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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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GitHub, fuck your name change
3353
2
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
1944
3
It Can Happen to You
1683
4
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
1683
5
Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
1461
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Is that ship still stuck?
1453
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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
1345
8
Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
1248
9
Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
1215
10
Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
1167
Top Ask HN
1
Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
451
2
Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
449
3
What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
441
4
Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
416
5
Who is hiring? (March 2021)
361
6
What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
360
7
I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
320
8
Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?
273
9
Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?
270
10
Do you create music? let's hear it
263
Top Show HN
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I wrote a book about Go
919
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Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
624
3
Video Game in a Font
605
4
Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
559
5
I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
375
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I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
354
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An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative
345
8
I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees
333
9
A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style
278
10
I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn
249
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
1032
2
Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
816
3
A hacker got all my texts for $16
583
4
US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
540
5
100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
447
6
Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
417
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In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
379
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Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
364
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The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
360
10
I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now
359
News [?]
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Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
1068
2
NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
1032
3
Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
931
4
Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
881
5
'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
846
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Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
698
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WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
689
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Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
670
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Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
632
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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
616
Scientific publications [?]
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U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years
455
2
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years
317
3
Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch
302
4
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
253
5
Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory
240
6
Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++
218
7
Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect
188
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Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case
181
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Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S.
178
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Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
174
Dev Blogs [?]
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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
1944
2
30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
1038
3
Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
972
4
We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
585
5
PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
457
6
Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
389
7
The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
372
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Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
317
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Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
312
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Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
310
Tech blogs [?]
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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
604
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The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
436
3
Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
297
4
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review
208
5
MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification
204
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Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
203
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Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
169
8
Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
158
9
AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer
153
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Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB
151
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
230
2
EC2 Serial Console
183
3
How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
182
4
Amazon S3 Object Lambda
170
5
Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
150
6
Apple’s renewable energy projects are helping to create 1.2GW of clean power
113
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Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain
72
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Apple TV+ announces programming partnership with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
65
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Apple’s Independent Repair Provider program expands globally
59
10
Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend (2001)
38
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’
743
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Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (2016)
691
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Internet Archive Infrastructure
542
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The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber
467
5
Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
335
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Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)
301
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Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast
299
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An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter
295
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Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0
276
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Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird
265
Science News [?]
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Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed
658
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New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
552
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Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
341
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NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
313
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Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets
311
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Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal
310
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Ultra-weak gravitational field detected
298
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Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal
288
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Myths about how the brain works
284
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What does any of this have to do with physics? (2016)
278
Social [?]
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Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
1064
2
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
1055
3
“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
1010
4
Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
823
5
Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
731
6
Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface
634
7
Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
590
8
In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
566
9
The absolute worst scenario happened
564
10
We created a fake language to root out resume liars
562
Github repos and gists [?]
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Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
1248
2
Git's list of banned C functions
876
3
Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
815
4
Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
752
5
GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models
561
6
Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
526
7
Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
510
8
UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
485
9
Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
485
10
Text to Image Generation
467
Wikipedia [?]
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Burned House Horizon
331
2
Kalman Filter
252
3
TLA+
230
4
ISO Standard for Preparing Tea
175
5
Voith Schneider Propeller
169
6
Letterlocking
168
7
Cistercian Numerals
149
8
The Boston Camera
132
9
World's Littlest Skyscraper
131
10
Gödel's Loophole
131
Blogs [?]
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“User engagement” is code for “addiction”
711
2
Write Simply
484
3
Addiction to Outrage (2020)
465
4
Donate Unrestricted
289
5
Google suffers from a digital petro curse
271
6
What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)
262
7
Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
211
8
Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
199
9
Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018)
187
10
The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)
129
Stackoverflow [?]
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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)
127
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Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
26
3
What are Ring 0 and Ring 3 in the context of operating systems?
10
4
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
5
5
PHP static analysis producing different results on sequential runs on same code
4
6
Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()? (2012)
4
7
Generate a random point within a circle (uniformly)
3
8
Is a GUID unique 100% of the time?
3
9
How does this C program without libc work?
3
10
Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
2
Substack [?]
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On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
792
2
Inside a viral website
787
3
You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
428
4
Let there be more biographies of failures
351
5
When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
327
6
A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
250
7
Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper
243
8
The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
210
9
Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter
204
10
Understanding Coinbase
200