The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2022
We track 1,351 stories from February 2022, averaging 260 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 81 stories. Together they drew 225,650 comments, 167 per story on average.
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Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
reuters.com · eis · 24 Feb 2022
2.3k pts
1.8k comments
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Facebook loses users for the first time
washingtonpost.com · lxm · 3 Feb 2022
1.7k pts
1.4k comments
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Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
twitter.com · zdw · 5 Feb 2022
1.6k pts
565 comments
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Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com · andrelaszlo · 18 Feb 2022
1.5k pts
202 comments
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Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
chromium.woolyss.com · thyrox · 21 Feb 2022
1.4k pts
867 comments
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The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
cyberlaw.stanford.edu · grappler · 5 Feb 2022
1.4k pts
482 comments
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Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
ncwit.org · ggm · 15 Feb 2022
1.3k pts
185 comments
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Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)
raptitude.com · abixb · 22 Feb 2022
1.3k pts
703 comments
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Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
sha256algorithm.com · manceraio · 7 Feb 2022
1.2k pts
137 comments
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Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
cnil.fr · guillem_lefait · 10 Feb 2022
1.2k pts
1.1k comments
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Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
greatatuin · 14 Feb 2022
1.1k pts
466 comments
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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
bbc.co.uk · playpause · 9 Feb 2022
1.1k pts
792 comments
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Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
foxfluff · 25 Feb 2022
1.1k pts
285 comments
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Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
trendingwaifu · 6 Feb 2022
1.1k pts
849 comments
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Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
jdhendrickson · 19 Feb 2022
1.1k pts
429 comments
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Heuristics that almost always work
astralcodexten.substack.com · mudro_zboris · 8 Feb 2022
1k pts
520 comments
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Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
reuters.com · NN88 · 25 Feb 2022
987 pts
600 comments
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In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously
thehub.ca · busymom0 · 22 Feb 2022
979 pts
802 comments
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Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
reuters.com · swores · 24 Feb 2022
958 pts
422 comments
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Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
twhb · 2 Feb 2022
947 pts
430 comments
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Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
jremissing.com · Acrobatic_Road · 5 Feb 2022
930 pts
1.7k comments
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Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
kbst · 15 Feb 2022
923 pts
182 comments
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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
github.blog · todsacerdoti · 14 Feb 2022
903 pts
260 comments
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I have no capslock and I must scream
memex.marginalia.nu · mrzool · 21 Feb 2022
897 pts
520 comments
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What does it mean to listen on a port?
paulbutler.org · paulgb · 13 Feb 2022
853 pts
220 comments
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Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
apple.com · todsacerdoti · 8 Feb 2022
847 pts
704 comments
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Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
spacex.com · ortusdux · 9 Feb 2022
840 pts
487 comments
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Why I will never buy another Samsung device
lehtimaeki.medium.com · farmerbb · 22 Feb 2022
828 pts
634 comments
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A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
jakobgreenfeld.com · jakobgreenfeld · 14 Feb 2022
828 pts
487 comments
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I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
twitter.com · ahachete · 21 Feb 2022
797 pts
397 comments
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Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
alexchesser.medium.com · AlexC04 · 1 Feb 2022
790 pts
619 comments
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Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
twitter.com · gnicholas · 2 Feb 2022
768 pts
433 comments
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Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
science.org · sohkamyung · 18 Feb 2022
755 pts
727 comments
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A career ending mistake
bitfieldconsulting.com · ramimac · 22 Feb 2022
755 pts
312 comments
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Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
b112 · 1 Feb 2022
745 pts
438 comments
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Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
eff.org · buu700 · 11 Feb 2022
736 pts
327 comments
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For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
twitter.com · steelstraw · 4 Feb 2022
734 pts
441 comments
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Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
getcruise.com · d-jones · 1 Feb 2022
729 pts
636 comments
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Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
kuow.org · walrus01 · 9 Feb 2022
729 pts
537 comments
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Do things, tell people (2012)
carl.flax.ie · aarondf · 3 Feb 2022
702 pts
169 comments
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Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
medium.com · mooreds · 18 Feb 2022
699 pts
186 comments
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Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
washingtonpost.com · mikeyouse · 8 Feb 2022
698 pts
856 comments
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Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
judyrecords.com · richardbarosky · 19 Feb 2022
698 pts
269 comments
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Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
MathCodeLove · 14 Feb 2022
696 pts
171 comments
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France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
politico.eu · cyrksoft · 10 Feb 2022
688 pts
435 comments
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Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
community.zoom.com · mangala_murti · 9 Feb 2022
687 pts
383 comments
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A new wave of Linux applications
tuxphones.com · Vinnl · 16 Feb 2022
683 pts
564 comments
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Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C
lwn.net · chmaynard · 24 Feb 2022
683 pts
345 comments
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Fetch API has landed into Node.js
github.com · yamafaktory · 1 Feb 2022
679 pts
206 comments
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Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
deepmind.com · yigitdemirag · 2 Feb 2022
678 pts
397 comments
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