The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2022

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Sound ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 18 Oct 2022

3.1k pts 206 comments

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GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion githubcopilotinvestigation.com · john-doe · 17 Oct 2022

1.8k pts 1.2k comments

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Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza giza.mused.org · lukehollis · 27 Oct 2022

1.8k pts 280 comments

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The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961) dl.acm.org · abrax3141 · 15 Oct 2022

1.5k pts 19 comments

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My dad's resume and skills from 1980 github.com · metadat · 25 Oct 2022

1.5k pts 583 comments

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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app obsidian.md · ericax · 13 Oct 2022

1.3k pts 565 comments

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I help seniors with technology issues twitter.com · thinkingemote · 24 Oct 2022

1.3k pts 811 comments

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Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died theregister.com · sohkamyung · 29 Oct 2022

1.3k pts 140 comments

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Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move nintendolife.com · adrian_mrd · 31 Oct 2022

1.2k pts 431 comments

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How fateful? chan.co.za · parabyl · 4 Oct 2022

1.1k pts 331 comments

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Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things sharats.me · sharat87 · 27 Oct 2022

958 pts 490 comments

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Pokemon Card Animation deck-24abcd.netlify.app · parrot987 · 27 Oct 2022

944 pts 122 comments

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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · inetsee · 4 Oct 2022

940 pts 342 comments

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Fake Books lcamtuf.substack.com · tybulewicz · 24 Oct 2022

937 pts 355 comments

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How I make a living working on SerenityOS awesomekling.github.io · awesomekling · 29 Oct 2022

936 pts 193 comments

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GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code twitter.com · davidgerard · 16 Oct 2022

914 pts 775 comments

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The HTTP crash course nobody asked for fasterthanli.me · g0xA52A2A · 20 Oct 2022

902 pts 141 comments

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Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far techcrunch.com · jiwidi · 28 Oct 2022

898 pts 1.8k comments

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Postgres WASM supabase.com · kiwicopple · 3 Oct 2022

887 pts 185 comments

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Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year twitter.com · horseAMcharlie · 7 Oct 2022

882 pts 729 comments

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Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models imagen.research.google · jasondavies · 5 Oct 2022

800 pts 473 comments

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What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames leidenmedievalistsblog.nl · _emacsomancer_ · 24 Oct 2022

799 pts 353 comments

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What “work” looks like blog.jim-nielsen.com · LordNibbler · 25 Oct 2022

788 pts 226 comments

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Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana whitehouse.gov · 9wzYQbTYsAIc · 6 Oct 2022

787 pts 762 comments

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Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS hacks.mozilla.org · Amorymeltzer · 10 Oct 2022

780 pts 374 comments

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Low Earth Orbit Visualization platform.leolabs.space · aseidl · 14 Oct 2022

780 pts 187 comments

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Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living michaelcao · 3 Oct 2022

775 pts 151 comments

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A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes slowroads.io · itsuka · 23 Oct 2022

760 pts 195 comments

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Which emoji scissors close (2020) wh0.github.io · philshem · 27 Oct 2022

759 pts 122 comments

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Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman restfox.dev · kermire · 21 Oct 2022

758 pts 182 comments

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SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc simulavr.com · phiresky · 6 Oct 2022

754 pts 443 comments

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The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken glitched.online · mihau · 3 Oct 2022

738 pts 379 comments

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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown adguard.com · bluish29 · 3 Oct 2022

736 pts 627 comments

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NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation nasa.gov · pizza · 19 Oct 2022

727 pts 191 comments

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Stadia died because no one trusts Google techcrunch.com · lots2learn · 2 Oct 2022

724 pts 611 comments

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How Wine works 101 werat.dev · todsacerdoti · 10 Oct 2022

723 pts 181 comments

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LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape reason.com · lend000 · 4 Oct 2022

712 pts 359 comments

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I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009) uss-la-ca135.org · metadat · 26 Oct 2022

707 pts 257 comments

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Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization invisiblepeople.tv · trasz · 11 Oct 2022

696 pts 601 comments

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Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator 4m3ric4.com · 0x389 · 15 Oct 2022

663 pts 183 comments

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EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers adguard.com · shscs911 · 19 Oct 2022

661 pts 406 comments

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PostgreSQL 15 postgresql.org · jkatz05 · 13 Oct 2022

655 pts 126 comments

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Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com · srvmshr · 30 Oct 2022

646 pts 483 comments

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Python 3.11.0 final discuss.python.org · pantalaimon · 25 Oct 2022

646 pts 295 comments

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Meta Quest Pro meta.com · mfiguiere · 11 Oct 2022

639 pts 1.1k comments

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EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 macrumors.com · popol12 · 4 Oct 2022

636 pts 1.2k comments

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What does the ??!??! operator do in C? stackoverflow.com · isomorph · 5 Oct 2022

636 pts 166 comments

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Mastodon.technology Shutdown ashfurrow.com · freosam · 7 Oct 2022

630 pts 584 comments

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Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit nber.org · jstx1 · 7 Oct 2022

629 pts 258 comments

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The Illustrated Stable Diffusion jalammar.github.io · mariuz · 4 Oct 2022

629 pts 119 comments

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Turbopack, the successor to Webpack vercel.com · nutlope · 25 Oct 2022

626 pts 312 comments

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Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain origami.kosmulski.org · mkosmul · 23 Oct 2022

620 pts 50 comments

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Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots wired.com · thm · 1 Oct 2022

619 pts 331 comments

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75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12 1000hoursoutside.com · gmays · 18 Oct 2022

617 pts 461 comments

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Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse github.com · bpierre · 8 Oct 2022

608 pts 254 comments

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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said washingtonpost.com · perihelions · 29 Oct 2022

607 pts 1.7k comments

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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs jdan.github.io · metadat · 23 Oct 2022

606 pts 179 comments

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The deception of “buying” digital movies worldofmatthew.com · worldofmatthew · 4 Oct 2022

601 pts 552 comments

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Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org old.reddit.com · tosh · 29 Oct 2022

601 pts 218 comments

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Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society reason.com · mpweiher · 2 Oct 2022

600 pts 827 comments