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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Internal Combustion Engine

2332

2

Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

1808

3

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

1366

4

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

1259

5

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

1233

6

LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

1015

7

Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

922

8

Crazy New Ideas

897

9

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

837

10

ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

802

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (May 2021)

326

2

Mobile phone addiction help?

257

3

How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?

151

4

How do you generally build a product?

140

5

Is Google Search Dying?

130

6

Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

127

7

Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?

118

8

How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?

115

9

What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux?

94

10

How Long Is Your CI Process?

94

Top Show HN

1

Second-Chance Pool

543

2

Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

449

3

I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

357

4

CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

245

5

I built Grafar, a visualization library

212

6

GitHub style split diffs in your terminal

178

7

Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles

134

8

A RISC-V core in Racket

122

9

Easier, Free Webflow

97

10

Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs and Web apps

89

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative

355

2

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned

351

3

Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes

319

4

What can mRNA treat next?

303

5

YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips

258

6

California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products

247

7

Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company

191

8

Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment

177

9

I need to explain to you just how dire America's Pokémon card crisis is

126

10

Study finds using Night Shift doesn’t improve sleep

125

News [?]

1

It's your device, you should be able to repair it

707

2

EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

684

3

White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets

637

4

Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

615

5

Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says

546

6

Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

502

7

How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

426

8

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

330

9

YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute

327

10

Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

315

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)

369

2

Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

231

3

Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap

109

4

The Autodidactic Universe

86

5

Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (2020)

65

6

'Minting' electronic cash (1999)

60

7

When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math

36

8

Silicon carbide radio circuits can take the volcanic heat of Venus

25

9

Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

24

10

Using Neural Networks to Refute Conjectures in Combinatorics

19

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?

324

2

Scaling monorepo maintenance

296

3

How we use web components

260

4

A Hybrid Approach to Work

188

5

155

6

A future without passwords

104

7

Reverse Debugging at Scale

77

8

Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game

22

9

15

10

Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

IBM creates 2nm chip

579

2

A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design

225

3

Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger Eventually

108

4

Jetoptera VTOL aircraft design features “bladeless fans on steroids”

97

5

Apple runs App Store with 78% profit margin, according to court testimony

84

6

Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring

69

7

Apple Discussed 'Punitive Measures' Against Netflix for Dropping In-App Purchase

65

8

Facebook Asks Users to Enable ATT in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'

28

9

The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional

21

10

Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023

17

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”

197

2

AWS drops price for managed Prometheus service by 84%

47

3

AWS Partners with New Relic to Contribute to Pixie OSS

30

4

CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale

15

5

EverParse: Generating provably secure generators and parsers

13

6

Amazon CloudFront Announces CloudFront Functions

7

7

CloudFront Functions – A New Security Paradigm for CDN Edge Computing

4

8

4

9

Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers

3

10

AWS Introduces CloudFront Functions – Low Latency Edge Functions

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The original “Hello World”: B. W. Kernighan's intro to B (1973)

113

2

Pirates who illegally streamed Jake Paul v Ben Askren targeted in lawsuit

44

3

World's largest beaver dam shows up on satellite images

26

4

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Acted Illegally, Court Rules

21

5

Gran Turismo Is Now an Official Olympic Sport

13

6

Stockpile of Unfinished Ford Pickups Missing Chips Is Now Visible from Space

9

7

Market-Making on the Internet

7

8

6

9

Turkey Now Has High-Speed Missile-Like Drone That’s Launched from a Larger Drone

6

10

The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.

5

Science News [?]

1

New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses

417

2

First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States

329

3

A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)

278

4

Why People Feel Like Victims

260

5

Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

200

6

Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light

161

7

Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

137

8

A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)

128

9

Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive performance (2018)

122

10

Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope

85

Social [?]

1

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

1366

2

Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

922

3

Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

722

4

Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

490

5

Is this what enterprise means?

458

6

So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

394

7

Starting a crypto project

368

8

Bill and Melinda Gates Separated

339

9

Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook

336

10

Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]

331

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

1259

2

ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

802

3

Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send

664

4

Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython

645

5

A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

406

6

Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time

386

7

Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

352

8

GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

302

9

Space Cloud: Open-Source Firebase and Heroku on Kubernetes

250

10

Go proposal: new package to provide generic slice functions

208

Wikipedia [?]

1

1700 Cascadia Earthquake

132

2

86

3

Atomic Gardening

18

4

Greg Packer has been quoted in hundreds of articles as a “man on the street”

13

5

Atomic gardening – using radiation to induce useful mutations in plants

10

6

9

7

Kardashev Scale

8

8

Dancing Plague of 1518

8

9

Moravec's Paradox

6

10

Bouba Kiki Effect

6

Blogs [?]

1

Crazy New Ideas

897

2

I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)

233

3

An NFT That Saves Lives

137

4

My MacBook Air M1 is dead

118

5

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

104

6

Learning About the GeoTIFF File Format with a Hex Editor (2018)

91

7

52

8

An Update [Hey/Basecamp – Jason Fried]

40

9

I put all of my comics online

13

10

Scientists Want You to Lucid Dream (2019)

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Closing Photoshop will fix CSS cursor:pointer bug

12

2

How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?

1

Substack [?]

1

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

837

2

Labor shortage or terrible jobs?

553

3

On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

543

4

Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

275

5

1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

207

6

The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

158

7

The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive

65

8

Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do

57

9

A Substack on how social media has supercharged culture war and driven us insane

55

10

Someone Has to Run the Fabs

54