The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2022

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US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved energy.gov · novateg · 13 Dec 2022

2.8k pts 1k comments

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Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music riffusion.com · MitPitt · 15 Dec 2022

2.4k pts 465 comments

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Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT engraved.blog · 317070 · 3 Dec 2022

2k pts 908 comments

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John Carmack Leaves Meta facebook.com · viburnum · 17 Dec 2022

1.9k pts 1.2k comments

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Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed] twitter.com · operatingthetan · 18 Dec 2022

1.8k pts 1.2k comments

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Merry Christmas, HN Thorentis · 24 Dec 2022

1.7k pts 221 comments

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Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups support.apple.com · frizlab · 7 Dec 2022

1.6k pts 1k comments

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Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays news.ycombinator.com · O__________O · 23 Dec 2022

1.5k pts 152 comments

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ElonJet Is Now Suspended twitter.com · ffsoftboiled · 14 Dec 2022

1.4k pts 1.3k comments

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Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas obsidian.md · ericax · 20 Dec 2022

1.4k pts 387 comments

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People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life” twitter.com · isp · 2 Dec 2022

1.3k pts 592 comments

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SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities twitter.com · zone411 · 12 Dec 2022

1.3k pts 812 comments

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Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately mprimi.github.io · mprime1 · 21 Dec 2022

1.3k pts 376 comments

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I am done. I give up wakana · 23 Dec 2022

1.2k pts 972 comments

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Draw SVG rope using JavaScript muffinman.io · stanko · 31 Dec 2022

1.2k pts 66 comments

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I still use Flash foon.uk · rogual · 21 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 394 comments

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Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s? Deutscher · 19 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 726 comments

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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists washingtonpost.com · prawn · 16 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 1.7k comments

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Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now twitter.com · sanketpatrikar · 18 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 1k comments

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Recursive Game of Life oimo.io · alden5 · 14 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 116 comments

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Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab ft.com · zackoverflow · 11 Dec 2022

1.1k pts 801 comments

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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job stevenbuccini.com · sbuccini · 28 Dec 2022

1k pts 570 comments

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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you theeggandtherock.substack.com · dihydro · 8 Dec 2022

989 pts 739 comments

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The Twitter Files twitter.com · lost1 · 2 Dec 2022

986 pts 1.6k comments

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Promotion of alternative social platforms policy help.twitter.com · ttepasse · 18 Dec 2022

978 pts 743 comments

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Mac OS 9 macos9.app · Shank · 5 Dec 2022

945 pts 349 comments

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Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet twitter.com · stale2002 · 1 Dec 2022

939 pts 904 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? CM30 · 18 Dec 2022

931 pts 694 comments

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SvelteKit 1.0 svelte.dev · theodorejb · 14 Dec 2022

919 pts 292 comments

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Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround tedgioia.substack.com · AlbertCory · 28 Dec 2022

917 pts 484 comments

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A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003 withdiode.com · malerba118 · 14 Dec 2022

905 pts 259 comments

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Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks sqlfordevs.com · tpetry · 2 Dec 2022

865 pts 174 comments

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Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? 2Gkashmiri · 9 Dec 2022

860 pts 480 comments

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Puter puter.com · 6581 · 2 Dec 2022

858 pts 219 comments

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Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative itcommunity.stanford.edu · ryzvonusef · 18 Dec 2022

843 pts 1.8k comments

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Atom was archived today github.com · Bondi_Blue · 16 Dec 2022

826 pts 591 comments

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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux asahilinux.org · sohkamyung · 7 Dec 2022

826 pts 331 comments

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Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account twitter.com · SXX · 14 Dec 2022

815 pts 1.3k comments

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Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image twitter.com · johnmcelhone · 8 Dec 2022

809 pts 216 comments

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Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default withinboredom.info · withinboredom · 29 Dec 2022

806 pts 370 comments

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How to Befriend Crows fediscience.org · karmanyaahm · 26 Dec 2022

800 pts 216 comments

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A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network zlib.zu1k.com · baptiste313 · 29 Dec 2022

776 pts 203 comments

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Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 github.com · pierremenard · 22 Dec 2022

774 pts 80 comments

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ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location forbes.com · alphabetting · 22 Dec 2022

758 pts 466 comments

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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll twitter.com · calcifer · 18 Dec 2022

756 pts 720 comments

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January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all web.law.duke.edu · CharlesW · 20 Dec 2022

756 pts 461 comments

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Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game arstechnica.com · danso · 6 Dec 2022

747 pts 267 comments

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UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol f-droid.org · mikece · 22 Dec 2022

741 pts 146 comments

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Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com · ashton314 · 7 Dec 2022

736 pts 408 comments

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A Linux Evening fabiensanglard.net · ingve · 16 Dec 2022

736 pts 317 comments

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Pelé has died nytimes.com · mfiguiere · 29 Dec 2022

735 pts 244 comments

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Spotifyd github.com · fahrradflucht · 19 Dec 2022

733 pts 231 comments

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Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon machinelearning.apple.com · 2bit · 1 Dec 2022

723 pts 178 comments

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Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer bbc.com · sonabinu · 11 Dec 2022

722 pts 211 comments

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TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia techmonitor.ai · ZinedineF · 1 Dec 2022

716 pts 510 comments

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Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer nbcnewyork.com · 04rob · 20 Dec 2022

715 pts 655 comments

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Just use Postgres for everything amazingcto.com · KingOfCoders · 10 Dec 2022

707 pts 430 comments

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Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws bloomberg.com · MBCook · 13 Dec 2022

696 pts 767 comments

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Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable 9dev · 7 Dec 2022

686 pts 631 comments

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Platform certificates used to sign malware bugs.chromium.org · arkadiyt · 1 Dec 2022

684 pts 234 comments