The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2022
We track 1,405 stories from May 2022, averaging 253 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 81 stories. Together they drew 228,605 comments, 163 per story on average.
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Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
developer.nvidia.com · ghishadow · 11 May 2022
2.4k pts
392 comments
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My students cheated... a lot
crumplab.com · benjyhirsch · 28 May 2022
1.8k pts
1.4k comments
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The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
community.frame.work · etbusch · 19 May 2022
1.7k pts
738 comments
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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
smallandroidphone.com · erohead · 17 May 2022
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
support.google.com · patneedham · 5 May 2022
1.5k pts
411 comments
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FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
ftc.gov · averysmallbird · 25 May 2022
1.4k pts
325 comments
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Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
zan.bearblog.dev · memorable · 6 May 2022
1.3k pts
652 comments
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“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
howardchen.substack.com · coolwulf · 20 May 2022
1.1k pts
329 comments
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No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
techsin101 · 10 May 2022
1.1k pts
479 comments
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Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
macrumors.com · carlycue · 7 May 2022
1.1k pts
703 comments
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Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
theverge.com · danso · 12 May 2022
1k pts
936 comments
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Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com · keveman · 23 May 2022
988 pts
634 comments
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So I took a corporation to arbitration
shuchow.com · snapetom · 31 May 2022
986 pts
399 comments
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How to professionally say
howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com · ghostfoxgod · 1 May 2022
979 pts
393 comments
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The Apple GPU and the impossible bug
rosenzweig.io · stefan_ · 13 May 2022
965 pts
95 comments
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I spent two years launching tiny projects
tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 18 May 2022
923 pts
197 comments
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Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
github.com · avielb · 30 May 2022
914 pts
366 comments
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We need a middle class for startups
neilthanedar.com · thanedar · 10 May 2022
899 pts
305 comments
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Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
presidentti.fi · fsloth · 12 May 2022
840 pts
1k comments
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I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
beanlog.vercel.app · beanlog · 1 May 2022
838 pts
489 comments
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Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
community.intercoin.org · EGreg · 12 May 2022
823 pts
948 comments
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Everything with a battery should have an off switch
twitter.com · danso · 6 May 2022
821 pts
594 comments
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Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
judiciary.senate.gov · insamniac · 5 May 2022
818 pts
1.1k comments
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Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
cbsnews.com · lxm · 11 May 2022
814 pts
469 comments
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Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework
markdoc.io · colinclerk · 11 May 2022
810 pts
146 comments
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Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
RoseBuckler · 31 May 2022
798 pts
500 comments
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Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
kenkantzer.com · lordofmoria · 25 May 2022
798 pts
258 comments
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Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
public.nrao.edu · sohkamyung · 12 May 2022
786 pts
307 comments
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Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
getlago.com · Rafsark · 18 May 2022
777 pts
359 comments
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The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
theatlantic.com · tysone · 10 May 2022
764 pts
912 comments
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YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
github.com · notamy · 24 May 2022
756 pts
298 comments
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What are your most used self-hosted applications?
noted.lol · geeked · 4 May 2022
736 pts
446 comments
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Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
calnewport.com · yarapavan · 17 May 2022
734 pts
474 comments
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We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it
pudding.cool · colinprince · 1 May 2022
704 pts
343 comments
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Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
yuri.is · benjojo12 · 16 May 2022
699 pts
407 comments
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Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
spectator.co.uk · benbreen · 20 May 2022
699 pts
377 comments
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Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
fortune.com · okasaki · 11 May 2022
696 pts
448 comments
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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
blog.searchmysite.net · m-i-l · 16 May 2022
696 pts
377 comments
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Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
github.com · alufers · 12 May 2022
691 pts
85 comments
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IBM's Asshole Test
johnpublic.mataroa.blog · johnpublic · 4 May 2022
683 pts
577 comments
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Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds
twitter.com · ivank · 12 May 2022
677 pts
172 comments
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PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
fourth-wall.co.uk · thunderbong · 8 May 2022
676 pts
319 comments
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Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
dontwordle.com · dontwordle · 31 May 2022
676 pts
236 comments
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Apple is discontinuing the iPod
apple.com · minimaxir · 10 May 2022
664 pts
510 comments
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UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
coindesk.com · lxm · 9 May 2022
655 pts
663 comments
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Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
rubenerd.com · Tomte · 18 May 2022
655 pts
231 comments
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YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers
twitter.com · donsupreme · 19 May 2022
653 pts
392 comments
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