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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
1912
2
Willingness to look stupid
1859
3
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
1657
4
Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
1605
5
Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
1513
6
Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
1417
7
Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
1312
8
Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
1300
9
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
1292
10
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
1286
Top Ask HN
1
Best way to host a website for 500 years?
666
2
Who is hiring? (October 2021)
375
3
Is HN having problem keeping up today?
371
4
Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
356
5
Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
325
6
Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
320
7
What does one look for in a laptop these days?
300
8
How do you tackle your own negativity?
275
9
Can Firefox be revived?
259
10
Why are relational DBs are the standard instead of graph-based DBs?
233
Top Show HN
1
I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
674
2
ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
506
3
Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
443
4
CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
415
5
A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
347
6
Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP
344
7
I built a sonar into my surfboard
332
8
SectorLISP now fits in one sector
323
9
YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine
292
10
“HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots
262
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
1513
2
Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
970
3
The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
818
4
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
817
5
Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
600
6
Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners
450
7
Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
409
8
Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
407
9
Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
379
10
Apple Is Normalising Surveillance
307
News [?]
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Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
1312
2
Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
1143
3
Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
808
4
Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
752
5
The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
744
6
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
685
7
Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
679
8
Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less
620
9
The Financial Times’ 404 page
609
10
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
589
Scientific publications [?]
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Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
635
2
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
621
3
New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
267
4
Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers
262
5
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
223
6
Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (2015)
213
7
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
209
8
Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
204
9
Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program
195
10
The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio
181
Dev Blogs [?]
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
1226
2
Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
1010
3
A viable solution for Python concurrency
841
4
What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
584
5
More details about the October 4 outage
473
6
Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting
458
7
Moving Google toward the mainline
411
8
Debian's Which Hunt
366
9
Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K
345
10
1.1.1.1 for Families
325
Tech blogs [?]
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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
592
2
Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process
307
3
Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated
287
4
The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster and More Efficient
191
5
DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
189
6
The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world
184
7
Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement
154
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Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth
136
9
Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
112
10
New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads
95
FAANG+ [?]
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MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
1657
2
Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
1052
3
macOS Monterey
440
4
M1 Pro and M1 Max
341
5
Using load shedding to avoid overload
243
6
Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
185
7
The next generation of AirPods
159
8
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, hello Babelfish
92
9
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
85
10
Polishing Cloth
85
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Moths in slow motion [video]
661
2
Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?
511
3
I don’t know how to count that low
309
4
Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free
303
5
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
297
6
A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems
251
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Meta
242
8
Facebook Political Problems
135
9
DPRK Textbooks
118
10
A librarian and a food historian rediscovered the recipes of Moorish Spain
113
Science News [?]
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
655
2
Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths
510
3
Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
477
4
The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States
445
5
In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using classical mechanics
339
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A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way
330
7
Five things we still don’t know about water
306
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Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer
258
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SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
253
10
Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
250
Social [?]
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Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
1417
2
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
1292
3
An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
737
4
What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
735
5
Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
678
6
Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
653
7
How to permanently delete your Facebook account
648
8
Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
602
9
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
531
10
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]
512
Github repos and gists [?]
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Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
816
2
E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
685
3
Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
586
4
GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
540
5
Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
471
6
Writing a “bare metal” operating system for Raspberry Pi 4
453
7
Offline-First Database Comparison
415
8
Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux
405
9
Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
399
10
Localstack – Local AWS Emulator
389
Wikipedia [?]
1
Kairos
235
2
Signal for Help
231
3
Ligne Claire
222
4
Ephemeralization
146
5
Retired Husband Syndrome
116
6
Uranium Glass
104
7
Joybubbles
84
8
The Toynbee Convector
76
9
Firefox Wikipedia Page Contains Recursive Screenshot of Itself
74
10
Wall of Sound
69
Blogs [?]
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Willingness to look stupid
1859
2
Beyond Smart
695
3
Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
499
4
How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS
454
5
What to Learn
374
6
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
326
7
The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies
188
8
How I learned to program
174
9
Tools to Explore BGP
168
10
What Happened to Treehouse?
156
Stackoverflow [?]
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Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC
163
2
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
19
3
A single man answered 76k questions about SQL on Stack Overflow
4
4
How to prevent inspect element, users should not be able to edit disabled fields
3
5
Stackoverflow Is Offline
3
6
C – Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC
2
7
Is there a performance difference between i++ and ++i in C++? (2008)
2
8
MySQL – how to change this code – Stack Overflow
2
9
Calling react components as functions: good practice?
1
10
How best to define a consumer/producer relationship in Java?
1
Substack [?]
1
Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
936
2
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
511
3
DIY Acoustic Camera
394
4
Truths about video game stories
248
5
“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
247
6
Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
242
7
A talk with Walter Bright about Empire
228
8
The human tendency to over-water plants
220
9
Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
203
10
Why is houseplant advice so bad?
172