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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

3192

2

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

1703

3

I resigned from Twitter

1692

4

Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

1631

5

Making the dislike count private across YouTube

1439

6

Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

1360

7

I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

1356

8

Apple announces Self Service Repair

1285

9

What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

1185

10

Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

1130

Top Ask HN

1

Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

755

2

What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

614

3

I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

534

4

What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

515

5

Who's not sucky to work for?

471

6

Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

442

7

Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

436

8

Who is hiring? (November 2021)

383

9

What mental models do you use everyday?

383

10

What do you think about the no-code movement?

348

Top Show HN

1

My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

1077

2

I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

985

3

Long Range E-Bike

876

4

I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

707

5

Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

693

6

I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts

462

7

I built a no-BS recipe search engine

403

8

Windows 2000 on Docker

395

9

You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

361

10

Randomly create beautiful website layouts

317

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge

885

2

Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops

568

3

As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

417

4

Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store

389

5

Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps

346

6

A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today

336

7

Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again

318

8

Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks

312

9

Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS

274

10

IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR

269

News [?]

1

Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

784

2

90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

709

3

Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections

445

4

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

437

5

Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses

434

6

Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

429

7

US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

419

8

U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

415

9

Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due

413

10

U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy

392

Scientific publications [?]

1

Crypto Wash Trading

572

2

Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships

507

3

Wolves make roadways safer

500

4

Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)

435

5

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own

304

6

SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system

251

7

Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics

194

8

Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider

182

9

The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis

182

10

Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up

181

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Thank you, GitHub

1044

2

Security issue related to the NPM registry

667

3

I hate password rules

564

4

.NET 6 Released

502

5

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

494

6

Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website

431

7

Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14

375

8

The internet is held together with spit and baling wire

374

9

Cloudflare Pages goes full stack

350

10

Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge

336

Tech blogs [?]

1

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

899

2

M1 Pro and M1 Max MBP owners complain of crashes playing HDR YouTube videos

151

3

AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: Genoa and Bergamo, Up to 96 and 128 Cores

138

4

New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray

115

5

Intel Core i7-12700K Review

105

6

OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware

92

7

Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November

86

8

Rittenhouse lawyer claims iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage

59

9

C Is the Greenest Programming Language

39

10

Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android

35

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple announces Self Service Repair

1285

2

Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

1122

3

Business Essentials

611

4

591

5

Amazon Linux 2022

270

6

AWS free tier data transfer expansion

264

7

AWS Graviton 3 Instances

174

8

AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

164

9

IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances

159

10

Amazon Time Sync Service

128

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

565

2

Winamp source code leak

476

3

The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)

353

4

Higher Math for Beginners (1987)

315

5

The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)

294

6

Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

264

7

“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says

252

8

Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity

217

9

Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

205

10

Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking

167

Science News [?]

1

Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy

449

2

To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions

357

3

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

350

4

What impossible meant to Richard Feynman

323

5

Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]

292

6

'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks of vertebrate genomes

262

7

Parrots will share currency to help their pals purchase food (2020)

243

8

Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint

218

9

The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

205

10

Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years

196

Social [?]

1

I resigned from Twitter

1692

2

I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

1356

3

Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

1130

4

Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time

907

5

YouTube takes down independent court livestreams

554

6

The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

541

7

Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

494

8

Email from FBI Looks Odd

476

9

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

442

10

Playstation 5 root keys obtained

414

Github repos and gists [?]

1

3D printed mirror array

1056

2

Rust Moderation Team Resigns

914

3

Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

599

4

Useful sed scripts and patterns

528

5

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

395

6

Hackerrank DMCA Notice

341

7

What elements does a plant need to grow?

339

8

Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions

333

9

An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

309

10

TypeScript: Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions

299

Wikipedia [?]

1

A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

219

2

The Goiânia Accident (1987)

205

3

Mysorean Rockets

196

4

161

5

Can't Get You Out of My Head

127

6

Maxima (Software)

126

7

116

8

105

9

Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)

90

10

Unsafe at Any Speed

83

Blogs [?]

1

Individuals Matter

774

2

Is there such a thing as good taste?

265

3

Some notes on using esbuild

246

4

Culturally transmitted skills and values

205

5

How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight

186

6

“Illegal” Moscow state university network built by students (2002-2013)

165

7

Debugging a weird 'file not found' error

145

8

Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge

139

9

Why and how COBOL is still used

121

10

Rats in Doom VR

114

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does a = a['k'] = {} create an infinitely nested dictionary?

18

2

What makes Apple's PowerPC memcpy() so fast?

12

3

What's the difference between isdigit(), isnumeric(), and isdecimal() in Python?

3

4

How to save merge state in Git?

3

5

StackOverflow Is Down

3

6

Deoptimizing a C++ Program

2

7

Why does the month argument range from 0 to 11 in JavaScript's Date constructor?

2

8

What does the term “porcelain” mean in Git?

2

9

Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?

2

10

What is the most common filename extension of a Forth source code file?

2

Substack [?]

1

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

735

2

Don’t do interviews, do discussions

550

3

DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

505

4

335

5

Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

299

6

The Burnout Society

277

7

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

249

8

The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams

236

9

How I got wealthy without working too hard

226

10

The many gifts of awkward silence

200