17 | 8 comments

57.

LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor (www.lg.com)

55 points by jqcoffey 2022-07-09 | 23 comments

58.

Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous (github.com)

55 points by myle 2022-07-10 | 11 comments

59.

SEC Issues More Than $17M Award to a Whistleblower (www.sec.gov)

55 points by chmaynard 2022-07-19 | 26 comments

60.

9K-lb Hummer EV so inefficient that it produces more CO₂ than a gas Chevy Malibu (www.aceee.org)

55 points by cwwc 2022-07-07 | 48 comments

61.

James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live (webbtelescope.org)

54 points by crhulls 2022-07-12 | 14 comments

62.

FauxPilot – an open-source GitHub Copilot server (github.com)

54 points by fniephaus 2022-08-03 | 6 comments

63.

Data leak reveals how European politicians helped Uber (www.bbc.co.uk)

53 points by redm 2022-07-10 | 8 comments

64.

Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens (arxiv.org)

53 points by WithinReason 2022-07-28 | 6 comments

65.

Alex Jones must pay $4m in damages for Sandy Hook hoax claims (www.bbc.com)

53 points by bramjans 2022-08-05 | 43 comments

66.

The Green Revolution Is Fueled by 40k Trafficked Congo Child Slaves (atlantablackstar.com)

52 points by ahhahaha 2022-07-26 | 35 comments

67.

WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency (www.statnews.com)

52 points by l1n 2022-07-23 | 31 comments

68.

SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves (fly.io)

52 points by todsacerdoti 2022-07-07 | 16 comments

69.

Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (www.icelandreview.com)

51 points by toto444 2022-07-18 | 29 comments

70.

Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf] (jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com)

51 points by Jimmc414 2022-07-12 | 32 comments

71.

AWS us-east-2 outage (status.zoom.us)

51 points by kaustubhvp 2022-07-28 | 28 comments

72.

Why rails buckle in Britain (www.networkrail.co.uk)

51 points by scrlk 2022-07-16 | 24 comments

73.

Let's improve PeerTube – Help us define PeerTube's future roadmap (joinpeertube.org)

51 points by raybb 2022-07-21 | 13 comments

74.

Cooling related failure (in Google London DC) (status.cloud.google.com)

50 points by tardismechanic 2022-07-20 | 10 comments

75.

EasyRPG (easyrpg.org)

50 points by tosh 2022-07-31 | 1 comments

76.

Samsung adds 'repair mode' to phones, blocking PII leak when phone is repaired (news.samsung.com)

49 points by WaitWaitWha 2022-07-30 | 7 comments

77.

Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards (www.engadget.com)

48 points by walterclifford 2022-07-16 | 5 comments

78.

Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points (www.federalreserve.gov)

48 points by scrlk 2022-07-27 | 26 comments

79.

$9.99/Month (basicappleguy.com)

47 points by sashk 2022-07-17 | 29 comments

80.

A Crack in the Linux Firewall (www.randorisec.fr)

47 points by emilburzo 2022-07-21 | 6 comments

81.

The Best iPhone (notes.ghed.in)

47 points by rpgbr 2022-07-28 | 34 comments

82.

How I clean my glasses (tratt.net)

46 points by ltratt 2022-07-13 | 74 comments

83.

Batman easter egg (click the bat signal) (www.google.com)

46 points by simonpure 2022-07-23 | 12 comments

84.

Why Sri Lanka is having an economic crisis (noahpinion.substack.com)

45 points by paulpauper 2022-07-13 | 41 comments

85.

Closing the door on home buying company Opendoor’s false claims (consumer.ftc.gov)

45 points by tareqak 2022-08-01 | 26 comments

86.

Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm (github.com)

44 points by jawerty 2022-07-19 | 10 comments

87.

Smart Textiles Accurately Sense How Their Users Are Moving (scitechdaily.com)

44 points by thatbat 2022-07-13 | 0 comments

88.

People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter' (www.sciencedaily.com)

44 points by FollowingTheDao 2022-07-15 | 32 comments

89.

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (www.dampfkraft.com)

43 points by EvanAnderson 2022-07-14 | 1 comments

90.

The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation (trino.io)

43 points by simpligility 2022-08-04 | 6 comments

91.

You Don't Need Microservices (medium.com)

42 points by msaspence 2022-07-27 | 32 comments

92.

In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions (news.yale.edu)

42 points by boredemployee 2022-08-02 | 35 comments

93.

Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge (www.bart.gov)

42 points by runarberg 2022-07-09 | 6 comments

94.

On Bill Watterson’s Refusal to License Calvin and Hobbes (www.thelegalartist.com)

42 points by herbertl 2022-07-16 | 11 comments

95.

US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate) (www.bea.gov)

42 points by mrep 2022-07-28 | 20 comments

96.

Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain (www.ucl.ac.uk)

42 points by agomez314 2022-07-22 | 30 comments

97.

Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani is guilty of federal fraud (www.axios.com)

42 points by crhulls 2022-07-07 | 4 comments

98.

The hardest hires for founders: C-level executives, the best fakers in the world (twitter.com)

42 points by ilamont 2022-08-01 | 5 comments

99.

40% of Americans believe the Earth was created within the last 10k years (news.gallup.com)

42 points by atwood22 2022-07-18 | 64 comments

100.

George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf (bookmarks.reviews)

42 points by Edmond 2022-07-17 | 7 comments

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