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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
4103
2
“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
3025
3
Internal Combustion Engine
2332
4
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
1897
5
Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research
1883
6
Just Be Rich
1875
7
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
1595
8
Microsoft Coffee
1558
9
Why Lichess will always be free
1524
10
Dan Kaminsky has died
1414
Top Ask HN
1
What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
2022
2
How can a unhireable person get a job?
529
3
Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
422
4
Who is hiring? (April 2021)
416
5
What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
347
6
What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
345
7
I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
323
8
Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
322
9
How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
307
10
What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?
260
Top Show HN
1
Lofi.cafe
1192
2
PDFs from HTML
742
3
Second-Chance Pool
543
4
I made a simulator for personal finance
479
5
I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
436
6
My personal website is a shell
425
7
I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
409
8
Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
395
9
Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)
381
10
Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners
369
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
797
2
Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
684
3
Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
592
4
Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
578
5
Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
544
6
Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
425
7
Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law
389
8
The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband
319
9
Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hub
303
10
Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
294
News [?]
1
533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
1296
2
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
1252
3
Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
931
4
Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
713
5
It's your device, you should be able to repair it
707
6
EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
684
7
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
667
8
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
658
9
Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
658
10
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
643
Scientific publications [?]
1
“I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
306
2
Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors
273
3
How Developers Choose Names
198
4
The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
168
5
Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles
159
6
NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight
143
7
Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels
138
8
Why AI is harder than we think
110
9
The Edges of Our Universe
107
10
From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression
98
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
1209
2
Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
668
3
Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
659
4
Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
609
5
GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
555
6
An Update on the UMN Affair
461
7
Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
414
8
Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
338
9
Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)
323
10
How Facebook encodes videos
301
Tech blogs [?]
1
EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
913
2
Technologies I thought my son would never use
404
3
Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems
324
4
Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook
243
5
Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox
240
6
EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video
230
7
Arm Announces Neoverse V1, N2 Platforms and CPUs, CMN-700 Mesh
216
8
SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC 32-bit RISC-V Chip with 7.2 Gbps HBM3
192
9
AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible to Spectre-Like Vulnerability
182
10
AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings
158
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Introduces AirTag
947
2
OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
706
3
iPad Pro M1
356
4
iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
334
5
Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic
325
6
All-new iMac features the M1 chip
308
7
Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years
269
8
AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
258
9
Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
236
10
Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged
213
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
311
2
Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
277
3
Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
244
4
GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem
230
5
Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
224
6
Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
163
7
Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
134
8
The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
122
9
India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
105
10
Archive Team: A Smattering of Tweets
101
Science News [?]
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Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
726
2
Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
560
3
Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
559
4
CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
444
5
New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses
417
6
The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
408
7
New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different
356
8
The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
320
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Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
228
10
Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
226
Social [?]
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Dan Kaminsky has died
1414
2
“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
1366
3
Yayagram
1265
4
Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
817
5
YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
801
6
A top-grossing scam on the App Store
572
7
First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
546
8
I can only think that modern front end development has failed
546
9
“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”
527
10
Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
467
Github repos and gists [?]
1
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
1595
2
std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
559
3
Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
468
4
Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
460
5
Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
426
6
Lego Microscope
414
7
A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
406
8
Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
397
9
You Don't Need a GUI
393
10
Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
378
Wikipedia [?]
1
Kelly Criterion
330
2
Great Vowel Shift
259
3
Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS
218
4
Illegal Prime Numbers
218
5
The Landlord's Game
214
6
List of Emerging Technologies
162
7
Silphium
158
8
Paternoster Lift
142
9
Phoebus Cartel
126
10
Semantic Satiation
119
Blogs [?]
1
Changes at Basecamp
883
2
How People Get Rich Now
779
3
The real reason to end the death penalty
257
4
Inside PayPal (2010)
178
5
Zoomable lens without any moving parts
168
6
On the bare necessity of psychological safety
141
7
Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)
108
8
DHH: Let It All Out
98
9
Assembly vs. Intrinsics (2014)
69
10
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
45
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why do browsers not keep status 302 pages in back-button history?
39
2
Stop You have zero (0) free copy/pastes remaining
19
3
The Key by Stack Overflow
12
4
Are disk sector writes atomic?
9
5
Apple Silicon Fuses Division and Remainder Computations
8
6
Did AWS deprecate an IAM condition with no warning?
2
7
Tell HN: Mailgun not compatible with forwarding to Gmail
2
8
How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?
2
9
C++20: `unique_ptr` does not satisfy `equality_comparable_with` `nullptr_t`
2
10
How does this C program without Libc work?
2
Substack [?]
1
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
1245
2
Writing tools I learned from The Economist
633
3
Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
553
4
Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
430
5
Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards
275
6
When 70M people visit your joke site
243
7
Tales from Prediction Markets
223
8
1984: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
205
9
I refuse to stand by while my students are indoctrinated
194
10
Against Hickelism
184