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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

2243

2

AWS us-east-1 outage

1658

3

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

1599

4

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

1545

5

I started a paper website business

1511

6

100 years of whatever this will be

1475

7

Log4j RCE Found

1385

8

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

1384

9

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

1323

10

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

1230

Top Ask HN

1

Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

1665

2

How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

869

3

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

772

4

Best Way to Contact YouTube

604

5

What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

594

6

What's the best book you read in 2021?

513

7

Why is everything changing too fast?

513

8

Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?

451

9

Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?

445

10

Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

424

Top Show HN

1

I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

979

2

713

3

Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

512

4

I'm building a non-profit search engine

440

5

Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

433

6

Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's

343

7

I wrote a book on web application deployment

326

8

Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

293

9

SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

284

10

I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL

276

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

876

2

Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

552

3

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

549

4

Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser

269

5

Whatever happened to Flickr?

240

6

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

238

7

Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

217

8

There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

216

9

France's Jean Zay supercomputer now has an integrated photonic coprocessor

208

10

Google Drive could soon start locking your files

206

News [?]

1

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

1093

2

Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules

702

3

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

620

4

Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China

583

5

Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

563

6

Reddit files to go public

541

7

Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

521

8

Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong

485

9

Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

484

10

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

435

Scientific publications [?]

1

A New Coefficient of Correlation

678

2

NASA returns Hubble to full science operations

431

3

Player of Games

364

4

Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour

260

5

Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence

235

6

A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap

188

7

A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation

161

8

Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade

152

9

The RNA World Hypothesis

146

10

The rise and fall of rationality in language

124

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Improving GitHub Code Search

505

2

You can't copy code with memcpy

419

3

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

396

4

Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”

388

5

Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology

368

6

Fredrik Lundh has died

364

7

362

8

uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS

270

9

A Farewell to LWN

251

10

GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta

224

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

1209

2

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

718

3

Supersonic Trebuchet

650

4

Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

390

5

Giant 555 Timer

204

6

Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out

201

7

Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

201

8

Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay

150

9

WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US

125

10

Tile buyer Life360 reportedly sells precise user location data to nearly anyone

106

FAANG+ [?]

1

Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

638

2

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

340

3

AWS down again?

271

4

Swift Playgrounds 4

256

5

Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS

188

6

AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps

167

7

AWS Ground Station

99

8

Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub

84

9

AWS SDK for Rust enters developer preview

54

10

Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class

42

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

493

2

"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

449

3

U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam

320

4

The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

307

5

Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback

262

6

U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

205

7

To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'

202

8

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be

182

9

The Amazon Empire Strikes Back

169

10

The Great Bifurcation

153

Science News [?]

1

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

1599

2

Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

737

3

The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe

353

4

An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine

314

5

Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

281

6

India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman

277

7

NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

266

8

Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

217

9

More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could not be replicated

194

10

Detailed footage reveals what triggers lightning

191

Social [?]

1

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

1545

2

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

1384

3

YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

807

4

iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

720

5

Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

638

6

Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

605

7

All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

578

8

PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

571

9

Apple Helps Asahi Linux

540

10

Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster

502

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

1323

2

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

769

3

Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

726

4

Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

572

5

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

446

6

Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

444

7

Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM

444

8

437

9

PR to Merge Multicore OCaml

388

10

Why don't you accept donations?

386

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of games that Buddha would not play

192

2

The Beverly Clock

177

3

54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level

165

4

155

5

147

6

Death by Coconut

107

7

London Beer Flood of 1814

91

8

Electrodynamic Tether

83

9

Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

64

10

Rocky Mountain Basic

54

Blogs [?]

1

958

2

334

3

The Container Throttling Problem

254

4

DNS doesn't “propagate”

229

5

Game engines as an art form

193

6

The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)

186

7

Some thoughts on writing

150

8

Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

139

9

The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun

125

10

Work/life balance should be difficult

102

Stackoverflow [?]

1

“Basic editing” of PDF content is nearly always non-trivial

17

2

Hello, I'm a Compiler

3

3

Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a developer ranked #40 all time on StackOverflow

3

4

A long explanation to Python decorators

3

5

EGov minister of Bulgaria #40 on stack overflow

2

6

How do you avoid URL.equals needing access to the internet in Java?

2

7

Why ANSI C specified 6 significant initial characters in an external identifier

1

8

Hellо, I'm A Compiler (2013)

1

9

Enforce good TypeScript compile-time validation error

1

10

Number in Top Level Domain

1

Substack [?]

1

Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

453

2

Web3? I have my DAOts

417

3

Instagram Is Facebook Now

402

4

Chess.com vs. Lichess

365

5

The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme

273

6

Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?

268

7

Is the big tech era ending?

247

8

The Sucker Complex

216

9

Is Web3 Bullshit?

208

10

Defund the Police meets the crime wave

192