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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

3883

2

The Framework Laptop

2563

3

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

2023

4

Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

1941

5

Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it

1801

6

My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

1723

7

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692

8

Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water

1669

9

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]

1663

10

Total Cookie Protection

1527

Top Ask HN

1

Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

740

2

What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

544

3

Who is hiring? (February 2021)

461

4

Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

334

5

Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

302

6

What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

228

7

What entry-level telescope should I choose?

223

8

Why aren't you coding?

221

9

Team fun event ideas during WFH?

216

10

What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?

194

Top Show HN

1

Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

1998

2

Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

1422

3

I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

632

4

Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

582

5

Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

547

6

Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader

473

7

ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

465

8

Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

451

9

QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs

418

10

Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix

412

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August

1232

2

Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

969

3

Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

758

4

Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

640

5

California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

413

6

A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

371

7

New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

368

8

‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos

326

9

New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag

306

10

Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming

283

News [?]

1

Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

981

2

MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

975

3

America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

870

4

Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

792

5

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

789

6

The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

669

7

Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

656

8

Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules

623

9

Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

618

10

WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

615

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week

300

2

DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training

291

3

How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars

234

4

What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

202

5

New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum

184

6

The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]

143

7

Cname / DNS based third party tracking

108

8

Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit

94

9

A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens

86

10

Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention

85

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Total Cookie Protection

1527

2

Pattern matching accepted for Python

654

3

What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it

440

4

Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

436

5

I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer

354

6

Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

312

7

Best practices for REST API design (2020)

296

8

IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources

292

9

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

276

10

Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer

275

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

623

2

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

280

3

Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth

198

4

Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’

184

5

We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite

184

6

New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests

172

7

Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

163

8

Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes

139

9

Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

112

10

Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster

109

FAANG+ [?]

1

Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

10

2

We Read Too app developer Kaya Thomas explores trends in Black literature

8

3

Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages

6

4

Introducing Microsoft Viva

6

5

AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 Is Now Generally Available

5

6

Busting the Myth of Vendor Lock-In

4

7

AWS Joins the Rust Foundation

4

8

Using Zero Trust Principles to Protect Against Sophisticated Attacks

4

9

Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function

3

10

“Hometown,” shot on iPhone 12 Pro

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

638

2

536

3

Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm

490

4

Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

279

5

In-car touchscreens are dangerous

249

6

Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

245

7

Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

225

8

Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order

201

9

Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)

182

10

The Relentless Jeff Bezos

180

Science News [?]

1

'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

502

2

Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

407

3

Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm

343

4

Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)

285

5

Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

260

6

The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

187

7

The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)

171

8

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

168

9

U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'

156

10

A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’

156

Social [?]

1

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

2023

2

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]

1663

3

Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

1185

4

“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

1168

5

Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

761

6

Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

648

7

Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

507

8

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

488

9

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed

474

10

NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

427

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692

2

System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

536

3

Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

502

4

Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

499

5

484

6

Native Mac APIs for Go

480

7

Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools

476

8

Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups

446

9

GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3

433

10

Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

413

Wikipedia [?]

1

295

2

Pravetz Computers

171

3

Zooko's Triangle

153

4

Reversible Computing

149

5

132

6

Banned in Boston

100

7

97

8

Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

96

9

Bangui magnetic anomaly

82

10

Crypto-Anarchism

74

Blogs [?]

1

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

1107

2

What I Worked On

986

3

Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

210

4

Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet

207

5

Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python

205

6

A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village

184

7

Do Things that Don't Scale (2013)

177

8

Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

122

9

Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016)

94

10

HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

85

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017)

108

2

What is the case against F#? (2009)

59

3

Replacements for Switch Statement in Python?

10

4

Replacing 32- with 64-bit loop counter introduces crazy performance deviations

5

5

Rest Versioning: URL Path vs. HTTP Header

2

6

How do I split the date and time into two elements? (2016)

2

7

What is the case against F# (2009)

1

Substack [?]

1

Statement on New York Times Article

866

2

NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur

452

3

Are You Trading or Gambling?

372

4

“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?

369

5

Short fat engineers are undervalued

369

6

What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

333

7

Commenting vs. Making

306

8

280

9

Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

224

10

Fictional Cryptocurrencies

213