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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

4022

2

2905

3

A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

2682

4

An Unbelievable Demo

2339

5

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

2330

6

There are no results for tank man

2105

7

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

2091

8

I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

1797

9

The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

1743

10

The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

1426

Top Ask HN

1

I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?

833

2

Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

563

3

“Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

560

4

Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?

479

5

Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?

430

6

Who is hiring? (June 2021)

365

7

How to learn proper systems programming?

336

8

What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

303

9

Tools you have made for yourself?

288

10

Best “I brought down production” story?

273

Top Show HN

1

iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

866

2

Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

429

3

I made a community sourced fitness routine database

396

4

Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game

379

5

I made a new kind of Bible app

347

6

Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

281

7

LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

250

8

I discovered a trading algorithm that returns ~24.85% annually

249

9

3dasd – open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner

248

10

Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger

246

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

1279

2

80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

736

3

FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

638

4

Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

615

5

Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

577

6

Microsoft announces Windows 11

551

7

Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox

541

8

How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)

532

9

Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents

435

10

Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11

424

News [?]

1

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

2330

2

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

2091

3

G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

1047

4

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

1023

5

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies

824

6

U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

803

7

United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

698

8

Bosch opens German chip plant

684

9

If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

671

10

A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

651

Scientific publications [?]

1

Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status

521

2

Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc

347

3

Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction

297

4

Software is eating the car

287

5

The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

276

6

Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles

268

7

The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea

216

8

Regularization is all you need: simple neural nets can excel on tabular data

216

9

Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships

212

10

Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed

161

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An Unbelievable Demo

2339

2

Stripe Identity

1057

3

939

4

Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification

449

5

PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

404

6

Privacy Analysis of FLoC

288

7

GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

255

8

Google Workspace for everyone

249

9

Apple M1 support for TensorFlow 2.5 pluggable device API

243

10

Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

243

Tech blogs [?]

1

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

815

2

PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter

532

3

Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images

474

4

AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

466

5

Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

462

6

If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

249

7

Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA

232

8

Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN

203

9

Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download

169

10

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

143

FAANG+ [?]

1

FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox

350

2

AWS acquires Wickr

177

3

153

4

macOS Monterey Preview

104

5

Apple advances its privacy leadership with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey

72

6

A Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation

65

7

Exponential Backoff and Jitter (2015)

63

8

59

9

WWDC21: Apple Keynote [Live]

41

10

36

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Stanford CS Curriculum 2021

412

2

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree

157

3

Trying to study textbooks effectively: a year of experimentation

156

4

The Lightness of Windows

144

5

138

6

New Details Emerge on the “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters

127

7

106

8

National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean

97

9

Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)

93

10

How a Giant Corpse Flower Got to an Abandoned Gas Station

75

Science News [?]

1

MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U

422

2

Pesticides are killing the world's soils

390

3

Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory

344

4

Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

300

5

An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors

255

6

Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research

239

7

One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades

234

8

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity

223

9

North Atlantic warming over six decades drives decreases in krill abundance

212

10

DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often

196

Social [?]

1

LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

1041

2

GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?

1028

3

Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

1009

4

Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

799

5

Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results

717

6

Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

701

7

Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements

666

8

Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations

646

9

HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

565

10

The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

548

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I spent 5 years writing my own operating system

939

2

Sorry everybody, I failed with you

819

3

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

763

4

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application

693

5

691

6

New GitHub Issues Beta

599

7

YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

596

8

547

9

A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)

529

10

Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python

502

Wikipedia [?]

1

270

2

209

3

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

185

4

166

5

Holden's Lightning Flight

144

6

112

7

Sonoluminescence

81

8

OpenCola (Drink)

74

9

67

10

Homotopy Type Theory

64

Blogs [?]

1

How to Work Hard

1223

2

A Project of One’s Own

723

3

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

386

4

Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)

260

5

Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

256

6

The modern web on a slow connection (2017)

222

7

Why bugs might feel “impossible”

215

8

Is Julia Really Fast?

145

9

AuthZ: Scalable permissions system

108

10

Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519 (2018)

78

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is capitalizing the first letter of a string so convoluted in Rust?

39

2

IsUserAGoat() Function in Android SDK

30

3

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

9

4

Why is Python recursion so expensive and what can we do about it?

4

5

I'm about to hit 300k rep on StackOverflow

3

6

The difference between shell and environment variables

3

7

Why do all browsers' user agents start with “Mozilla/”?

3

8

Is it possible to have an actual memory leak in pure Python? (2010)

2

9

C++11 – How can I prevent C++ guessing a second template argument?

2

10

Is there a Git URI scheme for referencing a file in a repo at a commit?

2

Substack [?]

1

The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains

560

2

The Most Dangerous Censorship

448

3

Win at Risk by using systems thinking

412

4

Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice

374

5

Publish and Perish

348

6

Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs

306

7

Why wood has gotten so dang expensive

281

8

ProPublica's tax story

267

9

Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind

255

10

Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

246