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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

3025

2

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

1897

3

Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research

1883

4

Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

1245

5

The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

1109

6

Apple Introduces AirTag

947

7

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

931

8

EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

913

9

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

797

10

Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

710

Top Ask HN

1

Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?

422

2

I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?

323

3

What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?

260

4

Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?

200

5

Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

170

6

How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?

142

7

How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

111

8

Moving from a product org to a consulting org: What should I know?

107

9

Maybe I'm just not smart enough?

104

10

How do you run better meetings?

83

Top Show HN

1

I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

436

2

I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

409

3

Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)

381

4

Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners

369

5

I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]

328

6

Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore

313

7

I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images

296

8

I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

243

9

Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

238

10

Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals

234

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

797

2

Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hub

303

3

Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

269

4

Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool

269

5

Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners

258

6

Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data

231

7

Forced unemployment and second-class status: Google's data center contractors

230

8

Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture

201

9

Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn

164

10

Geico data breach exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers

141

News [?]

1

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

931

2

SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

658

3

Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

576

4

The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

492

5

U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

422

6

'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight

337

7

Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

323

8

India’s second wave

313

9

The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

305

10

Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia

301

Scientific publications [?]

1

Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors

273

2

How Developers Choose Names

198

3

Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles

159

4

From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression

98

5

Cooperative male dolphins can tell who’s on their team

49

6

Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos

41

7

NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on Moon

36

8

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

30

9

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight

19

10

Tiny newfound 'Unicorn' is closest known black hole to Earth

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

668

2

Open Source Goes to Mars

298

3

How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?

221

4

GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors

179

5

Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU

170

6

Visual Studio 2022

138

7

IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”

127

8

Running code within another process's address space

116

9

Understanding Indirect Time-of-Flight Depth Sensing

87

10

OpenSSH 8.6 Released

86

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

913

2

Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook

243

3

Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content

157

4

Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store

106

5

AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison

105

6

Unreleased MacBook Schematics Stolen in $50M Ransomware Attack on Apple Supplier

99

7

Loongson Technology develops its own CPU instruction set architecture

60

8

Airbus pioneers a superconducting powertrain cooled by liquid hydrogen

44

9

Cerebras Unveils Wafer Scale Engine Two (WSE2): 2.6T Transistors, 100% Yield

38

10

Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?

36

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Introduces AirTag

947

2

356

3

Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic

325

4

All-new iMac features the M1 chip

308

5

Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function

236

6

89

7

Apple Podcasts Subscriptions

61

8

Mac mini is now configurable with 10 Gigabit Ethernet

42

9

New iMac with Vesa Mount

42

10

15

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India

244

2

GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem

230

3

India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World

105

4

Canada Proposes New Regime to Block and Deindex Pirate Sites

100

5

Intel Internet Party Line (1997)

92

6

Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (2018)

78

7

A Connecticut inn has hosted sea chantey singalongs for half a century

64

8

Cool Tool of the Day (1997)

60

9

Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They're UFOs

53

10

A Philosophy of Sound

47

Science News [?]

1

The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations

408

2

mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)

211

3

Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth

167

4

Quantum astronomy could create telescopes hundreds of kilometers wide

145

5

Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?

136

6

Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics

121

7

DNA of giant ‘corpse flower’ parasite surprises biologists

120

8

Foundations of Complexity Economics

101

9

India's massive COVID surge puzzles scientists

93

10

Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

88

Social [?]

1

First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

546

2

“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”

527

3

Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]

467

4

Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight

375

5

This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display

196

6

Seam carving (2020) [video]

166

7

YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO [video]

127

8

The Discipline of DE (1978) [video]

125

9

123

10

I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing (2014)

73

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

460

2

.NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

349

3

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

335

4

Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

314

5

The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

314

6

Open source “split-flap” mechanical display

293

7

Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform

256

8

155

9

Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres

143

10

Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

Kelly Criterion

330

2

The Landlord's Game

214

3

List of Emerging Technologies

162

4

Paternoster Lift

142

5

107

6

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

86

7

Daughter from California Syndrome

36

8

34

9

Grigori Perelman (Solver of Poincare Conjecture)

26

10

Old Person Smell

24

Blogs [?]

1

The real reason to end the death penalty

257

2

On the bare necessity of psychological safety

141

3

Assembly vs. Intrinsics (2014)

69

4

Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley

45

5

Our Funniest Front-End Bugs (2020)

40

6

The Reason to End the Death Penalty

21

7

Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

18

8

Why Is Everyone So Obsessed with Chrome?

12

9

Apple Is an Accomplice to Fraud

11

10

Grandfather of a US President Made His Fortune Illegally in Prostitutio

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Tell HN: Mailgun not compatible with forwarding to Gmail

2

2

Detecting an “invalid date” Date instance in JavaScript

1

3

Is Chrome Lighthouse Broken for Mobile Testing?

1

Substack [?]

1

Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

1245

2

When 70M people visit your joke site

243

3

Neurons might contain something within them

101

4

Simone Weil and the Need for Roots

80

5

Introduction to Machine Learning for Finance

79

6

Dating Sites Are Not Built for Men

57

7

Harvard Diploma for Sale

36

8

Where did the $12T of Covid spending go? Part 5: USD as global reserve currency

36

9

CSS is no longer a core skill

28

10

The future of work is not working

23