The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2022

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Mechanical Watch ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 4 May 2022

4.3k pts 413 comments

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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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I'm all-in on server-side SQLite fly.io · dpeck · 9 May 2022

1.4k pts 404 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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9-Euro-Ticket bahn.com · _Microft · 20 May 2022

875 pts 585 comments

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Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? jharohit · 25 May 2022

859 pts 1.8k comments

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Tailscale raises $100M tailscale.com · gmemstr · 4 May 2022

854 pts 454 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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Vangelis has died pitchfork.com · Saint_Genet · 19 May 2022

790 pts 193 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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SQLite 3 Fiddle sqlite.org · sgbeal · 26 May 2022

765 pts 136 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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7GUIs eugenkiss.github.io · miguelrochefort · 5 May 2022

753 pts 113 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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Outhorse Your Email visiticeland.com · eorri · 19 May 2022

729 pts 122 comments

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Map of Reddit anvaka.github.io · penneyd · 12 May 2022

729 pts 119 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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Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux lock.cmpxchg8b.com · taviso · 21 May 2022

703 pts 83 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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SomaFM somafm.com · Datenstrom · 31 May 2022

679 pts 166 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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Neon – Serverless Postgres neon.tech · nikolay · 28 May 2022

667 pts 330 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