The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2022

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My First Impressions of Web3 moxie.org · natdempk · 7 Jan 2022

3.4k pts 1.1k comments

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GPS ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 18 Jan 2022

2.9k pts 285 comments

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Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories twitter.com · lando2319 · 2 Jan 2022

2.8k pts 1.3k comments

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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard news.microsoft.com · totablebanjo · 18 Jan 2022

2.1k pts 1.4k comments

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Elizabeth Holmes found guilty axios.com · sdan · 4 Jan 2022

1.7k pts 1.2k comments

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Tell HN: Salary data is for sale bsilvereagle · 7 Jan 2022

1.7k pts 762 comments

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Ask HN: Gmail account security caseyf7 · 23 Jan 2022

1.5k pts 774 comments

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I got pwned by my cloud costs troyhunt.com · andimm · 24 Jan 2022

1.4k pts 641 comments

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James Webb is fully deployed nasa.gov · Sami_Lehtinen · 8 Jan 2022

1.4k pts 494 comments

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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx nginx.com · nrvn · 18 Jan 2022

1.4k pts 346 comments

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Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time looptap.vasanthv.com · vasanthv · 13 Jan 2022

1.2k pts 170 comments

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Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous charm.sh · hillcrestenigma · 23 Jan 2022

1.2k pts 213 comments

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Open-Sourcing our Firmware frame.work · aram · 21 Jan 2022

1.2k pts 368 comments

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Bolt founder on Stripe/YC twitter.com · pphysch · 25 Jan 2022

1.2k pts 314 comments

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Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card alanany.com · DarrenDev · 9 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 485 comments

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I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law twitter.com · georgecmu · 28 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 402 comments

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Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement twitter.com · thanatosmin · 24 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 449 comments

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The UX on this small child is terrible mcsweeneys.net · gumby · 4 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 357 comments

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Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch nakst.gitlab.io · nbaksalyar · 15 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 290 comments

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CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone” joshwcomeau.com · joshwcomeau · 11 Jan 2022

1.1k pts 141 comments

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Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials them.us · grawprog · 31 Jan 2022

1k pts 449 comments

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The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed askamanager.org · amadeuspzs · 31 Jan 2022

1k pts 599 comments

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Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online royalsociety.org · steelstraw · 30 Jan 2022

1k pts 926 comments

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FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned gitlab.com · tercio · 21 Jan 2022

939 pts 390 comments

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New Year, New CEO signal.org · 0xedb · 10 Jan 2022

939 pts 322 comments

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AirPods don't “just work” philip.design · knowingathing · 26 Jan 2022

927 pts 937 comments

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Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps bleepingcomputer.com · curling_grad · 9 Jan 2022

924 pts 1.1k comments

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A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar jenson.org · radley · 30 Jan 2022

906 pts 584 comments

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The New York Times buys Wordle nytimes.com · lucis · 31 Jan 2022

902 pts 581 comments

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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website gdcolon.com · TheresNoTime · 29 Jan 2022

896 pts 204 comments

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Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji earthquake.usgs.gov · ggm · 15 Jan 2022

876 pts 204 comments

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Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone vice.com · ciprian_craciun · 25 Jan 2022

855 pts 676 comments

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Danish government makes its new economic model open source github.com · HumanReadable · 21 Jan 2022

842 pts 152 comments

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Free Postgres databases for small projects fly.io · mikeyhew · 21 Jan 2022

841 pts 223 comments

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PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds engadget.com · I_am_tiberius · 14 Jan 2022

814 pts 311 comments

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A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 bbenchoff.github.io · kotaKat · 26 Jan 2022

813 pts 391 comments

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What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) loc.gov · rzk · 6 Jan 2022

805 pts 640 comments

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U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient apnews.com · danso · 10 Jan 2022

804 pts 701 comments

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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019) blog.haschek.at · BayAreaEscapee · 17 Jan 2022

799 pts 262 comments

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Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up river-runner-global.samlearner.com · slowhand09 · 7 Jan 2022

790 pts 115 comments

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I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now cushychicken.github.io · cushychicken · 11 Jan 2022

785 pts 890 comments

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Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid bloomberg.com · pseudolus · 25 Jan 2022

784 pts 454 comments

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Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff onemileatatime.com · lsllc · 1 Jan 2022

780 pts 556 comments

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I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015) web.stanford.edu · monort · 28 Jan 2022

770 pts 349 comments

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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 blog.polyhaven.com · darknoon · 5 Jan 2022

766 pts 401 comments

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Burn My Windows github.com · marcodiego · 4 Jan 2022

764 pts 275 comments

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James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away npr.org · pseudolus · 25 Jan 2022

754 pts 342 comments

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YC’s $500k Standard Deal blog.ycombinator.com · langitbiru · 10 Jan 2022

752 pts 349 comments

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Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research zotero.org · rammy1234 · 2 Jan 2022

747 pts 201 comments

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I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house twitter.com · tosh · 22 Jan 2022

740 pts 182 comments

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Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux blog.jhm.dev · rdpintqogeogsaa · 2 Jan 2022

726 pts 190 comments

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Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale twitter.com · tagolli · 29 Jan 2022

725 pts 271 comments

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Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit github.com · frankjr · 28 Jan 2022

722 pts 188 comments

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More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years npr.org · Takizawamura · 13 Jan 2022

717 pts 1.1k comments

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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated github.com · rmbryan · 21 Jan 2022

716 pts 222 comments

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Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22 old.reddit.com · technion · 1 Jan 2022

711 pts 358 comments

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Oh, 2022 antipope.org · elkos · 9 Jan 2022

709 pts 538 comments

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Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant reuters.com · HieronymusBosch · 21 Jan 2022

708 pts 603 comments

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Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web imlefthanded.com · decrypt · 31 Jan 2022

705 pts 805 comments

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I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months benadam.me · benadam11 · 5 Jan 2022

704 pts 666 comments