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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
1572
2
AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
1466
3
Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
1320
4
A warning about Glassdoor
1262
5
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
1235
6
Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
1183
7
Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
959
8
This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
952
9
Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
895
10
Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
883
Top Ask HN
1
Why are there no open source 2d printers?
288
2
How to Become a Consultant?
227
3
How do you deal with chronic illness?
218
4
What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
178
5
Best service to remove you from data brokers?
120
6
How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
119
7
What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
111
8
Modern office life has become unbearable to me
49
9
Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?
49
10
Finding reference customers for a SaaS product
45
Top Show HN
1
I made earrings that work like earphones
462
2
I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
382
3
Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim
324
4
Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
221
5
Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds
199
6
Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors
148
7
Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
109
8
Hexagonal Minesweeper with multiplayer, geographic maps, zoom and pan
92
9
I built a gamified forum to help hackers fund each other
74
10
WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps
64
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
515
2
Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
264
3
Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors
258
4
Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+
213
5
Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes
210
6
Section 230 Explained
183
7
Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites
173
8
Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal
140
9
Proprietary Grapes Come with Draconian End User License Agreement
131
10
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app in December
114
News [?]
1
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
1572
2
Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
855
3
Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
780
4
Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
548
5
YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
461
6
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
441
7
America's True Unemployment Rate
419
8
The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity
408
9
Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO
369
10
IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push
312
Scientific publications [?]
1
Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)
203
2
Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
151
3
Flame retardant may cause hyperthyroidism in cats
151
4
Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
143
5
Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)
140
6
Neural Databases
124
7
Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains
103
8
Let’s Build a Global Power Grid (2015)
57
9
Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run
47
10
Spinach-based catalysts could power fuel cells
45
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Hum to Search Song
524
2
The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
316
3
Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up
218
4
Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
172
5
XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486
166
6
Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta
126
7
How to put machine learning models into production
120
8
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
107
9
Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards
95
10
Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy
88
Tech blogs [?]
1
A legislative path to an interoperable internet
304
2
Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain
217
3
Low-carbon concrete stays strong with polymer lattice reinforcements
67
4
Apple learned automation can't match human skill
62
5
Hackaday Guide to the New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
25
6
Some Oculus Quest 2 Owners Are Getting Banned from Using Their Headsets
6
7
Oceanbird's 80-meter sails reduce cargo shipping emissions by 90%
5
8
Chinese SMIC Tapes Out First N+1 ‘7 Nm’ Chip, but Mass Production Uncertain
4
9
We Fight for the Users: An Appreciation of IETF's RFC 8890
3
10
California Is Putting Together a Broadband Plan. We Have Thoughts
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
All-new iPad Air with advanced A14 Bionic chip available to order starting today
16
2
Model Checking TLA+ Specifications [pdf]
4
3
MagSafe Wallet
3
4
Avoiding overload in dist. systems by putting the smaller service in control
3
5
AWS Budget Actions
3
6
Microsoft Bug Bounty Program
3
7
Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation Model Tops Xtreme Leaderboard
3
8
Amazon RDS generally available using new Graviton2 instances
2
9
Building resilient serverless patterns by combining messaging services
2
10
Research Supporting Responsible AI
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
204
2
We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
195
3
Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
138
4
Pippi and the Moomins
133
5
Cognition All the Way Down
100
6
Tesla is fighting a Right-to-Repair initiative in Massachusetts
76
7
Tesla slashes its used car warranty to one year or 10k miles
62
8
An artist who does extreme close-ups of utility poles
60
9
Email to Former Board Member
59
10
Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (1978)
55
Science News [?]
1
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
1235
2
Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System
217
3
What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
165
4
Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
162
5
How to Hide from a Drone
140
6
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
108
7
Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium
80
8
Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)
78
9
Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time
57
10
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
51
Social [?]
1
AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
1466
2
A warning about Glassdoor
1262
3
Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
1183
4
Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
959
5
Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
895
6
Google disabled my husband's account
763
7
Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
405
8
I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts
393
9
Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine
362
10
Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO
326
Github repos and gists [?]
1
ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
497
2
Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
283
3
Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
245
4
Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool
238
5
Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser
195
6
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
173
7
Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go
170
8
Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes
137
9
A family of CRDTs supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust
131
10
Interoperability Between Swift and C++
123
Wikipedia [?]
1
Cat Gap
315
2
Baumol Effect
123
3
Piyama-Radu
11
4
Nontransitive Dice
11
5
Amartya Sen
9
6
Lockstep Protocol
7
7
Communication with Submarines
6
8
Technology Readiness Level
5
9
List of Wars by Death Toll
4
10
KDE Mascots
4
Blogs [?]
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Early Work
577
2
How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
324
3
Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
259
4
How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
249
5
Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
198
6
Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
154
7
Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars
139
8
The curious case of Romanian broadband
103
9
Why Everyone Builds Internal Kubernetes Platforms
73
10
Raindrop 5.0
70
Stackoverflow [?]
1
ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
406
2
Why do higher-precision floating point formats have so many exponent bits?
1
3
Variables in a computer work the same way a clock works
1
Substack [?]
1
How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
356
2
What if we had Local-First Software?
291
3
No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How
117
4
A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul
108
5
Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard
43
6
An open letter to my friends with fuck you money
29
7
Observations on Consequences of Short-Term Thinking in Technology Organizations
13
8
Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires Big Fucking Meetings
12
9
Work and Let Work: Three models for managing political conflict at your company
11
10
Impostor Syndrome: We don't live in a meritocracy
9