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Top stories
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A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
3336
2
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
2666
3
Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities
2049
4
Sir Clive Sinclair has died
1738
5
O.mg Cable
1690
6
Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
1595
7
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
1420
8
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
1408
9
Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
1401
10
Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
1353
Top Ask HN
1
Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
575
2
Who is hiring? (September 2021)
355
3
What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
338
4
Where are all the old Show HNs?
284
5
How Do You Learn?
274
6
Books that teach you programming languages via systems projects?
203
7
Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
186
8
How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?
177
9
Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?
176
10
Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
171
Top Show HN
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40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
1359
2
Web browser to help programmers think clearly
1070
3
Time travel debugger for web development
673
4
Hacker News client with a twist
603
5
Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
494
6
Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS
452
7
Weather API for non-commercial use
441
8
I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
408
9
Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
392
10
Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
373
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
1420
2
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
839
3
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
692
4
The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
566
5
Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
443
6
A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
398
7
200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
353
8
Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
323
9
ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities
314
10
Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia
289
News [?]
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Sir Clive Sinclair has died
1738
2
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
1408
3
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
1062
4
Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
1017
5
Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
887
6
Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum
860
7
Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
800
8
Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
787
9
Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules
763
10
Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
725
Scientific publications [?]
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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor
363
2
After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
347
3
The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade
334
4
AMD’s Lisa Su
326
5
Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
235
6
How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
217
7
Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health
207
8
Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)
192
9
Scientists say they may have detected dark energy
149
10
The Great AI Reckoning
147
Dev Blogs [?]
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
667
2
Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
407
3
ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU
332
4
Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack
326
5
Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
324
6
Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
261
7
Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers
248
8
CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught
245
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
236
10
We still believe in private offices (2015)
221
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
1401
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Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
1236
3
Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
400
4
Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
292
5
EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
248
6
Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair
247
7
Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New
242
8
Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?
241
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Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ Programmers
164
10
New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
118
FAANG+ [?]
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iOS 15
341
2
AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
271
3
AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
184
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AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services
179
5
Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
177
6
Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
168
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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
141
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Apple Watch Series 7
139
9
iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
94
10
Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
81
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Cloudflare's Disruption
578
2
Back Orifice (1998)
389
3
UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm
351
4
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon
278
5
Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)
268
6
Donate to the Internet Archive
257
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If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
252
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Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)
235
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Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
205
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The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)
200
Science News [?]
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MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
915
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A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley
653
3
Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
611
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Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
462
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Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
439
6
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
437
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Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
413
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mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours
382
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Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action
376
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New math book rescues landmark topology proof
372
Social [?]
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Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
1285
2
I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
1192
3
Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
1154
4
Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree
668
5
Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
570
6
Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
477
7
A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model
466
8
The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
459
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The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
415
10
Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
405
Github repos and gists [?]
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Htmlq: like jq, but for html
961
2
Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
617
3
Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
576
4
Deploy a website on imgur.com
542
5
ClickHouse, Inc.
519
6
Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
519
7
Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
494
8
Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
469
9
Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
430
10
A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
428
Wikipedia [?]
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Epiousios
537
2
Chekhov's Gun
257
3
Telling the Bees
253
4
Goodhart's Law
175
5
Kei Car
139
6
ADE 651
127
7
List of Lists of Lists
114
8
PayPal Mafia
110
9
Hoover (Seal)
102
10
Poka Yoke
98
Blogs [?]
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Nginx Playground
603
2
Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon
296
3
Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane
213
4
The Value of In-House Expertise
210
5
Suspicious Discontinuities
191
6
In software, when an engineer exits the team
188
7
Keyboard Latency (2017)
170
8
Ruby Is Still a Diamond
150
9
Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS
100
10
An old programmer loses his job
74
Stackoverflow [?]
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A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
495
2
Top stackoverflow questions by vote count
4
3
Numpy matrix multiplication instability across rows
3
4
What's the toughest bug you ever found and fixed?
2
5
How does twitter.com make JPEG profile images transparent?
2
6
Half-precision floating-point arithmetic on Intel chips
1
7
Detecting a Mobile Browser
1
8
React JavaScript Comment Threading – Stack Overflow
1
9
Why is creating a new process more expensive on Windows than Linux? (2008)
1
Substack [?]
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Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working
560
2
My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit
402
3
Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
317
4
2006: Dwarf Fortress
289
5
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
281
6
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
266
7
The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
242
8
Facebook is other people
223
9
The Linux Distributions of 1992
219
10
On Solitude
199