The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2022

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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds vibilagare.se · eriksdh · 17 Aug 2022

1.6k pts 953 comments

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Design the next iPhone neal.fun · mkeeter · 23 Aug 2022

1.5k pts 352 comments

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The Big [Censored] Theory pudding.cool · feross · 29 Aug 2022

1.4k pts 835 comments

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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything andys.page · andy_xor_andrew · 30 Aug 2022

1.4k pts 382 comments

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Use one big server specbranch.com · pclmulqdq · 2 Aug 2022

1.4k pts 585 comments

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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday 7tech · 22 Aug 2022

1.3k pts 508 comments

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Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones dukope.com · nycpig · 6 Aug 2022

1.3k pts 180 comments

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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser krausefx.com · the_mitsuhiko · 10 Aug 2022

1.3k pts 449 comments

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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit blog.comma.ai · arduinomancer · 24 Aug 2022

1.2k pts 299 comments

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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes arstechnica.com · carride · 10 Aug 2022

1.1k pts 427 comments

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I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard electronicmaterialsoffice.com · aemerson_ · 18 Aug 2022

1.1k pts 664 comments

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Librarian's Letter to Google Security docs.google.com · 2352500 · 1 Aug 2022

1.1k pts 461 comments

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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? noctslackv2.wordpress.com · ColinWright · 3 Aug 2022

1.1k pts 467 comments

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An odd discovery on Spotify robinsloan.com · breathenow · 23 Aug 2022

1.1k pts 429 comments

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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo jacobmartins.com · cube2222 · 2 Aug 2022

1k pts 378 comments

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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay whitehouse.gov · mattkrisiloff · 25 Aug 2022

1k pts 267 comments

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Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies cnn.com · razin · 23 Aug 2022

1k pts 603 comments

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NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government blog.cr.yp.to · trulyrandom · 5 Aug 2022

974 pts 443 comments

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Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com · homarp · 30 Aug 2022

970 pts 915 comments

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A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal nytimes.com · dklsf · 21 Aug 2022

949 pts 559 comments

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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page endtimes.dev · DitheringIdiot · 25 Aug 2022

933 pts 343 comments

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Removal of Heroku free product plans help.heroku.com · countspongebob · 25 Aug 2022

908 pts 573 comments

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Stable Diffusion is a big deal simonwillison.net · simonw · 29 Aug 2022

874 pts 471 comments

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To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways metaphysic.ai · Hard_Space · 8 Aug 2022

864 pts 274 comments

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Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser crunchydata.com · samwillis · 17 Aug 2022

814 pts 171 comments

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An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter privacy.twitter.com · WaitWaitWha · 9 Aug 2022

807 pts 450 comments

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“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” android.com · Fabricio20 · 9 Aug 2022

796 pts 960 comments

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Things people blamed on bicycles twitter.com · the-archivist · 24 Aug 2022

780 pts 817 comments

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Stable Diffusion Public Release stability.ai · flimsythoughts · 22 Aug 2022

770 pts 413 comments

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Productivity porn calebschoepp.com · triplechill · 3 Aug 2022

770 pts 409 comments

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RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD ravynos.com · behnamoh · 17 Aug 2022

769 pts 363 comments

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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser krausefx.com · krausefx · 18 Aug 2022

763 pts 307 comments

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A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor smithsonianmag.com · evo_9 · 11 Aug 2022

753 pts 285 comments

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Welcome Home, Garry Tan ycombinator.com · todsacerdoti · 29 Aug 2022

749 pts 269 comments

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Learn to sew your own outdoor gear learnmyog.com · almog · 18 Aug 2022

748 pts 164 comments

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We're improving search results when you use quotes blog.google · Kortaggio · 5 Aug 2022

741 pts 687 comments

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'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm business-standard.com · quaffapint · 10 Aug 2022

730 pts 1.1k comments

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US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia sec.gov · wmf · 31 Aug 2022

723 pts 624 comments

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GraphQL kinda sucks randytandy · 6 Aug 2022

720 pts 433 comments

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Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn pornpen.ai · dreampen · 23 Aug 2022

711 pts 414 comments

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Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps about.maps.earth · ellenhp · 22 Aug 2022

696 pts 111 comments

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I hacked my car programmingwithstyle.com · ytpete · 13 Aug 2022

688 pts 134 comments

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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus blog.zulip.com · williamstein · 26 Aug 2022

687 pts 757 comments

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One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants peabee.substack.com · donbox · 27 Aug 2022

685 pts 355 comments

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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 deephaven.io · dsmmcken · 8 Aug 2022

677 pts 322 comments

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Robinhood lays off 23% of staff wsj.com · tempsy · 2 Aug 2022

672 pts 684 comments

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Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know support.signal.org · input_sh · 15 Aug 2022

672 pts 478 comments

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How I regained concentration and focus innoq.com · aiobe · 1 Aug 2022

671 pts 415 comments

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Understanding Jane Street thediff.co · mxtihvb · 2 Aug 2022

671 pts 374 comments

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There’s no speed limit (2009) sive.rs · melling · 17 Aug 2022

671 pts 278 comments

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Nobody wants to teach anymore jessicalexicus.medium.com · grej · 21 Aug 2022

666 pts 966 comments

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Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy automaticwasher.org · userbinator · 14 Aug 2022

659 pts 753 comments

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Accounting For Developers, Part I moderntreasury.com · qin · 17 Aug 2022

648 pts 186 comments

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It wasn't for nothing gexp.no · mbakke · 17 Aug 2022

644 pts 157 comments

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A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout studyfinds.org · rajnathani · 16 Aug 2022

634 pts 459 comments

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Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute cv6.poinsignon.org · fjarlq · 26 Aug 2022

633 pts 150 comments

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The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS theverge.com · neodypsis · 13 Aug 2022

630 pts 393 comments

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SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas wsj.com · mmastrac · 26 Aug 2022

621 pts 472 comments

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90s Cursor Effects tholman.com · lysergia · 29 Aug 2022

620 pts 170 comments

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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk github.com · ducktective · 20 Aug 2022

618 pts 208 comments