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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Valve Steam Deck

2517

2

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

2075

3

The Framework Laptop is now shipping

1502

4

Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

1330

5

NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

1328

6

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

1280

7

How Dwarf Fortress is built

1130

8

Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying

1110

9

All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

1017

10

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

987

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (July 2021)

399

2

Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?

344

3

My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

274

4

Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

247

5

Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?

224

6

Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)

166

7

How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?

152

8

Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)

138

9

How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?

134

10

for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?

133

Top Show HN

1

Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

796

2

Print a WiFi Login Card

769

3

Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

760

4

RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

509

5

Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

401

6

I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

294

7

I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD

282

8

Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

272

9

Website changes design each time you blink

261

10

Earthly – Better Builds

223

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

987

2

The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

626

3

Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

614

4

Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

536

5

Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI

516

6

Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public

516

7

Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

479

8

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

444

9

We Still Don’t Get Things Done

425

10

Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube

409

News [?]

1

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

800

2

TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

699

3

Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

689

4

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

687

5

1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

646

6

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists

643

7

US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack

611

8

Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B

604

9

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

591

10

Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

544

Scientific publications [?]

1

New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

555

2

Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

283

3

Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets

211

4

A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)

182

5

PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language

172

6

Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures

171

7

Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations

156

8

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's Europa Clipper to icy Jupiter moon

146

9

Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive

146

10

Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago

140

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How Dwarf Fortress is built

1130

2

AWS's Egregious Egress

742

3

Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

599

4

Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

565

5

Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

521

6

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things

433

7

Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

400

8

Goodbye, Fleets

369

9

Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

339

10

Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?

338

Tech blogs [?]

1

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

659

2

British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers

552

3

Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

362

4

iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones

325

5

Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones

282

6

Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers

244

7

The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)

182

8

The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds

177

9

EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition

173

10

Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store

152

FAANG+ [?]

1

Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)

369

2

Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts

256

3

Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

238

4

Windows 365 Cloud PC

236

5

Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

226

6

Amazon.com product pages are down

225

7

Apple MagSafe Battery Pack

168

8

AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance

153

9

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

98

10

Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation

78

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

907

2

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

193

3

The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection

180

4

BANCStar (2000)

175

5

BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited

171

6

Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art

148

7

Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium

140

8

“Head of Strategy” of Muse Group (Muse Score, Audacity)Threaten Developer

128

9

Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to support “full self-driving”

127

10

Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions

111

Science News [?]

1

Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

629

2

Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

591

3

How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

501

4

France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

391

5

New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

367

6

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

307

7

Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing

276

8

'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds

254

9

Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds

238

10

How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real

234

Social [?]

1

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

1280

2

All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

1017

3

Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more

621

4

My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]

521

5

I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”

514

6

“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”

454

7

I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it

438

8

iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

416

9

Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

410

10

Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended

384

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts

654

2

GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model

636

3

550

4

Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

529

5

WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM

527

6

Check If Email Exists

479

7

449

8

Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

407

9

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

363

10

A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint

342

Wikipedia [?]

1

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

434

2

112 Gripes About the French

408

3

293

4

275

5

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

255

6

Bouba/Kiki Effect

238

7

171

8

142

9

Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities

131

10

128

Blogs [?]

1

GraalVM at Facebook

197

2

How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster

154

3

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

146

4

Who’s running the Vincere bot network on Instagram?

134

5

How to Review Code as a Junior Developer

133

6

Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997

120

7

Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System

113

8

Return of the Mac (2005)

100

9

I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi

99

10

Some Days I Can’t Do Life – When everyday life becomes a struggle (2020)

82

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012)

59

2

Are events raised, triggered, or fired?

8

3

Why did Windows use the FAT structure instead of a conventional linked list?

7

4

How does an assembly instruction turn into voltage changes on the CPU?

6

5

Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments

4

6

Does Rust's array bounds checking affect performance (2017)?

2

7

What is the proper REST response code for a valid request but an empty data?

2

8

Does the C11 memory model conflict with common optimizations?

2

9

TIL: UTC vs. GMT

2

10

Python swapping: why is a, b = b, a not always equivalent to b, a = a, b?

1

Substack [?]

1

The Insecurity Industry

743

2

The most precious resource is agency

701

3

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

502

4

Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

487

5

Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

470

6

The SaaS Org Chart

385

7

Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)

327

8

Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

277

9

How to build a small town in Texas

256

10

Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda

209