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The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2022

We track 1,416 stories from October 2022, averaging 246 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 98 stories. Together they drew 231,689 comments, 164 per story on average.

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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
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