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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
GitHub, fuck your name change
3353
2
Audacity 3.0
1065
3
Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
1032
4
Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
1012
5
Charts.css
935
6
Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos
905
7
Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
802
8
Security.txt
746
9
Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
694
10
WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
689
Top Ask HN
1
What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
441
2
Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018
221
3
How do I find energy to work on hobbies after the work day ends?
221
4
What (side-)project are you working on?
101
5
Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
95
6
Is startup PTSD real and possible?
88
7
Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?
78
8
What is the most complex concept you understand?
61
9
What happens when someone copies an NFT onto another blockhain?
51
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What do you do to get your kids to programming?
50
Top Show HN
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Video Game in a Font
605
2
Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
559
3
I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn
249
4
Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode
237
5
LitiHolo – a desktop 3D hologram printer that makes true holograms
180
6
Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image capture
175
7
Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP
168
8
O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible
166
9
Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)
148
10
Freeciv-Web
144
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
1032
2
A hacker got all my texts for $16
583
3
In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
379
4
TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround
358
5
Right to Repair Gaining Momentum
276
6
Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own
267
7
SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks
237
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The auction that set off the race for AI supremacy
232
9
Google Play store bans polyamory dating app
212
10
Federal investigators blast Tesla, call for stricter safety standards
202
News [?]
1
WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
689
2
Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
428
3
Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%
348
4
Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
331
5
Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
240
6
How Amazon Crushes Unions
230
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Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
220
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India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders
213
9
How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley
200
10
Gordon Hall has died
190
Scientific publications [?]
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Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
174
2
U.S. Government Finally Gets Serious About IoT Security
123
3
San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid (2012)
120
4
“This Browser Is Lightning Fast”: Effects of Messaging on Perceived Performance [pdf]
112
5
Astronomers detect a black hole on the move
94
6
Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics Without Vector Supervision
91
7
The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper
88
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Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates (2012)
76
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Scientists discover dead plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
58
10
Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
51
Dev Blogs [?]
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We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
585
2
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
317
3
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
221
4
What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
221
5
Fintech Giant Fiserv Used Unclaimed Domain
126
6
Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users
97
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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
87
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Gnome 40 Introducing Headless Native Back End, Virtual Monitors
69
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Unprivileged Chroot()
59
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Highlights from Git 2.31
54
Tech blogs [?]
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The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
436
2
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review
208
3
Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
203
4
Computer tool spots deepfakes via tiny reflections in the eyes
142
5
Micron Abandons 3D XPoint Memory Technology
30
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Apple might soon have to pay up for the Wikipedia data it uses
24
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Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Nuvia: Immediate Focus on Laptops
18
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Apple sued over failure to prevent low-quality copy cat apps
10
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Apple allows Russia to pre-install apps on iPhones as part of device setup
8
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E-Ink Laptop, First Steps
8
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
150
2
Apple’s renewable energy projects are helping to create 1.2GW of clean power
113
3
S3 Object Lambda: Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3
18
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AWS Fault Injection Simulator
7
5
Apple Maps now displays Covid-19 vaccination locations
6
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S3’s 15th Birthday – It is Still Day 1 after 5,475 Days and 100 Trillion Objects
5
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Safely reduce cost of your unused Amazon DynamoDB tables using on-demand mode
3
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You can now exec into AWS Fargate containers
2
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Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday
2
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Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird
265
2
Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS
255
3
Moderation in Infrastructure
118
4
Iberian Citadel of Calafell, Iron Age Village
108
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Opponents of Oliver Cromwell published his family recipes
68
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The U.S. government is begging you to destroy moss balls
53
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Mysterious High-Altitude Flight Corridor Opened Up Between Area51 and Pacific
42
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LessWrong
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Fossils in an ice core rewrite Greenland’s icy past
14
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The Adventurous Seafaring Women of the Age of Sail, in Their Own Words
7
Science News [?]
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Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed
658
2
A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
259
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
133
4
Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid
132
5
The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability
128
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Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100% solar heat and electricity supply
118
7
Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
108
8
France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
106
9
Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on
101
10
Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
93
Social [?]
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Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
536
2
HN was down
468
3
Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
374
4
“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”
369
5
Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?
368
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Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
355
7
One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden Building a Log Cabin
339
8
Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]
228
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Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (2019) [video]
202
10
Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]
171
Github repos and gists [?]
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Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
526
2
ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts
399
3
CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebases
381
4
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
333
5
EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
290
6
Swift Evolution: Actors
264
7
Bitwarden_rs: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
232
8
A curated list of .NET performance resources
231
9
A developers guide to HIPAA compliance
212
10
Runj: Experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails
192
Wikipedia [?]
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World's Littlest Skyscraper
131
2
Spaceship Earth
127
3
.DS_Store
50
4
Wikipedia has Cancer (Wikipedia costs growth over time)
41
5
Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
27
6
Toast Sandwich
23
7
Phoebus Cartel
16
8
Wells and Wellington Affair
16
9
Oceanic pole of inaccessibility
6
10
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
6
Blogs [?]
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)
262
2
What Ended Indie
101
3
A Programming Murder Mystery in Ruby
75
4
How to Compose Queries in Ecto (2019)
54
5
“username or password incorrect” is bullshit
30
6
The Dribbblisation of Design (2014)
25
7
What is the most underestimated programming language?
14
8
Smartphone Keyboards: The Achilles Heel of Data Privacy
11
9
The Poet
10
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Things we’ve learnt while building a product-centric community
8
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to Safely Implement “Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit”?
2
2
Downvoted on StackOverflow for Not Over-Engineering Answer
2
Substack [?]
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You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
428
2
Let there be more biographies of failures
351
3
A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
250
4
Understanding Coinbase
200
5
Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality
131
6
The Sovietization of the American Press
130
7
Greenwald: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists
99
8
Fun with Timers and Cpuid
70
9
The Miseducation of Americas Elites
55
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That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired
47