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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
1808
2
Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
1661
3
I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
1644
4
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
1464
5
Sublime Text 4
1436
6
Welcome to Libera Chat
1425
7
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
1339
8
One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
1331
9
The Animal Is Tired
1270
10
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
1259
Top Ask HN
1
Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
819
2
Favorite purchases of last two years?
483
3
Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
387
4
What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
364
5
Alternatives to Google Photos?
362
6
How to get started with audio programming?
358
7
Who is hiring? (May 2021)
326
8
How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
309
9
Anybody Started a Research Institute?
287
10
How to cope with the death of a dear person?
263
Top Show HN
1
I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
1102
2
A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
672
3
NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative
562
4
I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
496
5
Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
449
6
Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
437
7
I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
411
8
Find Subreddits for Your Niche
406
9
Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
405
10
Flashcards to learn AWS skills
365
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
699
2
Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
629
3
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
540
4
Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg
476
5
USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
428
6
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
410
7
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
410
8
Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
395
9
Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
390
10
What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative
355
News [?]
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Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
1037
2
Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
1008
3
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
883
4
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
780
5
Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
766
6
Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
681
7
EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
638
8
White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
637
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The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
618
10
Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
615
Scientific publications [?]
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Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly
369
2
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)
369
3
Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
231
4
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)
178
5
Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
168
6
Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch
151
7
JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)
149
8
In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
137
9
Unexpected 'Black Swan' defect discovered in soft matter for first time
126
10
Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine
121
Dev Blogs [?]
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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
1339
2
Stripe Payment Links
988
3
DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
787
4
Upheaval at freenode
648
5
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
604
6
Site Isolation in Firefox
473
7
Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
355
8
Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
324
9
LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
282
10
Apple Design Resources
266
Tech blogs [?]
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IBM creates 2nm chip
579
2
Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
407
3
Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120
286
4
Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
284
5
Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures
269
6
Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S
259
7
A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design
225
8
40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple
183
9
AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive
153
10
Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
129
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
702
2
Amazon Sidewalk
566
3
Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
378
4
A New AWS SDK for Rust
219
5
Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
197
6
Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
148
7
SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft
98
8
Introducing AWS App Runner
63
9
AWS drops price for managed Prometheus service by 84%
47
10
AWS Partners with New Relic to Contribute to Pixie OSS
30
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
555
2
Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct
316
3
Cloudflare on the edge
300
4
Wikipedia is up (2001)
289
5
The Complete Hypercard Handbook (1988)
190
6
How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s
187
7
Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed
158
8
Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells
138
9
PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)
134
10
Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
131
Science News [?]
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Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
413
2
First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States
329
3
If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats
324
4
Gravity is a double copy of other forces
322
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Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants
321
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Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response
312
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Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains
298
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A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)
278
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Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
264
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Why People Feel Like Victims
260
Social [?]
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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
1086
2
It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
949
3
Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
922
4
YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
876
5
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
832
6
Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
722
7
Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
679
8
Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
595
9
FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
552
10
Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
490
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
1259
2
ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
802
3
Scala 3.0
690
4
Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
664
5
Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
645
6
Safari tries to fill username
628
7
Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
587
8
Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
545
9
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
444
10
Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days
427
Wikipedia [?]
1
Initial Stress-Derived Noun
215
2
“Bush Hid the Facts”
206
3
Atomic Gardening
188
4
Scottish Café
173
5
Yuan Longping has died
164
6
1700 Cascadia Earthquake
132
7
Stanford Bunny
121
8
E-Prime – English without the verb “to be”
108
9
Tiresias typeface
86
10
Rural purge
86
Blogs [?]
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Crazy New Ideas
897
2
Fierce Nerds
441
3
I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)
233
4
Blog about what you've struggled with
202
5
Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)
199
6
Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016)
198
7
How to look at the stack with gdb
187
8
An NFT That Saves Lives
137
9
Inefficient Efficiency (2019)
126
10
The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, not the Software
118
Stackoverflow [?]
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Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi
51
2
Closing Photoshop will fix CSS cursor:pointer bug
12
3
2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
4
4
What is the runtime performance cost of a Docker container?
3
5
Are disk sector writes atomic?
2
6
Java: What are the differences between ArrayList and Vector?
2
7
Why Is __int128_t Faster Than Long Long on x86-64 GCC?
2
8
C isn't that hard: void ( *( *f[]) ()) ()
2
9
Why does this C++ code run faster than hand-written assembly (2016)
2
10
StackOverflow: The Most Upvoted Question
2
Substack [?]
1
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
1464
2
Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
1057
3
Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
837
4
Writing books is not really a good idea
563
5
On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
543
6
The most expensive number in engineering
501
7
On Smoking
345
8
Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
251
9
Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
209
10
1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.
207