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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Beirut Port Explosion
1215
2
Email a Dumpster Fire
1049
3
Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
1042
4
Building Your Color Palette
1019
5
DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
993
6
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
981
7
Booting from a vinyl record
979
8
YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
974
9
1MB Club
965
10
‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
942
Top Ask HN
1
What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
524
2
Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
301
3
What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?
186
4
How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?
139
5
Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?
134
6
Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?
100
7
How are you performing email flows on your early stage product?
76
8
Is it time to quit tech industry?
69
9
Will Apple M1 mean better support for Raspberry Pi?
57
10
Are Google products getting worse?
51
Top Show HN
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Zfs.rent
403
2
I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
261
3
Podcast API
223
4
A simple way to make HTML websites
200
5
QuickPYTHON
181
6
Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad
169
7
Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly
141
8
Create Slides with Plain Text
124
9
Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool
103
10
Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
92
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic
691
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As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
468
3
Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
276
4
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
241
5
Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how
216
6
Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
160
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Apple M1 – a seriously fast x86 competitor
139
8
Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers fees for exceeding their usage cap
97
9
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Employee Groups
70
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Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be working
68
News [?]
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YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
974
2
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
906
3
Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
653
4
Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’
310
5
Guitar Center files for bankruptcy
296
6
The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
293
7
Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen
263
8
Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism
193
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CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving
189
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Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with an unlikely friendship
170
Scientific publications [?]
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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)
162
2
Field geology at Mars' equator points to ancient megaflood
122
3
A Novel Framework for Explaining Machine Learning Using Shapley Values
49
4
Searching for axion dark matter conversion signals around neutron stars
30
5
A Survey of System Architectures and Techniques for FPGA Virtualization
26
6
Not a 'math person'? You may be better at learning to code than you think
15
7
Intermittent fasting, a possible tool for defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection
12
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Quantum Memory Milestone Boosts Quantum Internet Future
10
9
Topological mechanical metamaterials go beyond Newton's third law
8
10
Painless FPGA Programming
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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TypeScript 4.1
339
2
Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures
298
3
X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release
267
4
Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share a Core
251
5
Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices
210
6
The State of the Awk
207
7
GoDaddy employees used in attacks on multiple cryptocurrency services
183
8
Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
132
9
Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
112
10
Krebsonsecurity.com has an expired SSL certificate
74
Tech blogs [?]
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Cover Your Tracks
694
2
Psilocybin and migraine: First of its kind trial reports promising results
236
3
Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
203
4
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
201
5
Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S
118
6
Artificial diamonds creation process generating lonsdaleite
48
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Once Again, Facebook Is Using Privacy as a Sword to Kill Independent Innovation
40
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Apple Drops App Store Fees to 15% for All Small Developers
38
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Apple said to be among US companies lobbying against Uighur forced labor bill
28
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Don’t Blame Section 230 for Big Tech’s Failures. Blame Big Tech
20
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
830
2
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
492
3
Amazon Sidewalk
144
4
AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
118
5
AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC
78
6
The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (Preview)
5
7
You now can use a SQL-compatible query language with DynamoDB
5
8
Apple announces second annual Apple Music Awards
4
9
Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda
4
10
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report
253
2
The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016)
209
3
Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (2016)
131
4
Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans for Centuries (2016)
128
5
We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
106
6
You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company (2012)
72
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Monthly salaries across the world (avg disposable income after tax and rent)
56
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Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding to 9 year old kids
37
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Eating Meat Was Banned in Japan for Centuries
37
10
Keep Science Irrational
30
Science News [?]
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Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
830
2
Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up
240
3
Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
240
4
Information overload helps fake news spread
179
5
Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes
166
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Symbiotic bacteria tell ant embryos how to develop
133
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Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing
109
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SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air
92
9
What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica
69
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Viking ship in Norway buried near cult temple, feast hall and funeral mounds
64
Social [?]
1
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
981
2
The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
512
3
I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM
369
4
“To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”
274
5
The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
168
6
Ex Valve dev on CS:GO’s codebase
166
7
Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
154
8
A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century [video]
130
9
We are the Starlink team, ask us anything
86
10
Why is day of the month 1-indexed but the month is 0-indexed in C?
78
Github repos and gists [?]
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PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
504
2
Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
311
3
Tips for Performant TypeScript
281
4
Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go
229
5
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
190
6
Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer
174
7
Raspberry Pi Webcam
172
8
IHP – A Haskell web framework
148
9
Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc
130
10
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)
126
Wikipedia [?]
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Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
55
2
Water Based Analog Computer
22
3
Paul Le Roux
21
4
rwall Incident (1987)
21
5
Intermarium
14
6
Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
13
7
Carcinization
12
8
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
9
9
Ant/worm on a rubber band paradox
9
10
Thalidomide Scandal
9
Blogs [?]
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My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
474
2
Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
111
3
Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years
83
4
Why Use ECC? (2015)
79
5
I Lived Through a Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now
46
6
Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide
39
7
Apple Silicon Mac Is About to Kill Web Apps
27
8
In machine learning speed is a feature: Introducing Fwumious Wabbit
26
9
The design of lock_sock() in Linux kernel (2018)
21
10
What is extreme programming and how it makes your code better?
16
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is your favorite C programming trick? (2009)
229
2
Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments
4
3
How to get the source directory of a Bash script from within the script itself?
3
4
What is the purpose of having an empty pair base class? (C++)
2
5
How to generate short uid like “aX4j9Z” (in JavaScript)
2
6
A regular expression to match a regular expression
1
Substack [?]
1
How I Spend My Attention
256
2
Ad block and you don't stop
103
3
Cities are living entities always changing and adapting to new environments
73
4
Parkinson's Law of Productivity – What it is and why it matters
15
5
You Are Not a High-Performer: How Labeling Is Limiting
12
6
Six Business Ideas from Jeff Bezos
9
7
2020 Election: Could Trump’s claims have merit?
7
8
Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
6
9
The Censored: Ford Fischer
5
10
How to Regulate the Tech Platforms
4