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August 2022 Archive
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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (vibilagare.se)
1614 points by eriksdh on Aug 17, 2022 | 953 comments
2.
Design the next iPhone (neal.fun)
1463 points by mkeeter on Aug 23, 2022 | 352 comments
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The Big [Censored] Theory (pudding.cool)
1444 points by feross on Aug 29, 2022 | 835 comments
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything (andys.page)
1428 points by andy_xor_andrew on Aug 30, 2022 | 383 comments
5.
Use one big server (specbranch.com)
1413 points by pclmulqdq on Aug 2, 2022 | 585 comments
6.
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
1313 points by 7tech on Aug 22, 2022 | 508 comments
7.
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones (dukope.com)
1297 points by nycpig on Aug 6, 2022 | 180 comments
8.
Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser (krausefx.com)
1258 points by the_mitsuhiko on Aug 10, 2022 | 449 comments
9.
Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit (blog.comma.ai)
1212 points by arduinomancer on Aug 24, 2022 | 299 comments
10.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (arstechnica.com)
1135 points by carride on Aug 10, 2022 | 427 comments
11.
I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
1131 points by aemerson_ on Aug 18, 2022 | 664 comments
12.
Librarian's Letter to Google Security (docs.google.com)
1082 points by 2352500 on Aug 1, 2022 | 461 comments
13.
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? (noctslackv2.wordpress.com)
1070 points by ColinWright on Aug 3, 2022 | 467 comments
14.
An odd discovery on Spotify (robinsloan.com)
1056 points by breathenow on Aug 23, 2022 | 429 comments
15.
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo (jacobmartins.com)
1045 points by cube2222 on Aug 2, 2022 | 378 comments
16.
Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay (whitehouse.gov)
1044 points by mattkrisiloff on Aug 25, 2022 | 267 comments
17.
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies (cnn.com)
1005 points by razin on Aug 23, 2022 | 603 comments
18.
NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government (blog.cr.yp.to)
974 points by trulyrandom on Aug 5, 2022 | 443 comments
19.
Mikhail Gorbachev has died (reuters.com)
970 points by homarp on Aug 30, 2022 | 915 comments
20.
A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal (nytimes.com)
949 points by dklsf on Aug 21, 2022 | 559 comments
21.
A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (endtimes.dev)
933 points by DitheringIdiot on Aug 25, 2022 | 343 comments
22.
Removal of Heroku free product plans (help.heroku.com)
908 points by countspongebob on Aug 25, 2022 | 573 comments
23.
Stable Diffusion is a big deal (simonwillison.net)
874 points by simonw on Aug 29, 2022 | 471 comments
24.
To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways (metaphysic.ai)
864 points by Hard_Space on Aug 8, 2022 | 274 comments
25.
Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser (crunchydata.com)
814 points by samwillis on Aug 17, 2022 | 171 comments
26.
An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter (privacy.twitter.com)
807 points by WaitWaitWha on Aug 9, 2022 | 450 comments
27.
“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” (android.com)
796 points by Fabricio20 on Aug 9, 2022 | 960 comments
28.
Things people blamed on bicycles (twitter.com)
780 points by the-archivist on Aug 24, 2022 | 817 comments
29.
Stable Diffusion Public Release (stability.ai)
770 points by flimsythoughts on Aug 22, 2022 | 413 comments
30.
Productivity porn (calebschoepp.com)
770 points by triplechill on Aug 3, 2022 | 409 comments