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1.

Queen Elizabeth II has died (www.bbc.co.uk)

700 points by xd 2022-09-08 | 201 comments

2.

Blocking Kiwifarms (blog.cloudflare.com)

236 points by deepdriver 2022-09-03 | 269 comments

3.

H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act (www.congress.gov)

178 points by lordswork 2022-09-09 | 123 comments

4.

John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round (twitter.com)

142 points by jasondavies 2022-08-19 | 153 comments

5.

Bitwarden Raises $100M (bitwarden.com)

134 points by deanmoriarty 2022-09-06 | 49 comments

6.

I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) (jacksoncunningham.medium.com)

133 points by cargoray 2022-09-08 | 64 comments

7.

If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever (www.newyorker.com)

133 points by ivanvanderbyl 2022-09-03 | 76 comments

8.

Stable Diffusion Public Release – Stability.ai (stability.ai)

132 points by flimsythoughts 2022-08-22 | 40 comments

9.

FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing exculpatory evidence (katv.com)

127 points by codefreeordie 2022-08-19 | 93 comments

10.

Queen Elizabeth II has died (www.bbc.com)

126 points by BerislavLopac 2022-09-08 | 1 comments

11.

“We kill people based on metadata” – former NSA and CIA director (darknetlive.com)

126 points by mantiq 2022-08-24 | 51 comments

12.

Heroku's Next Chapter (blog.heroku.com)

117 points by countspongebob 2022-08-25 | 56 comments

13.

The Twitter Whistleblower Story Is Worse Than You Think (www.kolide.com)

114 points by nickwritesit 2022-09-01 | 63 comments

14.

Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year (www.pewtrusts.org)

113 points by ParksNet 2022-08-23 | 88 comments

15.

Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (boyter.org)

111 points by ran5kpd 2022-08-25 | 34 comments

16.

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project (awesomekling.github.io)

110 points by eatonphil 2022-09-12 | 28 comments

17.

Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16 (www.coutts.com)

108 points by pbowyer 2022-09-10 | 71 comments

18.

Welcome Home, Garry Tan (www.ycombinator.com)

107 points by todsacerdoti 2022-08-29 | 28 comments

19.

San Francisco Braces for Commercial Real Estate Crash (sfstandard.com)

107 points by mortenjorck 2022-09-06 | 119 comments

20.

Final Thoughts on Ubiquiti (krebsonsecurity.com)

106 points by todsacerdoti 2022-08-31 | 33 comments

21.

Meta Platforms Cuts Responsible Innovation Team (www.wsj.com)

104 points by cpeterso 2022-09-09 | 98 comments

22.

4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything (andys.page)

102 points by andy_xor_andrew 2022-08-30 | 24 comments

23.

We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them (www.trytapioca.com)

101 points by alexyang21 2022-08-25 | 29 comments

24.

Airline Wizz Air is charging £10 “System Surcharge” when using ad blocker (2020) (thepointsguy.co.uk)

101 points by madjam002 2022-08-28 | 51 comments

25.

WebKit Migrates from Subversion to GitHub (webkit.org)

96 points by miohtama 2022-08-31 | 48 comments

26.

Apple Expands Self Service Repair to Mac Notebooks (www.apple.com)

95 points by todsacerdoti 2022-08-22 | 29 comments

27.

Design the Next iPhone (neal.fun)

92 points by mkeeter 2022-08-23 | 25 comments

28.

Study: Chances of serious side effects from coronavirus vaccines (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

90 points by EGreg 2022-09-05 | 73 comments

29.

Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273) (blog.ericgoldman.org)

85 points by dane-pgp 2022-08-31 | 88 comments

30.

What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) (retool.com)

85 points by antonyl 2022-09-09 | 52 comments

31.

Common Lisp vs Racket (gist.github.com)

82 points by ducktective 2022-09-05 | 37 comments

32.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (brailleinstitute.org)

78 points by zdw 2022-09-11 | 15 comments

33.

Mikhail Gorbachev has died (www.reuters.com)

78 points by homarp 2022-08-30 | 20 comments

34.

Visual Effects for the Indian Blockbuster “RRR” made entirely in Blender (www.blender.org)

78 points by rrampage 2022-09-10 | 14 comments

35.

The Portuguese Can No Longer Afford to Live in Portugal (medium.com)

78 points by nateb2022 2022-09-01 | 75 comments

36.

The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool (adguard.com)

77 points by PretzelFisch 2022-08-22 | 82 comments

37.

What to do if you find a nuclear-powered cardiac pacemaker (osrp.lanl.gov)

76 points by bookofjoe 2022-09-02 | 17 comments

38.

Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition (supabase.com)

75 points by samwillis 2022-08-18 | 27 comments

39.

Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final (sport.tv2.dk)

74 points by danskeren 2022-09-01 | 13 comments

40.

Heroku Status: Issues with upstream DNS provider (status.heroku.com)

73 points by bfirsh 2022-08-23 | 35 comments

41.

In Germany digital signage to be reprogrammed so that it turns off after 10pm (www.avinteractive.com)

73 points by amelius 2022-08-26 | 118 comments

42.

Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU (replicate.com)

73 points by bfirsh 2022-09-01 | 24 comments

43.

Hacker News Official API (github.com)

71 points by marchupfield 2022-08-21 | 14 comments

44.

How the Dead Internet Theory is fast becoming reality (grandy.substack.com)

70 points by finetuner 2022-08-25 | 46 comments

45.

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting (openai.com)

69 points by dannyw 2022-08-31 | 13 comments

46.

We want to make Nix better (determinate.systems)

69 points by biggestlou 2022-09-02 | 17 comments

47.

Coping with Copilot (www.sigarch.org)

68 points by lameda 2022-08-20 | 57 comments

48.

Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers (retractionwatch.com)

64 points by lightlyused 2022-09-05 | 18 comments

49.

To Hell with Facebook (2021) (www.damninteresting.com)

64 points by mrzool 2022-08-18 | 19 comments

50.

Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else (academic.oup.com)

64 points by cwwc 2022-09-12 | 56 comments

51.

Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (2010) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

64 points by andsoitis 2022-09-05 | 40 comments

52.

Fog Revealed: A Guided Tour of How Cops Can Browse Your Location Data (www.eff.org)

63 points by throwaway888abc 2022-09-02 | 4 comments

53.

White House requires public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 (www.science.org)

61 points by rntn 2022-08-26 | 1 comments

54.

Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion (github.com)

61 points by antman 2022-08-29 | 20 comments

55.

AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) (www.apple.com)

60 points by ValentineC 2022-09-07 | 52 comments

56.

10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins (github.com)

59 points by sleepy_keita 2022-08-22 | 18 comments

57.

Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end (www.thenewhumanitarian.org)

59 points by DanBC 2022-09-01 | 24 comments

58.

Almost Half of Cancer Deaths Are Preventable (www.nature.com)

59 points by LinuxBender 2022-09-04 | 49 comments

59.

“Proctorio detected none of the cheating students” [pdf] (ris.utwente.nl)

58 points by trasz 2022-09-07 | 18 comments

60.

Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive (whytheluckystiff.net)

58 points by samlambert 2022-08-18 | 4 comments

61.

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel (cfenollosa.com)

58 points by carlesfe 2022-09-04 | 25 comments

62.

Show HN: Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground (www.drawanything.app)

57 points by kierangill 2022-09-05 | 18 comments

63.

TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML (austingil.com)

55 points by feross 2022-09-06 | 21 comments

64.

Day ahead electricity prices for EU (euenergy.live)

53 points by taubek 2022-08-27 | 89 comments

65.

It Works! (pn.)

53 points by todsacerdoti 2022-09-12 | 28 comments

66.

“10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control (old.reddit.com)

51 points by monort 2022-08-23 | 11 comments

67.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story (twitter.com)

51 points by alvis 2022-08-23 | 31 comments

68.

“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3 (github.com)

51 points by antonok 2022-09-07 | 15 comments

69.

App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps (notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

50 points by alin23 2022-08-19 | 13 comments

70.

The Silent Majority in Software (vadimkravcenko.com)

50 points by bndr 2022-08-29 | 13 comments

71.

What’s Going on with Security at PayPal? (christianvarga.com)

50 points by levymetal 2022-08-27 | 16 comments

72.

Kubernetes Failure Stories (k8s.af)

49 points by wseqyrku 2022-08-25 | 11 comments

73.

Google employee resigns, saying company ‘silences Palestinians’ (www.aljazeera.com)

49 points by metadat 2022-09-02 | 12 comments

74.

You Have No Idea How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is (foreignpolicy.com)

49 points by Laaas 2022-08-31 | 34 comments

75.

US moves to make federally funded research free upon publication (physicstoday.scitation.org)

49 points by elashri 2022-09-05 | 5 comments

76.

Reddit's favorite products in one place (looria.com)

49 points by mooreds 2022-09-08 | 19 comments

77.

Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014) (www.mattrichman.net)

48 points by ctippett 2022-08-23 | 14 comments

78.

Despite TX lacking a state income tax, most Texans pay more in taxes than CA (www.expressnews.com)

48 points by cwwc 2022-08-23 | 24 comments

79.

What does Google say about “last day of march 2022” (www.google.com)

48 points by nsoonhui 2022-09-01 | 6 comments

80.

The Merge is approaching, and comes with changes to Ethereum (ethereum.org)

48 points by kristianpaul 2022-08-20 | 49 comments

81.

Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images (waxy.org)

48 points by hardmaru 2022-09-12 | 51 comments

82.

Why Hacker News Is a Masterpiece (thesumup.substack.com)

47 points by jrberendt 2022-08-29 | 5 comments

83.

TikTok Hacked (twitter.com)

47 points by unknownaccount 2022-09-04 | 17 comments

84.

Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for Doctor Google Flagged Him as a Criminal (www.nytimes.com)

46 points by dklsf 2022-08-21 | 13 comments

85.

Toyota patents plans for EV with manual transmission and clutch (insideevs.com)

46 points by aruanavekar 2022-09-05 | 67 comments

86.

This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions (artemis.sh)

46 points by xena 2022-08-22 | 15 comments

87.

Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust (github.com)

46 points by amrrs 2022-08-31 | 12 comments

88.

Why is WebMD so awful? (blog.tjcx.me)

45 points by tomjcleveland 2022-08-30 | 28 comments

89.

Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever (thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com)

44 points by brundolf 2022-08-28 | 11 comments

90.

A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says (www.washingtonpost.com)

44 points by pseudolus 2022-08-30 | 5 comments

91.

Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not (twitter.com)

43 points by tosh 2022-08-21 | 6 comments

92.

Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order (netzsperre.liwest.at)

43 points by the_mitsuhiko 2022-08-28 | 9 comments

93.

Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails (pluralistic.net)

42 points by dalmo3 2022-08-22 | 5 comments

94.

Learn PWA (web.dev)

42 points by carride 2022-09-01 | 16 comments

95.

SpaceX + T-Mobile Announcement: Increasing Connectivity from Space (twitter.com)

42 points by mmastrac 2022-08-26 | 30 comments

96.

Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection (www.vox.com)

41 points by smn1234 2022-08-25 | 17 comments

97.

Clip Control on the Apple GPU (rosenzweig.io)

41 points by stefan_ 2022-08-22 | 7 comments

98.

Show HN: Pornpen.ai, AI-Generated Porn (pornpen.ai)

40 points by dreampen 2022-08-23 | 24 comments

99.

‘Return to the Office’ Rhetoric needs to end (thebluejester.medium.com)

40 points by imhoguy 2022-09-12 | 16 comments

100.

Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use (blog.torproject.org)

40 points by Trouble_007 2022-09-02 | 8 comments

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