The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2022

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Google Search Is Dying dkb.io · dbrereton · 15 Feb 2022

3.6k pts 1.6k comments

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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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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination exizt88 · 28 Feb 2022

1.7k pts 1.8k 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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City Generator watabou.github.io · breck · 14 Feb 2022

1.2k pts 52 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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Akamai to Acquire Linode akamai.com · nycdatasci · 15 Feb 2022

986 pts 326 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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Passwordle rsk0315.github.io · snthueoa · 16 Feb 2022

956 pts 249 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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Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0 edgedb.com · colinmcd · 10 Feb 2022

947 pts 323 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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Amazon Pip Horror Story linkedin.com · vikinghckr · 4 Feb 2022

902 pts 737 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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Worldle worldle.teuteuf.fr · infiniteseries · 17 Feb 2022

879 pts 226 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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Audiblegate twitter.com · _fnqu · 15 Feb 2022

811 pts 347 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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Thank You, Valve kinduff.com · kinduff · 7 Feb 2022

766 pts 445 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

50

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

57

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