The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2022
We track 1,508 stories from January 2022, averaging 265 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 90 stories. Together they drew 260,859 comments, 173 per story on average.
1
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org · natdempk · 7 Jan 2022
3.4k pts
1.1k comments
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3
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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4
Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
news.microsoft.com · totablebanjo · 18 Jan 2022
2.1k pts
1.4k 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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9
James Webb is fully deployed
nasa.gov · Sami_Lehtinen · 8 Jan 2022
1.4k pts
494 comments
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10
Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
nginx.com · nrvn · 18 Jan 2022
1.4k pts
346 comments
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11
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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12
Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
charm.sh · hillcrestenigma · 23 Jan 2022
1.2k pts
213 comments
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15
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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16
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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17
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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18
The UX on this small child is terrible
mcsweeneys.net · gumby · 4 Jan 2022
1.1k pts
357 comments
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19
Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
nakst.gitlab.io · nbaksalyar · 15 Jan 2022
1.1k pts
290 comments
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20
CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
joshwcomeau.com · joshwcomeau · 11 Jan 2022
1.1k pts
141 comments
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21
Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
them.us · grawprog · 31 Jan 2022
1k pts
449 comments
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22
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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23
Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
royalsociety.org · steelstraw · 30 Jan 2022
1k pts
926 comments
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24
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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26
AirPods don't “just work”
philip.design · knowingathing · 26 Jan 2022
927 pts
937 comments
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27
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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28
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
jenson.org · radley · 30 Jan 2022
906 pts
584 comments
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29
The New York Times buys Wordle
nytimes.com · lucis · 31 Jan 2022
902 pts
581 comments
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30
Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
gdcolon.com · TheresNoTime · 29 Jan 2022
896 pts
204 comments
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31
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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32
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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33
Danish government makes its new economic model open source
github.com · HumanReadable · 21 Jan 2022
842 pts
152 comments
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34
Free Postgres databases for small projects
fly.io · mikeyhew · 21 Jan 2022
841 pts
223 comments
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35
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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36
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
bbenchoff.github.io · kotaKat · 26 Jan 2022
813 pts
391 comments
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37
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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38
U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
apnews.com · danso · 10 Jan 2022
804 pts
701 comments
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39
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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40
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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41
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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42
Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
bloomberg.com · pseudolus · 25 Jan 2022
784 pts
454 comments
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43
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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44
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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45
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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47
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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48
YC’s $500k Standard Deal
blog.ycombinator.com · langitbiru · 10 Jan 2022
752 pts
349 comments
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49
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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50
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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51
Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
blog.jhm.dev · rdpintqogeogsaa · 2 Jan 2022
726 pts
190 comments
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52
Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
twitter.com · tagolli · 29 Jan 2022
725 pts
271 comments
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53
Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
github.com · frankjr · 28 Jan 2022
722 pts
188 comments
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54
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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55
My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
github.com · rmbryan · 21 Jan 2022
716 pts
222 comments
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56
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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58
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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59
Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
imlefthanded.com · decrypt · 31 Jan 2022
705 pts
805 comments
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60
I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
benadam.me · benadam11 · 5 Jan 2022
704 pts
666 comments
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