The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2022

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Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about? Uptrenda · 21 Jul 2022

2.1k pts 753 comments

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I regret my website redesign mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 21 Jul 2022

2k pts 749 comments

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Compare Webb's Images to Hubble johnedchristensen.github.io · hexomancer · 12 Jul 2022

1.6k pts 244 comments

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Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org · tosh · 24 Jul 2022

1.6k pts 255 comments

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Apple previews Lockdown Mode apple.com · todsacerdoti · 6 Jul 2022

1.6k pts 742 comments

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Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig bun.sh · firloop · 5 Jul 2022

1.4k pts 314 comments

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Felt felt.com · bookofjoe · 5 Jul 2022

1.4k pts 166 comments

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Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement sec.gov · coloneltcb · 8 Jul 2022

1.3k pts 1.5k comments

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Absurd Trolley Problems neal.fun · sebg · 6 Jul 2022

1.3k pts 920 comments

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I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome techradar.com · p4bl0 · 17 Jul 2022

1.2k pts 674 comments

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Glassdoor not so anonymous webworm.co · Mandatum · 19 Jul 2022

1.1k pts 479 comments

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Deepest infrared image of universe nasa.gov · l- · 11 Jul 2022

1.1k pts 347 comments

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James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live webbtelescope.org · crhulls · 12 Jul 2022

1.1k pts 396 comments

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EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved consilium.europa.eu · Gareth321 · 20 Jul 2022

1.1k pts 1.4k comments

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I should have loved biology jsomers.net · h2odragon · 9 Jul 2022

1k pts 271 comments

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Scratch is a big deal bryanbraun.com · bryanbraun · 16 Jul 2022

1k pts 296 comments

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Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges Carrok · 21 Jul 2022

1k pts 523 comments

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Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen) pilimi.org · ValentineC · 3 Jul 2022

996 pts 418 comments

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Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals theguardian.com · colin_jack · 10 Jul 2022

965 pts 528 comments

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Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks flipperzero.one · clouddrover · 20 Jul 2022

956 pts 263 comments

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DALL·E now available in beta openai.com · todsacerdoti · 20 Jul 2022

924 pts 551 comments

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Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world tjukanovt.github.io · jbesomi · 29 Jul 2022

924 pts 332 comments

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Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range twitter.com · noasaservice · 26 Jul 2022

899 pts 638 comments

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Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW twitter.com · rafaelm · 22 Jul 2022

880 pts 408 comments

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Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title chess24.com · CawCawCaw · 20 Jul 2022

872 pts 443 comments

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How far can you go by train in 5h? chronotrains-eu.vercel.app · mritzmann · 29 Jul 2022

871 pts 439 comments

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Emoji Kitchen emoji.supply · liberia · 25 Jul 2022

850 pts 190 comments

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FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores blog.malwarebytes.com · scanr · 19 Jul 2022

835 pts 847 comments

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Intel Microcode Decryptor twitter.com · ivank · 19 Jul 2022

830 pts 1 comments

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US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design arstechnica.com · papa-whisky · 29 Jul 2022

829 pts 742 comments

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We're going to need a lot of solar panels caseyhandmer.wordpress.com · lionheart · 22 Jul 2022

823 pts 808 comments

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Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent theintercept.com · Pakdef · 13 Jul 2022

818 pts 510 comments

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Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes strongtowns.org · oftenwrong · 21 Jul 2022

798 pts 979 comments

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Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy quantamagazine.org · theafh · 25 Jul 2022

782 pts 422 comments

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The dark side of Shopify twitter.com · danpalmer · 9 Jul 2022

782 pts 221 comments

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Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles home.cern · geox · 5 Jul 2022

767 pts 273 comments

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How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public khn.org · nojito · 1 Jul 2022

766 pts 359 comments

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Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious maxutility · 25 Jul 2022

759 pts 316 comments

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Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit antiverse · 18 Jul 2022

746 pts 216 comments

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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton gabrielsieben.tech · gjsman-1000 · 26 Jul 2022

733 pts 533 comments

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SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021) cisco.com · dredmorbius · 10 Jul 2022

723 pts 254 comments

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Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance github.com · hyperbovine · 6 Jul 2022

715 pts 444 comments

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TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting ctrl.blog · kevincox · 20 Jul 2022

706 pts 235 comments

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Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme justice.gov · tempsy · 21 Jul 2022

705 pts 421 comments

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Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent theguardian.com · phs318u · 14 Jul 2022

704 pts 611 comments

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DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland shkspr.mobi · edent · 14 Jul 2022

703 pts 113 comments

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Why is it so hard to give Google money? paulbutler.org · paulgb · 26 Jul 2022

696 pts 404 comments

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Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · ivanvas · 18 Jul 2022

693 pts 411 comments

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More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade growthbusiness.co.uk · bilsbie · 23 Jul 2022

692 pts 663 comments

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EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms macrumors.com · marcobambini · 5 Jul 2022

691 pts 900 comments

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Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era axios.com · jedwhite · 26 Jul 2022

683 pts 664 comments

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YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips boingboing.net · PretzelFisch · 1 Jul 2022

682 pts 587 comments

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SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees fly.io · eatonphil · 27 Jul 2022

667 pts 142 comments

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Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit twitter.com · jmillikin · 24 Jul 2022

665 pts 193 comments

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Take more screenshots alexwlchan.net · goranmoomin · 24 Jul 2022

657 pts 231 comments

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Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers reuters.com · cupofpython · 8 Jul 2022

655 pts 387 comments

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Soft deletion probably isn't worth it brandur.org · lfittl · 19 Jul 2022

654 pts 494 comments

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New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking aclu.org · DamnInteresting · 18 Jul 2022

638 pts 295 comments

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Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades cnn.com · cpeterso · 20 Jul 2022

633 pts 581 comments

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AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe deepmind.com · MindGods · 28 Jul 2022

633 pts 236 comments